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by moeffju 16y ago
In Germany (Hamburg and Berlin) I have never had problems when asking for additional plates or silverware to share meals. Also, a lot of places can and will pack your leftovers if you ask them, but I believe it's not quite as accepted as th
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by moeffju 16y ago
I just realized this going through the API docs when I noticed the docs for 3.0.0 were now live on api.rubyonrails.org. Finally! (Of course, just two hours after converting one app from rc1 to rc2.)
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by moeffju 16y ago
It's very easy to buy unlocked phones in Germany and, from what I hear, most of Europe. Even data roaming prices within Europe have come down to very agreeable levels. I'm with O2 Germany, and IIRC I can use data roaming anywhere in Europe
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by moeffju 16y ago
I know a number of people who would not call the death of Java a downside.
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by moeffju 16y ago
I'm happy this exists. I'm disappointed it is so US-centric again. There are other countries, and a 'filter by state, zip code' does not cut it. (Yes, yes, some European company could - and probably should - create a similar site.)
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by moeffju 16y ago
It doesn't seem to handle Unicode very well, or your normalization routines need love. I have several German words in my topic list, and Umlauts get chopped out, for example the infamous "Blumenkübel" becomes "Blumenkbel", "für" becomes "fr
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by moeffju 16y ago
I'm usually not securing my laptop at all, never had any issues. Starbucks, trains, barcamps, etc. Hamburg and Berlin, Germany
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by moeffju 16y ago
Heh, I still remember the first notice (not DMCA, just German law) that made me drop the domain :) Good luck!
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by moeffju 16y ago
I wish someone would manage to hack the bootloader of the new Motorolas (Milestone, probably Droid X and Droid 2). We still don't have proper custom ROMs for that...
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by moeffju 16y ago
The same command works on Skype and does what one would expect. It's just not really advertised. Try typing /help in a Skype chat window.
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by moeffju 16y ago
A huge impediment to developing apps for Android seem to be the absolutely incredible shortcomings of Google Checkout. Most countries cannot even buy paid apps, even fewer countries can publish paid apps. That kills pretty much any incentiv
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by moeffju 16y ago
What features would you need?
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by moeffju 16y ago
Twitter today launched Twitter Places, extending their geolocation offer, as announced on their Chirp conference. The blog post describing the features for end-users is at http://blog.twitter.com/2010/06/twitter-places-more-context-...
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Twitter Places, API changes, developer docs(groups.google.com)
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by moeffju 16y ago
Thanks for the link. My first reaction was similar, followed by "Who will profit", and I see the Wired article poses pretty much the same questions.
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by moeffju 16y ago
Reposted from 288 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794116 ) because I found it relevant to the just discovered mineral deposits in Afghanistan.
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How oil did not corrupt Norway(ft.com)
120 points by moeffju 16y ago|29 comments
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The psychology of creativity(slideshare.net)
2 points by moeffju 16y ago|0 comments
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by moeffju 16y ago
Quote from the abstract: "In particular we demonstrate, with simple examples, that asymmetries in regression coefficients cannot identify causal effects, and that very simple models of imitation (a form of social contagion) can produce subs
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Cosma Shalizi on causal inference in social networks (and why it is hard)(cscs.umich.edu)
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by moeffju 16y ago
Current WYSIWIG editors use contenteditable or some other browser-inbuilt rich text control, with varying results. Aloha uses parts of the browsers control, but does its own selection handling, cursor handling, and formatting control. The n
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by moeffju 16y ago
I don't think hyped-up textareas are the way to edit content in the future, or, for that matter, in the present. We should be using transparent editors and @contenteditable IMO. Way back, at an old company, we implemented a WYSIWIG editor o
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by moeffju 16y ago
There are such projects, the most famous one probably being SubEthaEdit for the Mac, but clones exist for most platforms. Obby is a multiplatform editor using Operational Transform, for example: http://gobby.0x539.de/
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by moeffju 16y ago
Have you looked at Mozilla Bespin? https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/
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by moeffju 16y ago
The updater checks whether your add-ons will be compatible with the version that is to be installed. You can then cancel the upgrade if you want.
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by moeffju 16y ago
By putting it inside of square brackets. [2001:db8::a00:20ff:fea7:ccea]:80
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by moeffju 16y ago
This is pretty much how the Qype API works: http://apidocs.qype.com/
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by moeffju 17y ago
In my experience, Firefox has been checking add-on compatibility before updating for quite a while now. Have you tried it recently?
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by moeffju 17y ago
See also: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3654.en.h... http://hackermedley.org/archives/4 http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/26C3-GSM-hacking-made... and http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2997.
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by moeffju 17y ago
"Do you take the bible literally? Would you stone your rebellious son to death?" - "[something about only using parts of the bible]" - "How do you make that judgement?" - q.e.d. And in case they reply "Yes, I would stone my son", call the p

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