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631.
by ivank 14y ago
Not startups, but SIAI and FHI are solving the "make sure we'll be around in 100 years" problem.
632.
by ivank 14y ago
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=146407
633.
by ivank 14y ago
Chrome should have DirectWrite rendering soon: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...
634.
by ivank 14y ago
Yet another reason I block everyone's webfonts. (Designers on OS X: ClearType does not render fonts the same way.)
635.
QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote(youtube.com)
14 points by ivank 14y ago|1 comments
636.
by ivank 14y ago
Google and a few other companies manage to do this with Closure Library and Closure Compiler. Compiler's static analysis detects a large set of errors that you might introduce after a broken refactoring, or just during normal development.
637.
by ivank 14y ago
It could, it should, and it's a really hard problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8 http://www.ccnx.org/
638.
Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation(lesswrong.com)
123 points by ivank 15y ago|11 comments
639.
by ivank 15y ago
http://jonls.dk/redshift/ can go as red/dark as you want.
640.
by ivank 15y ago
Also still around: http://hotbot.com/ http://www.altavista.com/
641.
by ivank 15y ago
youtube-dl handles blip.tv URLs
642.
by ivank 15y ago
http://www.ccnx.org/about/ "A New Way to look at Networking" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8
643.
by ivank 15y ago
Fixed video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Cq3CLI6H8
644.
by ivank 15y ago
I wrote a `securedict` to work around this problem in Python: https://github.com/ludios/Securetypes This problem is not new, see: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec... http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-d
645.
by ivank 15y ago
for an iPad at least, http://stereopsis.com/flux/ios.html is essential
646.
by ivank 15y ago
http://predictionbook.com/ is handy for keeping track of predictions, and getting feedback about your overconfidence/underconfidence. (It generates a graph of your your confidence vs. accuracy - '90% sure' should happen 90% of the time.)
647.
by ivank 15y ago
As the page says, make sure that computer is not using your DNS server! So, your iPhone uses your special DNS server, while your computer doesn't.
648.
by ivank 15y ago
I thought about buying a Chromebook, but realized I wouldn't be able to run f.lux or redshift on it, which is pretty much essential for me. I imagine quite a few other people need just that "one extra application" and realized that it would
649.
Undo tree for Emacs(emacswiki.org)
1 points by ivank 15y ago|0 comments
650.
by ivank 15y ago
The short-term personal predictions you mention are very useful (at least for the person making them), because you can use them to calibrate yourself faster. (If you want to get better at predicting, waiting 10 years for a 2021 prediction
651.
1001 PredictionBook Nights(lesswrong.com)
4 points by ivank 15y ago|0 comments
652.
Buffering in Unix Standard Streams(pixelbeat.org)
4 points by ivank 15y ago|0 comments
653.
by ivank 15y ago
You can use NoSquint to upscale entire pages globally (much like Firefox's built-in per-site zoom). It doesn't mess up layout like font-only scaling, though it can do that too, if you want.
654.
by ivank 15y ago
Any chance of getting per-user RSS feeds? I've been missing this functionality ever since SearchYC went down.
655.
Reid's Python Quiz(web.mit.edu)
2 points by ivank 15y ago|0 comments
656.
Sublime Text 2 Build 2126 released(sublimetext.com)
2 points by ivank 15y ago|0 comments
657.
by ivank 15y ago
Thanks! After seeing mobile f.lux I was looking for a way to set my own gamma ramps. This should come in really handy.
658.
Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing(loper-os.org)
1 points by ivank 15y ago|0 comments
659.
F.lux for iOS devices now available
19 points by ivank 15y ago|11 comments
660.
EveryDNS will start going down Aug 29, two days earlier than expected(status.dyn.com)
5 points by ivank 15y ago|1 comments

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