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by nfg 14y ago
http://hnpickup.appspot.com/
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by nfg 14y ago
A while back I broke the screen of my kindle while traveling. Not only was I surprised that Amazon covered this under the warranty, but the service I received was really fantastic. The Kindle had originally been shipped to Ireland (where I
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by nfg 14y ago
No problem, I've only really become versed in these events recently myself after a trip to Chile. During the reign of Augusto Pinochet thousands of people were 'disappeared' - most were executed and buried in the desert, there's a decent bi
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by nfg 14y ago
> I honestly believe that Chile is one of the examples where American interventionism has worked. Tell that to the women still wandering the deserts of Chile searching for the bones of their disappeared loved ones.
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by nfg 14y ago
I know there's claims and counterclaims but if/when Office for iOS goes on sale it'll be interesting to see how they price it.
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by nfg 14y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630460
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by nfg 14y ago
Well off the top of my head it'd be assuming that searches were distributed randomly w.r.t bad data, whereas in all likelihood there may be some (inverse) relationship between the badness of an area and its search popularity. In general liv
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by nfg 14y ago
I think the majority of people have no idea what a browser is and never have.
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by nfg 14y ago
Yep, was in Iran backpacking last summer and had to carry all funds needed while in the country (and emergency money) in cash for the two weeks! I did occasionally talk to people in bazaars who claimed they could take foreign credit card pa
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by nfg 14y ago
Without TreeStyleTabs à la Firefox [ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... ] I can't switch, it's indispensable when dealing with 100+ tabs (which I find myself doing a lot as crazy as it seems). Besides that the "
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by nfg 14y ago
What about the London tube/bus suicide bombings: those were domestic terrorism and elicited a distinctly different response than we're seeing in Norway now. Or is it only domestic terrorism when the perpetrators are white one wonders!
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by nfg 14y ago
I've always found you can learn a surprising amount about a subject by reading it's wikipedia 'Talk' page.
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by nfg 14y ago
Actually with an uncheck of the "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organised" and "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder when adding to the library" options in Preferences this is precisely how iTunes does it.
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by nfg 14y ago
I have to say my experience is the opposite - it's incredible the range of "pirated" books on scribd, plenty that just aren't torrentable outside of private trackers etc.
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by nfg 14y ago
Agreed on all points, and just to emphasise: my primary experience of this is in person in the US in a variety of cities with groups in their 20s / 30s. In my experience this just doesn't happen in Ireland anymore and it would be very surpr
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by nfg 14y ago
Irish also and absolutely agree, none of my peer group would even consider driving after drinking in Ireland, but in my experience it's much more common and accepted in the US - you can even see thi in action in US television / films.
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by nfg 14y ago
It's a nice theory, but falls to pieces in say traditionally Catholic Ireland (history of powerful temperance movements also) and a cultural approach to alcohol which is if anything even more damaging than Britain's.
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by nfg 14y ago
Recently passed through Thailand and had to have fingerprints taken (at a land border).
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by nfg 15y ago
Fine in FF on Lion for me.
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by nfg 15y ago
Traveling over the last few months I've been shocked by the numbers of people using iPads as their primary camera when sightseeing, especially in China.
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by nfg 15y ago
> Perforce is a great system, but it's showing it's age by now. Care to elaborate? Do you mean in terms of distributed -vs- centralised repos?
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by nfg 15y ago
As a matter of interest what have boards done? I'm abroad on a mobile and it's displaying as normal for me?
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by nfg 15y ago
TreeStyleTabs is working fine for me in FF4 (and mostly did throughout the betas), does it not work on the right hand side?
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by nfg 15y ago
Libration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration
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by nfg 15y ago
> the scrollbar also lets you scroll at any speed you want (just grab and drag) Just one point on this, you possibly know this but scrolling accelerates on iOS, so the more you flick the faster it seems to go, I'm not sure if it works t
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by nfg 15y ago
The Tory stance seems ridiculous to me (as an outsider) considering that the UK's devolved assembly elections use PR-STV or other similarly "complicated" systems. FWIW we use PR-STV in Ireland and are currently going through a debate about
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by nfg 15y ago
> If this report is true, it also lends credence to reports that the iPhone 5 won’t be available until the fall. If it were to launch in June as usual, Apple would likely have more complete prototypes available for developers. I don't s
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by nfg 16y ago
> - You know you can drop files on dock icons? Did you know you can also drop them on the icons in the app switcher (the thing that comes up when you hit Cmd+Tab)? This also works with Exposé, it's particularly nice if you set up hot-co
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by nfg 16y ago
The linked thread says the image being displayed is not in the camera roll. so maybe some sort of weird caching issue?
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by nfg 16y ago
Other discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359112

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