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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   I actually prefer http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ over any native app on my Android. It's fast, pretty and hasn't let me down yet.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   There's the AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz) in Germany. It's enough to not include the feminine form of a job title or feminine pronouns in a job advertisement to sue the company after a rejection because of discrimination if you
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   Definitely true for the legal situation in Germany. An early rejection can be enough for a compensation payment of three gross salaries. It's actually a common practice for some to apply on jobs with completely under-qualified resumes and s
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   This is what I thought. CSS for example grew so large that it often doesn't feel like the right tool anymore. That's why preprocessors like Sass, Less and Stylus are so popular. Trying to combine everything into one language is a really har
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   This looks really interesting. I'm interested to see how their license choice works out. The server is AGPL-licensed while the drivers are under Apache 2.0. This should at least avoid the issues we all know from libmysqlclient.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   I recently switched to Fedora on my desktop, because I wanted to fiddle around with systemd. Coming from Unity, I really enjoyed how snappy it is. And for the rest, I spend most of my time either in my browser or the terminal, so there's no
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   Meta: The article itself is wrong as it was pointed out here. However, I learned a lot from the discussion around it. Should I upvote the submission or not?
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   I added a check to the script for that case. :)
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   I use this script to automatically update to the latest stable (test-green) Chromium build: https://gist.github.com/2049083 It actually just downloads and unpacks the latest version and keeps a backup of the previous release, but I found
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Chris Eppstein recently wrote a comprehensive article about the changes in Sass 3.2: http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2012/08/23/sass-3-2-is-...
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    No need to apologize. If everyone had seen it last time, it wouldn't be #1 right now.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    An info on the site itself when to use this, would be quite helpful. For example, I recently generated a self-signed SSL certificate for local development where this would have been handy. You should not use this for anything production rel
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I know, and I'm using it for this, but the previous dialog was just way better and user-friendly. It had large previews and descriptions while the new tweak tool only has some uncommented options in a drop-down menu.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Not anymore in Gnome 3. :(
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Interesting. I can't really tell how fast Chrome starts up, because it's starts in the background when my desktop environment loads and I'm on an SSD. But that would in fact be a good indicator for bloat.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I think this still depends on the distribution. Fedora, for example, still contains a freetype version with the hinting patch disabled. You need to install freetype-freeworld from a third party repository to enable it. You're right, though.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    > Mostly because of Chrome's feature creep. I think I'm actually quite sensitive to that, but haven't felt about Chrome that way yet. Could you explain what features you mean in particular?
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Or the documentation that describes something like it works in the sandbox, but not in the production system or vice versa. Developing for Paypal is a lot of fun.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    The sandbox they provide is even worse in terms of response times.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    > 3. There seems to be no way to securely store BC's. There is. You can print out the private key and lock it away in a safe.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Great use of a marketing opportunity. This actually runs very smoothly. Well done!
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    The next sentence ruins it though: "Nobody loves Java but it is the easiest language to recruit for if you're targeting the JVM." Recruiting for Go is not nearly as easy as for Java.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Anyone who's interested can still check out the git repository at https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI . They didn't remove the actual commits yet.
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    WhatsApp threatens legal action against API developers(h-online.com)

    3 points by ch0wn 14y ago|2 comments
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    Writing JavaScript games in Haskell: Breakout(jshaskell.blogspot.de)

    4 points by ch0wn 14y ago|0 comments
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534359
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    The Web Cryptography API - W3C's first draft(w3.org)

    2 points by ch0wn 14y ago|1 comments
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    It seems hard to general to get your hands on any modding code. Apparently the modding culture doesn't encourage opensource as much as other hacking circles.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    There were plenty of extensions that allowed you to use Selenium with Django, I maintained one of them. Django is fairly conservative about including new features into the core that work well as extensions. And this is something I value a l
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Right, on mobile the OS makes a great difference in perceived performance. Also, tech geeks know that GHz is a quite limited metric to compare CPUs.