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by pinwale 14y ago
Umm...it's just a legal vehicle for my projects. I'm just a student. (fyi, it's the area code for [redacted]!)
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by pinwale 14y ago
Yep! Well, companies were going to exploit it anyways. I thought why not at least screen them before. I'm just a college student in [redacted] and the site was coded & designed by a guy who just graduated high school in [redacted].
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by pinwale 14y ago
Having that much data probably has some worth to you. 3TB external hard drives goes for only ~$120 nowadays.
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Today is World Backup Day(worldbackupday.com)
48 points by pinwale 14y ago|43 comments
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by pinwale 14y ago
If it wasn't for the Green Revolution in the 70's, then global famine would have been a very real possibility. Shows to tell you that one can't use past trends to predict the future. more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
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by pinwale 14y ago
Any reason why the export period is so short? The archive team is trying to make a backup of the site at the moment. Any help would be appreciated on EFnet IRC channel #firespring or #archiveteam Archive team projects: http://archivingyour
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by pinwale 14y ago
The New York Times built the current site in 2006. The Times just announced that they have are working on a new site design (and presumably completely new architecture) for the last year and should release it soon. source: http://www.nyti
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by pinwale 14y ago
I like the categories that created via filters. Try clicking edit on Skim HN. It drills down into HN than just the front page. Also, the lessmeme.com is a filter for excluding links that are also were on Techmeme. It'll be cool to have some
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by pinwale 14y ago
fyi, ReadItLater is now called [Pocket]( http://getpocket.com/blog/2012/04/introducing-the-all-new-re... ). Also, any chance of an alternate ui like [Skim HN]( http://www.skimhn.com )
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by pinwale 14y ago
> The expensive part would be if you were making your own motherboards and chips in the USA Apple already sources the A5, A5X, & A6 chips from a Samsung factory in Austin, Texas.
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by pinwale 14y ago
Google will be adding support for the Cr-48 in Chrome OS 20. From the comments: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/04/dev-channel...
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by pinwale 15y ago
Thanks, I'll keep you in mind. :)
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by pinwale 15y ago
Yeah, it has been awhile since the last Ubuntu release. Still thinking if we should do anything for the next ubuntu release.
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Today is World Backup Day(worldbackupday.com)
81 points by pinwale 15y ago|63 comments
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by pinwale 15y ago
http://www.shipwire.com/ is used by many Kickstarter projects. I have no relationship with them. I just read about them in an article.
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by pinwale 15y ago
While I don't know the actual best resolution of satellite imagery but I do know that the U.S. requires commercial satellite imaging to resample to 0.5 meters.
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by pinwale 15y ago
What about the senate version: [Protect-IP]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act )? And any news about the new rewritten version of SOPA, the [OPEN Act]( http://arst.ch/ru6 )?
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by pinwale 15y ago
The background was adapted from a NASA photo but I can't seem to find the original photo at the moment. In the weeks before the release, the site had a countdown timer with the original image as the background. You can see some of the sta
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by pinwale 15y ago
It can be hard to get some people in the open source community to accept that "shiny stuff" is also crucial to a project. For example, I organized and developed the http://www.thisisthecountdown.com event for the recent Ubuntu release as
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by pinwale 15y ago
The blogpost is from a month ago. Google hasn't rolled it out yet? edit: Yep, Google still hasn't rolled it out to most accounts. :( source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/threa...
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by pinwale 15y ago
It should be noted that Apple was interested in smart pens rather than styluses. Apple has at least 13 patents relating to smart pens. source: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/09/apple-wi...
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Product Design vs. Interaction Design — from the designer of the first laptop(youtube.com)
2 points by pinwale 15y ago|0 comments
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by pinwale 15y ago
Has someone tried using this "overhead planes" query with Siri? It should be possible because Siri uses Wolfram Alpha for some questions.
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by pinwale 15y ago
The documentary "One Millionth Tower" was uses popcorn.js to pull in realtime weather data, Flickr photos, Google Streetview maps while you are watching the video. All of it seamlessly integrating into the documentary. Here is the code f
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by pinwale 15y ago
The "atom" logo on the website and the card have a different number of loops. Have you guys standardized the number of loops or is the number of loops a clever way of denoting different products?
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by pinwale 15y ago
Try Vox: http://www.voxapp.didgeroo.com/ It's a small (and free) music player.
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by pinwale 15y ago
Talk of paid rankings are premature and mentioning net neutrality is a red herring. Net neutrality has nothing to do with the impartiality of Google Search. It also appears that the +[keyword] redirect in Google Search only happens with ve
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by pinwale 15y ago
If you read Steve Jobs biography, you'd know that Steve Jobs never wanted to be like Bill Gates. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs even had a discussion about how it was funny how different their philosophies were but were still successful.
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by pinwale 15y ago
>I also have a hard time seeing how $25M worth of lasers is a supply chain innovation; most other manufacturers would probably prefer to make the laptop for $6 (amortization) less It looks like Apple's supply logistics chain is similar
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by pinwale 15y ago
Before the iPhone came out (and it's glass-slab form factor), the Android cellphone prototypes looked a lot like Blackberry clones. However after the iPhone was announced, Google apparently switched to the slab form factor with a twist and

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