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by tucosan 15y ago
thx, actually quite an interesting read. thx, actually quite an interesting read. I wouldn't say that the concept of selling an app is naive and outdated. But yes, competitors will probably release a similar app for free, which indeed is a
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by tucosan 15y ago
>Startups figure out how to make money out of free apps. I don't know if most of them do. If I look around in the android market there are some great apps, that very likely do not make any money although they offer actual value to the c
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by tucosan 15y ago
My ophtalmologist said something among similar lines. It seems that using glasses with the same strength for reading/screenwork and normal activities (e.g. being outside) can have bad effects on your eyesight and actually make it worse over
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by tucosan 15y ago
This is what actually interests me, a rooted kindle fire. Only thing I care for is the hardware, I could not be less interested in amazons version of android though. Since I did not get a HP Tablet, this might be the next best thing to get
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by tucosan 15y ago
as embarrassing as it may seem, although having read the good part of this thread, i still don't understand why a four word password, can be more random than something i would get like this: ~$ pwgen -s 8 C0olz5KM Would anybody car
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by tucosan 15y ago
Actually, I would be really interested on research done in this area. What are some modern UI concepts (apart from those oh so usable interfaces offered by this big fruit company)? Are there any fresh concepts out there at all? I would rea
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by tucosan 15y ago
I really don't understand his problem. There's times when it makes sense to use a GUI-frontend, e.g. for `git diff`. On the other hand, there's so many times, where a GUI hinders productivity severely. E.g. a `find -name "*.foo" -exec mv {}
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by tucosan 15y ago
I really don't understand why so many tech savy people fall for google+ at all. I believe its simply a privacy nightmare... The circles feature allow for a lot more precise data collection on a persons social network and thus better ad targ
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by tucosan 15y ago
Actually I like your idea of using a hash function. While thinking about your solution, I remembered that pwgen on linux (I believe its also available for windows) allows you to create a recoverable password using a sha1 hash of any file
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by tucosan 15y ago
How about trying out calibre http://calibre-ebook.com It can do all kinds of conversions from a number of formats, it is quite reliable, and it can be run headless.