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by needle0 8y ago
"The RAZR was the first phone to recognize that cellphones [...] were on the tipping point to becoming fashion accessories" Was RAZR really released in 2003? Searches seem to bring up varying dates, mostly mentioning mid to late 2
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by needle0 8y ago
The Roomba high-end model names sounded like a graphics card with those "980" naming conventions, and now it decides to sound like a CPU instead?
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by needle0 8y ago
Nice idea on clarifying what the word "free" means in this context (gratis, not libre) by prefixing it with a dollar sign. This is the first time I saw this, is this usage widespread?
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by needle0 8y ago
I've been lately trying to get myself accustomed to DDG, and while I appreciate the bang feature immensely, I find myself spending more and more time using !g to revert to Google Search. It probably has something to do with the fact th
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by needle0 8y ago
So very tempting to post in every single Mastodon-related thread emphasizing it's Mast O don, not Mast A don.
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by needle0 8y ago
I've always wondered about this. Why is it that I've never heard of large corporations trying to lobby patent law into extending, much like how it happened over and over with copyright law? Had this battle already happened and I j
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by needle0 8y ago
I'm not sure if this will be relevant to its longer-term success, but I notice that the word "Mastodon" seems to be very easy to misspell -- In the comments here alone I already find "Mastadon", "Mastadoon&quot
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by needle0 8y ago
When viewing the page on a Japanese Mac, the letter sequence "am" within "Open source team chat" is incorrectly displayed as a single-character "A.M." symbol. It appears the CSS is specifying "'dlig&#
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by needle0 12y ago
I'm reminded of the time when Twitter bought Tweetie and its developer to make it its official iOS app. Sure hope it won't follow similar paths.
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by needle0 13y ago
Ah, I see. If so, how did you guys manage to connect the Moverio's glasses to an x86 PC? IIRC the glasses use a proprietary connector, and no info on the specs/protocol of the connector (nor the Aux connector on the back of the control box)
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by needle0 13y ago
No, it does not support selective occlusion. Much like Google Glass it's a microprojector against your face, albeit this is two-eyed whereas Google's has one.
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by needle0 13y ago
I own an Epson Moverio, which the Meta 1 glasses appear to be based on. I have a small bit of firsthand experience with hacking on it to do ARish things. * The Moverio consists of two parts, the glasses and the control box. The two connect
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by needle0 13y ago
Not always. When the well consists of mountains and valleys perfect for fitting S/Zs into, Bastet will deal you an O (square). Though it is possible to get the best of Bastet: its algorithm for determining the worst possible piece works by
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by needle0 14y ago
I'm assuming they made this change to combat forks that do little more than redirect the flow of data and money to themselves, eg. OPhone, Aliyun, Kindle Fire. I have little respect for them. But I'm more concerned with forks that do more t
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by needle0 14y ago
No physical keyboard doesn't always mean immediate large-scale writing failure for all people. I think some people either just get used to it for extensive prose, or don't. In Japan, the keitai-novel - novels written by young authors often
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by needle0 14y ago
>Not only is it not a large portion of your keystrokes, but the space bar has your two strongest digits dedicated solely to it! If any fingers are going to wear out from typing, it won’t be your thumbs. I beg to differ- as someone who D
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by needle0 14y ago
I imagine slightly more than 1% of the Twitter userbase will certainly be ticked off after their favorite third party client shuts down or removes valued features once the new requirements go into effect. For them something _has_ indeed cha
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by needle0 14y ago
I saw a talk on FxOS (then B2G) earlier this year, and asked a question about how FxOS will handle native SDKs, considering practically every single mobile OS that used VMs to run apps had eventually capitulated and provided native SDKs for
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by needle0 14y ago
"It has a Node.JS backend and uses a web wrapper to load it in, they even wrote up a blog post about how they squeezed every ounce of performance out of the web UIView and I think it works well." Can you give a link to that blog post? I too
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by needle0 14y ago
The behavior in question is actually very new, as it became part of the guidelines only starting with 10.7 Lion. As Lion brought forth a whole lot of similar behavioral changes (which often conflict with those of either Windows/Linux or old
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by needle0 14y ago
"IMGFave: Sony attempts a Twitter client." Nope, when Sony does it they have much Sonier names. Like "Timescape."
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by needle0 14y ago
Wonder whether Bada manages to avoid what Japan's carrier-owned MOAP and KCP platforms had become- once dominant in its home country, yet never managing to break outside and rapidly losing out to platforms that did attain global adoption.
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by needle0 14y ago
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1657/_index.html According to this page the external accessory framework can only be used if the accessory developer is participating in the MFi program. I couldn't find any "Made for iPad" logo
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by needle0 14y ago
Wait, how can the OnLive controller support iOS? AFAIK iOS only supports Bluetooth HID keyboards, not joysticks/gamepads.
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by needle0 14y ago
You sound quite certain for what appears to me to be equally ambiguous; Can you elaborate if you have some evidence which points to the hazards of standing far outweighing those of sitting?
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by needle0 14y ago
I noticed the Nexus 7 home screen uses a "smartphone style" layout, with the favorites tray at the bottom of the screen, the All Apps button located in the center of the tray, and the Back/Home/Multitask soft buttons centered. As far as I r
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by needle0 14y ago
Reminds me of Fez, Echochrome, & Super Paper Mario. The zoom in/out to shrink/grow mechanic seems interesting.
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by needle0 14y ago
No there isn't. I'm Japanese, 三 is indeed used as three, but is almost always written with the three lines having varying lengths, in the order of of longer-shortest-longest. I can't speak for the Chinese but it will, at the least, require
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by needle0 14y ago
Doesn't seem to me like it's specific to Android. Facebook implemented the same thing in Android, iOS and mobile website almost simultaneously, and many iOS apps followed suit as well, eg. Sparrow, Path, Steam. Also, a small gripe: with the
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by needle0 14y ago
Forget the desktop. With the sensor being this small, I can imagine hanging this from your neck and have gesture sensing anywhere, SixthSense-style. ( http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ )

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