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by dflock 17y ago
Two parts to this really - will it be better and would you use it if it was? By the look of the current alpha/beta stuff, it's just barely competitive now, on very selective benchmarks. When it comes out it will be competing with Chrome 6 a
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by dflock 17y ago
IE pre-loads at Windows start-up, effectively. If browser start-up time bothers you, there is a fast start-up pre-load thing for Firefox. Personally I just load Chromium when I login and leave it open until the next restart, possibly weeks
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by dflock 17y ago
It seems that most people using it have missed the point about micro-platforms and micro-actions, to actually enable the ideas to be broken into tiny achievable steps and be implemented. All the suggestions that I saw on there were basicall
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by dflock 17y ago
Batik (which FOP uses if you feed it SVG) is probably too memory and CPU hungry for this - hogging processes tend to get killed on shared servers.
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Ask HN: SVG to PDF on a shared linux server
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by dflock 17y ago
This leaks memory like a sieve on Chromium, unfortunately. Be very interested to see where this goes eventually though.
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by dflock 17y ago
Yeah, full text in the feed, or don't bother with the feed at all.
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by dflock 17y ago
I'm not currently using xmonad (thinking about it though) but I do know that at least one google/chromium developer (est...@chromium.org) is an xmonad user, so you might get some joy by asking on the chromium forums, or filing bugs for spe
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by dflock 17y ago
Yeah, external factors like those mentioned obviously play a part, as do internal factors, as taught to us by playing Civilisation - fat happy democracies don't like making war very much, or for very long; it's expensive and you have to get
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by dflock 17y ago
This is, more or less, the original founding intent of the European Union. Given that the last 60 years has been free of major land wars in Europe - the longest period of peace on the continent since the fall of the Roman Empire in ~470AD,
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by dflock 17y ago
It is now, but I don't think this was intended to their primary mission profile when they were designed, over a decade ago. A lot of the intended uses were more traditional than the ones that reality has presented.
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by dflock 17y ago
I use Gmail to aggregate all my mailboxes. Gmail's spam folder keeps things for 30 days before deleting them. I've currently got 2965 spam emails in the spam folder - which is a little on the low side of my average. So, I get about 3000 spa
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by dflock 17y ago
In the same way that the old communist states often had both 'democratic' and 'republic' in their over-long official names. Hmm, LDAP. I'd hate to meet HDAP.
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by dflock 17y ago
I think that from the point of view of global digital society, if this thing fails spectacularly and publicly, it could be money well spent - if it deters other nations from pouring their taxpayers money down this particular drain. Can anyo
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by dflock 17y ago
Quite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_authors_who_wro... Although, Anne Rice is on that list and her real name is apparently Howard Allen O'Brien, despite actually being female: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice
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by dflock 17y ago
Why don't you try lots of different things and then write an another article about how you got on - and what worked and didn't, with numbers?
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by dflock 17y ago
Several observations on this: 1) You make your own luck - for the most part - and that what we call 'being lucky' is a skill you can learn. See here for the research on this: http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/wiseman/research/luckmain.html 2) Th
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by dflock 17y ago
Fair enough. I realized it was .95 after I posted, sorry. Thanks for the reply though :)
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by dflock 17y ago
I'd be interested to hear what patio has to say about this. He sells his Bingo Card creator software for 29.99 and split tests everything. Have you ever tried split testing prices?
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by dflock 17y ago
I think you're correct - but I think that almost everyone is missing the point and just talking about the client. The current Google supplied client is optional, and will change. What's more, other clients will emerge that do different thin
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by dflock 17y ago
DH are mostly just very transparent about downtime - more so than most hosts. They are also very cheap. If you would like more nine's, you will need to pay more. MT, rackspace, etc... are all considerably more expensive.
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by dflock 17y ago
Ah, there we go; the other shoe drops.
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by dflock 17y ago
True - and Chrome (the full install) already does this - it installs everything into your C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome folder. I think the main issue isn't this, it's that many o
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by dflock 17y ago
It does indeed include V8 and a big shiny 'Speed Up' button might actually be one plausible way to get people to install the required plug-in.
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by dflock 17y ago
True, although the hinting is mostly just used for when things get tiny. SVG works well from sizes from 32x32 up to infinity, which is fairly impressive, I think.
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by dflock 17y ago
I've done commercial IT training in the past and came across this learning styles stuff during a training-the-trainer seminar. I have found that it seems that most of the benefits accrue from repetition and re-enforcement, rather than anyth
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by dflock 17y ago
Something that people often forget when dissing vectors and SVG in particular, is that they're _scalable_ - so you can use the same version everywhere. So, you send the logo SVG once, and you could use it for the main logo on the homepage,
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by dflock 17y ago
Looks much better. I would suggest some simple tweaks to make the box borders drop into the background slightly and stop competing with the text so much: change the current css to something like this: tarsnap.css line 107: div.box h3 {
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by dflock 17y ago
There's a certain amount of internal competition within the iTunes market that prevents this working across the board. Also, the 99c thing is pretty sacred - if it went up to $2.50 across the board, there would be a huge backlash, which App
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by dflock 17y ago
Apple already control the profits and destiny of all the existing record labels by being the gatekeeper of something like ~80% of digital sales (i.e. ~80% of ~99% of all sales, eventually) via iTunes. They have already managed, apparently w

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