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by bergie 12y ago
> filled with children ... who would often rather spend a class period figuring out how to bypass a firewall to get to facebook, rather than half a class period writing One could argue that the learning process around bypassing a fire
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by bergie 12y ago
Yep. Moving a place like San Francisco or Berlin might not be required for the "actual work", but it certainly provides other benefits in available services, cultural activities, etc.
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by bergie 12y ago
There are two airlines that already provide this on Android Wear: American & Delta.
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by bergie 12y ago
It opened to the public last December, so no invite needed
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by bergie 12y ago
Istanbul has some problems that has forced it to spread around... Being in between two seas with the Bosporus strait in the middle takes a lot of directions for growth away. And most of the "traditional city" areas are so full of
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by bergie 12y ago
Berlin has a nice trick for this. Trees, lots of trees lining every street. They do a terrific job dampening the street noises, as well as provide shade during the hot summer months.
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by bergie 12y ago
Has been a while since I made that trip, but IIRC the ferries between Finland and Sweden give discounts if you have an Interrail ticket. And they're not that expensivr to begin with, at least if you don't have a car with you. I&#x
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by bergie 12y ago
G+ ditched the real name policy recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars#Expired_Google_policy
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It's Time to Split Up Microsoft(stratechery.com)
11 points by bergie 12y ago|4 comments
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Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases(theverge.com)
207 points by bergie 12y ago|92 comments
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by bergie 12y ago
According to BBC, major airlines like Air France and Lufthansa are only now rerouting their flights to avoid the conflict zone. So, until now it was assumed there was no risk in flying in that altitude. http://www.bbc.com/n
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by bergie 12y ago
Except that Microsoft didn't get the Nokia patents, merely a license to use them. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-nokia-microsoft...
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by bergie 12y ago
On an early 2000s Ericsson phone they used the proximity sensor for snoozing. You could wave your hand over the phone to snooze it (and similarly to silence the ringtone when somebody was calling). To disable the alarm you would actually ne
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by bergie 12y ago
We built something similar as open source with regular Bluetooth and WiFi sensors a while back: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/smart-collaboration-space/
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by bergie 12y ago
He has been posting some of the monthly shipments in his blog: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/
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Why use www?(yes-www.org)
408 points by bergie 12y ago|144 comments
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by bergie 12y ago
Some early work at https://github.com/the-gss/gss2css
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Next-gen constraint layouts in the browser with Grid Style Sheets(raygun.io)
2 points by bergie 12y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 12y ago
Cocoa would be an awesome runtime for Flowhub! We already support bunch of other systems via a simple protocol[1], including C++ (Arduino and friends), C (GEGL), JavaScript (Node.js, browser), ... http://noflojs.org/document
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by bergie 12y ago
Sounds very similar to NoFlo UI still. We have pretty much all those client-side features as components already :-) One thing that might be interesting to you is the protocol we use to talk between UI and runtimes, and runtime-to-runtime:
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by bergie 12y ago
Douglas Adams saw this coming. From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch
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by bergie 12y ago
Lots of similar concepts to what we do with NoFlo and MicroFlo in Flowhub ( http://flowhub.io/ ) -- and actually interesting that they went with the more limited editor from Node Red instead of our open source UI ( https:&#x2
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An Android Wear Design Story(medium.com)
3 points by bergie 12y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 12y ago
...and only cool as long as everybody in your household has an iOS device
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by bergie 12y ago
I would recommend the Daemon and Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez for an interesting take on self-driving cars and a few other things that can shape our near future http://thedaemon.com/
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by bergie 12y ago
Errors are generally sent as a data packet to an error port (convention), or thrown if there isn't a connection to that. NoFlo is running in three environments: Node.js, browser, and GNOME's JavaScript env
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by bergie 12y ago
Well, there is also the free plan for open source and public projects. And the UI is open source for those who really don't want to pay for the service. http://flowhub.io/documentation/flowhub-faq/#paymentslic
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by bergie 12y ago
Would this help too? http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/ (from back when it was still called NoFlo UI)
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by bergie 12y ago
The initial batch of discounted pre-orders is sold out. We'll do another batch later this month.
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by bergie 12y ago
The issue to track is https://github.com/noflo/noflo-ui/issues/221

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