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by byron_fast 9y ago
I had to stop reading when they dismissed analog dials. My car and every thing I own would be easier to use with analog dials.
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by byron_fast 9y ago
Making good comics is hard.
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by byron_fast 9y ago
Right! But is it SVG or only Canvas?
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by byron_fast 9y ago
It's nice that we've got the most valuable part of Flash: a vector rendering engine. I do miss Flash's editor for these types of content, though.
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by byron_fast 9y ago
You have to wonder what is currently unknown today.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
Now I want my car to be able to detect local Bluetooth signals and warn me about skimmers.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
Slowest weaponization ever. If they'd just let modders make money, they would have already stolen legions of devs from iOS.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
At least now we know the minimum bar to get Facebook to temporarily pretend to change a policy: be the leader of a first-world nation.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
If you use the word "deserve" you're probably no longer talking about economics.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
Not sure why the Carberry desert doesn't qualify as a desert: https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g1871864-d50114... I was under the impression it holds the largest piece of "soft desert" in Canada,
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by byron_fast 10y ago
I'm not blaming them. Their policy is rational. But if it weren't for the credit card cartel and their rules, my hunch is they wouldn't have this page.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
TL;DR, we are beholden to a cartel.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
Yeah that's true. The ability to self-publish is a huge deal, and very surprising from Nintendo.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
You know what would really matter is if they'd let me make an HTTP request from their devices. Not sure that's ever going to happen. I can understand why they have always locked that down, but at some point the possibilites have
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by byron_fast 10y ago
I've heard this recently as well, but I've also read that the current difficulties we read about were also the case over a hundred years ago, but obviously with different causes. It's hard to know what's new and what&#x
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by byron_fast 10y ago
From places that sell queens, usually by mail these days. The last I heard they were only buying queens from New Zealand because American bees were getting too aggressive; not sure if that's still true.
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by byron_fast 10y ago
This was common in central Canada in the 90s, where I worked for a beekeeper. I don't know if cyanide use is still common, but the majority of the dozen or so beekeepers I knew back then all did this and I understood it was common pra
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by byron_fast 10y ago
In my experience most commercial beekeepers use cyanide gas to kill their bees after harvesting the honey; they start fresh with new queens in spring. The rare few who overwinter their bees use sugar syrup and store the bees in a cool ware
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Yahoo! Store has been rebranded to https://www.aabacosmallbusiness.com/ecommerce which I assume means it is for sale or will be, but I haven't read any news to that effect.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
There is a documentary about his career available on Netflix, I believe it is this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3785088/ Safe to say there will never be another guy with a career like that.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Well, if you have Computer Craft (or presumably Open Computers) you can get redstone out of the game and send an SMS: https://boomtree.com/r2p I made that. But just this week LittleBits released a Minecraft mod called &quo
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by byron_fast 11y ago
This is definitely true, but not news to anyone who has followed how government program "X" for business actually works. These programs are defined by who they favour, and it has nothing to do with merit as defined by business or
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by byron_fast 11y ago
This site: http://www.washingtontimes.com/ seems pretty bad. Though any place reached via "clickbait" will suffice.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
It's not snarky, I'm trying to get the average HN to acknowledge reality: grandma is the average user, not you. You haven't got a clue how she sees the web, and sneering at her and downvoting her idiocy won't help.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
That sounds great, if they don't grind my computer to a halt. But if you host a site that lets bad actors chuck evil spew into the web stream, it doesn't matter what your content is. You are bad by association.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Because this is who users are . They will not ever visit Hacker News, and if they did, it might as well be in a foreign language. They will not install ad blockers. When the (insert your most hated Slavic/Asian country) mafia takes
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by byron_fast 11y ago
I'd love to hear about an actual experience of granny using an iPad.
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Again: what about grandma? The whole point of these shitty sites is to parasitize the non-technical. Their web experience is like you taking your car to an evil garage: "There's silver flakes in your fluid. You need a new tran
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by byron_fast 11y ago
I'd love to tell you - but that would reveal what I like, right? And I don't want you to judge me based on that. I do know that it's ad-network related; bad scripts have nothing to do with the sites that host them. They j
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by byron_fast 11y ago
Why is this being downvoted.

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