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by felixc 17y ago
What for? If your idea is to have an app that they can't "pin" on anyone in particular, you're missing the fact that you need an API key for access, and that can certainly be disabled.
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by felixc 17y ago
You'll note that he provided no support for that claim; he just said it in an authoritative tone.
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by felixc 17y ago
As another commenter pointed out, it looks like what you've got there is a website, instead of the actual script. A direct link to the file you need is here: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/felixc/pdfmunge/pdfmunge.p...
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by felixc 17y ago
Special bonus tip for HN readers! To get a set of good starting values for cropping the margins, use the existing pdfcrop utility with the --verbose flag. It will display the existing BoundingBox property as it processes each page. Let it r
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by felixc 17y ago
That was exactly my use case for creating it in the first place :)
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PDFMunge: Improve the display of technical PDFs on eBook readers(felixcrux.com)
41 points by felixc 17y ago|21 comments
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by felixc 17y ago
Thanks for that titbit -- I have to disagree that "everyone installs it this way", because I certainly hadn't! (I installed on Ubuntu from the chromium-daily launchpad ppa). That fix makes me feel a bit better, but it's still a nasty blow a
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by felixc 17y ago
You're absolutely right. Your two word snark has really added value to this discussion by clarifying that there is really no reason we should believe that these two things might have anything to do with each other whatsoever. I mean, variab
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by felixc 17y ago
Firefox cannot ship with H.264 licenses, regardless of whether they can afford the cost or not. The GPL is incompatible with that idea. As a side note, I'm not sure why you want H.264 to become the de-facto standard, given that it would req
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by felixc 17y ago
Right now, nothing. That's not why this is important. Think about the consequences of this for just one moment. How much support and developer time is Firefox going to lose if it can't play videos if/when YouTube switches over fully and doe
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by felixc 17y ago
That plan (opening up society by economic isolation) didn't work particularly well for Cuba, Iran, North Korea, or any other embargoed country that I know of.
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by felixc 17y ago
While I agree with you that the real solution is better privacy protections enshrined in law, I have to point out that you can't really derive an "ought" from an "is". In other words, the fact that corporations are amoral doesn't mean that
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by felixc 17y ago
I don't know if it's how the phrase was originally intended, but it makes a lot more sense to me if I read it as "until the value of his experience expired." I don't think "experience" in general could possibly expire (it's just another w
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UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by felixc 17y ago|0 comments
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Hector: A Literate Haskell Implementation of ELIZA(felixcrux.com)
1 points by felixc 17y ago|0 comments
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by felixc 17y ago
Not just European: Montreal, Canada has this too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixi Interestingly enough, vandalism seems to be much lower, though still significant: "...one in five bikes have been damaged and 15% of bike racks are defect
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by felixc 17y ago
That's probably taking it a bit too far; but if you fund yourself by borrowing from someone who will cut off your right hand if you fail to pay him back, you just may work harder to make that money. This is an old idea. From the Art of War:
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Douglas Crockford Talk on "JavaScript: The Good Parts"(felixcrux.com)
5 points by felixc 17y ago|0 comments
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by felixc 17y ago
I'm going to recommend Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts". It will really show you how to get the most out of the language and avoid the nasty pitfalls. As a side note, I attended a talk by him last night on this topic, and wr
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by felixc 17y ago
Oh, that's a really interesting case! I hadn't seen any like that when I posted, but that's definitely something to consider. I think you could work around whenever you get multiple "perfect" fits like that by comparing a) whether they are
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by felixc 17y ago
This looks trivial to defeat by simply comparing the top and bottom edges of each image, and picking the combination with the best fit. The faces might fare a little better under that test, but the logos and colourful shapes would likely be
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by felixc 17y ago
I don't understand why instant-typing-display was implemented in the first place. Or rather, I understand that it's supposed to speed up communication, but the drawbacks to it seem so huge in comparison to the tiny benefit that it really ju
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by felixc 17y ago
Though the comments here so far seem positive, there has also been a lot of negative backlash, primarily out of privacy concerns. Elliot Murphy posted a comment on LWN clarifying his message (comment here: http://lwn.net/Articles/356947/
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by felixc 17y ago
Certainly the Geneva Convention doesn't have legal force in this case, but I like to think that one can aspire to high standards of behaviour without the threat of legal sanction. In other words, do we obey Geneva Convention rules because w
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by felixc 17y ago
The University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) also has one of these. I'm not sure when it was introduced, but I think it was at the start of this term. Thankfully, it is cheaper than off-the-shelf books (at least the two or three titles I lo
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by felixc 17y ago
I'm going to guess it's our awful wireless operators, who charge higher data rates than any other place I know of in the world (a few years ago it was 3 to 10 times as much as the second most expensive location).
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by felixc 17y ago
As mentioned in the comments on that page, this is a different issue. You can opt out of sending the information to Google, but you have no say in the matter regarding Palm.
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by felixc 17y ago
It's both! It's recently started to appear on its own, without the text, in some promo material, and in that context it's just referred to as the "Amazon smile."
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by felixc 17y ago
Incredible. If you think paying over a million dollars for "mood boards" is a good investment, I have some Albertan seal-hunt licenses I'd like to sell you. This is a prime example of the advantages startups enjoy: your competitors spend a
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by felixc 17y ago
Stick with it, for now. It's not so much that it's a very valuable experience, it's that without it you will be locked out of so many other things that really are worthwhile. I know that two more years feels like an eternity right now, but

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