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by graue 14y ago
Funny you mention that. I, a Linux user, was deciding between the 13" Air and this Zenbook Prime, and chose the former, because the Zenbook reportedly has lots of issues and annoyances: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbookPrime I
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by graue 14y ago
Yeah, this looks pretty neglected by Google. Interesting comparison. I couldn't help noticing that the GMaps link loads instantly while this (much more useful) OSM link took nearly 20 seconds to fully load.
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by graue 14y ago
For those who didn't shell out for App.net, you can also syndicate to Twitter from the completely open rstat.us, which also (for now) allows you to sign in with your Twitter account, so it takes five seconds to set up. https://rstat.us No
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by graue 14y ago
Suggestion for anyone pissed off (at Twitter) by this: Check out https://rstat.us/ . It's a completely open microblogging platform, and at least for now, you can log in using your Twitter account (via OAuth) and cross-post all your Rstat.
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by graue 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. Without the description of what the repo is, it's just clutter.
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by graue 14y ago
Term 4 in GPLv2. "Any attempt otherwise to copy ... will automatically terminate your rights under this License."
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by graue 14y ago
The GPL has a clause saying that if its terms are violated, all rights granted to the violator by the GPL are terminated. So if Twin Peaks did indeed copy Red Hat's mount code as alleged, they would never be allowed to distribute that code
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by graue 14y ago
I use a red CFL desk lamp when I'm up late hacking. It seems less disruptive to normal sleep cycles than a full-spectrum light.
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by graue 14y ago
Collision rate isn't what we want to minimize; fatality rate is. And the odds of pedestrian death in a collision are about 5% at 20mph, 45% at 30mph, and 85% at 40mph. Source: http://humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm As a side n
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by graue 14y ago
Where do you live? In the two major US cities where I've lived, I consistently find that wireless networks are passworded, don't work, or just show a paywall. In 2005 I could find random apartment-dwellers with open wifi, but things have ch
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by graue 14y ago
Wow, this could hardly be more different from how I type. I use only my middle and index fingers for all letters, moving them around as needed. I use left middle on 't' unless the next or previous letter is 'q', 'w', 'e', 'a' or 's', in whi
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by graue 14y ago
Out of curiosity, for those who have typed gti, how do you type 'git'? For me, left index finger on G, right index on I, left middle on T. I'm wondering because I never make this particular typo, although I do have 'sl' installed and tend t
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by graue 14y ago
I might just ditch Firefox because of this webpage. A fresh session of Ffx15 goes up to 1.5 GB memory usage, pushes everything into swap and brings my whole OS to a grinding halt until I kill it. In other words this link is basically a very
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by graue 14y ago
Off-topic rant: "Someone with spare time on their hands feel like adding a 'Disable splash screen' checkbox to the preferences panel?" That suggestion illustrates a common anti-pattern in open source software. Broken behavior should simply
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by graue 14y ago
Then you haven't heard of Xubuntu? It's an alternate flavor of Ubuntu that has Xfce as the default install. Here's an iso that will get you basically the exact setup I have, no futzing required: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ Already inst
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by graue 14y ago
OpenBSD actually made a huge contribution here by reverse-engineering binary blobs and writing open-source drivers that could be maintained and debugged, which eventually made their way into Linux. At one time, the wireless support on OpenB
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by graue 14y ago
> I like where they're going with Unity Fair enough, but why not wait to use it until they get there? Daily reliability problems seem like a lot to put up with just for some cool ideas. Also, I'm not sure how your interviewing experienc
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by graue 14y ago
When you write "whatever sound system they're using this week", I know what you mean. There's terrible fragmentation, and buggy libraries get rewritten and replaced by some other buggy thing instead of fixed. That's definitely a pattern. Fr
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by graue 14y ago
I addressed the "Bob could have saved that photo" point: "although you could theoretically save every photo and update anyone ever lets you see on Facebook, it would be difficult enough that in practice no one does." Facebook has a sane def
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by graue 14y ago
Even the map on the listing is only confined to certain cities, it seems. They're showing up on SF Bay and Portland listings, but not in Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, Boston, Vancouver, Houston, Philadelphia or anywhere else I looked. The real
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by graue 14y ago
Glad you shared this. I just got my first Android not too long ago and haven't hacked it yet, so it didn't occur to me that the modding community was achieving their goals by defeating Android's security model. With F-Droid, if they were to
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by graue 14y ago
Just heard about F-Droid in slightly unauspicious circumstances... Moxie Marlinspike had a row with them over distributing an old (and slightly buggy) version of TextSecure, after which they ultimately agreed not to distribute his (fully op
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by graue 14y ago
I suppose these particular paths aren't as exploitable as a logout (which isn't a GET on Twitter, either, it seems), but what about, e.g., Chrome's link prefetching? I'm not sure how it would know not to prefetch, for instance, the "cancel
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by graue 14y ago
The via stamp told you whether a tweet was posted via desktop or mobile, which can be useful to know.
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by graue 14y ago
I mentioned this in the Tweetbot thread, but http://rstat.us looks very promising. They syndicate your posts to Twitter, are working on a Twitter-compatible API[1], and use OStatus so are compatible with other services running the protoco
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by graue 14y ago
Also http://rstat.us , which I just found out about - not sure why it hasn't received more attention. It seems to be like a better identi.ca that can also automatically syndicate your Twitter posts. http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011
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by graue 14y ago
In fairness, what they have up right now is just the initial iteration of Tent. Basing Tent on PubSubHubbub (which is confusingly abbreviated as "PuSH") would address your criticism, and this has been suggested in an issue: https://github.
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by graue 14y ago
This stings a lot less after the announcement of Tent ( http://tent.io , discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418904 ), a project aimed at similar goals, but starting with a protocol, not an application. I think Tent, or some
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by graue 14y ago
GET /resend-activation?email=:email GET /email-changes/cancel GET /email-changes/resend-confirmation Shouldn't these all be POST? GETs are supposed to not have side effects.
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by graue 14y ago
I see this complaint a lot when a G+ link is posted here, but Google never asks me to log in. Anyone know why it requires a login from some but not others?

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