johansch

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by johansch 15y ago
Based on their own judgement on what is popular or not, in the "community".
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by johansch 15y ago
I was under the impression that Iran has a pretty decent higher education system. And that it includes female students as well - with a noticably high percentage of female students in fields that are male-dominated in the west, like compute
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by johansch 15y ago
Fair enough, about the same costs as in the US. ...but I am used to Swedish pricing levels. $45 for 100/10 Mbit/s with no quota.
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by johansch 15y ago
The graphical design in there is quite horrible. And the combo of the poor design choices and the dark style seems to scream "evil".
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by johansch 15y ago
I find it cute that Google used a screenshot of an early version of our Opera Mini browser rather than one of their own to illustrate Android-based web browsing in slide 29. :)
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by johansch 15y ago
CNN in a nutshell :(.
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by johansch 15y ago
I have been incredibly impressed with their demos over the years. Their wikipedia entry lists 28 (!) members. Did these guys work with any well known software/game companies/products?
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by johansch 15y ago
When you start typing "myhrvold" in google, "myhrvold patent troll" comes up very prominently. (For me it is #3.)
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by johansch 15y ago
Making a tiled-based mockup with pretty pictures != making a real app that works well even in edge cases
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by johansch 15y ago
I think it makes a lot of sense for governments to require local hosting/same-nation-hosting of cloud services that they purchase. So many legal issues issues become so much easier to handle. And then there is that slight but not negligible
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by johansch 15y ago
No, there are generally not separate quotas for national and international in Australia, at least not any longer. (Checked: Telstra, Internode, iiNET, TPG, Optus.) That said, they do tend to have bandwidth quotas in the order of 50-500 GB/m
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by johansch 15y ago
The blog post (with screenshots) about this: http://developer.sonymobile.com/wp/2012/04/13/powerful-tool-...
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by johansch 15y ago
A minimized form of a search query with verbatim enabled: http://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=britney+speers Edit the search engine definition string in your browser to something like that...
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by johansch 15y ago
And it only took 3207 words to convey. Ah, fantasy author, of course.
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by johansch 15y ago
Worse. According to the Market blurb, it goes further: "Bonus: Launcher icon opens a quick dialog box with input box to query the WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine and launch your web browser. *Wolfram Alpha is a trademark of Wol
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by johansch 15y ago
Embarrassing for the danish police... yes. But ultimately this type of censorship does not really represent a slippery slope towards 1984. The rationale is to protect child pornography victims from being further victimised by having their p
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by johansch 15y ago
That kind of limitation is pretty pointless, since it would not stop a determined attacker.
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by johansch 15y ago
After reading a bit more on Grace Hopper, particularly about the first ever (?) compiler "A-0" she made, I found this in-depth article describing it (and a bit more): http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/norberg.html