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by richtr 13y ago
Sorting out user agents is one of those 'hard problems' but I thought that was the _whole point_ of this site. This is an incredibly basic mistake.
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Edward Snowden delivers testimony to the European Parliament(freesnowden.is)
2 points by richtr 13y ago|0 comments
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The NSA has an advice columnist. Seriously.(firstlook.org)
7 points by richtr 13y ago|0 comments
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How Opera started thinking about the bottom line(zdnet.com)
1 points by richtr 13y ago|0 comments
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Beware the return of the Web Bubble (2006)(money.cnn.com)
2 points by richtr 13y ago|0 comments
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by richtr 13y ago
Best viewed in Chrome/Opera/Firefox Beta for Android.
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Show HN: In-browser orientation-based VR(people.opera.com)
2 points by richtr 13y ago|1 comments
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Amnesty International on USA and Snowden(amnesty.org)
3 points by richtr 13y ago|0 comments
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by richtr 13y ago
This inspired me to create a 'buycott' that people can join to show their dissatisfaction with these patent trolling tactics: http://buycott.com/campaign/699/boycott-rockstar-s-weaponiza...
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by richtr 13y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6609496
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VisiCalc in-browser emulator(archive.org)
2 points by richtr 13y ago|1 comments
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by richtr 13y ago
Here's the 5 minute summary: http://www.wikisummaries.org/How_To_Be_Idle
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Whatever Happened to Webmonkey.com?(longhandpixels.net)
43 points by richtr 13y ago|12 comments
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Show HN: Taking the complexity out of timezone coordination(worldtime.io)
2 points by richtr 13y ago|0 comments
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How the NSA scandal hurts the economy(globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)
11 points by richtr 13y ago|4 comments
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by richtr 13y ago
Absolutely right. I was bringing to the attention of the HN community a series of Korean airline crashes that occurred in the 1990s that can be directly attributed to this factor [1]. For the record, there are a number of countries worldwid
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by richtr 13y ago
While we are looking at reasons why this crash happened it may be worthwhile to consider Malcolm Gladwell's suggestion in his book 'Outliers' that Korean cultural legacy, where the High Power Distance ratio between bosses (th
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by richtr 13y ago
Do you have any sources for this bizarre statement? Today, any excessive US presence in Europe is most likely a symptom of over-reaching US Foreign Policy rather than something the EU requires.
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by richtr 13y ago
Since we seem to be doing Google Trends here is a relevant one: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22chrome%20sucks%22... How did that work out again?
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The vision behind Opera 15 and beyond(brucelawson.co.uk)
47 points by richtr 13y ago|35 comments
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by richtr 13y ago
Well, it's the only mainstream alternative Chromium-based browser for Windows and Mac at this point? Also, only half jokingly, it also comes non-NSA-approved (because it's Norwegian). Considering this is the first version of a pro
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by richtr 13y ago
That is your interpretation of the law... - NSA 2013
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by richtr 13y ago
To notch up the paranoia a bit, the original court order document looks like it may contain some digital fingerprinting around the edges (either made by a certain class of printer or placed there prior to dissemination) that could lead auth
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by richtr 13y ago
While this is sound advice there is the problem that if you get very big/popular the government can knock at your door with sealed court orders to enable things like wiretapping. Case in point: "Microsoft’s tweaks to Skype could facilitate
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by richtr 13y ago
Since we are generally speculating here, is there any possibility the Hyperloop could be a suborbital craft to escape the atmosphere and thus reduce journey times dramatically. That doesn't really work for "San Francisco to LA" but Richard
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by richtr 13y ago
Opera Next 15 is based on Chromium 28 which is the first stable release of Blink. So you're looking at Blink already.
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Opera's first Chromium-based Desktop Developer Preview is out(opera.com)
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by richtr 13y ago
It is pronounced 'Wilhite' not 'White'.
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Show HN: guessLanguage.js - Language detection for both Node.js + Web(github.com)
2 points by richtr 14y ago|1 comments
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Head tracking with WebRTC in Web Browsers(auduno.tumblr.com)
2 points by richtr 14y ago|0 comments

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