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Font-Embedding Icons: This Is a Big Deal(somerandomdude.com)
1 points by danh 16y ago|0 comments
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by danh 16y ago
Doesn't that kind of software have annoying dialog boxes saying "Are you sure you want cause financial meltdown?"? Or at least a less intrusive "Did you mean 'm'?"? It probably should.
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by danh 16y ago
Turns out mobile phones are really old (for some value of mobile): "In 1910 Lars Magnus Ericsson installed a telephone in his car, although this was not a radio telephone. While travelling across the country, he would stop at a place where
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by danh 16y ago
Oh yes. That must be the future. Or perhaps this, ever so slightly more practical, one: http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com
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by danh 16y ago
I find this interesting, but not that impressive. When I was about 5, I predicted the iPhone. Well not exactly the iPhone, but I made a lot of drawings of a device with phone, computer with touchscreen, music player, etc., in roughly the
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by danh 16y ago
Depends on your view of what a market is. Apple's app store is pretty dominant in the market for "mobile apps".
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by danh 16y ago
Performance is still awfully horrible. Just opening that page causes Safari to hang for quite a while, and memory use to shoot up from ~40M to ~670M. That's not even close to being acceptable.
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by danh 16y ago
"One of the most intriguing findings is that if you talk to people who disagree with you, that helps your brain wake up and refine your arguments and shake up the cognitive egg." That strikes me as truth. And a very inconvenient one at that
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Single menu bar for Ubuntu(markshuttleworth.com)
69 points by danh 16y ago|56 comments
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by danh 16y ago
It seems like all Western (or westernized) countries have to endure an era of "sex & drugs & rock & roll". It's like puberty for countries.
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by danh 16y ago
Very true, except that it's called Dalvik.
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by danh 16y ago
I agree that studying a foreign language in school probably is a waste of time (at least that's been my experience). But, at the same time, languages are a lot of fun. This is my experience: * English. Being Swedish, we started with English
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The Wrong Man(theatlantic.com)
72 points by danh 16y ago|11 comments
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by danh 16y ago
Another rule: use short words. "Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all," as Winston Churchill would have it.
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Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App(blogs.wsj.com)
22 points by danh 16y ago|15 comments
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by danh 16y ago
Except, of course, satire written in C, Objective-C or Javascript.
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by danh 17y ago
"Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript" So porting from another language is now forbidden? Or is it unoriginal code that is banned? Either way, the sheer craziness is astounding.
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Stephen Fry meets Steve Jobs(time.com)
91 points by danh 17y ago|18 comments
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by danh 17y ago
That is indeed exactly what I meant. Sorry about the ambiguity.
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by danh 17y ago
rlwrap does the same thing (and very well too, I might add).
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by danh 17y ago
Excellent article. Worth reading for this quote alone: "I suspect his motivation was not so much to understand the world as it was to find new ideas to explain. The act of discovery was not complete for him until he had taught it to someone
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by danh 17y ago
That all depends on your definition of "language". For most linguists, all that matters is mutual intelligibility. For others, a language is a "dialect with an army and a flag", i.e. a political construct. A Swedish person like me most of t
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by danh 17y ago
A linguist would probably say that Scandinavia already has a common language, and that Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are mere dialects of the same Scandinavian language. They are considered different languages mainly for political and histo
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by danh 17y ago
Also, Flash often, rather surprisingly, uses more CPU cycles when a video is paused than e.g. VLC does actually playing the darned thing (on OS X). I guess this must be because Apple doesn't allow Adobe access to its proprietary, hardware b
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Applying Mathematics To Web Design(smashingmagazine.com)
9 points by danh 17y ago|0 comments
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by danh 17y ago
Favorite quote time: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead" wrote Blaise Pascal (or possibly Mark Twain, or Churchill).
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by danh 17y ago
Isn't it strange that so very few smells have their own words to describe them? Supposedly, there are thousands of them, but, with the exception of the formula "it smells like X", almost without exception they don't have proper names. It's
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by danh 17y ago
One way to achieve almost the same effect is through Google's mobile reformatting thingy: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=news.ycombinator.com Fast, simple and ugly as hell...
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by danh 17y ago
I think you're right. This seems to be what Google calls its "mobile lab": http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/12/android-dogfood-die...
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by danh 17y ago
Also available in iTunes: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/mit.edu....

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