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by maggit 17y ago
No. Opera Mini only understands what they call OBML, which is what the Opera Mini servers give the handsets. Opera also produces Opera Mobile for mobile devices, which is a full-fledged browser. This is a separate product.
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by maggit 17y ago
That's pretty basic software development. There is always a new feature you can add, but if you keep pushing back the release due to new features you might never get to a release. Opera Mini for the iPhone is ready now. That is why they are
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by maggit 17y ago
Opera 10.10, linux, nvidia here. Fast as ever :)
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by maggit 17y ago
Your "new version"-concern is addressed in the third paragraph: Assev said the swell of downloads was above and beyond the increase caused by the final release of Opera 10.5 for Windows yesterday. "We compared the downloads against previou
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by maggit 17y ago
"* isn't dead, it's just resting" is a reference to Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot skit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218 By this the author means that "Ogg isn't bad, it's just different" is essentially a lie, because the au
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by maggit 17y ago
Assuming it is true, it still does not alter the fact that Ogg is a bad format. Being free from patents does not magically make Ogg a good choice as file format. If all the standard formats are indeed covered by patents, the
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by maggit 17y ago
This is essentially a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108392 , but this article has much more, as well as more interesting, content.
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by maggit 17y ago
I took the liberty of following the link to slashdot and from there to livescience.com where I found a much more interesting article: http://www.livescience.com/technology/plasma-jets-dental-dri... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110
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Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills(livescience.com)
27 points by maggit 17y ago|1 comments
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by maggit 17y ago
Thanks :) I don't really have any experience with any higher level API, so I guess I can not help you there. To me, it is important to know a bit about the inner workings of an API. I guess you could say I prefer to learn bottom-up. This me
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by maggit 17y ago
> Looks nice! Thanks :) > I would just make one change, that is to give a texture to the white "apples" (that's what they are in the original game I think). Yes, I would like to do that. I haven't decided on how I want them to look,
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by maggit 17y ago
> Brilliant! Thanks :) > Looking at the video it feels like the black spots on the snake can be given a little bit more contrast to distinguish it from the background. Yes, that's true. I don't have the proper tools to make the text
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by maggit 17y ago
Apparently, the wiki on bitbucket won't work if you are not logged in :( Anyway, the video works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBy6sxSB8vw Edit: Hm. Now it seems to work.
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Show HN: My Snake-implemetation, how I taught myself GLSL(bitbucket.org)
24 points by maggit 17y ago|11 comments
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by maggit 17y ago
Sorry, I am not a native English speaker, but to me it seems the author claims that using Y, you effectively can't do X. This, in contrast to your formulation, means that the effect of certain properties of Y is that X is impossible to ac
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by maggit 17y ago
I'm glad you think so! Feel free to add issues to the issue-tracker :)
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Write and maintain your blogger.com-blog as text-files in your source repository(bitbucket.org)
20 points by maggit 17y ago|2 comments
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by maggit 17y ago
Hmm... Did you consider the one featured rather prominently in a box under the heading "The third (and golden) basic law"? > A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving
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by maggit 17y ago
Once you patent something it ceases to be a trade secret. This is an important feature of the patent system; to ensure that what would otherwise stay as trade secrets (eventually) become available to the public. My company depends heavily o
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by maggit 17y ago
Pardon my ignorance of SSDs and how they work, but aren't seek times supposed to be low or negligible? Isn't a log-structured FS optimised for a disk with high seek time? I guess my questions boil down to: 1. Why is this approach fast on an
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How to program the Arduino without the IDE(johanneshoff.com)
27 points by maggit 17y ago|1 comments