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by riobard 16y ago
Then people would build Flash apps and just run it in browser and bypass App Store all together. If that happens, not only does Apple give the control to Adobe (and have to rely on Adobe to support iPhone Flash plugin, which is absolutely n
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by riobard 16y ago
For anyone interested in an earlier failed attempt of Microsoft (China) into the living room http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Venus
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by riobard 16y ago
What's the YouTube video about? It says the video is not available.
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by riobard 16y ago
To get a real REPL in vim: http://code.google.com/p/conque/
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by riobard 16y ago
I was looking for a flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Toronto, Canada half a year ago. Lufthansa charges around $1.8k for that. At the same time, Lufthansa also offers a connecting flight from Delhi, India, to Frankfurt then to Toronto. Th
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by riobard 16y ago
It's funny that they are talking about maximizing the vertical pixels while letting title bar, menu bar, url bar, bookmark bar, tab bar, horizontal scroll bar, and status bar eating up 1/3 of vertical pixels of the primary web browser windo
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by riobard 17y ago
I'm following the Futura characters. My Unibody MacBook is called Bender because it indeed has a shining metal ass (although different kind of metal) :D
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by riobard 17y ago
Canonical thinks Ubuntu is better than Windows now. Next target to catch up: OS X. This is just the first step towards that goal.
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by riobard 17y ago
I'm not really sure if this is true. The Chrome mac snapshot is built on April 1st ...
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by riobard 17y ago
My friend is using a German keyboard on his MBP. He is thinking about buying a wired Apple English keyboard and exchange all the key caps with the MBP and then use English keyboard. Not sure if this will work, but then the keys will be whit
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by riobard 17y ago
Three months ago I wrote a little piece of rant about Less vs. Sass here ( https://riobard.com/blog/2009-12-18-less-vs-sass/ ). The day after I posted it, Nathan Weizenbaum (author of Sass) emailed me saying those tiny problems will be fixe
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by riobard 17y ago
If textbooks from iBookstore is cheaper than paperbacks, this will definitely work!
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by riobard 17y ago
Emm, interesting result here on my machine (1st gen MacBook Unibody, 2.4GHz Core 2 duo, 4GB DDR3, running OS X 10.6.3): - Safari 4 using system default Flash plugin: ~28 fps - Chrome dev using system default Flash plugin: ~35 fps - Firefox
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by riobard 17y ago
Does Hacker News have an API? Didn't find an official one :|
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by riobard 17y ago
Usually it's not a big issue. And when it is, it's usually in the top big cities (Beijing, Shanghai, etc). The problem is, they have such things there, and they can choose when and where to enforce it, which can be pretty annoying. For exam
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by riobard 17y ago
"暂住证" literally means "temporary living permission". It's a piece of paper you have to carry along with you if you are going to live for a longer period of time (I think > 1 month) in a city which is NOT your household registration plac
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by riobard 17y ago
I think that's the "compatible mode" (i.e. an old IE6 engine) ?
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by riobard 17y ago
Yeah that's a problem. my guess would be the # of iPhone users doing this is extremely small that the government won't bother.
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by riobard 17y ago
Wow, this is a PERFECT opportunity for iPhone users in China to get through the Great Firewall! (I hope they will encrypt it somehow before sending back)
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by riobard 17y ago
For some reason, this idea came into my mind: that the existence of this kind of contests proves either the marketing departments have really trouble figuring out how to promote many-core processors, or there is no real demand for these mon
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by riobard 17y ago
I remembered Martin Odersky said it was publicly available since 2004.
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by riobard 17y ago
Yes I could do that ... but I left the F1-12 keys on my MacBook to its default, which controls dim the screen, volume and stuff like that. So to press CTRL+F2 I actually have to press FN+CTRL+F2. Try this combination on a MacBook (with only
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by riobard 17y ago
I use Python quite a lot before I try Scala (on JVM). I have to say the slow Scala interpreter startup (due to JVM, again) really pisses me off for scripting in Scala (otherwise it's a nice language for scripting).
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[comic] The Difference Between Browsers(favbrowser.com)
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by riobard 17y ago
Yeah I know that trick ... but it's not quite the same as ALT+(underlined character of the menu item) thing on other systems. For fast typists, it's pretty awkward to hit the  first and then use arrow keys to move around. I wanna go direc
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by riobard 17y ago
I guessed 21/25 in the time limit. Missed ones are Shell, ActionScript, Tcl, and Cobol.
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by riobard 17y ago
I don't use menus often, either. I guess this design really forces app developers to carefully choose buttons and other widgets on the UI to avoid menu as much as possible. But on the occasions when menu is required, the experience sucks bi
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by riobard 17y ago
Might be a little bit off topic, but the detached menu bar gradually pisses me off as screen gets bigger. It's really a long-distance travel for the mouse to click the menu on a 1920x1200 screen. Now Apple is rolling out 27' iMac with an ev
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by riobard 17y ago
I always have the feeling that battery technology is holding back mobile computing. I can only play about two hours of Plants vs Zombies on my iPhone when it's fully charged, and it's not 3D at all. Imagine how long this Windows Phone can s
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by riobard 17y ago
Leech Killer ( http://iwonderphone.com/leechkiller/ ) is a SMS/call block app for Android phones. The author decided to kill it due to maintainability difficulty caused by so many incompatible Android phones.

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