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by spydez 17y ago
Someone did... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Name
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by spydez 17y ago
I use it for closing tabs in Firefox when I don't have two hands on the keyboard (W is on the right hand's side of the keyboard for us Dvorak folks). A middle click anywhere on the entire tab is easier that hitting the lil' x button. Plus,
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by spydez 17y ago
Some thermite? A high powered air cannon? A bath in liquid nitrogen followed by a toss in the air and an impact with a baseball bat on the way back down?
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How Not to invent the next-gen CAPTCHA(lbrandy.com)
8 points by spydez 17y ago|10 comments
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by spydez 17y ago
The website, which currently has basically nothing other than the vimeo video, is here: http://10gui.com/ I'm impressed, but I don't know how well it'll work, switching from the gesture surface to the keyboard and back and forth.
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This must already exist(lbrandy.com)
105 points by spydez 17y ago|35 comments
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by spydez 17y ago
That feature's already planned; that's what the "Draft" checkbox is for. I'm sure eventually you'll have a setting to default all blips to draft mode. You can't expect every feature to be in and working flawlessly in the preview.
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by spydez 17y ago
That still redirected me to Amazon Payments and asked for 5 bucks...
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by spydez 17y ago
Invite some HN folks: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ar8He-EcPg54dDVvRjZp... Or put your Wave address here so we can add you to a HN wave.
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by spydez 17y ago
I got on Wave and sent out my invites. No need to send me one.
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by spydez 17y ago
I got on Wave and sent out my invites. No need to send me one.
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by spydez 17y ago
I wouldn't mind getting on your wave. It'd be nice to have something to do besides talk at myself... :P [username]42 at googlewave
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by spydez 17y ago
[username] @ [username] .com Don't have an invite yet. I'll help out if I get one.
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by spydez 17y ago
[username] @ [username] .com Don't have an invite yet. I'll help out if I get one tomorrow.
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by spydez 17y ago
General status: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en Gmail status: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=1&hl=en I got the banner too, but everything in my Gmail (for my domain) works except the Contacts.
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The story of the Gömböc(plus.maths.org)
3 points by spydez 17y ago|0 comments
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by spydez 17y ago
In Google's whitepaper on hard drives a while back, they showed that, basically, SMART is useless. So, take SMART your data with grains of salt and all that.
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by spydez 17y ago
I use SuperGenPass, which is just a js bookmarklet... It works equally well on Firefox, Safari, Mobile Safari, and Chrome. http://supergenpass.com/
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by spydez 17y ago
It only works on LCD based displays where the subpixel layout is RGB. Some old ones are GBR. Also won't work if your monitor is flipped sideways.
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by spydez 17y ago
It's the American version of Dragon's Den. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Den#United_States I've seen a few episodes of the UK's Dragon's Den on BBC America and was unimpressed. Anyone have any comparisons between the two (better
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by spydez 17y ago
Chrome for Mac is similar. Firefox is my main browser, but I give Chrome a whirl once a week or so and have yet to notice any deficiencies.
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Religious Wars(hackerfactor.com)
1 points by spydez 17y ago|0 comments
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by spydez 17y ago
Roadee is $2. It uses OpenStreetMap instead of the proprietary map databases, but hey, I'll take 90% as good for 2% of the price any day.
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by spydez 17y ago
Google Syndrome. "Beta" is meaningless now.
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by spydez 17y ago
What new distinct feature set? All I saw in the article was "Line2/Toktumi is business-class Google Voice minus SMS." The only feature GV doesn't have that was mentioned was the ability to build a phone directory menu - which I would expect
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Getting a Fair Toss From a Biased Coin(billthelizard.com)
40 points by spydez 17y ago|8 comments
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by spydez 17y ago
I knew of one non-profit that lived off interest, basically. For every million dollars they raise, they can afford to hire one more worker or do X more things, based off the interest that money makes sitting in a bank. It seems like a good
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by spydez 17y ago
Twice now, I have deliberately gone cold turkey on caffeine for a few weeks. Both times, the results were the same: 3 days lost to caffeine withdrawal headaches, followed by no noticeable differences in anything. Also, when I got back on ca
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by spydez 17y ago
That's ultimate awkwardness, regardless of the number of men using it. They're also highly inefficient. I've been to a ball game (not in Wrigley Field, but with similar troughs) where only 2 guys, on extreme ends, were using the trough. A d
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by spydez 17y ago
Apple uses DTrace. DTrace was made by Sun. DTrace is CDDL. ZFS is CDDL. ZFS is made by Sun. I don't think it was just the license.

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