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by planb 15y ago
The article (or better: the paper which the article is referencing) says that C++ is the "best-performing" programming language. That's a whole different thing (or everyone would still be coding in assembler).
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by planb 15y ago
The landing page [...] plays some audio instructions [...] There is a five minute pause as AT&T’s website “checks my system.” [...] my browser is not supported — well, I use chrome on ubuntu [...] Firefox. Wrong. It requires an ActiveX
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by planb 15y ago
Short version: Buy an SSD.
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Desligado - simple web application supporting disconnection and deferred updates(dmfrancisco.github.com)
1 points by planb 15y ago|0 comments
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by planb 15y ago
No, I don't think easy to miss because it shouldn't be possible in the first place. At least for a banking software, the web application layer is not the right place to check for this kind of authentication. This makes me wonder how their c
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by planb 15y ago
My bookmarks bar looks quite similar. In fact, this is the main reason I'm using Chrome instead of Safari, though I really like the new features in Lion and therefore think about a new way to organize my bookmarks.
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by planb 15y ago
Yes, sure. PDFScanner imports pictures or PDFs and does OCR them.
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by planb 15y ago
If you already have a scanner, you can get a nice scan software with OCR functionality for $15 on the Mac App store: http://www.pdfscannerapp.com Disclaimer: The app is a hobby project of mine which I created after desperately searching f
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Simple and fast document scanning and OCR for Mac OS(pdfscannerapp.com)
1 points by planb 15y ago|0 comments
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Linux: The Source of All Desktop Innovation(lunduke.com)
94 points by planb 15y ago|90 comments
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by planb 15y ago
No way will this allow to listen to music not purchased via iTunes without uploading. How would they prevent anyone from creating a 10000 track library full of correctly tagged empty files?
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by planb 15y ago
Carcassonne ( http://carcassonneapp.com/ ) provides exactly this play-by-mail feature (though it uses iOS push notifications to inform the players). It's really fun if you like being distracted the whole day long.
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Exceptions are Exceptional(nickharris.wordpress.com)
1 points by planb 15y ago|0 comments
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Chaos Monkeys and SSDs(blog.yafla.com)
4 points by planb 15y ago|0 comments
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by planb 16y ago
In fact, Facebook allows to differentiate between friends and connections using friends lists. It's even possible to restrict certain content to some of these lists. What Facebook does not do - and I believe for a good reason - is to make t
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by planb 16y ago
I believe this would mean giving up the main advantage DropBox has over all competitors: It's the first cloud storage provider that sucessfully mixes local storage and cloud storage by providing transparent synchonization. After all, the Dr