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by dgarrett 6y ago
Lapham’s Quarterly is good for this too: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
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by dgarrett 7y ago
Everything the author complains about is a feature of the Kindle. Just use your iPad if you want more than an “electronic book”.
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by dgarrett 7y ago
Amazon doesn’t like when customers use Google to search for a product, then click on the Amazon link and buy it. Amazon doesn’t get the search and behavioral data from that. By forcing the customer to go to a special site, the customer has
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by dgarrett 12y ago
Well, if you have access to an unlockable phone, this would get you access to the Blockchain app's data despite the app's PIN lock.
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by dgarrett 12y ago
Be warned, the security of this app is not great. It stores your Blockchain.info password and your app's PIN in plaintext on your phone, retrievable over USB. It also stores an encrypted copy of your Bitcoin wallet right next to the pl
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by dgarrett 12y ago
Don't forget the horrors of Windows high DPI scaling. Poor, blurry Google Chrome. Edit: I was inspired to look into it a little more, and it looks like Chrome does have high-DPI support: https://groups.google.com/a&#x2F
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by dgarrett 12y ago
Fyi, the smooth scrolling JS you use on your homepage is very awkward with a Macbook trackpad (in Chrome). It kind of accelerates erratically.
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by dgarrett 13y ago
Check out the new software coming with the new products. It looks like it's all compatible with the previous generation Logics. According to the Downloads page[0], the software update is coming May 31st. [0] https://www.sale
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by dgarrett 13y ago
Huh, Saleae used to have a nice ~50% student discount. Does anyone know what happened to that? I'd be very interested in using this for some projects.
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by dgarrett 13y ago
Here be speculation: It looks fairly large (plenty of battery room), has no display (not sure about scanner battery usage), and transmits little data over WiFi per use. With it's simplicity, there's no reason they can't use t
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by dgarrett 13y ago
He's talking about the sign up code you need to order a free device. I'd imagine they're sending these out to Amazon Fresh users.
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by dgarrett 13y ago
It'll be interesting to see what Amazon does to continue to get more information on people's shopping habits.
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by dgarrett 13y ago
The CueCat has a wire. Possibly a case of doing one thing wrong that ruined the entire product. We'll see.
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by dgarrett 13y ago
> I love that infinitely nerdy stuff like this can still make it to the HN homepage (there's still hope!). I can't wait for "Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To 2048"
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by dgarrett 13y ago
The entire point of the clickable touchscreen, as I recall, was that resting your finger on it would bring up an overlay on the monitor, mirroring what was shown on the touchscreen. You would then move your finger to hover over what you wan
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by dgarrett 13y ago
From http://api.criticker.com/ > Due to a security breach, the Criticker APIs have been taken off-line for an unspecified amount of time. > We apologize for the inconvenience.
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by dgarrett 13y ago
... I was surprised at how short ... most of which was just filler for ... So are you saying it was too short, or too long? ;)