boristhespider

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by boristhespider 13y ago
Apparently [1] MP4s (at least their file sizes) can be optimized much more than animated GIFs, although it doesn't seem like that's been fully done here. [1] http://gfycat.com/about
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Thin Servers with Smart Pipes: Designing SoC Accelerators for Memcached(code.facebook.com)
1 points by boristhespider 13y ago|0 comments
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by boristhespider 13y ago
The Russians used a...
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The gambling machines helping drug dealers 'turn dirty money clean'(theguardian.com)
1 points by boristhespider 13y ago|0 comments
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by boristhespider 13y ago
Looks like it is coming to the UK: http://nest.com/uk/ (although not the thermostat yet)
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by boristhespider 13y ago
Apparently it's London Tube Normal ( http://www.azfonts.net/load_font/londontube.html ). P22 Underground might have been nicer, but costlier. There's also Hammersmith One on Google Fonts: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Hammersmith+O
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by boristhespider 14y ago
Thought this was going to be about Jony Ive. It isn't. Dead to me. (Sorry.)
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by boristhespider 14y ago
Well, that at least is fairly new. apple.co.uk was until recently an illustration agency: http://web.archive.org/web/20110517201243/http://apple.co.uk... (Now apparently http://www.appleagency.co.uk/. )
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by boristhespider 14y ago
You can quite easily find startlingly cheap solar powered USB chargers, intended for use with mobile phones.
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by boristhespider 14y ago
Yes, Apple does seem to be between a rock and a hard place.
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by boristhespider 14y ago
That applies to the strange, pre–iOS 6 iPhoto-specific map tiles. OSM is acknowledged in the new app's acknowledgements, but so far there are places where the Maps.app is less detailed than the basic OSM database – but no doubt this can and
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by boristhespider 14y ago
Ad-supported, but not pay-per-pageview advertising, and not as a full-time job.
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by boristhespider 14y ago
Feels laggy for something ostensibly so simple.
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by boristhespider 14y ago
I find myself flapping between news.ycombinator.org and news.ycombinator.com (also .net), and cookies are not shared. Picking one and redirecting the others to it would be appreciated.
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by boristhespider 14y ago
I feel uncomfortable posting this, but a related argument: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/media/2012/07/how-media-sh...
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Be kind(joshuagoodwin.com)
2 points by boristhespider 14y ago|0 comments
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by boristhespider 14y ago
I think the run was only supposed to be very short anyway (it ended a while back), to be ready in time for WWDC.
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Facebook as an invisible elephant, and particularly horrible programming(joshuagoodwin.com)
1 points by boristhespider 15y ago|1 comments
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by boristhespider 15y ago
Hmm. I wouldn't call the essential Like button "social", since it doesn't get "shared" with one's "friends" or anything like that. Still, I don't think that's an important difference - it retains the lab rat overtones.