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by cobychapple 14y ago
I think they're still yet to update the Ubuntu homepage (which still shows "12.04 LTS is in final beta now").
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Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin(releases.ubuntu.com)
411 points by cobychapple 14y ago|298 comments
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by cobychapple 14y ago
You're right, I did zero in on a few lines there, but I also don't like the idea of anybody using my content to promote their services or to develop new services based on what I upload. Operating their services? No problem there.
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by cobychapple 14y ago
Just to clarify: I'm sure that from a legal point of view the terms of both applications are similar. As a legal layman though, it's the apparent intent that makes me feel better about using Dropbox.
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by cobychapple 14y ago
Totally agree. It sucks how all the Google docs format files can't be previewed (i.e. with OSX's quick look) or opened using desktop applications.
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by cobychapple 14y ago
Like I said, I'm no lawyer—so I'm sure that the Dropbox TOS is probably quite similar from a legal point of view, however it's the apparent intent that they go to the trouble of attempting to convey that makes the difference to me.
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Why I'm Sticking With Dropbox (Over Google Drive)(blog.cobychapple.com)
29 points by cobychapple 14y ago|16 comments
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TED’s New Site Turns Any YouTube Video Into a Lesson(mashable.com)
2 points by cobychapple 14y ago|0 comments
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by cobychapple 14y ago
The author says that doing something simple: "takes several clicks on parts of the screen that are nowhere near each other and are not immediately obvious the first time you see them". ... and that this process requires the user to: "click
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by cobychapple 14y ago
When I read this article, I was open to hearing how this could be the case, but then I read: "Working with Ubuntu 12.04 is quite simple and elegant… until you want to sit down and see what applications are available on your system." Which s
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by cobychapple 14y ago
For what it's worth, the article actually says the magnitude was 8.7 (at a depth of 33 kilometers), not 8.9 as in the title here—not that it matters much. I hope it doesn't cause as much damage as the one in 2004!
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by cobychapple 15y ago
The prime screen real estate doesn't tell me what you do. As a first-time visitor all I see is words in the form of Adthis or Adthat, and none of them mean anything to me. If I scroll down I see headings and paragraphs that are equally vagu
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Then there's the additional problem of people still choosing WEP encryption despite WPA/WPA2 being available on their router. I mean WEP is better than nothing, but still a security risk.
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Yes, the trend you're referring to (Chrome becoming dominant) is clear, but it's the other pattern (the weekly cycles of troughs for IE, and the coinciding peaks for all other browsers) that I was referring to.
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Which text editor did you use before you switched?
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by cobychapple 15y ago
It's great to see (from the peaks in usage of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera on weekends) that people are choosing more progressive browsers over IE for home use. It'd also be neat to see the breakdown of IE versions in this data too. Mic
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Whoever has made this RDP server publicly accessible (if that's what this is) sure is brave—I'll bet that it's ridden with viruses, popups, and other nastiness in no time. Also, I get IE9, not IE6.
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by cobychapple 15y ago
A number of things feel off about this article: 1. Using Camel Case For Every Single Word Makes It Feel Like An Seo Marketing Ploy. 2. At the bottom: "This Article Originally Came From The Internet". WAT?
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by cobychapple 15y ago
I can't actually find the tweet in her stream anywhere (date in your screenshot is 15 March, looked around that date on both sides). Can you please post the permalink to the tweet here?
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by cobychapple 15y ago
This would be a PR nightmare for Twitter if it got out into mainstream media … and rightly so.
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Well, they could always use some of that cash to buy the anti-competition watch dogs too ;)
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Completely wild, uninformed, and ignorant guess: They'll buy Twitter or Intel.
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Do you really think discouraging enthusiastic designers and developers from building innovative things that push the boundaries of what's possible with browsers is the way forward? ... for the sake of preserving the status quo of default
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by cobychapple 15y ago
It's a real shame, but what I think is really lame is they get upvoted so much that the worthwhile, interesting, and constructive comments get relegated to second and third position. I've taken to deliberately going to the second and third
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Exactly. If I read a review of an Apple product there, I know I'm going to be reading a positive one, but it's the clear details he goes into, the fact that they're reasonably well-written, and the interesting and relevant observations he m
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Thus the perfectly worded event invitation: "We have something you really have to see." (... "And touch.")
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by cobychapple 15y ago
For anyone else that didn't know what this guy was talking about, its the middle icon on the bottom row.
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by cobychapple 15y ago
It's hard to get a clearer, simpler symbol than that, and it's the creation of an 'open' symbol like this that I predict will play a big role in driving adoption of the Markdown format on a wider scale than is seen today.
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by cobychapple 15y ago
What's with the weird use of stock corporate photography in this article?
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by cobychapple 15y ago
Pro: Pretty cool, being able to close/hide stories I've read and don't want to see in the list anymore. Con: I couldn't switch to browsing HN this way without a link to the comment thread for each post.

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