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by ojiikun 11y ago
Not just infuriating, but potentially dangerous. If a website uses my audio to play a 100% volume sound without my consent and I had my headphones up high to hear a subtle recording, I might get permanent hearing damage. Every time the conc
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by ojiikun 11y ago
If you prefer a narrower view, why not just resize your browser window to be more narrow? Some of us find full-width text more readable, and artificially constrained viewports are not something we can easily resize.
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by ojiikun 11y ago
A few lightweight thoughts: * The stock images on the front page are a bit odd. In particular, the vintage-ish B&W images of a person with a knife in a wicker chair and what looks like a group of people standing a an old store. These
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by ojiikun 11y ago
I elect to have none, and pay a yearly penalty to the federal government as a result. I earn and save money on my own to cover medical expenses. I view payments to a 3rd party who then bank their business model on my not needing payouts a
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by ojiikun 11y ago
Somewhat broken in Chrome on Android. Tapping a button brings up what looks like a weird tooltip that blocks most of the screen. Pretty much unplayable.
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by ojiikun 11y ago
Hourly pay. Some weeks I want to work 20 hours. Some I would be willing to do 50. Others, I might want to take off. Hourly is the only way to be fair to you and fair to me. No exclusivity. I'll sign an NDA, but you don't own me. I
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by ojiikun 12y ago
I don't think ttytter is true abandonware. Though the website and version number haven't been bumped since 2012, I have noticed a few small changes as reclently as 2014 (since I keep a copy in git). As for fixing things, can&#x27
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by ojiikun 12y ago
> I had all of my dreams in life shattered and then I dealt with the Department of Justice for a year. The long-term stress robbed me of any self-confidence. Perhaps a slightly different perspective than the prevailing "get talked a
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by ojiikun 12y ago
Now I understand why the produce I get from the grocery store is always so bruised compared to the stuff I get out of my garden. Even the good product moves at quite a clip and is dropped quite harshly, too.
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by ojiikun 12y ago
Pedantic: you built a really cool PID-controlled immersion heater, not a "sous vide cooker". Sous vide is the technique of preparing food in a vacuum. Placing food in a zip-top bag and displacing the air out might give you a rea
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by ojiikun 12y ago
Soundcloud is my go-to example of bad UI design that has progressively worsened over the years. This, though, would be a step in the right direction! Bigger than their UI problems, though, are their UX problems. I don't care what t
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by ojiikun 12y ago
> The cynical explanation for this is that people write negative comments to > show off how clever they are or how much they know. But I don’t think > that’s enough to explain how dedicated many commenters are to posting
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by ojiikun 12y ago
A network of seismometers to detect foreshocks all over the islands and a system to send an automated stop signal to trains. It worked in 2011 when all the high speed trains were successfully stopped ~10 seconds before the 9.0 mag quake hi
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by ojiikun 12y ago
Speaking just as a developer updating code for L-devices, the new scheduling interface almost guarantees an improvement depending on how many apps that sync in the background you have installed. The paradigm went from "wake up every 10
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by ojiikun 12y ago
Minor UX issue: on level up, it scrolls the page back to the top, but on my laptop I have to scroll down just a hair to see the whole board. Very annoying.
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by ojiikun 13y ago
Similarly, there is already DarkCoin, which can do anonymous(ish) payments via DarkSend. Whitepaper: http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/DarkcoinWhitepaper.pdf Unlike ZeroCoin, it has actually been built.
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by ojiikun 13y ago
I always interpreted it as a commentary on the difference between tool and application. You can both start and stop a wildfire by setting a single bush alight. It takes a fireman to know the difference.
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by ojiikun 13y ago
Interesting. I already use an EC2 instance for exactly this (running Debian) and it has been a great way to work. My laptop only needs to be powerful enough to run an ssh client and X server and then the instance does all the heavy liftin
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by ojiikun 13y ago
Failed rollbacks are definitely an exception, not a norm, and something support should know about!
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by ojiikun 13y ago
Nice! Could use more postings (only 2 android gigs?), but I am sure that will come with time and publicity. From a UI angle, though, why is everything so big? I had to zoom out two stops in firefox to fit a reasonable amount of content on
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by ojiikun 13y ago
For my money, "ObjectFactoryCreatingFactoryBean" is the most mind-blowing class name ever authored, especially when you realize it is actually useful on occasion!
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by ojiikun 13y ago
Obviously, we'll never see it in stock/vanilla, but there is something to be said for the fact that you do spoofing at all via pdroid, which takes less than half an hour to set up if you're of the hacker persuasion. I drea
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by ojiikun 13y ago
There is no authority, just code. The algorithm essentially self-adjusts so that new coins are created at a globally steady rate, rewarding miners proportionate to their effort. (at least until all coins are mined) https://en.bi
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by ojiikun 13y ago
The scanner app for Android is sitting between 50M and 100M installs: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi... I'm not sure about the experience on other platforms, but that particular app scans so well and easily,
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by ojiikun 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote with possibility of occasional facetime in Seattle | current availability: 10 hours/week, up to 20 when current contract finishes Android apps, (Java|perl|ruby) backends, massively distributed systems, high availabilit
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by ojiikun 13y ago
Desktop: i7-2600, radeon6870, 8GB 9-9-9-24, 128GB M4 SSD, 27" 1920x1200 IPS Laptop: Acer AS1810T-8679 For actual code, though, everything happens on an EC2 instance (a medium size) that I leave running and can ssh and gnuscreen into from an
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by ojiikun 13y ago
All I took away from this was that AAPL wanted to make about $0, AMZN wanted to make about -$3, and in both cases the author makes about $3, meaning that of the $13 wholesale, the publisher is getting a 75% cut of the sale. I cannot fathom
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by ojiikun 13y ago
It wasn't just computing equipment. I have hand-repaired a dozen sets of amplifiers and powered studio monitor speakers made between '02 and '06 that just needed $2 worth of caps replaced despite the manufacturer quoting $250+ for authoriz
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by ojiikun 13y ago
I've seen a similar banner for years when /. links to wiki pages. It is just a template that someone pastes on to warn editors that traffic (and thus edit velocity) will be up for a day or two.
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by ojiikun 13y ago
> As always, let me remind you: don't bill hourly. This advice breaks down if you don't work an 8 hour day. Some days I want to only work 2 hours , other days I want to work 12 hours. My clients need to be fairly charged in both cases

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