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The Strange and Wonderful History of Diving Suits, From 1715 to Today(io9.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
This is glossing over one important point though: Most people don't frequently replace their PCs with new ones. I still use a rig built 4 years ago. My mom uses one that's about the same, but before that, she owned a Dell tower th
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by eksith 13y ago
These are the symptoms of bad responsive design. There are ways to mitigate these things by really going about proper responsive design, and that takes actual usage. (#3 Is a huge pet peeve of mine) I fear too many designers only "test
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Linus' facility with language never ceases to amaze me. Even when he's over the top, he makes sense.
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What makes you think it was pulled out just to flame? I thought it was a colorful use of language.
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm still quite astonished that (according to some of the comments) it's fairly standard that traffic between datacenters is not encrypted. Granted we're talking about extremely large throughput, but I thought Google of all
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Linus: ...documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire...(lkml.org)
8 points by eksith 13y ago|6 comments
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I'm already seeing that trend. How many blogs have you seen thus far that have abandoned the side widget or even the footer? Every post is just title, main content in a giant font and a back button. It seems some content creators are t
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Then the future of the web is quite bleak. I don't think there's a standard accepted form for the card, unless everyone decides to copy Twitter et al. I'm still browsing a fair number of sites that fall outside of social medi
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"I also have domains that I want to build on eventually, but I can't do it yet; so to other people it looks like I'm squatting." This is a the biggest problem I have too. I think to myself, I'm going to build someth
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by eksith 13y ago
According to the EFF, a lot more : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/11/undermining-freedoms-c... It's important to remember that this wasn't in the U.S. and happened in 2005, when Yahoo's p
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It's a bit complicated though. Like you say, there are egregious examples out there which clearly fall under squatting, but I think there's also the sentiment that domains are a tool and identity. The idea that someone thought up
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by eksith 13y ago
$200 for "urrl.us" ? I wonder how much sh2.us would fetch ( currently hosting my ramblings http://www.sh2.us ) While I like the idea of a simpler domain sales option (since GoDaddy is a spammy nightmare) at present, I
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I wonder if Yahoo will make any statements regarding this or say nothing and hope the story quietly disappears. It's an awkward moment when the company is trying to distance itself from the past and reinvent itself.
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Perhaps it has something to do with the ever changing (and often diluted) definition of "hacker". It's a very in term these days.
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That's mighty fancy. But this isn't really a "missing blogging platform". If you're a hacker, there are also a fair number of blogs written in Bash : https://github.com/search?q=bash+blog&ref=cmd
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I'm curious what this will mean for ROHS compliance. Gallium Arsenide isn't a terribly friendly substance and, depending on the concentrations, it could pose a safety issue during installation and/or recycling. https:/&
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by eksith 13y ago
The company said it had not programmed a "'back door' pipeline to our platform." You know what? I believe them. In this case maybe this is the opportunity BlackBerry has been waiting for. Finally prove that they&
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Before I saw "The Borowitz Report", I honestly thought this could have happened. Reality seems surreal enough these days.
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This is a fantastic list. Thank you!
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Great advice, but... "Don’t compare yourself to others" I've repeatedly found this to be near-impossible. It's just that no matter what standard I've set for myself, just the fact that I see someone doing better aut
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by eksith 13y ago
There should be one standard for wireless charging, but I'm afraid we'll end up with just one more if that's the case. Obligatory http://xkcd.com/927 802.11ac Will do nicely. It's supposed to be gigabit
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by eksith 13y ago
Power mat I presume? Doesn't that still require a device specific base/connector?
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That's true. The draw is quite a bit higher than for a simple electric motor, but as devices use less and less power in the future, it should at least be available for some. Something like a Moto Fone shouldn't need cables https:
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by eksith 13y ago
I look forward to the day we stop using cables at all for these devices. My electric toothbrush charges without a connector by simple induction; I don't see why a phone shouldn't either. Plus a phone should be able to transfer dat
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They're still out there, albeit harder to find. Geocities dying was quite a blow and Tripod is scarcely touched these days. Squatters, I fear, are moving to NeoCities, but here and there I find some sites that are diamonds in the rough
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That's just obscene! All that markup over just the label. I understand that it takes R&D to develop new drugs, but the amount of profit sought by drug companies is stomach churning.
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Debian/Ubuntu isn't alone in this. It should be noted that the majority of nodes are using Linux and of those, the 0.2.4 package is still not available unless you're running some flavor of "untested" or other bleedi
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For 2020 Olympics, I.O.C. Picks Tokyo, Considered Safe Choice(nytimes.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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As in most of these technological failures, the problem may just be between the keyboard and chair. I never cease to be amazed at the seemingly insurmountable odds people defeat to ensure something breaks somewhere in the least predictable

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