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by graue 14y ago
I've seen that article and I submit the Nexus 7 as a counter-example. (If anyone didn't read the link: that quote's making an analogy between desktop Linux and Android devices.) The Nexus 7 was widely agreed to be great on day one, even by
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by graue 14y ago
johngalt didn't mention a mouse, you did. I think when we get larger touchscreens the mouse may indeed become obsolete. (I'm looking forward to it; I never had any love for that form of input.) But a keyboard will continue to be useful for
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by graue 14y ago
As seems typical for popular Twitter hashtags, it's mostly just people discussing the hashtag itself and relatively few links to papers.
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by graue 14y ago
So I don't know how long it will take but one of my side project ideas is to build an Instagram-like photo sharing social network that uses your Dropbox for storage. Since a lot of my ideas turn out to be unoriginal, does anyone know if thi
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by graue 14y ago
Nice. Do you pay for Google Drive? My music collection is too large to store in the cloud affordably. But this looks cool, I'm uploading an album to my (previously unused) Drive to try it out. Edit: Hmm, seems glitchy. The music is playing
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by graue 14y ago
That's great news. Do you know what release this will land in? Edit: Oops, I guess it's already there. I couldn't think of a site with an appropriately sized fixed header to test it, but Google+ is such a site and pagedown works perfectly t
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by graue 14y ago
So here's a silly idea HN might appreciate. After reading some protocol specs I thought of using the key words from RFC 2119[1] to organize my todo list. There are tasks I MUST do, which are an absolute requirement. There are tasks I SHOULD
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by graue 14y ago
OT, but spaces are more common because they're strongly recommended by PEP 8, the community style guide for Python code. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
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by graue 14y ago
I've looked at this one, actually! Are you the author of beets itself? beets is a great music importer. A few months ago I wanted to write something like that — looking up releases in a central repository, automatically correcting tags an
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by graue 14y ago
I don't remember that ever happening. How long ago did you try it? Comparing the two now, Firefox seems on par with Browser for app startup and slightly quicker to display pages.
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by graue 14y ago
The article is contradicting Monoprice's product page, which indicates only a one year warranty, like Micro Center: > As you've come to expect from Monoprice, we stand behind our products and offer a full 1 year warranty, which is at l
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by graue 14y ago
Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long h
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by graue 14y ago
Have you tried Firefox? It's pretty darn fast on my Galaxy Nexus.
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by graue 14y ago
Wouldn't CloudFlare's free plan be just as good here? Edit: Looks like Danielle thinks so... she signed up with them a few hours ago. https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/28918229241967411...
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by graue 14y ago
Wow, this looks great, only I'm a tea drinker... is anyone trying to do this for tea?
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by graue 14y ago
Paul, I'm disappointed to see this from you. Calling someone a “hater”, no matter how carefully and eruditely you define the term, is still an ad hominem attack intended to dismiss their opinion. It's a DH1 on your disagreement hierarchy. I
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by graue 14y ago
Off topic perhaps, but is Rich Hickey's wisdom only summarized in talks, or has he written some of this down? I see a number of glowing reviews of videos like this. While I don't want to miss out, I would personally much rather consume th
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by graue 14y ago
I believe (and hope) your critique is well-intentioned, but just think about it a little more. If you are a trans person, a very significant amount of the population probably treats you like you are weird or a freak. You could be verbally h
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by graue 14y ago
Yeah, pretty annoying. For what it's worth, if you Ctrl-F "webkit" and replace the occurrences of "-webkit-linear-gradient" with just "linear-gradient", it looks mostly if not entirely OK in Firefox.
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by graue 14y ago
Incidentally, this is one reason why the 12-factor app methodology stores configuration in environment variables, not source files. http://www.12factor.net/config
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by graue 14y ago
Steve, you used the word "they" yourself up above: > They've been writing their own operating system... Not criticizing, just pointing it out. I read it and wasn't sure why you had used "they".
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by graue 14y ago
I say this all the time but I'll say it again: Xubuntu, the flavor with Xfce as its desktop environment, has IMHO been an excellent choice for several years now. There's no tablet version but it works well, does what you expect and isn't be
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by graue 14y ago
> it has gotten incrementally a lot better I keep hearing people say this, I keep trying it again and I keep being disappointed and going back to Xfce. I mean, every time you press Alt, the menu bar at the top of the screen flashes. T
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by graue 14y ago
The X1 Carbon is actually going for a little bit less than the 13" Air, at least for the base model of each. https://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoP...
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by graue 14y ago
The links for securecookie and mux links are down (redirecting to https://www.gorillatoolkit.org/ , which doesn't respond).
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by graue 14y ago
This, and the other comments about the poor state of open-source speech recognition, are very disappointing. Until now, I'd assumed the voice input on Android was open source. But if so it could clearly be taken and integrated into desktop
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by graue 14y ago
> Facebook started with the "let it all hang out" model and then grafted privacy on later That's not actually correct history. Facebook started with most data visible only to your friends, and gradually increased the visibility (given
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by graue 14y ago
> On FB you have to listen to everything everyone says to everyone, not just what they would choose to say to you to accommodate your sensibilities. What I find really interesting is that this communication model is a totally novel on
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by graue 14y ago
The culture of Twitter is different, though. It isn't just Facebook with every update cut off at 140 characters. Many have noted that on Twitter there's a widely held expectation that you'll at least try to be witty. (You can't spell "Twitt
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by graue 14y ago
Chrome has Web Audio, which is pretty far from coming to Firefox, and seems low priority[1]. That's why we keep seeing cool audio stuff posted here that's Chrome-exclusive. Firefox supports its own Audio Data API[2] which predates the W3C s

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