duckson

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by duckson 2y ago
Right? Here in the Netherlands, Teletext is still very much alive and has several millions of users per week. [1] In fact, at the end of 2023 our public broadcaster rewrote the Teletext backend system using modern programming practices to k
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by duckson 3y ago
This performance art sure sounds like some sort of kink!
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by duckson 4y ago
Talk about flipping the Bird to your staff.
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by duckson 5y ago
> Different responses to different touch and gestures, oriented towards the blind That's VoiceOver on iOS. It's a screen reader that's also available on the Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch. Android has a similar screenreader ca
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by duckson 6y ago
Reminds me of something Jim Weirich (author of Ruby's `rake`) used to say: > Fun game at apple store: on any mac, in terminal type: "grep Copyright `gem which rake`" ... which would print his name, because Ruby and rake ar
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Why “Always use UTC” is bad advice(engineering.q42.nl)
2 points by duckson 7y ago|0 comments
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by duckson 8y ago
The docs include a recipe for Breton crêpes. :) [1] https://github.com/guardian/frontend/blob/master/docs/99-arc...
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by duckson 9y ago
Is there a Swift environment running on this yet? /s
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Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later(medium.com)
180 points by duckson 11y ago|63 comments
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by duckson 12y ago
Their site seems to be down, here's a Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2VSoNL8...
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by duckson 12y ago
I don't know about Philae/Rosetta's hardware in particular, but there are very specific requirements to hardware that's sent into space. I'm using the Mars Science Laboratory as an example here: The MSL uses twin Po
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GitLab 7.0 released with drag and drop images and performance improvements(about.gitlab.com)
5 points by duckson 12y ago|0 comments