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by bjxrn 14y ago
Here's another prime number circle/visualization: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/3977033600 The creator of that one links to a Geocities page (which doesn't exist anymore, of course), but I think that page probably moved here
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Slightly related anecdote: A number of years back (at least five or six) I noticed that if you made a smart playlist with a time range constraint the "max" time would increase by one second each time you edited/saved the playlist. I sent in
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by bjxrn 14y ago
> Then the magical aspect of patent law called "prior art" would come into play and it wouldn't be patentable. I have difficulty taking the "prior art" system seriously. It's especially unbelievable with software patents (there are so m
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Fair enough, I hadn't considered extreme heat. So I'll change my assertion to: if you can walk without sweating, you can bike without sweating. Just to expand on my first comment: I live in the Netherlands. People here bike everywhere. They
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Don't race to work, just ride. Sweat isn't a problem when riding at a calm pace unless you're either in really bad shape, or you have some medical condition which causes abnormal sweating.
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by bjxrn 15y ago
Mojito was released two weeks ago: http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/04/yahoo%E2%... On github: https://github.com/yahoo/mojito/ Edit: It's released under a BSD license.
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by bjxrn 15y ago
That is unfortunate. I see people suggesting going with SVG or resizing a high resolution image, but there was a good post not long ago about the problem with SVG and blindly resizing. You really need your images tweaked on a per-size bas
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by bjxrn 15y ago
Would it be possible to ship with 1600 files, and then delete all assets when the download is complete, or at first run? That way you have one version of your app, and are ensured that the right size gets on your client. The download will r
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by bjxrn 15y ago
I don't know if it's a general EU directive, but this is becoming a legal requirement in some European countries (identifiable sender name, must be possible to reply to email).
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by bjxrn 15y ago
Shouldn't the title be the other way around? "Be Prisoner Of Your Destiny - Not Captain Of Wishful Thinking". It might sound a bit less appealing, but by definition you can't control your destiny. You could at least make a case for that you
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by bjxrn 15y ago
I thought this was widely known but when you hover over translated text, whether this is on the Google Translate page, or at a translated site, you get the option to correct the translated text if you want. I don't know if this has always b
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by bjxrn 15y ago
While the lack of transparency is a leading cause to the perception of unfairness, I'd say the uneven enforcement is actually unfair. As long as you can submit apps and not be able to fairly accurately predict how it will be rated it won't