laconian

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1. 211.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   Gotta be a fake. Not nearly enough misspellings. ;)
2. 212.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   I think we're being trolled. "Great stuff, faster Web interactions, but let's not forget that that universal access using any software is why the Web took off in the first place." Has he any had experiences where a site served only SPDY cli
3. 213.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   It's amazing how rapidly the story is changing so close to Win8's release date. You'd think major strategic items such as this would've been ironed out long ago.
4. 214.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   Did you read the article? In it he benchmarks Silk (accel) vs. Silk (no accel). He's proven to himself that the acceleration system doesn't work, using his own testing methodology, which, given that he produced the results, he should be bia
5. 215.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   I think it's odd that the author chooses to leave accleration on, despite having just proven that it's detrimental. That, and the fact that you're proxying all of your browsing traffic through a third party, seems like it's all cons and no
6. 216.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   Found my friend that died in 2002, though it only reported his death and not his fiancee's as well. What a sad nitpick! :(
7. 217.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k... Finally, a way to short circuit the IKEA deathmarch. That place might not be so god-awful anymore.
8. 218.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   "We’re finally getting close to customer-centric computer shopping, and hopefully more and more manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon." This is an awful attitude to have. People do care about specs in hindsight. If they have a poor exper
9. 219.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   I did something similar to this. I found that if I held down the talk button on a walkie-talkie and crossed its antenna with that of a portable TV, I was able to tune into analog cellular calls. I would adjust the frequency on the (analog,
10. 220.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    300bps modem handshakes were much less elaborate than their successors.
11. 221.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Something about using String.Format for internal IDs sketches me out. Is this a common practice, or do developers use URL builders instead?
12. 222.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Post-facto rationalization: everything's so perfect!
13. 223.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    So the downloadable Siri was half-baked?
14. 224.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    How much of this is just speculation and how much was baked into Siri prior to Apple's acquisition of it? They can make anything look wonderful and intuitive in those promotional videos, since they focus on the optimal use cases. I want t
15. 225.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Sigh, this is just another lost opportunity for a la carte television. The first company to finally drive that initiative home will become filthy, filthy rich overnight.
16. 226.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Tegic Communications, which is now a subsidiary of Nuance. They still sell T9 even today.
17. 227.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Kinda cool, but it bottoms out at 0 degrees of inclination for all Y coordinates in the bottom half of the window, which is a really useless perspective. How about bounding the range of angles, between something like 30 and 90 degrees?
18. 228.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Oh my. My eyes don't know where to go.
19. 229.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    "Titan" indeed!
20. 230.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    You are selling a publishing platform, so why use Tumblr? You might want to switch your blog over to your product, you know, eat your own dogfood and all that...
21. 231.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    I don't think that limit exists for technical reasons, I believe that it's an arbitrary limitation applied by Intel/MS businesspeople trying to protect their higher profit product lines.
22. 232.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    If you placed all the iPhones in the world end to end on a line, some of them would be in the ocean. There, I wrote about iPhones. Now give me my ad revenue.
23. 233.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    The kernel panic screen on the Mac really makes users feel cosmopolitan and cool. I feel like I'm riding the monorail to SFO when my Mac crashes: http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/...
24. 234.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Wait, is this actually the case with the Google product?
25. 235.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Get back to me when I can write it in an IDE with syntax highlighting and content assist.
26. 236.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Neat, but the animated GIFs need stop buttons. The page gets chaotic after sampling a handful of pictures.
27. 237.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Good stuff. Let me as the user dictate the terms for how I am identified.
28. 238.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Wow, that's some awful performance from their Ruby solution. Is synchronous code the norm in many shops?
29. 239.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Meh, this looks like a short list of Glassdoor interview questions. Here's the real deal: http://projecteuler.net/
30. 240.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    What drove me to cut was this: the content is getting steadily worse, bandwidth is becoming exponentially cheaper for providers, and yet - the price just kept going up. I would expect to pay less YOY instead! My in-laws subscribe to a cable