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by edd 17y ago
This is the interesting page from there: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ "1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)" Sounds like a nice display.
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by edd 17y ago
And $629 unlocked to take to what ever 3g network you want.
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by edd 17y ago
Read also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363723
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Warn HN: Flickr Photo ID is about to overflow a 32 bit unsigned int
7 points by edd 17y ago|1 comments
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by edd 17y ago
I remember thinking during the first report to come out of Haiti how did the reporters get in there when you just showed us a video of British rescue teams stuck at a near-by airport who have spent the day failing at getting in.
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by edd 17y ago
"They put anything from microsoft on it." Dude, books and covers! Please judge products on merit not by who made the damn thing. You can rest assured apple will never let the "average user" experience suffer just to do a deal with another
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by edd 17y ago
I first saw this done on the CSS Zen Garden a number of years back. Its still live here: http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.timpelen.com...
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by edd 17y ago
A great similar example of this was during the Football (soccer) World Cup 2006 Dutch fans were asked to remove their trousers (pants) and sit and watch the game in there pants (underwear) because the trousers (pants) had the logo of a comp
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by edd 17y ago
I think this would be much less of a 'big deal' if you could 'suspend' more apps. Getting a txt during a game leaving the game to reply to it and then coming back and not being able to pick up where you left of does suck. If it could effect
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by edd 17y ago
"As mentioned earlier more people are using iPhones, net books, and other portable devices for viewing the internet. The future of internet browsing will probably involve smaller screens, and thusly larger fonts should, in my opinion, be ad
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by edd 17y ago
You write a url with a http:// and it will turn it in to a link for you. See the formatting document[1] for all the formatting available to you. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by edd 17y ago
Arguably in the Windows world this is even worse. The default reflex in Windows is to maximise every window you have. At least with on OSX the default way of making a window bigger is just to "zoom" it to a better size. Also regarding tilin
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by edd 17y ago
Point 6 is a really cool way picking a random row and has never occurred to me. It does make me think though why has something like this never been optimised out by MySQL before running the query. After all it is such a common requirement.
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by edd 17y ago
Using Showdown[1] is much better as it is markdown implemented in javascript and therefor doesn't require an ajax call after every other keydown. [1]: http://attacklab.net/showdown/
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RockYou loses 32 million user login credentials to hackers through SQL injection(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by edd 17y ago|0 comments
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Snowtime - push the button and see snow fall a member of Torchbox(snow.torchbox.com)
3 points by edd 17y ago|0 comments
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by edd 17y ago
This title is rather misleading. The article doesn't even mention Spotify. I would have appreciated a less editorialised title.
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by edd 17y ago
One quick note: its "JavaScript" one word, no spaces. Java and JavaScript are two very different languages putting a space there would only infinitely confuse everyone even more. "Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster" - http://www.sm
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by edd 17y ago
Your first point is so valid. Having created a webapp for the iPhone myself there really are few places I can go to put my webapp on a stage that anyone cares about. If someone knows of any I honestly would love to know where they are.
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by edd 17y ago
Notification of replies to comments you make.
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by edd 17y ago
This has already been posted once. You can read the comments from that time here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823347
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by edd 17y ago
For reference for anyone else who doesn't know how this should be done correctly (I had to go and look at the dojo source). dojo.isString = function(/*anything*/ it){ // summary: // Return true if it is a String
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by edd 17y ago
"The bottom-line is that the more "democratic" a forum/board/discussion media gets, the more clueless it becomes." The voice in the back of my head reading that is shouting" but what about the "Wisdom of Crowds"? I think the problem we are
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by edd 17y ago
There is currently an advertising campaign using the 'BasketBall Demonstration' running in London to make people more aware of cyclists while driving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4
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UK to get tough on file-sharers(news.bbc.co.uk)
9 points by edd 17y ago|1 comments
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by edd 17y ago
I have been using Shaun Inman's Fever ( http://feedafever.com/ ) recently to try and filter out what is 'hot'. Its an RSS reader but lets you have feeds that are only used as indications to link up other good posts. It works by showing you
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Creating a Preview page for any ShortURL Provider(log.edds.me.uk)
2 points by edd 17y ago|0 comments
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by edd 17y ago
Resolution independence is coming with OS 10.5...
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Apple.com now uses the HTML5 video tag(ajaxian.com)
56 points by edd 17y ago|15 comments
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by edd 17y ago
How has this made it on to the front page of Hacker News?

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