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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   This feels very polished. Fantastic work. How did you implement this? Is this done using RenderScript and standard layout elements or some OpenGL/gaming library?
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   Blog spam. I don't see how Mashable added any value to the original announcement by Google: http://google-latlong.blogspot.ca/2013/01/publishing-more-de...
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   bintrees is a fantastic package. There are even Cython-powered implementations that give a nice speed boost, if you need it.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   If you use print() in py2k, you're still using the print statement and group the argument in parentheses. It falls apart, if you try to use more than one argument, because it's interpreted as a tuple then. Python3: >>> pri
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   In Python 3, zip() fortunately already returns an iterator.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   Without `from __future__ import print_function`, print doesn't work the same way in Py2k, though.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   Doesn't seem to be cached by Google, yet. Does someone have a copy?
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   And for Flask users there is flask-sslify[0] by Kenneth Reitz for this. [0] https://github.com/kennethreitz/flask-sslify
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   One of my favorite things about Python 3 is that the grammar actually got smaller: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html It's only three lines, but still.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Here are the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_N...
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Looks like the fonts weren't loaded or some other component. The server seems be quite overloaded right now.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Google, however, doesn't provide the same version of Google Maps for desktop and mobile.
13. 223.▲
    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Really? Blog-spam of an article that was really discussed in-depth? Discussion 3 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4932196
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    My parents are on 12.04 and will be as long as the long term support lasts. I'm pretty sure forcing them to use Windows would mean a lot of telephone support for the next months. If anything, I would migrate them to another distribution. I
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I really like the attitude the movie had about the very topic of time travel. It's basically: Let's not waste our time with talking about this. It would take us the whole day.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    There are many people claiming that user's are not interested in this kind of stuff. I beg to differ. I find it fascinating how many apps on the Play Store require root permission and even more how many of them are in the Top 10 of their co
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Description for those who can't access the URL: Greetings Pirate Bay! This is 2 Player Productions here, and we hoped we could be the first to upload our new movie "Minecraft: The Story of Mojang". We've never uploaded a
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Does GHC use the LLVM backend by default or do you have to manually enable that?
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I'm using an iPhone for about a week now after selling my S3 and waiting for my Nexus 4 to come. Even now I still haven't internalized this behavior. It feels very unnatural and taxing to use.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    They seem to have never seen terminal PCs. I know a couple of places in my city where you have IE-based kiosk terminals with touch-on-screen keyboards that emulate a cursor. It should be even much easier to map mouse movement to actual inpu
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I guess it shouldn't be too hard to create an algorithm that maps the movements to potential numbers on a visual type pad. Once you have the numbers, you just need to match them to patterns which could be cc numbers, phone numbers, bank acc
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I love stuff like this. Clearly targeting hackers is certainly a good idea. I can't use this in Chrome on my tablet, though, because I can't open the keyboard.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    This is a fixable problem. BIP 0037[0] for example tries to mitigate the size issue with bloom filters, so you no longer need to download the complete block chain to be able to verify transactions. [0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0037
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    This looks fantastic. Could you by any chance update your PPA for quantal in the future? EDIT: The last precise build works just fine, though.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Also one of my personal favorites, Fay, is missing: http://fay-lang.org/
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    That depends on you. From the article: Alternatively, many ES.next features can be experimented with using Google's Traceur transpiler (useful unit tests with examples here) and there are shims available for other features via
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Yap, there was a change in the NumberPicker that seemed to have caused it: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/commit/a...
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    We're on Hacker News. Couldn't you at least try to give a meaningful description of what doesn't work?
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Not surprisingly, http://www.reddit.com/r/cabinporn does also exist.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I don't think there is. One could open a feature request on the Github page[0], though. [0] https://github.com/cheeaun/hnmobile/issues