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by hpaavola 14y ago
I built similar tool for myself last weekend, published it in GitHub https://github.com/Harri/Printico/
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by hpaavola 14y ago
Is there any way to know if one party is more reliable than other? Four years back, was there any way to know that Twitter would limit their APIs and change their terms and conditions the way they have done? If not, isn't the lesson here "d
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by hpaavola 14y ago
> I can't imagine Firefox OS won't have a cloud component. Already Firefox has a syncing service. Firefox Sync encrypts the data on the device, so Mozilla can't read your data.
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by hpaavola 14y ago
Passwords need to die. There will always be bad implementations on storing passwords and those will hurt many users. We need something better.
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by hpaavola 14y ago
People should concentrate more on experiencing and less on reporting. Live-tweeting during conferences, taking pictures at concerts, checking in to happenings etc. I feel that people do those just to show of how nice their life is, instead
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by hpaavola 14y ago
"but in the complex format used by blog/wiki software de jour you will lose it forever" Exactly. I don't understand why almost all blogging and CMS platforms store data only to database. I think that proper solution for most sites would be
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by hpaavola 15y ago
What's the point of serving content from database by default if you have to set up all kinds of caches just in case your blogs happens to be on HN, Reddit, your local news paper, etc? Shouldn't database be more like an add-on, not the core?
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by hpaavola 15y ago
The problem with these "only good programmers will create good products so stop with the Scrum already" rants is that in real life we have more than enough mediocre engineers and we just have to come up with best possible products with thos
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by hpaavola 15y ago
Back in the days I used blogging software called Greymatter. It was bunch of Perl scripts which generated HTML file for each post and month. Serving flat files is of course fast and easy for web servers. Since Greymatter did not use databas
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by hpaavola 15y ago
One tweet is more like 670 KB, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667072 Most numbers in that article are way off.
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by hpaavola 15y ago
Nothing happened. Page size stayed roughly the same.
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by hpaavola 15y ago
One tweet is 2 MB? More like 670 KB for first load and 18 KB cached. http://imgur.com/QFIjU
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by hpaavola 15y ago
The linked article says "Nokia showed me poster-sized samples captured with the 808 PureView (printed entirely unprocessed) that basically had zero noise in them."
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by hpaavola 15y ago
Dental care in Finland is not free, only heavily subsidized. The prices vary a bit from district to district, here are the prices for Helsinki http://www.hel.fi/hki/terke/en/Patient+Fees/Table+of+patient... So for example removal of tooth
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by hpaavola 15y ago
European court of justice (ECJ) have already ruled that such blocking is againts EU rules and regulations, http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011... So I guess that higher Finnish courts will follow ECJ's decision wh
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by hpaavola 15y ago
More on that issue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsiporno.info
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by hpaavola 15y ago
It always makes me a bit sad when any site is taken offline. I haven't even heard of Simple Desks before, but it still makes me sad that it is gone. Destroying bits is so darn easy, that people do it too much. I don't delete emails (my spam
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by hpaavola 15y ago
He seems to use a lot of "magic numbers" at first, but later on replacing those with proper variables. Is that common? I can't keep track of the meaning of such numbers while programming, so I tend to use variables straight away.
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by hpaavola 15y ago
Many excellent sites publish new stuff very rarely. RSS is the best way to follow those sites.
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by hpaavola 15y ago
That seems to show total profit of Apple from Q2 of 2011. See http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/20Apple-Reports-Seco... "The Company posted record second quarter revenue of $24.67 billion and record second quarter net profit of $5.9
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by hpaavola 15y ago
How much money does Apple and Samsung make from smartphones?
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by hpaavola 15y ago
I don't need new selectors, I need a way to specify layouts. You know, to do the same things as tables did back in the days, but without all the ugliness.
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by hpaavola 15y ago
> Does HN make the first character of the title upper case? Yes it does.
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by hpaavola 15y ago
What does "However, now when searching in our application category, we are result #227." mean? When listing top paid apps in shopping, you are second, and in top free you are on the first page. https://market.android.com/apps/SHOPPING
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by hpaavola 15y ago
So by "Native scrolling for mobile web apps" he means better scrolling of iOS Safari in general and especially for elements that have overflow:scroll styling.
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by hpaavola 15y ago
I don't get this. From http://joehewitt.github.com/scrollability/ : "Native scrolling for mobile web apps... or at least the closest thing to it!" How does my Android phone lack "native scrolling" and what does that mean?
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by hpaavola 15y ago
Get shit done, don't work hard. Hard work mean nothing, especially if it described as not having free time.
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by hpaavola 16y ago
Firefox has also other type of extensions. Jetpack extensions ( https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ ) which don't require restarts. And there are also "mini themes", called Personas ( http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/ ) which don't require
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by hpaavola 16y ago
We are living weird times. Multitasking, copy/paste, SQL support, these things are old, but still newsworthy when added to new platforms/services.
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by hpaavola 16y ago
Two years ago I switched to 30 hour week, and there is no way I'm going back. I'm happier, in better shape and get so much more done at home. I do understand why people work like crazy, they have huge mortgages or other loans. I cut my hour

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