timthelion

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by timthelion 11y ago
I live in the Czech Republic, a former member of the Soviet Union, and people and businesses here take breaking the law for granted. Many of the laws here concerning employment, taxes, and building permits can be quite overwhelming and our
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by timthelion 12y ago
This is a great example of why mobile browsers suck. It is the job of the mobile browser to be able to fix these problems automatically, to resize and reflow text so that it displays properly on the device.
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Adventures in wearable computing(timothy.hobbs.cz)
10 points by timthelion 12y ago|1 comments
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by timthelion 12y ago
The article failed to give any attention to what kind of software and hardware the computer will run. While I think that it is important to focus on other aspects, and us techies often focus too much on the technical, this lack of attention
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Subuser: Docker containers on the desktop the right way(subuser.org)
4 points by timthelion 12y ago|0 comments
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by timthelion 12y ago
Aquaponics requires very little water ;) Each system contains a lot of water, but the water is constantly recirculated and loss is only through evaporation and plant absorbtion. What it actually needs is light, and if outside, year around a
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by timthelion 12y ago
By a huge need, I mean that in order for the tech to work, a lot of software has to be written. I think that the market is made up of anyone currently eating organic, who lives in a southern climate, and would like to have a machine attache
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Why haven't I seen any aquaponics startups on here?
1 points by timthelion 12y ago|5 comments
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by timthelion 12y ago
While I'll admit that my personal project, subuser.org isn't yet at the stage of 100% sandboxed, this title is excedingly misleading. There are lots of projects that have done this allready: http://www.jann.cc/2014
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Stop bullets with airbags(brmlab.cz)
1 points by timthelion 12y ago|0 comments
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by timthelion 12y ago
This is really like comparing a screwdriver to a KUKA( http://www.kuka.com/ ). Given a random object, anyone will be able to screw more screws into it with a screw driver than with a KUKA... But given a large number of simi
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by timthelion 12y ago
I'm running firefox in docker right now using subuser[1]. [1] http://subuser.org
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by timthelion 12y ago
Docker knows how to automatically configure AppArmor and SELinux to contain the containers. Seems almost redundant, but if you like checking twice, that's definitely a supported feature of Docker.
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by timthelion 12y ago
Look, I did that on purpose. I don't want to make a brand name, Github, into a synonym for open source.
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Extensible records: a new dynamic kind of static(elm-lang.org)
1 points by timthelion 13y ago|0 comments
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by timthelion 14y ago
Some mod... I was quite surprised when I saw it.
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by timthelion 14y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576342
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by timthelion 14y ago
Well, I know neither Polish nor Russian, but here in Prague I know a lot of Russians that never learn to say the word dobrý. They say dobry(short y) instead, which exists in Russian. They never learn to say it long, even when you point it
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by timthelion 14y ago
Thanks!
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by timthelion 14y ago
Actually, it's been like this a really long time. I just noticed, that HN stories which have nondescript titles fare better, so I decided to conduct a little experiment. 1st spot on the front page seems to confirm my hypothesis.
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by timthelion 14y ago
I couldn't find something on google, so I decided to give it a try. Can't hurt. I wanted to find out if anyone has done a study on language confusion(the effect where Russians have a hard time getting good at Polish because they confuse P
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by timthelion 14y ago
http://revealingerrors.com/akamai_ssl
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Bing doesn't support SSL(bing.com)
287 points by timthelion 14y ago|159 comments