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by archivator 13y ago
Awesome work! Nitpicking/design language question - would you use the term "affordance" to describe the avatar silhouette itself? To me, that's just a clue, an indicator, a hint to the general action possibility (afforda
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by archivator 13y ago
I believe that the best of the AR systems coming up (because, let's be honest, this is a kind of AR), is CastAR. It gives the wearer the ability to see any CG object above/inside a given physical surface. It works using projectors
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by archivator 13y ago
Facebook has been https by default since July 2013. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/secure-b...
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by archivator 13y ago
Here's a way of triple-booting Android, Firefox OS and Ubuntu on a Nexus 4: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-triple-boot-nexus-4-on-andr... It relies on a piece of kernel infrastructure called kexec-hardboot which to m
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by archivator 13y ago
That's not really the use case. The use case is more along the lines of "I like this band a lot and would love to see them live but I can't be bothered to track this stuff", so you go to songkick and it will send you an
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by archivator 13y ago
Slightly off topic but I would like to recommend you to read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. In it, he posits that the advent of television is the primary driving force behind image-based politics. It's full of astute obser
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by archivator 13y ago
Excellent study! I know it's not exactly easy to do with their analysis framework but I'd be interested to know how many apps just ignore certificate errors. It's a depressingly common "solution" on Stack Overflow..
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by archivator 13y ago
This looks like a FOSS implementation of Depixelizing Pixel Art - https://github.com/jerith/depixel
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by archivator 13y ago
Interesting tidbit - Google started devrel for Android in Portuguese - https://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers/search?query=...
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Ask HN: Would you pay for an Android development/debugging library?
2 points by archivator 13y ago|0 comments
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by archivator 13y ago
This is my favourite piece of "biometrics don't work" material - http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/biometrics.pdf It's a bit old now but it's still as valid.
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by archivator 13y ago
Re: list styling - you can make the whole list a different colour and also "extract" it with different borders. Consider indenting items more visibly - either more leading space or a more visual left border (e.g. something that lo
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by archivator 13y ago
See also: Paper towns, trap streets, etc. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_town#Maps
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by archivator 13y ago
While it might not be on the World Service, I'd like to point out that a wide range of content is internationally available in the form of podcasts, this is the Radio 4 link - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4
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by archivator 13y ago
As an aside, if you (the reader, not Avshalom) haven't read much Russian literature, Russian is the language where you take the first syllable of every word in a long phrase and you make a new word: Министерство здравоохранения => М
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by archivator 13y ago
I feel really cheap promoting this sort of stuff but try anycabs.co.uk - it's a bidding system and so prices are consistently quite low. Also, I've also gotten decent cars, never had any trouble with people not showing up (even wh
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by archivator 13y ago
And Android people, and various YouTube people, and Internet celebrities and ... That said, G+ is not half bad. The app beats Facebook hands down. Live Hangouts are also a neat way to engage with your audience.
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by archivator 13y ago
I think calling it a trick is unfair. It's not just P(C3), it's really P(C3 | !C1 && !C2), where C1 and C2 are really big events, so the fact they haven't occurred narrows the search space quite a bit. Remember, he&#x
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by archivator 13y ago
As soon as I saw the title, I knew Nick Bostrom would be involved. And therein lies chaos. First, to clarify something from the article - Bostrom's "posthuman" civilization is not strictly about the singularity but about almo
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Modifying Dalvik internals to hook framework methods(delyan.me)
1 points by archivator 13y ago|0 comments
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by archivator 13y ago
And so does my Fedora install (let's not blame Redmond unnecessarily). My Android phone is even worse - it drifts by about 5-10s a day. Not a nightmare but it's still a lot more than my (probably unrealistic) expectations of 21st
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The [Android] emulator is dead, long live the emulator(delyan.me)
3 points by archivator 13y ago|0 comments
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by archivator 13y ago
Am I the exception here? I've always found the qemu x86 images fast enough (with kvm support in the kernel). Genymotion doesn't feel particularly faster than the standard x86 images. Could this be a non-Linux phenomenon? I think I
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by archivator 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5258896 is a comment from the creator of the BT London panorama.
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by archivator 13y ago
I'd love to say it's my amazing architecture and optimizations skills. But it's not. It's just a static blog, generated with Ruhoh ( http://ruhoh.com/ ) and nginx. I'm on Webfaction's cheapest pl
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by archivator 13y ago
I thought I had! Done now.
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by archivator 13y ago
A. He published the email himself, in a comment on a public blog post. B. Whatever the forum, this sort of astroturfing is undermining discourse. Yes, it's particularly out of place on SO but it'd be equally bad on XDA (where they
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by archivator 13y ago
Hi all. Delyan here. I'm kinda bummed I didn't submit this myself. I would've loved to cash in on those most precious of internet points. Oh, well. :) To address the question of discussing this publicly: I don't think I&
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by archivator 13y ago
I'm a huge FOSS proponent but the Ribbon design blows the LibreOffice design out of the water in terms of UX. I'm seriously more productive with MS Office and I've been using OO/LO for 4 years now!
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by archivator 13y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately, that's a guarantee that Android's licensing model can't provide. Every manufacturer can do whatever they please, so fragmentation can't be regulated.

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