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Scalagen - Java to Scala conversion(github.com)
2 points by carey 13y ago|0 comments
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by carey 13y ago
Almost all lights here in Christchurch have buttons to request that the lights change, except for a few like https://www.google.com/maps?ll=-43.553027,172.663193&spn... where the button does nothing, and you have to stand on the yello
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by carey 14y ago
That would be the Google Drive Realtime API, https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/ , discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403021 . I don’t know enough about either of them to know how they compare. Edit: Actually, th
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by carey 14y ago
Free accounts are only sort-of suspended. Once you’re registered, you can get back in without going straight to the payment page. See https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/free_accountis_n... , for example.
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Following Blogs — WordPress.com(en.support.wordpress.com)
1 points by carey 14y ago|0 comments
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by carey 14y ago
I don’t know why the Reader on WordPress.com isn’t mentioned more often. It looks just right for a small, carefully chosen set of subscriptions.
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Flash in Windows 8 and Windows RT enabled by default(blogs.msdn.com)
3 points by carey 14y ago|0 comments
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Codename ‘Seven’ webfont – Playing with Metafont and Metapost(code.newtypography.co.uk)
3 points by carey 14y ago|0 comments
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by carey 14y ago
Wikipedia describes it briefly at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel#HTTP_CONNECT_Tunnel... . The most recent standard for it appears to be RFC 2817 section 5.2, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817#section-5.2 , and it’s also in the
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My Ideal Crowdfunding Site(deadlyfredly.com)
1 points by carey 14y ago|0 comments
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by carey 14y ago
You’ll start running into browser limits at somewhere from 2048 to 2083 characters: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427
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by carey 14y ago
The original story is at http://www.3news.co.nz/SPCA-teaches-dogs-to-drive/tabid/367/... , though I don’t know if it’s available outside New Zealand.
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JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events(unixpapa.com)
3 points by carey 14y ago|2 comments
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by carey 14y ago
Mozilla have their own called Thimble at https://thimble.webmaker.org/ . Some more interaction between MDN and Thimble would be nice.
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by carey 14y ago
A properly _standardised_ test should at least have been administered to enough people that you were in the minority of the kind of people it was standardised against. Actually, a properly standardised test should have discarded questions l
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by carey 14y ago
Fructose is metabolised by the liver, which may only be able to handle so much at a time without negative effects. Raw fruit is digested more slowly than juice due its fibre content, so drinking juice slowly could be worse for your teeth bu
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by carey 14y ago
I've used a system at work that truncates passwords when setting them, but not when checking them. It doesn't fill me with confidence.
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Resolution of node/nodejs conflict (debian-devel-announce)(lists.debian.org)
1 points by carey 14y ago|0 comments
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by carey 14y ago
YUI can poll for elements to become available, with a few workarounds for browser bugs; see http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/event/domready.html . I think you have to roll your own in jQuery.
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by carey 14y ago
It doesn't really seem like something the W3C would be involved with. The IEEE isn't perfect, but should be able to look after something like this.
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by carey 14y ago
Those books also seem to be good at repeating popular wisdom unquestioned, like the story of the Romans' vomitoria.
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by carey 14y ago
https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... notes that old versions are saved for 30 days or 100 revisions, which does provide some protection.
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by carey 15y ago
Hepatic gluconogenesis?
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by carey 15y ago
Except even they're not necessarily really private, as JWZ's story about Really Bad Attitude demonstrates: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html
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by carey 15y ago
Not quite. http://moongazeponies.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-the-Hack... appears to be the original.
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by carey 15y ago
NTFS has this optionally in the "USN Change Journal"; see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363798.aspx . It's used by a few Microsoft features like indexing and file replication, but it's available to third party programs too.
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SOPA & PIPA: threats to NZ national interests(nbr.co.nz)
6 points by carey 15y ago|0 comments
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by carey 15y ago
I wouldn't really want to count on that; Google tends to guess what common response codes mean. The safest response would probably be to use "503 Service Unavailable" with an error page.
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by carey 15y ago
Searching for "magnetic field paper" leads me to http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Magnetic_Field_Paper... .
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by carey 15y ago
The general theory of relativity does a really, really good job of describing gravity as a result of mass changing the shape of spacetime, and predicting its effects as a result of that. The strength of gravity only depends on the total mas

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