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by graue 14y ago
Not bad at all. I'm surprised there's not an even more affordable pay-as-you-go option for data, though.
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by graue 14y ago
Very cool. I spotted a little layout bug: Resize your browser to be skinny, you'll see that the "Sign Up/Sign In" text starts to overlap the header text and become unreadable.
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by graue 14y ago
It wasn't immediately clear to me what changed. Here's the old homepage: http://web.archive.org/web/20110713211922/http://www.linode.... It appears Linode removed the 768 and 1536 plans, renamed the 1024/2048/4096 plans to 1GB/2GB/4GB, an
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by graue 14y ago
That would be interesting. This offer to colo a RasPi for free (which was on HN awhile back) is apparently still valid: https://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi... I've got two Raspberry Pis coming to me in the mail, s
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by graue 14y ago
I don't think the author is saying his old-fashioned phone is chic... just economic. As a college student, he doesn't have a lot of disposable income, and to him the benefits of a smartphone don't justify the cost, even though he admits his
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by graue 14y ago
At the end, the author suggests getting an iPod Touch. A friend I just visited in NYC does this. My friend has an iPod Touch he uses to make Google Voice calls when wifi is available (which is most of the time). He also has a dumbphone for
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by graue 14y ago
I am actually using a MacBook Air, but I prefer keyboard to two-finger scrolling most of the time.
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by graue 14y ago
I do it sometimes compulsively, but I think it started for a legitimate reason: clicking to make sure the text has focus. That way when I use up/down/PageUp/PageDown to scroll, the text actually scrolls. If there is a textbox that has focus
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by graue 14y ago
Definitely agree with this. I ride a crappy bike I've been meaning to upgrade (it's heavy, rusted and tends to need lots of repairs), but the upside is no one's gonna work very hard to steal it. I'm loath to give up that peace of mind. For
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by graue 14y ago
Wow. I on the other hand have drinking glasses, plates and cutlery I bought from a thrift store for like $20 for the whole set and it's been holding up fine for years. Maybe the lesson here is it's better to buy a decent product for cheap u
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by graue 14y ago
With security I'm interested in the situation right now, not what the plan is to do eventually. If I were to get ripped off, it's no consolation knowing that someone was planning to fix the bug later when they got around to it. The attack d
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by graue 14y ago
I was curious if this was secure. Apparently you are trusting the server you retrieve blockchain information from, and could be defrauded if that server is compromised: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security#Server-Trust... Looks
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by graue 14y ago
Maybe I'm unimaginative, but why would I use this? I'd like to see an example or three of why this app is cool. The only thing I can think of is if you're going to go meet someone, but this idea isn't fleshed out on the site.
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by graue 14y ago
You motivated me to finally install and try it. Thanks.
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by graue 14y ago
Wow. How on earth can you coordinate buying and preparing that much food every day? That seems like a big challenge in itself.
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by graue 14y ago
At first I thought this was describing Bitwise Cyclic Tag ( http://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitwise_Cyclic_Tag ), but it's subtly different. And even simpler, as it turns out. I'm impressed.
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Roman Numerals in Racket Sources(blog.racket-lang.org)
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by graue 14y ago
Yes and no. I block ads, but when I find a good article I reshare the link to friends/followers who do not block ads. If only two of them view the content and ads, it's a net positive for the publisher to let me view the article. As a side
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by graue 14y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Isn't the second wording less restrictive than the first? It suggests that social and 3rd party actions dissimilar to Follow, Reply, Retweet and Favorite are now allowed.
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by graue 14y ago
The article suggests OpenBSD lacks support for newer hardware. Not sure if that's true today, or in certain categories (graphics cards?). But, credit where credit is due: Around 2005-6, I chose to run OpenBSD on my desktop computer at home
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by graue 14y ago
Whether that's ignorant depends what type of tea you're drinking. Steeping at 212°F (boiling) is the recommendation I've always heard for nearly all black teas and herbal teas. You are correct that lower temperatures are better for most gre
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by graue 14y ago
I'd be curious to read a little more about what happened at Google, why your goals were incompatible and what the “good fight” was.
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by graue 14y ago
I got curious and looked into this. The relevant effort seems to be this, a new backend for the ClojureScript compiler which compiles to Lua instead of JavaScript: https://github.com/raph-amiard/clojurescript-lua http://raph-amiard.githu
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by graue 14y ago
The suggestion that OkCupid's algorithms were right all along and that's why the 4-year relationship failed is, if taken seriously, indeed questionable. But I'd assume that remark is more an offhanded joke than anything.
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by graue 14y ago
This was a depressing read. But I noticed there was no dirt on the Xfce project. They continue to produce a useful, stable, customizable desktop environment that doesn't radically change every 6 months or try to force its way on you. And so
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by graue 14y ago
Agreed. I'm a little surprised (though not much) to see lock-in so openly touted as a goal. In the long run such lock-in is inherently anti-consumer and a problem many are trying to solve. Look at Facebook these days, which everyone complai
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by graue 14y ago
Your anecdote (and goodside's) are indeed a bit scary. Of course, tracking faces within an enclosed space (casino, shopping mall) is not the same as tracking someone's movement throughout a whole city. But maybe it could be applied on the s
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by graue 14y ago
I was going to suggest http://www.manymo.com/ , but it seems to only allow customizing screen size and OS version — not the hardware specs.
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by graue 14y ago
This is really, really cool. An obvious use of it would be for someone to upload that one massive xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1110/ A couple people have already mentioned what would be my first suggestion for improvement, which is change the U
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by graue 14y ago
being asked for money is not really threatening It can be, if it's someone who won't take no for an answer. I've been approached in public by mentally unstable or drugged men sometimes (certain neighborhoods here). They can be persistent.

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