nirmal

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   by nirmal 17y ago

   I think Skribit ( http://skribit.com/ ) might lead to better topics for blogs. This site seems good for facebook wall posts or tweets.
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   by nirmal 17y ago

   I've always had a problem getting Adium to properly setup group chats. Does anyone have a multi-protocol IM client for Mac which does support group chatting properly?
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   by nirmal 17y ago

   I do something similar to this for a group that I'm involved in. We have a registered twitter account. This account follows all of the group members. If a member direct messages the group account, this message is rebroadcast. This works reg
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   by nirmal 18y ago

   And if you're a Safari user, you can just right-click on something and choose "Inspect Element".
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   by nirmal 18y ago

   It was really a great talk, did you see his talk about the textural interfaces? The room was packed for the talk about the technology mentioned in the article.
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   by nirmal 18y ago

   I saw a different page and started to wonder if they were doing AB testing :).
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   by nirmal 18y ago

   They use the CSS Sprite technique to overlay a certain portion of this image http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/ui/UIRoundedImage.png on top of your picture. It's hard to see in the browser but above the blue rounded corner mask there is a
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   by nirmal 18y ago

   http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/06/04/keynote_kun... Link to the first Keynote Kung-fu.
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   by nirmal 18y ago

   http://www.salon.com/wlust/feature/1998/11/cov_09feature.htm... is page one of story linked to in the parent comment.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    I believe GMail adds things to the header to help it track the conversation. This along with time-based subject matching allows it to handle most cases easily.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Right, I should have said this. My point was not a browser that replaces Safari, but something that is more of a app where you could find a list of website specifically targeted to the platform.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    The main browser would be subject to the same security as any native app, so I'm not sure how the security issues would be any different than a native application.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    While HTML5 storage is good, I think the main advantage of native apps is access to hardware. Projects like Phonegap ( http://phonegap.com/ ) help you write a native app that is a website with special JS-based access to the hardware. Howe
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    So I had thought about using my modified RSS feed for HN (available at: http://hacketal.com/#hnrss ) for this purpose but decided against it because I have very different use cases for RSS versus the HN homepage. The homepage, for me, is
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    I also got Times as part of the MH bundle but I've had no luck with getting it to actually display any feeds. I've tried adding each one individually and importing a OPML file from Google Reader. What could I be missing?
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    -15F, fixing bugs in code that ran on a small wearable computing device strapped to a soldiers wrist. The best part was where I had to interface with the GUI to debug instead of a shell on a handheld tablet. That meant using a tiny stylus o
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    I think the initial hypothesis is that the robot would be destroyed, stolen or thrown away by someone, hence the cheap construction.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Can you only add individual accounts? Doesn't seem possible to add all of the people I follow as a single feed.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    There seems to be a lot of extraneous HTML and CSS in the feed. Good to know about pipes though.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    I just replied to an email about my server hanging when trying to retrieve the python code. If you have a similar problem just email me I will reply and attach the code. Email address and twitter are in my profile. Also, any fixes are much
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Let's make this a constructive debate. Do you have any thoughts on a system that could be developed to secure permissions of the original creator?
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Right, so maybe that's why pg doesn't do something like this feed for the regular feed. Also, there's the fact that no heuristic will be a 100% reliable in determining the actual content area.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    I'm sorry that you mistook my description of the task difficulty as meaning that I wouldn't do something complicated. Like you said, I'm a PhD student, which incidentally means that I have many other demands on my time and do many difficult
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Any clues as to why that happens? The code simply inserts the HTML of the content sections of the linked sites into the RSS feed. It doesn't seem to happen with all sites.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    I suppose I could try to go to each linked article and find their RSS feed and see if they normally expose the content but that seems quite complicated. I don't know if missed click-throughs is why pg doesn't do something similar for the ex
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Same for me. This combined with the Google Reader keyboard shortcuts makes it much easier and faster to go through HN content.
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Now that this made it to the front page, I just realized that the page content is not pulled correctly by the Python. :) The Readability bookmarklet seems to do it just fine. I will need to investigate. It seems to work fine with most blogg
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    Hacker News RSS Feed + Readability(hacketal.com)

    44 points by nirmal 18y ago|24 comments
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Related bit of humor: http://blog.hugsformonsters.com/post/87657240/overly-judgeme...
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    by nirmal 18y ago

    Yes, but I think it's safe to assume that HN readers are not average users. We can spread the word of safety :).