jconnop

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by jconnop 14y ago
Key point: "to you". I imagine that if the $0 option wasn't included, many of those who chose it would simply not "buy" it at all. So at least they get some marketing benefit out of it. Of course this works better for those "pay what you wa
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by jconnop 14y ago
Just dodge around the new UI and it's quite usable. Or better yet get Start8 and automatically skip the new UI on log in altogether (and get a win7 style start menu as a bonus). Why they would include a tablet oriented touch centric UI in a
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by jconnop 14y ago
They've obviously got their units messed up in that section. I used 99GiB yesterday, and I'm fairly sure I don't account for over a third of my country's bandwidth usage :)
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by jconnop 14y ago
Love it. You're plainly trying to keep it simple, but how about a speed indicator next to the progress percentage?
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by jconnop 14y ago
I love stats analyses like this. Pleased to say my pin occupies one of the darker regions of the heatmap :)
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by jconnop 14y ago
I have the $2.99 price available to me in New Zealand. As I'm usually the one getting screwed by regional pricing (on steam), I'd be happy to help out. Just drop me the funds via paypal and I'll gift to your email via amazon. Email me: jcon
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by jconnop 15y ago
I'm truly sorry to rain on your parade like this, but the "0x" signifies hex, aka base 16, which makes "0x10" equal to 16 in decimal. Now, if it were 0b10...
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by jconnop 15y ago
"Why do humans procrastinate?"... with a link to reddit.com How fitting :)
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Ask HN: What is your preferred alternative to GoDaddy?
17 points by jconnop 15y ago|21 comments
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by jconnop 15y ago
I'll be saving this for April 1, 2012 :)
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by jconnop 15y ago
To extend upon this idea - if you really wanted to maximise the data you could transmit in a single twitter message you could use the full 31bits of unicode (instead of just the chinese subset) and then apply standard lossless data compress
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by jconnop 15y ago
You're right, I haven't given it much of a chance. It'll be re-evaluated time and again as we get closer to release, this is just my feeling at the moment. With 3 large monitors and lots of multi-tasking, I just don't see this being prefera
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by jconnop 15y ago
I just hope there will be a way to entirely disable the Metro UI. I'm sure it'll be fine for small form factor devices, but it has absolutely no place on my home desktop. The new filesystem UI stuff is a welcome change, however. ( http://bl
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by jconnop 15y ago
That's a little extreme. Unless you expect them to get into your low level hardware (BIOS etc), just format it clean afterwards.
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by jconnop 15y ago
Pretty much every intel desktop chip of the last few years will do 4ghz+ with good air cooling. I have an i7 930 @ 4.2ghz on air, my flatmate has a 2600K @ 4.8ghz on air.
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by jconnop 15y ago
I'd also love this ability.
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by jconnop 15y ago
Much faster than using worldtimeserver.com as I used to. Bookmarked :)
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by jconnop 15y ago
Using Win7+Firefox 4 on a core i7 930: 1% cpu usage without ads, 5% with ads. Think it's just you / your software.
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by jconnop 15y ago
There is no such thing as 'too many pixels'. Case in point: http://skysurvey.org/
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by jconnop 16y ago
I would count myself in this category also.