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by kpozin 15y ago
If only Google or Facebook would use their homepage status to get the word out to the majority of the population. A blacked-out Google Doodle or a notification at the top of the Facebook newsfeed would go a very long way.
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by kpozin 15y ago
Even cooler: "planets overhead" http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planets+overhead&a=...
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by kpozin 15y ago
Very impressive video. The grammar nerd in me is also impressed how, for two years, no one managed to notice that the repeated phrase "we'll lay," although it rhymes in context, uses completely the wrong verb. (It should be "we'll lie.")
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by kpozin 15y ago
This is awful. Code Search is an indispensable tool for finding reference code and real-world uses of various libraries. I don't know of anything on par with it.
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by kpozin 15y ago
I suspect DC Comics and/or Warner Bros may be getting in touch soon.
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by kpozin 15y ago
Warning: this demo crashed my integrated graphics driver about 15 seconds in. YMMV.
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by kpozin 15y ago
I'm guessing that if you backed up the queue that's about to be eliminated -- by saving a copy of the queue page to disk (as HTML, PDF, etc.) -- it would take you about an hour to reenter its contents into your remaining queue. Annoying, bu
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by kpozin 15y ago
A major gap I see in the integration of Picasa Web and Google+ is the lack of per-photo permissions, or at least the ability to easily create albums from existing ones without duplicating the photos. I've been using Picasa Web to back up ph
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by kpozin 15y ago
Could you by any chance make the source code easily accessible? I don't know about others, but I prefer to verify the source of any extensions that have access to sites into which I log in.
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by kpozin 15y ago
One major problem with WebOS notifications is that you can't interact with some of them when they appear. You have to wait until after (1) they've minimized themselves, (2) you've tapped the minimized icon in the lower right corner, and the
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by kpozin 16y ago
The Onion has a great piece on this subject: http://www.theonion.com/video/new-google-phone-service-whisp...
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by kpozin 16y ago
> Want to view a web page? Open an "internet" tab. Want to work on a document? Open a "Word" tab, and so on. Isn't that what we already had with standard OS window managers, before some applications (like browsers) started using their o
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by kpozin 16y ago
I've seen Google Translate do excellent translations for Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic. Certainly not fully gramatically correct, but accurate enough to convey the meaning of virtually every sentence and paragraph -- which is the point of mac
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by kpozin 16y ago
Works very well in Chrome 10.0 beta, barely runs in Firefox 4 RC1 on the same machine. Oh, the irony.
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by kpozin 16y ago
> For the US and Israel to be banging the drums of war over Iran's supposed violation of the NNPT while at the same time committing illegal acts of industrial sabbotage is huge irony. To me that doesn't seem ironic at all, and in fact m
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by kpozin 16y ago
What about basic IDE functionality such as folding, code/content assist, etc.?
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by kpozin 16y ago
Unfortunately, that doesn't encrypt the passwords Chrome stores on your computer, meaning that anyone who has access to your Windows account can access all your stored passwords as plaintext.
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by kpozin 16y ago
Best new feature, in my opinion: the Deferred object ( http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object ), which allows for a more legible and consistent approach to mixing synchronous and asynchronous flow.
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by kpozin 16y ago
Mint.com is probably among the worst offenders.
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by kpozin 16y ago
TechCrunch had a good guest article arguing that Hulu's poor targeting is intentional: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/08/hulu-opec/ Hulu has enough information on its users to target ads very narrowly, but since it's run by a conglomerate