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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you start out criticising the cautious language of uncertainty, and then criticise others for making specific predictions that turn out to be wrong? I'm perfectly happy with that cautious sentence, as
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
A couple of months ago I put together some lists[1] of movie availability on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu plus, based on the IMDB top 250, 2010 Oscar nominees, Sight & Sound 2012 top 250 poll, and the 250 biggest box office money make
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Don't all the other keyboards he suggests as alternatives have most of the same [perceived] problems as the Code keyboard? They all seem to have similarly positioned left Alt keys, wide spacebars and traditional (not ergonomic) layouts
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
He also wrote the script for that movie with Ben Affleck, which means that at least one of them must be familiar with these issues. (Also, the original script focussed a lot more on the FBI's attempted recruitment of Damon's chara
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Well, the critic in me wants to point out that it won't work very well on time trial bikes, and some people prefer to have their bike computer sitting slightly ahead of the handlebars, like how SRMs are mounted. Still, it should work v
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Netflix, Amazon and Hulu compared for streaming movie availability(davidjohnstone.net)
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
In defence of this comment, apparently the book describes the drugging and raping of two ten year olds from the record shop, which is changed in the film to be a consensual encounter with girls his own age. There are other rape scenes in th
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Yes, there's a chart that shows power and height vs. time, and it certainly looks like that was the case. I bet it didn't feel like coasting though :-)
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
That's very impressive. To put that into perspective, that's a chart[1] that some exercise scientists have put together that shows what power cyclists of varying levels tend to be able to produce. The data in the spreadsheet gives
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Some people don't like the style of dance in the video (especially on the YouTube video, but I suppose the lesson to be learnt here is to never read YouTube comments), but complaining about that is completely missing the point. The app
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
"Amazon AWS"? I think you mean "Amazon AWS Web Services".
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Slightly tangential, but I'm pretty sure eugenicists were never thought of in the same way as communists et al. In the US, eugenics was an important idea in the Progressive Era of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, and w
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I'd take you up on that bet — the blur filter is always going to be computationally expensive given that has to do Gaussian blur according to the spec. There are faster ways to blur, but they're not as "good".
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
As much as my life would have been easier this year without the decision to close Google Reader (I think this is what they call #firstworldproblems), it's a good thing that they didn't change their mind and decide to not shut it d
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I've mentioned previously here that on my "somebody should create this, and I might eventually" list is an open source, P2P, optionally server-backed, encrypted Dropbox replacement. Upon further thinking about the concept in
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Here's one more to add to the list: http://www.altfeedreader.com/ I made it, but it provides a simpler and prettier interface to a NewsBlur account (and it's open source: https://github.com/davidjo
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
There's j/k for next/previous, but that's it. (Oh, and escape hides things.) Other than that, not yet. I should have mentioned that I've also released the source code: https://github.com/davidjohnsto
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The funny thing about Hacker News (and most other places) is that if you explain everything you end up writing a tome that nobody ends up reading. That is to say, I completely agree with you. Google Reader had an excellent backend (being us
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Yes, we agree — the graphical interface is just part of the interface that is presented to the user. It's a shame UI often means GUI.
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
It seems to work fine for me in IE10... I'm not sure what's going on there. Also, it is possible to view the feed for a single source: clicking on a feed label in the subscriptions list shows just the items from that feed. If you
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The funny thing about feed readers is that we actually only care about the UI, not the underlying feed fetching and parsing and whatever else happens on the server. So, when I made my feed reader — this has got to be the most popular pastim
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Here's the source: https://github.com/davidjohnstone/alt
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The only broken-ness I can remember seeing for a long time in Firefox is in those demos and other little projects that pop up here where the developer forgot that browsers other than Chrome exist (or, are using Chrome only features).
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I wish Heroku didn't charge $20/month for SSL... Yes, I'm planning on open sourcing it. I just have a couple of things to do, and a couple of comments to add.
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I have a 200.24 d:196.51 h:-17.24/3.29m (gen 55). At the 190 mark the world goes all glitchy and half the track disappears. It's a shame it's not as deterministic as it could be (according to the blurb at the bottom of the pa
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
For my purposes, it works well with the list hidden, since I vary rarely use it. However, in developing this, I have found that having to open and close it as much as is currently required if you do use it (unless your monitor is very wide)
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
As a non-American, apparently I'm already fair game, so there's no harm in using encryption.
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I definitely agree. Once made to show full items by default, Feedly became acceptable for how I use a feed reader. However, this option only appears to be available on the desktop site, and not on the Android app, and all the other options
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
It is actually: http://www.newsblur.com/api What exactly is being returned by the API calls isn't documented, like which field is the unread count, but I didn't have any issues with what I did. I have a feeling it
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Unfortunately not. I completely understand your reluctance at entering your password, although I can assure you that I'm neither looking at nor saving passwords (and the same goes for emails/usernames, for that matter).

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