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by reirob 14y ago
Here a link about a related article from more than a year ago about the same site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3479972 Seems like the warning from this article come true and the site starts polluting the environment. What a mess.
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by reirob 14y ago
You are absolutely right. Thanks for correcting. Then it seems like a a move in the right direction.
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by reirob 14y ago
The 3:2 aspect ratio is certainly interesting to Google but not to users. It is even less vertical space than with 16:9 or 16:10. So what good is that much horizontal space, apart for ads in a column left or right of the content.
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by reirob 14y ago
I support the idea of a laptop for developers and congratulate Dell for this bold step in the right direction. However I personally would not consider buying this machine because it lacks a Trackpoint. Waiting for the successor of Thinkpad
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by reirob 14y ago
On my android phone I switch synchronization off, it has the same effect - no disctraction. The button is on the widget for wifi, bluetooth, gps, synchronization and display brightness. I placed the widget on the main screen.
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by reirob 14y ago
I have a very basic Haskell understanding, where I still struggle to understand Monads. I read through every slide and I the only thing that I understood, is that Haskell programs can be made faster by forcing strict evaluation and value un
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by reirob 14y ago
When seeing this title and before reading the article I had the reaction: "This is already done. Google already rewrote Java. For Androi." Now after reading the article I can quote: "Now is a good time to rewrite some core components from s
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by reirob 14y ago
Very nice business idea with a sharp slogan: "Send an Image, Get a Sculpture"
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by reirob 14y ago
Skimmed through the article to understand how IPv6 will improve battery life and I get following: * Because NAT is not necessary with IPv6 every device can be directly reached by services like Twitter. In contrast today the device has initi
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by reirob 14y ago
enrolled.
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C11, yo(lcinexile.blogspot.fr)
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by reirob 14y ago
There is actually something: http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx?icmp=COUSFR29M... It says "Coming Fall 2013: LEGO MINDSTORM EV3..." - Now I am a disappointed to wait for 9 months.
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Apple applied for patent to store wind energy(appft1.uspto.gov)
1 points by reirob 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook paid 0.3% Taxes on $1.34 Billion profits(businessinsider.com)
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by reirob 14y ago
I immediately installed it on Ubuntu 12.04 on a ThinkPad X200T. Before this article I did not know that there exist such note taking apps for Linux. Now I know that there is xsource. I like it definitely. And I hope this program will evolve
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by reirob 14y ago
I just discovered this program and immediately installed and tried it out. I do not like the fact that backspace seems not to work correctly after when mistyping a letter. It is strange as well having 2 spaces at the end of phrases. I would
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by reirob 14y ago
I moved from PC Applications for Password usage to use passdroid on the phone. Like this I have the passwords always in my pocket.
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by reirob 14y ago
Nice way to find where spam comes from. Sadly this is at best a complicated workaround, that will will work for people that are motivated enough to remember for each different service a separate email and password and additionally to this y
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by reirob 14y ago
Are you suggesting to have a different email address for every online service we use? Today I manage about 100 different unique passwords for every online service. This is already very inconvenient. Adding as well as having different bogus
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by reirob 14y ago
I second this. There are actually some distributors that sell Lenovo laptops with Linux on it: http://www.emperorlinux.com : provides laptops preinstalled with Linux from Dell, Lenovo, Panasonic and Sony http://www.linuxcertified.com/lin
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by reirob 14y ago
Have a look at Drakon language http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/ It is an algorithmic visual programming language developed for the Buran space project (Russian space project)
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by reirob 14y ago
When reading the title I thought the article will be about how dangerous the couch is for our generation, because we are spending more and more time on it and so do not exercise enough our body, etc. You know, related to Tablet devices and
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by reirob 14y ago
Actually this tool is not only for Sysadmin's - it is very helpful for developers. I know there are other tools like gdb, etc. But if you have to use (calling from your program) other programs, or if the library that you use does something
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by reirob 14y ago
I just discovered through the Arte TV the Masdar City project. After looking on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdar_City ), I found this video to give a quick status where it is going. Despite the crisis it is still continuing w
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Masdar City, January 2012 (6 minutes)(youtube.com)
1 points by reirob 14y ago|1 comments
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Big 3D printing machine prints metal objects(theage.com.au)
58 points by reirob 14y ago|45 comments
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Wayland 1.0 Coming "In A Month Or Two"(phoronix.com)
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by reirob 14y ago
I thought to learn something useful for programing (debugging, program runtime analysis, etc.). But instead the article is just about the generic commands cat, sort, grep, cut, sed, uniq, find and less. It is not really development related.
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Is this the photo that could clear Assange?(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by reirob 14y ago|0 comments
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by reirob 14y ago
The link you give is behind a paywall. As well to note that the article is from august 2011.

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