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by s3graham 17y ago
I think there's a karma threshold you have to cross before you're allowed to downvote. (Or maybe that's only for colours?)
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by s3graham 17y ago
I'm (we're) still childless for a few months, but that was great, thanks!
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by s3graham 17y ago
Good lord, did the The Atlantic have to lay off its editors? I agree with the last paragraph, but that's really all you want to read, unless you're looking for verbose ranting and raving about other people's politics.
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by s3graham 17y ago
↓ Have to agree on the colours. The green is too bright to be "money colour" and the cyan "first visit" was jarring.
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by s3graham 17y ago
> Google really needs to focus on building out the user experience so that average users can pickup the phone and don't want to put it down. I think it's pretty clear that this is what Google itself is focusing on. The built in apps a
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by s3graham 17y ago
While I wouldn't pay if I were Google either, and I won't be subscribing to the NYT, I think it's Google that derives the most business value from being able to index NYT content: they get answers to give to their consumers, and they get so
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by s3graham 17y ago
Me either! Parts of it seemed quite funny, but inconsistently so.
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by s3graham 17y ago
Looks good. The only thing is that I find I'm often solving "the internet is broken" issues these days, so there might be a circular problem there.
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by s3graham 17y ago
The fact that an apparently generic sounding resource, http://www.google.com/web , is a highly-specific niche search, I expect.
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by s3graham 17y ago
I'm not sure if it's widely true, but my provider (Shaw in Vancouver) does a sneaky thing where they burst me to 25Mb/s downstream for the first few meg of a download, and then put it back to normal (~8Mb/s). It is useful for some real-life
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by s3graham 17y ago
I wrote a browser one too http://skulpt.org/ I'm not sure if it's better to write in real Python or just know that you're using JS with different syntax ala pyscript. Emulating all the bizarre Python attribute access behaviour in JS (e.g.
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China tells web companies to obey controls(cbc.ca)
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ENUM: Dragging telephone numbers into the Internet Age(arstechnica.com)
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by s3graham 17y ago
It gives you the Flash (animation) authoring environment without plugin requirement for playback.
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by s3graham 17y ago
It's translating to SVG, so there's "just" the script translation overhead, not rendering overhead. I think it's quite practical if maybe not especially useful given Flash penetration. I wrote a Flash player for the PS2 ~9 years ago now tha
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by s3graham 17y ago
http://mytracks.appspot.com/ if you're into that sorta thing.
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by s3graham 17y ago
Avoidance of security breaches maybe? It's been rumoured/suggested that some attack started within google chinese offices at least.
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by s3graham 17y ago
David Drummond on CNBC said that the value of the Chinese business was "immaterial either way". I don't think 600M is immaterial for G yet, so something's not right. And given that the gigaom article incorrectly says that google has already
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by s3graham 17y ago
> Because, worst of all, Google is effectively walking away. A human rights situation that they could have had a voice in is abandoned. The only losers in this debacle are the Chinese people. So far they've actually only done the "voice
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by s3graham 17y ago
It's only $.25/G/ year for more, which is way below say, S3 if you're only using S3 for personal storage.
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by s3graham 17y ago
I think the difference in perception comes from Google "screwing" large companies rather than small-to-medium sized ISVs. In fact, they're mostly improving things for small vendors and consumers (at least in the short term), which is why th
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by s3graham 17y ago
Shaw (Canadian cable) does csr callbacks too. The software must be out there somewhere.
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by s3graham 17y ago
My Dad used to work for IDRC (www.idrc.ca) and he told me a story about one of his earliest (and happiest) development projects. It's very simple: broadcast actual market price information over radio to farmers in remote rural African areas
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by s3graham 17y ago
HN's s3graham says The Age of Facebook is Over. Wishfully.
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by s3graham 17y ago
> Also, if we already know life existed on Mars before, the ideological breakthrough would have been made. Finding current life on Mars would still be interesting, but only scientifically, not in the social and ideological way I sort of
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by s3graham 17y ago
I tried registering @vimtips, but turns out it's already been done: http://twitter.com/vimtips Hasn't tweeted in while though.
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by s3graham 17y ago
via http://twitter.com/WIND_Chris : Wow! Lots of interest in the Nexus. http://bit.ly/5XZQ9e Yep, works on AWS, and we're chatting with them... will let everyone know soon.
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by s3graham 17y ago
Hmm, good point. I was assuming that it'd be too slow on the client, but maybe the opposite is actually true.
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by s3graham 17y ago
I have no knowledge or hardware, but I'd bet on it being server-side.
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by s3graham 17y ago
Why's the pressing one key while you're letting up another a problem? Presumably it's either registering on press or release, but not both? Or is there more complicated fancy business going on?

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