tjoff

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by tjoff 15y ago
"For example, there is no way to stop any Mercedes after 2009 from automatically applying full brakes in an impending collision." Which is sad. From your link: [quote]Brake Assist PLUS uses two radar systems. Both of these radar systems are
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by tjoff 15y ago
Aside from the price and consumers only wanting the cheap crap there are no user interfaces that can handle it. No desktop GUI can scale well with high DPIs so you can only use it in niche applications anyway.
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by tjoff 15y ago
1. Cookie is of course great but have in mind that cookies aren't permanent and doesn't propagate through browsers and devices, that's why I'm so bothered by youtubes approach. Actually, youtubes approach isn't _that_ bad, although they dis
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by tjoff 15y ago
An extremely important point that most native english speakers just doesn't seem to get: Don't force a localized version to your users. In many countries your users are probably going to prefer english than a translated version for many rea
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by tjoff 15y ago
Tests... As the comments in the original article (and the HN-thread about it) shows that many finds that chrome is _vastly_ superior to firefox in this regard for real world scenarios (where you actually leave your browser on for long perio
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by tjoff 15y ago
The "speed of cognition" I'd imagine is mainly limited by the fact that most people say (in their mind) what they read/write as they go along and we can only speak so fast. With writing we are also limited by our fingers but reading can go
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by tjoff 15y ago
3. Really? I had imagined that the power consumption would be negligible and given (2) the main benefit sounds as if it should be many orders of magnitude better in terms of access time and perhaps bandwidth as well (if that is a priority).
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by tjoff 15y ago
If flash was just unstable, unbelievable demanding on system resources and a user experience mess that would've been fine. What you are missing is that flash is not much more than a cross platform security hole and an open door to a large p
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by tjoff 15y ago
With that definition there have barely been any dumb phones for the last 10 years... Again, smartphones weren't supposed to be mainstream phones and the old sony ericsson phones (for instance) that ran java apps, could copy + paste, tether
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by tjoff 15y ago
Smartphones are extinct. In the old days a smartphone was a phone with a lot of features, it had a (relatively) complex operating system where could tweak your phone and it had just about all the features the market could come up with bundl
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by tjoff 15y ago
"Facebook has a responsibility to do the right thing or loose a lot. It has executives, investors, and assets which are all exposed to lawsuits and criminal investigation." Couldn't care less. The fact that they did this without being clear
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by tjoff 15y ago
"... as lots of devices already use the 30-pin connector for audio i/o." Didn't know that :o But I just loath the idea of carrying around adapters. And making yourself incompatible with all but apple sucks too, not being able to lend out s
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by tjoff 15y ago
I get the impression that bluetooth just is something modern smartphones (read: locked down internet browsers) can't get right. And we still have batteries in our phones.. As someone that uses bluetooth for music a lot, removing the headpho
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by tjoff 15y ago
Sure, but that's why we have layers of security so the attacker has to be lucky more than once and it gives the defender (theoretically) a better chance of getting back in the game with the use of intrusion detection systems etc. The proble
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by tjoff 15y ago
You don't run applications maximized. You just don't. Sure there are exceptions, such as photoshop and similar but for browsing there is a reason for why the only thing you might miss with a width of no more than 1024 pixels (or even less)
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by tjoff 15y ago
Thanks for doing the math. This is just ludicrous. I don't know much about domain registrations but is there no way to get a hold of a list of taken domains? (maybe there are lists just for some registrars where search/spam-bots can get a h
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by tjoff 15y ago
Humm. My experience are completely opposite. In my experience firefox breaks down quite fast and chrome has always been many orders of magnitude better than any browser I've tested (firefox, (safari), opera, IE). I have about 500 tabs in ch
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by tjoff 15y ago
Figured that'd t be hard to find an image viewer called "Image Viewer" but it seemed almost impossible - even when restricting the search to ugly icons :p Who's the developer/market-URL?
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by tjoff 15y ago
Sweet project, been thinking of doing the same thing myself. I guess since most don't care about privacy this is a niche question. But I'd like the option of processing the images myself. If the phone is to weak for it send it directly to m
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by tjoff 15y ago
Nice. But why so slow? I'm talking about the animation and the delay for the description, close button etc. to appear (and when they do they move the image so it's kind of annoying (not mentioning that you have to wait to see if there's a n