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by bgruber 15y ago
For chrome, I like using the "REST Console" extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cokgbflfommojglbmb... ), which I believe has all of the benefits you listed. The "credentials stored in a browser" thing is the main reason fo
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by bgruber 15y ago
Unsurprisingly, I have failed at googling up some other examples, but in recent years it has become common (at least in my circles) to use the word "this" as short hand for, roughly, "this thing here is something which is important/i agree
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by bgruber 15y ago
This just shows what a couple thousand mobilized, highly motivated geeks can do in six hours. HN is solely responsible for this. Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple's factories in Chi
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by bgruber 15y ago
"it feels like a mixture of magic and something you'd see in a sci-fi movie" Seriously? I mean, this is a neat idea and seems super well executed, and fine tuning that kind of signal processing isn't that easy, but people are still that imp
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by bgruber 15y ago
could someone explain to me why it's relevant for ny startups to have billboards? i just don't understand that point at all.
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by bgruber 15y ago
this post completely ignores the secret scotty divulged to Geordi on TNG: he always told kirk things would take twice as long as they really would. "How else will they think you're a miracle worker?"
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Against Nostalgia - Mike Daisey on Steve Jobs(nytimes.com)
146 points by bgruber 15y ago|47 comments
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by bgruber 15y ago
The author is selling google way short here: "It's a little scary to think that one company (~85% of the world population searches the web with Google) can make such a trifle assumption and make a simple, clear cut spec like this virtually
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by bgruber 15y ago
If you're actually interested in what Arthur C. Clarke thought about the future, may i suggest his book "Profiles of The Future", from whence we get Clarke's 3 laws, including the well-worn "any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indisti
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by bgruber 15y ago
No, the audio version mentions that the patent office used to operate on the principle that software could be copyrighted but not patented, but sometime in the 80s the judiciary indicated in several instances that was not the case and the p
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by bgruber 15y ago
starts here: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/01/08 "boink": http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/01/10
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by bgruber 15y ago
for the record, there are plenty of android phones that use real physical buttons for those 4 buttons at the bottom of the android screen. using capacitive buttons is a manufacturer choice.
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by bgruber 15y ago
Files are important because they act as an interface (in the OO sense) to all of the different things that the author of this article talks about. The universality of that interface is, for now, key to interoperability. I don't care how man
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by bgruber 15y ago
from where the hottest restaurants, lounges and nightlife are, it's a hell of a lot easier to get to the financial district than to CT.
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by bgruber 15y ago
I never said I thought "it" referred to silk road. "It" clearly refers to the use of bitcoin. What's unclear is whether "it" is "all uses of bitcoin" or "the use of bitcoin on silk road."
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by bgruber 15y ago
I don't see anything here about schumer 'bashing' bitcoin. What he says (in the source linked to by this article) is: > "It's an online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who's both selling an
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by bgruber 15y ago
could someone point to a source identifying the different generations of chipset referred to in the test? (gen3, gen4, etc.)
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by bgruber 15y ago
But those applications locked in to Windows are frequently locked in to old versions, so they won't move to Windows 8.
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by bgruber 15y ago
regardless of whether it's true, greenspun reported that it's what the publishers believe: "It is an article of faith in the computer publishing that bigger books sell better. They take up more space on the shelf and readers with a tech pro
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by bgruber 15y ago
<pedantry>Nasmorn's Razor</pedantry>
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Socialisting: classifieds through your Facebook friends(socialisting.com)
1 points by bgruber 15y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 15y ago
doh. thanks. just didn't have my headphones on.
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by bgruber 15y ago
could someone explain what the WPM slider does?
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by bgruber 15y ago
This is exactly why i stopped reading boingboing; there's a tendency to ascribe meaning to actions that just isn't there. Mozilla said no such thing. What they said was more like "we won't just do whatever a government agency tells us to un
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by bgruber 15y ago
those interested in this will probably also be interested in the publications of Julius O. Smith https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pubs.html .
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by bgruber 16y ago
> The reason Lisp programmers don't have a fancy IDE is that they don't feel the need for it. Everyone that really understands what he's doing is using Emacs or their own thing. Actually, I think that Emacs+Slime for CL is one of the fa
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by bgruber 16y ago
"Unity is a radical departure, but no less so than GNOME 3.0, which has wisely been pushed back until later this year." I was wondering where the article author got this idea. It seems as if he must have fallen for an April fool's joke ( ht
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by bgruber 16y ago
here's the original article the book this is a review of is an expansion of: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/the-mostly-true-story-of-hel...
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by bgruber 16y ago
once upon a time, it was either really hard , really expensive, or both, to get your hands on a c compiler for whatever platform you were on. nowadays, thanks to rms and all of the folks who have worked on gcc over the years, the very idea
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by bgruber 16y ago
sorry eli, this was just too cool not to share.

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