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541.
by estel 15y ago
"Modes" is perhaps not the right terminology, but the closest analogy to the Firefox nightlies is the Chrome Canary build.
542.
by estel 15y ago
My understanding is that it's 1530GMT: 1630BST :)
543.
by estel 15y ago
It's not just the UK's largest Sunday newspaper: it's the biggest circulation English language newspaper on the planet.
544.
by estel 15y ago
That's true, but given the integration GTalk has with G+ now, most of my G+ contacts have also appeared in my Talk contact list primed for video chat.
545.
by estel 15y ago
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150223135777131
546.
by estel 15y ago
Even if you accept that this isn't wrong because it's what customers want; if it's broadly unknown (by this community) it becomes newsworthy because HN would probably not want to think of itself as at the bottom of the barrel, and will be m
547.
by estel 15y ago
Minority? Sure, if compared to every other browser. But in that respect, surely every browser is a minority browser?
548.
by estel 15y ago
Yes, but because the original investment was from the public purse, there's still a strong argument that, even if not legally, the public might have a right to some sense of entitlement.
549.
by estel 15y ago
Why is making job cuts something only an evil corporation would do?
550.
by estel 15y ago
Michael O'Leary is a brilliant example of a CEO who is almost the complete polar opposite of Branson in every way except one: he uses his own persona and personality in the media to really drive Ryanair's value propositions forward. His wid
551.
by estel 15y ago
Noone will miss them much when they strike? Regardless of how "large" the supply of cabin-crew is; a strike that cancels flights will still affect my hypothetical holiday, and I will miss them an awful lot. That's more because there's a lat
552.
by estel 15y ago
The torrent appears to contain hacked personal data from: * EA (Battlefield Heroes) * Hackforums.net * Nato-bookshop.org * Misc other forums The first of these purports to be 200K+ users.
553.
by estel 15y ago
The power of the brand with whom? Engineers or consumers? I can guarantee that not a single person on my Skype contact list will be aware of this story; and many will probably have forgotten that MSFT are in the process of buying Skype in t
554.
by estel 15y ago
I think that just like with TF2, it depends broadly on what server and community you happen to be in. I've seen incredibly welcoming communities in both games.
555.
by estel 15y ago
Given I'm at a PHP shop, MySQL is unfortunately all but unavoidable. Shucks.
556.
by estel 15y ago
Presumably they put it out for tender and got the best package that they could. Isn't that what we'd expect a Government to do? Tender jobs out to the private sector and choose the provider that offers the best value for money? It's not as
557.
by estel 15y ago
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook is most widely cited in a more general sense. I'm reading it myself at the moment - http://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Hackers-Handbook-Disco...
558.
by estel 15y ago
There's jurisdiction for that?
559.
by estel 15y ago
But isn't it the case that a system for encoding location is more likely to be widely accepted if it can be universally applied to a wide range of use-cases?
560.
by estel 15y ago
Why do you equate this to being behind? The generational analogy seems perfectly apt, but that doesn't make out outlook worse or less sophisticated than the other.
561.
by estel 15y ago
And now it's recursing. Google strikes again.
562.
by estel 15y ago
And broadly discontinued.
563.
Today's game industry hack victim: SEGA(thatvideogameblog.com)
1 points by estel 15y ago|0 comments
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by estel 15y ago
You can only infer that if the iPad 2 were released simultaneously with the iPad 1 and with otherwise identical specs. The iPad2 is the /next/ product Apple released: of course it will sell more. Apple are exceptionally good at getting peop
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Dark corners of the net(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by estel 15y ago|0 comments
566.
by estel 15y ago
I haven't really found a correlation between power and battery usage though: battery life hasn't really improved for a few years, but phones have gotten massively more powerful in that time. They only really need to last through the day.
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Die Smiling on this Hoverbike(wired.com)
3 points by estel 15y ago|1 comments
568.
by estel 15y ago
According to http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/stocks/the-bitcoin-triples-... they were making $40,000 a day. That's pretty incredible.
569.
by estel 15y ago
Not only Firefox seems to resize headings for sectioned content, but Chrome (12.0.742.91 beta-m) seems to also.
570.
by estel 15y ago
It's always worth mentioning Spring, which used to be an open source version of Total Annihilation, but now encompasses so much more: http://springrts.com/

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