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by bmunro 14y ago
Original page on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Is-Australia-becoming-a-hot-place-to-do...
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by bmunro 14y ago
It loads in half a second here in Sydney
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by bmunro 14y ago
The Galaxy S2 is a phone. I think that you are thinking of the Galaxy Tab 2, a tablet.
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by bmunro 14y ago
Paste the article title ("On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels") into Google. The Wall Street Journal article should be the first result. Click on it. You should be able to see the whole article. The WSJ appear to give you the ful
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by bmunro 14y ago
Something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiche ?
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by bmunro 14y ago
It is to prevent/reduce the posting of large amounts of text. Big blocks of grey text are hard to read, so it discourages people from posting them. Apparently it is preferred that if you have that much to say, then you should create a blog
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The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network(arstechnica.com)
100 points by bmunro 15y ago|24 comments
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Google Imposing GUI Restrictions on Android 4.0 Devices(thevarguy.com)
4 points by bmunro 15y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 15y ago
I would say it is the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return - Allows almost any Jew or relative of a Jew to migrate to Israel and quickly gain citizenship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_and_Entry_into_Isra... - pre
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo to request that Google reduces Android's data usage.(thenextweb.com)
42 points by bmunro 15y ago|22 comments
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by bmunro 15y ago
For me, it was broken in Chrome. In Firefox 9 it was very laggy.
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by bmunro 15y ago
I don't really think that that is something to admire.
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by bmunro 15y ago
I also miss pattern matching when using other languages. As an aside I just had a look at what stage Reia is up to. The github page says that Reia is now defunct. ( https://github.com/tarcieri/reia ) There is also another ruby-like language
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by bmunro 15y ago
Install gnome-shell-extension-alternate-tab.
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by bmunro 15y ago
Because no carrier in Australia has unlimited data plans.
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by bmunro 15y ago
These were comments on the blog post by one of the ShiftyJelly devs. I'm not associated with ShiftyJelly.
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by bmunro 15y ago
A few interesting comments from the author: - Piracy of Pocket Casts on iOS is about 30% - Piracy of Pocket Casts on Android is about 20% moving into Android development was a very smart (some might say lucky) move which has enabled us to s
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by bmunro 15y ago
The original comment had an reply/update: *"Mistake: It's any US company involved with the complaint that led to the seizure in the US. Not just any US company."
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by bmunro 15y ago
We've seen a number of articles on this topic today, but this is probably the best written and will reach a greater audience than any tech blogger ever could. Being from Australia, I'm not going to be writing to any politicians, but I sure
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Stop the great firewall of America(nytimes.com)
3 points by bmunro 15y ago|1 comments
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by bmunro 15y ago
I wonder who gets the ability to point fingers. The article didn't really say, all it said was " The copyright industry gains the right to “notify” payment processors such as Visa that a company looks bad "
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Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer(lukeplant.me.uk)
9 points by bmunro 15y ago|4 comments
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by bmunro 15y ago
I used a spreadsheet to calculate the standard deviations. A,D and E have twice the deviation of B,C and F. (10 vs 5) The means are all the same.
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by bmunro 15y ago
I had to look up the Fourth Plinth. It is an empty statue base in Trafalgar Square, London. It is presently used for temporary displays of artworks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_plinth,_Trafalgar_Square
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by bmunro 15y ago
After Meego was essentially killed by Nokia, Intel appears to be looking at Android as a replacement.
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by bmunro 15y ago
None of this soft touch crap - the state next door ran an anti-speeding campaign where they had people extending their little finger at speeding drivers (as in 'little dick syndrome'). Absolutely laughable and the folks who are the bulk of
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by bmunro 15y ago
Someone broke it; "The requested URL /blog/the-man-you-want-to-be-does-not-matter/swizec/2071 was not found on this server."
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by bmunro 15y ago
And a further reason is that the Windows XP is still the most common operating system in use. People don't feel any need to upgrade, as everything works with their current browser/OS. I've used the internet at my Sister in law's (in Korea)
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by bmunro 15y ago
A major reason in South Korea is that in the late 90s, the government mandated the use of ActiveX for online banking. This was only recently repealed, and the Korean government is now encouraging people to move on. The government mandate en
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by bmunro 15y ago
10% of the population of the world use IE6, but that is heavily weighted by countries such as China (34%) and South Korea (22%) If your target audience is English-speaking or European countries, the relevant proportion is 2% to 3% or less.

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