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by mryall 14y ago
More interesting than a bunch of chatter on Google Plus is this article on Forbes, "Could Steve Jobs actually win his thermonuclear war?": http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/30/could-steve-jobs-actu... I don't think this will be the last
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by mryall 14y ago
This is a post I wrote a while ago, but forgot to submit to HN. I think it is still a very interesting chart, even though it's now a couple of months after the acquisition.
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Comparing Instagram's growth with Facebook and Flickr(mattryall.net)
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Why I use Firefox(mattryall.net)
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The ideal iteration length, part 2(mattryall.net)
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The ideal iteration length(mattryall.net)
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by mryall 15y ago
My tablet (iPad 3G first gen) makes for a great portable street directory when I'm in the car with my girlfriend. It's definitely not its primary purpose for me, but I find it much easier to use than a dead tree copy. Aside from having a re
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by mryall 15y ago
Maybe Allan should skip version 2 completely and just release the new one as TextMate 3.
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by mryall 15y ago
Ah, clever! Thanks for the link.
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by mryall 15y ago
People have managed to achieve much greater ranges (like more than a kilometre) with 802.11 technology using "cantennas" -- directional antennas like what you're talking about. While it's theoretically possible, I'm not sure whether this is
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Why wireless networks are slow(mattryall.net)
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by mryall 15y ago
Likewise. Perl's DBD::CSV module was my greatest discovery - SQL queries across flat files! No joins though. :)
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by mryall 15y ago
I'd say the choice of Chameleon was driven by them wanting it to look "modern" or iOS-like. A native Git/Github client like this doesn't make sense on a device where you can't develop code (except in the web browser with Cloud9 or something
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by mryall 15y ago
Trademark is the normal legal foundation for protecting a name. But trademarks are limited by industry and geography, so attempting to enforce them on a single global namespace like Twitter or DNS is always going to end up with conflicts. H
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by mryall 15y ago
This earlier article has some discussion of Groupon's moat, or lack thereof. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616412
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by mryall 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/859/
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by mryall 15y ago
Even though JS doesn't have language constructs for public/private, there are a number of different ways to write modules with hidden members by use of closures. Crockford explains with some examples here: http://javascript.crockford.com/p
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by mryall 15y ago
Agreed. I find Lucida Grande a good programming font too. Would love to see a list of top 10 proportional programming fonts.
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by mryall 15y ago
I'm glad they backed out the changes to attr(). Backward compatibility is critical for any popular library, often more important than having completely "correct" behaviour. Without any kind of type-safety or compilation in JavaScript, it's
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by mryall 15y ago
The music businesses wouldn't be worth anywhere near that much. And it would help Google's goal of making the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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by mryall 15y ago
Yeah, I'd like this as well. When a long top-voted thread goes off on an obscure tangent, it's often hard to find the start of the next major thread because the indent levels are so small.
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by mryall 15y ago
Nice. I might have guess it if you'd included the chorus: kkkohdkkkohdkkkohdkkkohd. :)
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by mryall 15y ago
> The chapter on Google in China is also phenomenal. Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450030
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by mryall 15y ago
Okay, I'll bite. Which song is that?
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by mryall 15y ago
This article is just an excerpt from Steven Levy's book and it cuts out before it gets to Google's current situation in China. After these events, they redirected users from their Chinese domain name to their Hong Kong servers in order to s
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by mryall 15y ago
Swedish also has a funny name for the @-sign, named after the trunk of an elephant. In fact, quite a few languages do. Here's a short sample from the Wikipedia article: In Swedish and Danish the sign is known as the "snabel a" (literally t
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by mryall 15y ago
Even in your preferred case, you're typing your passwords into a closed source browser on a closed source OS. You have to trust someone at some point. Panic also seems to be a quite reputable company. They've been in the Mac software busine
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by mryall 15y ago
That's an interesting point. If the Erlang language can stop the programmer making mistakes like unintentional reference publishing across threads, that sounds fantastic.
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by mryall 15y ago
> Microsoft seem to keep their habit of adding proprietary prefixes and stuff, but on the other hand, so does webkit and firefox too. Let me just say it sucks. This is actually recommended practice for vendors supporting CSS properties
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by mryall 15y ago
You're judging a book by its cover. Why not try them out before you criticise? Also, today's teens are tomorrow's free-spending twenty-somethings, so their preferences can be quite relevant for many businesses.

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