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by ripperdoc 14y ago
This looks very nice! I completely agree with the frustration that so few stands/mounts are considered for multipurpose use, which is strange as I feel iPad is really designed for it (TV remote on a stand, photo frame on the wall, charging
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Apple should build on their strength, and in this case, it's apps. Presume that in iOS7, they launch a new API that "forces" apps to expose searchable data in a lexical format that Siri understands. Basically, giving apps "intent" and "cont
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
What people are reacting to is the posed threat, or creepiness, of something. And what we should ascertain is whether being filmed is creepy. Being followed by a man not behaving according to social rules is an obvious possible threat that
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
This seems to be a paper from the leader of the study, giving some more details: http://www.mit.edu/~medard/papers2011/Modeling%20Network%20C...
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
All networks can have packet loss, and the ones we use more and more (the wireless ones) certainly have a higher packet loss rate. Not sure what you are suggesting should be done?
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Nice analysis, but only half of the story. As pointed out in the comments, you can make thick or thin clients in both native and HTML5. The issue is rather the one about lowest common denominator. HTML5 aims at working in very varied "runti
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
For what it's worth, one of Sweden's major newspapers recently did an investigative article about the use of Google Analytics in so many websites belonging to banks, government institutions, political parties, etc. It's now being investigat
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Why Pyramid instead of Flask or Bottle?
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Sorry for going off-topic, but I tried to open this on iPhone and it never finished loading. It's 1.25 MB for one page of 3500 chars of text. Maybe the ratio of polish vs content is a bit too skewed here?
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
A great interface, but I see one huge omission - a place to discuss or comment the patterns. A pattern doesn't live in vacuum, it is good under certain circumstances and bad in others. So the pattern is only valuable to me if it comes with
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Not just you. My pet peeve is that their sharing links gadget on the right side covers the scroll bar on at least Chrome. So, the scroll handle can get stuck under the links. Not very smart.
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
I'm just wondering who thought it was a good idea to put some share links hovering ABOVE the scroll bar. http://imgur.com/xF5UP I don't know how many times I have lost the scroll handle behind it when this widget is used.
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Seems like a good time to switch to Usenet here then - not watertight but much less likely to get into trouble (at least I'm ready to try that theory). Anyone know a good Usenet provider for Japan based connections?
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
I heard from a source that it's has to do with the extreme space and weight constraints of the iPhone 5, but that Apple wants to put it in eventually. But I am more concerned with the ecosystem - it's not just enough to put it in the phone,
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Comparing with laptops isn't really a fair game, as they have stopped adding features for years and simply improve on speed. Smartphones are in the middle of a very strong development curve, where we find ourselves with portable computing p
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Looks nice, can you set their color and apperance using clases in the same way as normal Bootstrap buttons, e.g .btn .btn-primary, etc?
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Take every piece of software and OS, and you will find conflicting views of whether it goes faster or slower with time. You buy a new device, everything feels snappy, but one year down the line, things feel slow. But the problem is, this is
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
And to add a few points: - When you don't have network access and the device is at the limit of storage space (so that a major state changing operation couldn't be undone), for the love of god, get the user to connect it first. Let it back
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
One of the most user friendly additions to software, ever, is the undo button. (if you want to feel how it is to use software without, try Linux in terminal for a while ;) ). And one of the best attempts to do this on a OS scale, is Time Ma
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Well, we don't know enough about this case to really judge it. But my key take away is NOT that this kid is a future murderer, but rather the opposite, that internet harassment is something very different than real harassment, something nor
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Reminds me of this article by SF Writer Charlie Stross: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/how-low-...
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Optical SPDIF
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
I have used Google Maps for public transport very actively in multiple cities around the world, and I can't imagine living without it. Stockholm, Singapore, London, Tokyo all have it with Google. And I'd bet that a majority of smartphone us
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Wow, this is bad, and an excellent example of how the security machine (in this case FBI) can always be turned on itself. The methods required for FBI to "protect" citizens can be misused (or hacked) to do the opposite. A gun can always be
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
He is simply listing the challenges any designer would face to make a simple yet obvious feature that just works. It is NOT describing a reason to "go back to buttons" or do something in the traditional way. This is where home electronics n
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Look here. IP licensing is the tradition in this industry. All big telecom vendors pay each other yearly amounts for IP rights. Normally they simply bulk them together and see who got most. Now and then a court case flares up (it's a negoti
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
I tried using it on Windows Chrome 23, but not going well. I get into creating screens, but can't for the life of me figure out how I can start drawing those screens. I seemingly can only edit the name of the screen or delete it. Also, the