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by rodh 15y ago
I do see your point, and agree to a certain extent. Having spent some time in south-east asia, I have experienced first hand how cheap life can be compared to what I'm used to (a factor of 10, for a comparable lifestyle). In fact at one poi
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by rodh 15y ago
Firefox is my add-on browser. Chrome is my lightweight browser. If I'm quickly checking my email I won't fire up firefox, I'll stick with my low-footprint chrome. If I want to do some web development, or know I'll be spending a while browsi
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by rodh 15y ago
I recently started growing potatoes, tomatoes, chilli peppers and basil on the back patio of my house in the city. When I'm at work I find myself looking forward to getting home so I can spend my 20 minutes doting over my plants. It's also
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by rodh 15y ago
I may be wrong, but the impression I'm getting is that people are offended that facebook have used the photos that have people tagged them in as data for training their facial recognition software without them agreeing to it. It's the fact
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by rodh 16y ago
Meet the world's first 3D monocle: http://us.toshiba.com/spectacle
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by rodh 16y ago
My trick for remembering names: When I meet someone new, I try and think of someone else I know with the same name (a friend, famous person, etc.), and picture the two standing next to each-other. With unique and foreign names I try and thi
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by rodh 16y ago
Given the included JAR files, I'd be interested to know if the author measured only his performance in coding Java against his students. Although I usually code in a basic text editor, Java is one of those languages in which I personally fo
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by rodh 16y ago
Yes. Sorry, that's what I meant by disappear. Would have preferred it if they found another way of presenting that list to me.
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by rodh 16y ago
This might just be me, but when I scan over a map, my automatic action is to hover my mouse over the countries I'm looking at (I do the same with my finger when I look at a physical map). If I do that here though, the map disappears. I can'
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by rodh 16y ago
Maybe that logo is used elsewhere, and there's a high likelihood for that logo to be in the user's cache.
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by rodh 16y ago
My suggestion: Make it a link, in the WTF area and call it something like: "These pictures were cool before everyone else liked them".
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by rodh 16y ago
Are you having server issues. All I can see is a pair of empty iframes. I joke. Does the "ironically popular" use the input field's data in any way? If not, I'd say: don't put that button there. I typed a search request and couldn't decide
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by rodh 16y ago
The only point at which an address can be used to prevent fraud, is between the credit card charging process and your bank. If it's paypal charging your credit card, they're the only ones who need your address.
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by rodh 16y ago
Yell is the company that publishes the UK Yellow Pages. I'm sure Bret Taylor meant Yelp. However: http://www.yell.com/reviews/ "The places to go, by the locals in the know". Or so they say.
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by rodh 16y ago
Maybe not a homegrown tape format... but how about Teletext, FM Radio, Freeview, HD on Freeview, iPlayer?
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by rodh 16y ago
Yet the rate of growth seems to be more or less linear. At least within this time frame.
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by rodh 16y ago
Two words: Shark flu
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by rodh 16y ago
Another one to add to the list, when working in the shell, is ctrl-u. This sort of does the opposite of ctrl-k and clears everything from your cursor to the start of the line. I use it when I recursive-search then change my mind, or when I
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by rodh 16y ago
On a related note, when you want to insert something at the start of a line in a shell, rather than hitting home, I find ctrl-a to be very useful. Especially on a macbook, where cmd-left doesn't work in a shell (for some reason) and there i
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by rodh 16y ago
My guess would be that the high resolution is required to interpret the IR pattern at the maximum distance supported by the kinect (tens of feet). I'm wondering if the 30Hz is a limitation of the camera sensor or the pattern matching.
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by rodh 16y ago
Isn't the latency experienced with the games arising in software (the algorithms running on the xbox, not the Kinect itself)?
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by rodh 16y ago
Woops, missed that. Good article though.
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Femto-Photography - using light echoes to take pictures around corners(web.media.mit.edu)
7 points by rodh 16y ago|2 comments
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by rodh 16y ago
An interesting question I'm starting to ask myself is whether giving the ISPs this option might finally give them the incentive to make multicasting a paid-for service for broadcasters, potentially driving down the net cost to broadcaster
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by rodh 16y ago
I'm really disappointed in the next generation of remotes. What I really want to know is why, when we have touchscreen phones and devices like the iPad, our remotes are still hunks of plastic with dozens of tiny rubber buttons? Forget remot
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by rodh 16y ago
And in case the user does end up triggering it, perhaps also replace the "You have been banned" page with a captcha challenge to get yourself removed from the blacklist.
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Object-Oriented Listening(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by rodh 16y ago|0 comments
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by rodh 16y ago
I've gone a couple of times to Social Innovation camps, here in the UK ( http://www.sicamp.org/ ). For those who don't know, it's a get-together where hackers gather with social problem experts, such as youth offending teams (YOTs) and peop
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Man fined $1B for sending Facebook spam(cnews.canoe.ca)
1 points by rodh 16y ago|0 comments
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by rodh 16y ago
Instead of "If you aren’t being challenged in your job – leave". I would say: find a way to challenge yourself. Take some initiative. It might be your job that's stopping you from reaching greater things, but I bet it's not your place of em

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