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by thingie 16y ago
Hardly an innovation. Various people already had the same idea so many times. It seems quite an obvious and tempting thing to do. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/12/18/train-picks-up-and... Well. It's pretty much unworkable. Train is
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by thingie 16y ago
What's the point? People are doing this with assault rifles, as maintenance. But with iPad? Heh.
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by thingie 16y ago
Travel itself should be quite ok even regularly, it certainly wouldn't be just siting in your seat for 2 days and looking out of the window, more like a hotel on rails. But I'd very afraid of bureaucracy: entry visa, transit visa, various r
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by thingie 17y ago
I have no problem in believing that things like this can help with the pain (a lot). But still, author says that now he is able to type in any uncomfortable position for as long as he wants, and it sounds little scary. "See? I don't feel a
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by thingie 17y ago
(You don't want to let anybody else use your browser profile. Especially with all those "smart" address bars. Rather set up a guest account and switch to it. It's also very useful for presentations. Recent Linux distros makes user switching
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by thingie 17y ago
I wasn't trying to be so general, and wanted to talk mostly about Apple and Appstore :-) But thank you, it's a good answer. Anyway, I think that while market will usually find a workable solution, we cannot expect it to ever find the best
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by thingie 17y ago
Why? If I don't think that "government interfering in the internal operations of some company" is generally bad and morally wrong (and I don't [1]), is there any other reason to think this? Is there any objective reason why should the Europ
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by thingie 17y ago
Doesn't it mean that you have to pay for imgur premium account so they wouldn't (possibly) delete your image after some period of time when they are not viewed? (Of course, maybe they are viewed all the time, and after all, it's not that mu
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by thingie 17y ago
If it wasn't ragged, it would most likely look even worse than that Pooh example in the article. It depends on the size of font, which you can't (on the web) control. And he is right, justified paragraphs without hyphenation are ugly, unles
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by thingie 17y ago
Such a lack of any failsafe behavior in a script that can potentially erase whole disk should have been against all reasonable policies that distribution's init scripts should have. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, and I have very, very low opinion
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by thingie 17y ago
I think it would be more interesting to find a country that has no HN user. If there is any (I guess it isn't). North Korea, maybe…
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by thingie 17y ago
Well, it's still quite obvious that something is missing there, as the central area of the picture is visibly less blurred than its surrounding. I guess you could fix that easily by just blurring it with ordinary gimp blur. (But great start
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by thingie 17y ago
Worst idea? Uh. I also thought that browser should look like everything else and so on, but then I simply tried some of these Chrome themes and some Firefox Personas, and hey, I liked it. Why not. Not all of them are ugly and makes everythi
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by thingie 17y ago
And why not? IE6 was released in August 2001! Its competition was something like Netscape 4.8. Mozilla was barely alpha, and not really usable yet. In this light, IE6 was a good browser, better than any competition back then. Of course. IE6
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by thingie 17y ago
I'd rewrite the title as "Time since Opera officially submitted to Apple". Well. OK. Not really. But still, it's quite strange to see such an announcement not sayng "hey, we have a new product, try it!", but "we sent a plea, now waiting for
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by thingie 17y ago
What you mean? The website seems to suggest that the only browser available now is… lynx. (And with 32 MiB RAM, well, what would you expect? Could be possible with some adapted and modified browser, but off-shell Firefox and Gmail with this
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by thingie 17y ago
Hm, this doesn't really seems to be an attempt to divert passenger traffic from using the planes to some cross-continental HSR. On the other hand, it'd allow China to export much much more goods and much much faster than nowadays with ships
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by thingie 17y ago
Hm, well, it is not really about [Xe][La]TeX, but various features of opentype fonts. But that is OK, and those links in the section 8 to some free (for commercial use, that is important) fonts are perhaps the best part of the article, I di
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by thingie 17y ago
And I guess that by saying this, you are also undermining their effort. Well, maybe even more, those who downloaded the album at least showed some interest in this way of, hm, "helping", and even might buy it later. It's just an compilation
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by thingie 17y ago
Mine is that with ordinary text emails, it will make very ugly HTML code, like putting hard breaks instead of proper HTML paragraphs (even though it shouldn't be that hard to do, with properly formatted emails). I wouldn't care about that m
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by thingie 17y ago
After looking at the grammar and dictionary, I find it much more similar to Czech than I thought after looking at just samples. Dictionary has quite a lot of Czech words, you'd only have to apply some rules to make it look more "modern" :-)
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by thingie 17y ago
I don't know. It could be Czech… but 500 years ago :-)
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by thingie 17y ago
My native language is Czech, and all sample texts looks very similar to Croatian or Serbian :-) Not much Polish. And yes, even for me it's very hard to read :-) (Though, that might be because it has quite different spelling from polish. Spo
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by thingie 17y ago
Depends. Makes 1.5 million of random internet visitors more impact than 15 thousand of quite enthusiastic listeners? Well. I don't think so :o)
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by thingie 17y ago
One would also like to ask if it's even true that everyone says this. Are there data to support that claim? :) (Yes, it's just a joke, yet... it would make nice irony.)
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by thingie 17y ago
I'd call this a fruit of this kind of DNS abuse. Yeah, OK, it looks nice, x.usesthis.com or whatever it is, but it forces you to make a new DNS lookup for each page, instead of using cached www.usesthis.com/something. And, as we can see, yo
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by thingie 17y ago
There is no general solution, of course. Every city is different, and cities in the USA are very different from the cities in Europe, and so on. I'd like for the public transit to be seen more as a public service than just another private b
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by thingie 17y ago
Of course it is, it's quite common for many companies to compete with offers, and the local authorities choose the best one. But that kind of competition is not aimed at the end user, passenger.
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by thingie 17y ago
In the first part, they are comparing apples and oranges, and in a very meaningless way. Compare FreeBSD to Debian or Redhat or Suse or Ubuntu or anything, if you want to. What sense does this make? If you were going to use Linux, you would
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by thingie 17y ago
Well, I'd rather hear the lecture, these slides looks more like just something to put on the screen to show some examples while talking. I am very interested in some modern TeX variants (mostly I use Xe[La]TeX), but this presentation fails

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