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by lordlarm 14y ago
«The Backbone object now extends Events so that you can use it as a global event bus, if you like.» This is great, up until now I've extended the app with Backbone.Event like: App = { view = {}, model = {}, collect
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by lordlarm 14y ago
I actually have used and are using twitter. It is a horrendous user experience - but I know how to fix it. My main problem is my diverse interest in different subjects and twitters current inability to let me organize and follow what I like
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by lordlarm 14y ago
In Europe (and we see this all over the world now) we also have what I would call network surveillance, for example the "Data Retention Directive" in EU[0]. The philosophy is: «We are observing you and saving the data, but if you do not do
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Can I see them without getting mail, but by RSS for example?
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Two funny insights from Neil deGrasse Tysons twitter: «The "Edge of Space" jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.» [1] «I'm told somebody's jumping out of a perfectly good ba
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Well not really that giant leap, since Joseph Kittinger basically did the same jump 50 years ago [1]. He actually was in freefall longer (4min and 36 seconds), which hence is still the world record. Since Felix "only" fell for 4min and 22 s
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by lordlarm 14y ago
A great resource in order to learn new key bindings and be more efficient in Vim: https://www.shortcutfoo.com/ Great article by the way. I enabled "hlsearch" and added "map <CR> :noh<cr>" in order to exit the highlighting
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Because http://www.apple.com was submitted 600+ days ago and HN does not allow reposts.
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Remembering Steve: A message from Tim Cook(apple.com)
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Opera 12.02: Reports 0 days old, while it really is 28 days old.
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by lordlarm 14y ago
As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the <video>-tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude user
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans, Courier, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana (...) HN uses Verdana fyi.
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Or designers can use fonts which works for all operating systems and browsers.
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Je ne comprends pas deux choses: quel est le prix? et pourquoi avez-vous besoin d'avoir Facebook? -- What is the price and why do you have to have Facebook?
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by lordlarm 14y ago
With Maxthon I get "We're sorry, but something went wrong" ( https://aboutmybrowser.com/398693348 ) Also, why are you using (ugly) unofficial icons for some of the browsers (Opera for example)? :)
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by lordlarm 14y ago
The Supermicro servers are really really great - one of the best investments I've done so far in 2012. I bought mine (a Supermicro 2U Dual 3GHz Xeon 4GB 12 Bay Storage Server) for 400$ on eBay, with great service and terms. Recommended if y
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IPhone app "Toilets of the world" on sale for 125000 NOK (21500$)(finn.no)
1 points by lordlarm 14y ago|0 comments
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by lordlarm 14y ago
A trend I've been seeing on HN recently is a sixth reason: 6. Promotion This is especially from technology firms which wants to get their brand out to their target group and also show off their knowledge in hip new technologies. It's
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by lordlarm 14y ago
You are right, here is an interesting Quora post summing up the competitors: http://www.quora.com/Square-product/Who-are-some-competitors... Answer-wiki pasted in for convenience: «US only: - Paypal Here ( https://www.paypal.com/webapps/
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by lordlarm 14y ago
The next step for Square, in my opinion, is developing a reader for the EMV cards ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV ), which is hugely dominant in Europe - and also more secure. See a this useful Quora post, from 12 months ago: http://www
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What are the main reasons why Unix/Mac does not get viruses?(quora.com)
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Another useful one; Fire up a instant web-server from local folder on http://localhost:8080 : > python -m SimpleHTTPServer
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Something like this: https://gist.github.com/2996793 (16 lines, but you get the point).
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by lordlarm 14y ago
Hm, Am I the only one who spends hours in vim each day with ~15 lines in my .vimrc and almost zero plugins? At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fas
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by lordlarm 14y ago
From my hometown (Oslo) you found «Obama killed me» to be in favor of him. I'm not sure it is (or not), but still, kind of funny. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/lGXZA.png
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Blizzard passwords: not case-sensitive(us.battle.net)
18 points by lordlarm 14y ago|16 comments
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by lordlarm 14y ago
It works fine in Opera, for once.
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by lordlarm 15y ago
It does not work in Opera.
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by lordlarm 15y ago
I see a lot of comments here recommending a Macbook Air and I wanted to inform you, just so you are perfectly aware, that this computer does not even have an ethernet input. Perhaps not a game changer, but it gives a picture of what kind of
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by lordlarm 15y ago
The article says that the app store ranking algorithm is more or less known and is linking to the following presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/kolinko/app-store-seo-tutorial Which does not actually say anything about the actual algor

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