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by dflock 17y ago
I quite like authentipede for some reason. Not sure why or what you'd do with it though.
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by dflock 17y ago
The Droid family from Ascender, which Google commissioned for Android is uniformly excellent, renders well everywhere I've seen it and is Apache Licensed. I'm currently using 'Droid Sans' as a system UI font (on Linux) and 'Droid Sans Mono'
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by dflock 17y ago
Are there any HN'ers (patio?) who live in Japan and could shed some light on what you actually use all this bandwidth for, if you do? Is the current situation really as it's painted? I'm in the UK and I current have a (fairly flakey) 24Mbps
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by dflock 17y ago
I'm currently using both on Linux and there isn't really any difference between them at all, except the icon.
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by dflock 17y ago
It used to be that this was a valid interview tactic - asking people hard/obscure stuff and seeing if you could get them to admit they didn't know, then get them to explain where they'd go to find out. It used to be that there were many dif
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by dflock 17y ago
I just found this, which is the (rather limited) youtube html5 site, as demoed in the Google I/O keynote: http://www.youtube.com/html5 No Plugins at all! Try mousing over the thumbnails of the related videos. Tested and works in Midori (
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by dflock 17y ago
I think this is a good idea. I already lend/invest via Kiva and would support it expanding to cover the whole globe. I don't see why the micro-financing model should just apply to the so called developing world. Why not any cash strapped sm
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by dflock 17y ago
The Day One Keynote from this years Google I/O conference covers all this html5 stuff very well and demonstrates that this is all available right now, if you pretend that Microsoft doesn't exist. They demo the Firefox 3.5 stuff, and they al
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by dflock 17y ago
I make lots of notes in Tomboy ( http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html ) - which is a personal wiki/notetaking desktop app, primarily for Gnome, but has an official Windows port and alpha web sync. It can also be synched to a local
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by dflock 17y ago
The first user contributed note on that page: <?php wtf: echo 'For real!?'; echo 'Srsly!?'; goto wtf; ?> Heh.
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by dflock 17y ago
If you're using linux, then Specto does this for anything at all, including websites: http://specto.sourceforge.net/
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by dflock 17y ago
This whole daily chart section of the economist is quite interesting, they've got 500 other charts like that one in there: http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/ Like these interesting/surprising examples: Countries with the most wi
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by dflock 17y ago
Time to finally get a new phone, methinks.
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by dflock 17y ago
Apparently, there is eventually going to be a 64bit version, on all platforms probably, but at the moment no. As pointed out, the current 64bit deb just installs the 32bit version plus ia32libs stuff. They're talking about/ waiting on 64bit
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by dflock 17y ago
'Chrome' is the Google branded officially released version of 'Chromium' - which, as you pointed out, is the open source base on which 'Chrome' built. There is currently no 'Chrome' release for Linux, only nightly builds of 'Chromium' - whi
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by dflock 17y ago
True. I wonder if this kind of thing gets tested as part of car safety testing, like crash worthiness does? It probably ought to be, with the increasing use of in-car IT & entertainment tech.
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by dflock 17y ago
You could probably combine the easy-arms-reach touchscreen with HUD and audio feedback to mitigate most of these issues.
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by dflock 17y ago
Actually, Quantum Theory states that the world, at the lowest level we currently conceive of, is discrete and 'digital'. Time, space, energy - everything - come in little chunks called quanta which represent the smallest possible subdivisio
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by dflock 18y ago
Hopefully we are moving back into an era of increased competition in the OS market; that would be a good thing to see. personally I'm rooting for Plan9 :) Having you product commoditized isn't so bad, provided that you've got high volumes.
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by dflock 18y ago
Oh please God, I really, really hope so.
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by dflock 18y ago
This is based on soil studies of a limited number of sites in Australia. It implies that as these soils contained more black carbon (soot) than thought - which takes 1-2k yrs to convert to CO2, rather than 100 yrs for organic carbon - soil