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by vaporstun 17y ago
With all due respect, Apple is a US company, so giving preference to their homeland is hardly unconscionable.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
cwilson said "touch enabled Tablet" Touch enabled the TX1000 is not, it uses a stylus.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
This is true, but having to enable a GMail labs feature is a heck of a workaround for a simple UI issue. That's a bit like saying let's put this vase right next to this punching bag and don't worry, if the vase breaks, we've got some glue o
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Also, use Readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ to customize your viewing experience.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
On a Mac you can hit CTRL-OPTION-CMD 8 to invert your screen. I do this often when I want to read with a darker background. It inverts everything so images look awful, but it is a really easy way to make some things easier to read.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Where were you when I was hand-coding my current Emacs theme?? Great work! My only suggestion is that you could display the lisp code for the theme below the code window so I could both see it update in real time and be able to export it wi
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who ha
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Indeed. I think this also goes to show the low standard of quality of many news sources. The fact that something so preposterous could spread at all without any verification is expected from the masses, but when news sources start mentionin
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by vaporstun 17y ago
One problem with having a software patent have a validity of seven years is that it often takes seven years or in some cases even more to get a patent through the USPTO. If a patent's validity is up before it is issued, it is pointless.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I wish more people would read the actual patent claims before coming to conclusions about them based solely on their titles. It seems that many news organizations have articles claiming this is a ridiculous lawsuit based on the titles which
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by vaporstun 17y ago
The date Apple received the patent is very different from when they filed the patent, or even when they first came up with the idea. So in spite of the fact that it's a bit absurd, it is inaccurate to claim that anyone who had a lock screen
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I highly disagree with you. The less roadblocks you put in the way of a customer purchasing something, the more likely you are to get a conversion. By this logic, Amazon's One-Click purchase would be a failure because people "expect" to hav
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Tell HN: Credit Card type is very easy to ascertain from the number
3 points by vaporstun 17y ago|5 comments
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by vaporstun 17y ago
That will be useful for narrowing down the states, but it doesn't actually convert zip code to state. It just converts first digit of zip code to list of states to which it could apply.
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Ubuntu 10.04 to include a built-in mp3 store(popey.com)
2 points by vaporstun 17y ago|0 comments
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I'm a bit skeptical of the "science" they used to carry out this test. For one thing, I can't believe the left off the NBC chime. This seems much more recognizable to the average joe than any other branded sounds they claim are the most add
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I felt the same way. Basically, first you'll notice the lenses are colored yellowish. They make everything feel a bit "warmer." I know that's extremely subjective, but I can't explain it any other way. I suppose one could argue the same thi
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I have a pair of Gunnar Optiks ( http://www.gunnars.com/ ) that I LOVE. I used to have ridiculous eye strain when staring at the computer screen for hours, but after getting a pair it's all but gone away. Like many here, I spend all day in
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U.S. grants funding for first nuclear power plants since the 1970s(nytimes.com)
3 points by vaporstun 17y ago|0 comments
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Yeah, I currently do that as well, but in the spirit of this thread, I'm looking for a non-Gmail way of doing this...
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Related question, does anyone know of a mail webapp that allows you to have a unified inbox with multiple IMAP accounts? In other words, something like Thunderbird or Outlook Express but web-ified. I started doing a custom fork of RoundCube
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by vaporstun 17y ago
One thing I found a bit odd is when editing a course, the button at the bottom says, "Edit <course name>" It seemed as though I had to click that button to edit the course when in fact I was already editing it. Seems to me it would
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Point taken, but that doesn't touch on the large majority of flash games and web applications that use the keyboard as the main source of input. This helps for Flash on these devices IF the developers build in support for them, but that def
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by vaporstun 17y ago
One of the things I see almost no one addressing in all of these flash arguments is how there is an inherent problem with flash games on a device like the iPad, iPhone, or any other phone on the market with a virtual keyboard. Most analysis
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I think many people are missing the fact that Apple saying Google's "Don't be evil" is bullshit does not imply that Apple claims they aren't being evil. That is a fallacy.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Counterpoint: http://www.cuil.com/ Embarrassment ruined them and few will ever give Cuil an honest second look, regardless of their future additions/improvements.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I think this was an accident. The true homepage to this site is: http://www.birdpie.com/ and the submitted link is http://www.birdpie.com/railsbob which points to a user's page. The only way to truly fix this submission would be to edit
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Looks very cool, excited about the possibilities, but my first thought was "FCC violation." Did a quick Google search, looks like they did a test at Burning Man in 2008 and got local FCC approvals: http://lwn.net/Articles/297038/
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by vaporstun 17y ago
This is a link to someone's take on someone else's blog post. The original post is here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/12/productivity-h...
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Isolator - Free Mac utility, helps keep you focused.(willmore.eu)
1 points by vaporstun 17y ago|0 comments

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