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by tintin 15y ago
Not entirely true. Technology can also kill our habitat more quickly. We now know where the fish swim and will catch them all. We now know how to blow up tons of rock to get a little gold... Greed will always be the source of the problem.
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by tintin 15y ago
Disconnect. As long as you don't know how your data is being stored password managers and all won't help.
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by tintin 15y ago
Why not combine these into something like: <div style="columns:4;columnpadding:0.5em;">your content</div>
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by tintin 15y ago
I'm not sure you could call LinkedIn a social network. It can be nice to find out about an old friend, but most of it is pure business. So I'm not surprised about the survey.
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by tintin 15y ago
European Innovation Scoreboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Innovation_Scoreboard It show the gap is getting smaller with US innovations. But the article is stupid. They do not suck at innovation.
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by tintin 15y ago
You are doing 20 requests to external Javascripts and 8 requests to external stylesheets according YSlow. "The page has a total of 61 HTTP requests and a total weight of 637.2K bytes with empty cache". When I read about performance issues I
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by tintin 15y ago
"It's way too slow. Page load times are awful." His own blog is also very slow. Sometimes you should not reinvent the wheel but optimize it. I don't know why he needs all the Javascript but when I open his page the whole page kind of rebu
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by tintin 15y ago
Looks like they were inspired by this: http://www.mta.me/ (already mentioned on HN)
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by tintin 15y ago
Very true! I like to have my documents on my own computer creating backups by myself. There might be people who like to have there documents in the clouds but others don't. I'm an Ubuntu user and never used Ubuntu One.
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by tintin 15y ago
Some thoughts of another hacker: The story is about a cure, not about the sources of cancer. When a program runs slow on a device you could add memory as the cure, but you could also start with the source. Skin cancer as example: You can fi
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by tintin 15y ago
Sometimes I can't believe how fanboyish Apple fanboys are. Hacker news about a Google maps update now showing a large Apple data center!? Come on...
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I think it's even worse that he is posting pictures of a guy who has his laptop. What if it turned out this guy did not steal it but bought it from someone? He, his house and a sleeping woman are now on the internet. You should read the pos
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by tintin 15y ago
I don't know why nobody mentioned this but commuting is not killing you. When you have the feeling it's a waste of time it will kill you. Just like a job that feels like a waste of time will kill you. Check the comments of people who are co
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by tintin 15y ago
In my eyes a very misleading title. The conclusion is: to solve a problem you need a tool with which you can iterate fast. The author states that we don't understand we need such tool...
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by tintin 15y ago
"We don't have plenty of bandwidth with mobile applications." Because mobile devices have screens with 300ppi it's not a bad idea to use GIF or PNG files with less than 64 colors (adaptive). When you use dither (patern) the results are qu
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by tintin 15y ago
lol, I was also thinking about loudspeakers before I read the post. But serious: I hate it when they use party (subwoofer and all) speakers for speech. Every plosive will shake the room. It's very annoying and tiring to listen to.
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by tintin 15y ago
I think it's great to have a date as version number. It indicates how 'old' it is. Linux 2.6.0 is 8 years older than Linux 2.6.38. But it's hard to tell. Linux 2003.12 vs Linux 2011.04 tells it all.
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by tintin 15y ago
Are they new species or recently discovered species?
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by tintin 15y ago
Ever tried to resize them to 32x32 pix? I bet you can't even read them @ 64x64 pixels. The idea is nice tho.
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Greed
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by tintin 15y ago
One think I'm missing in this story: You have to know what you are doing to have some luck in doing what you do.
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by tintin 15y ago
"PS. Hate the font formatting, ugh." Guess you meant the formatting on feross.org? At first I also thought 'ugh', but as UI it is great because it is very readable.
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by tintin 15y ago
Thanks! I did not know about this. But doesn't this create extra security issues?
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by tintin 15y ago
"Use a bios password" ... and don't reboot your server when running in a remote server room?
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by tintin 15y ago
I think it would be more interesting to recommend music by mood instead of genre. Jazz doesn't mean a thing. When I'm happy I don't want to listen to down jazz although it's jazz. Maybe I would like some happy funk and metal as well.
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by tintin 15y ago
You sound a bit like Stallman. Even if you are using open source software you still use closed source hardware most of the time. What's really wrong with closed source?
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by tintin 15y ago
Same here. In depth, but very understandable. A very good book!
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by tintin 15y ago
Very true! And a lot of these logo's have a nice design but are not designed to be a good logo. A good logo includes: Being readable / recognizable when small Being readable / recognizable when printed in black/white/gray (fax/copier)
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by tintin 15y ago
Could be funny to create a real version of this where balls are pushed from behind out of the holes. Very well done!
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by tintin 15y ago
Also check there Youtube channel. Here a nice movie explaining the takeoff/landing system: http://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV#p/a/5F525544A3296EEB/0/... (in German) edit Wow, I did not realize the airplanes are not connected to the sy

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