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1231.
by slyall 16y ago
I thought it was my eyes for a minute but the text in the black speech-bubbles is just 7 pixels high (for the lower case letters). Readable, but the letters are blurry enough (especially since they are italics) to be noticeable.
1232.
by slyall 16y ago
I would contact PG, they have a lot of experience with OCR and can use people like distributed proofreaders to fix the mistakes. At minimum if you give them a copy then they will keep it secure if you later lose interest
1233.
by slyall 16y ago
I'm a Sysadmin so programming would be useful. I can do simple scripts, scan though code, but 20-30 lines I probably my limit on anything. At work there is plenty of other stuff to do so it's not a priority to improve my programming skill.
1234.
by slyall 16y ago
> I am not trying to say that Chinese startups don't have good ideas. But why do they have to blatantly copy US startups that are successful? Because the US startup had a good idea but made it US-only and/or English-only. It's like 20 y
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by slyall 16y ago
For home: - Linode. Got the 1024 for $40/month. I'm pretty happy it fits my usage. Host my home websites, email, vpn, etc. For work: Our customers are mostly in New Zealand so it's a real pain. US based providers are cheap but slow to acc
1236.
by slyall 16y ago
I found it missed a few. I have a couple of images I uploaded to Wikipedia of people. These articles are on the wikipedia entry to easy to find and get a few uses. If I search for the person's name on google image search I get a few (non wi
1237.
by slyall 16y ago
I played chess a seriously when I was at school but my family moved to a town without a decent club in last year at school so I stopped playing. Started again around 2.5 years ago and I'm pretty serious. Trying to do 10-20 hours per week of