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by upthedale 15y ago
I wonder if its possible to wrap an Android emulator in the Metro shell. Would make buying an Android tablet pretty pointless.
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by upthedale 15y ago
That's what I was saying. Its still possible to use TouchDevelop and compass apps without the gyroscope, hence why it is only a warning. I was wondering though if there are any apps (or if developers have the option to set this) where an op
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by upthedale 15y ago
The prerequisites could be handled in the same way that WP7 handles them already, by warning the user at install time in the store. For example, some apps require a gyroscope, which I think handsets only came out with in the second generati
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by upthedale 15y ago
A more in-depth article was previously posted on HN: http://www.themarysue.com/inclusion-what-jennifer-heplers-st... HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618301
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by upthedale 15y ago
I want to echo your sentiments on Arch. I have a very lightweight Arch guest running headless through virtual box. I then use PuTTY to connect to it from my Windows host. For me, this is a much better way to have access to a *nix environmen
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by upthedale 15y ago
I wish all designers would read this regarding the size of body text: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-co... It argues that body text should be at least 16 pixels in size. Unfortunately 'normal' sized text isn't t
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by upthedale 15y ago
I wasn't going to comment, as everyone else seems to have already commented how horrible this looks (and performs). However, on closer inspection it looks like they've just tried to copy Windows Phone. There's the obvious big bold tiles, a
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by upthedale 15y ago
I remember reading about this a long time ago. The builder's own website on the subject is a much better link, which presents the hows and whys: http://www.simondale.net/house/ The OP is nothing more than a copy-paste job, though given ho
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by upthedale 15y ago
I haven't used Less, although I have been considering it recently. My point was much more general though. A tool like this seems great to help catch problems early - earlier than your deployment step. Can you be absolutely sure that there a
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by upthedale 15y ago
Its seems to have a pretty major difference to less.app in that it supports multiple platforms. Regarding making compilation part of your deployment, you expose yourself to differences between the development and production code which might
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by upthedale 15y ago
Richard Stallman's Computer Setup from 2 years ago
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by upthedale 15y ago
Whilst not music, I find listening to http://www.rainymood.com to be great for concentrating. It's a 30 minute sample of a rain storm. It got me through my Master's dissertation, where I had it on loop for hours at a time. Fiddler tells m
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by upthedale 15y ago
Nice idea. However, is doing this client-side with javascript really the best approach? Surely a server-side solution to fix the html before sent to the client would be better. I get that its very usable from the designer's point of view. T
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by upthedale 15y ago
Looks good. Minor nuisance - The "fork on github" banner covered up the sidebar for me. Well, not so much the banner but its transparent bounding box, preventing me from clicking the underlying links. My screen width is 1280, but I had a si
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by upthedale 15y ago
That's a false analogy though. To keep with your automobile theme, this is more like taking a car, and using it as a boat. Instead, we should throw support behind something that is designed to be a boat. In this case, for example, SVG would
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by upthedale 15y ago
Normally I'd be the first to bash the iPhone, but this hardly seems like a balanced or constructive article does it?
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by upthedale 15y ago
That's likely all the installed stuff you have accumulated over time with components set to run at startup - not the OS itself. Think programs like iTunes, Flash, Skype, Java, to name just a few common things people install which is guilty
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by upthedale 15y ago
And not just the OS, but the associated app ecosystem will stagnate. Whether you care about apps is a separate issue. I read in a thread on xda that some people were asking about porting dalvik to WebOS so that android apps could be run wit
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by upthedale 15y ago
The Met is responsible for Greater London (where all the riots seem to be so far). The City of London Police is responsible for the Square Mile (the actual City) in the centre. The City of London police don't especially carry firearms. That
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by upthedale 15y ago
Highly speculative. Conversely, maybe there's some subtle, innate quality that higher IQ people appreciate about certain browsers. Either way, as an Opera user, I have some ammunition next time I find myself in a childish browser argument ;
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by upthedale 15y ago
I always thought Opera was very standards compliant. Potentially there are some shortcomings when it comes to new technologies which I'm going to sweepingly categorise as being HTML5 related, but that gets into a separate argument that HTML
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by upthedale 15y ago
Maybe just ask which browser people use from a selection, obviously including Opera as an option. Edit: OT, but it would be interesting to do this in the near future to compare and see how much bias there really is in this poll.
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by upthedale 15y ago
As others have pointed at, location is a big factor here. The issue I have is that it is US-centric. Has there been a poll or is there any data regarding the HN demographics (including region)?
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by upthedale 15y ago
Seems loosely similar to how I'm using .Net4's Tasks from the Task Parallel Library. I didn't particularly focus on the effects of the garbage collector when I came up with my approach, but it does at least achieve point A in his opening pa
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by upthedale 15y ago
With PCs as they are now, there's no base-line, no consistency in what the hardware can do. Sure, games might have minimum and recommended specs, but they're not perfect, and its often a blurry area. What I was getting at would make it blac
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by upthedale 15y ago
This is something I've been musing about for a couple of years now... ever since I wondered what the next-gen consoles might be like, given their convergence with PCs. What I would really like to see is the reverse of the title - for Window
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by upthedale 15y ago
The point is that the act of typing it does help understand the code. I don't know if there's any psychological basis for this, or if anyone else does this, but personally I jot down loads of notes when learning things and playing with idea
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by upthedale 15y ago
Simply put, I am not aware of any heavily publicised security breaches with Live Mesh like there have been Dropbox. The impression I've had in recent times (something presumably shared by the article's author) is that security is something
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by upthedale 15y ago
Interesting. Of course I based my statements on my travelling through those places for a few days - I guess that's significantly more different to actually living somewhere in cost terms than I had considered.
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by upthedale 15y ago
> a location that’s far less expensive, and easier to immigrate to, than Silicon Valley. 4 years ago I travelled (mostly-) western Europe by train, staying in some of the big cities. Compared to the likes of Paris, Barcelona, Rome and M

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