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How to create the perfect made-up language(blog.ted.com)
1 points by watson 13y ago|0 comments
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by watson 13y ago
Talk about bad luck! Loosing the sight in one eye at a time in two separate, but almost exact incidents
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by watson 13y ago
Apparently they must be rolling this feature out differently than other features which trickle down the channels. Maybe Google Now have been in the channels for a while without anybody knowing, just disabled unless some flag was enabled by
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by watson 13y ago
As far as I know, I've only had Google Now in my Dev Channel Chrome for some months. Has it really already arrived in the Stable Channel? And in that case, wouldn't that have required the version numbers of all the channels to be
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (2009)(blog.notdot.net)
3 points by watson 13y ago|0 comments
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by watson 13y ago
Another HN post from earlier today about the same discovery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411341
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by watson 13y ago
You're right - the TechCrunch article didn't mention access to private repos - only private employee chatrooms. But the question was raised here on HN, asking if she did have access to private employee chatrooms what else might sh
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by watson 13y ago
For anyone interested in the nerdy details of why this works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflow_soldering Anyway, this isn't new - I remember seeing this on Slashdot, HN and a lot ofter other places over the yea
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by watson 13y ago
It's funny how we see things differently. It is my understanding that this was "by design". I.e. that if you work after the sun is set, it's bad for your natural sleep cycle for you to stare at a monitor screen which emi
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by watson 13y ago
The article specifically mentions how this special HTTP header was implemented client side using a browser extension and how it's handled server side
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by watson 13y ago
If the hostname is unknown, the json hostname property should probably be null instead of the string "No hostname"
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by watson 13y ago
If your goal is geo-redirection then a 3rd party service is usually a bad choice (speed + downtime). An memory geo-ip database is the best way to go - but this is usually also part of what you pay for when you buy the non-free version
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Maybe the real reason teens are leaving Facebook (2013)(medium.com)
3 points by watson 13y ago|0 comments
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Simple organic traffic fire hose tactics for your app(fridriksson.ghost.io)
1 points by watson 13y ago|0 comments
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by watson 13y ago
I'm in Thailand - don't know if I can be of any help?
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by watson 13y ago
I wonder why he obfuscated the "validOptusUsername" key in the screenshots
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Ask HN: How to keep a mobile office running without power?
1 points by watson 13y ago|1 comments
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by watson 13y ago
Can anyone confirm his findings? I imagine that if this is real, then this is a problem for all MacBook owners not just the latest MacBook Air. I have a 13" MacBook Air, medio 2011. I bought it almost right after it was released and ha
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Ask HN: Best way to teach programming to a person with Asperger+ADD?
12 points by watson 13y ago|7 comments
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by watson 13y ago
I also tried to comment on a post on Stack Overflow. The first 5 times I clicked the button, I got a timeout and had to try again. But in the end some lucky guy got a response on SO from 10km above Europe ;)
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by watson 13y ago
I started this trace-route within 30 seconds after the seatbelt sign was switched off (the wifi isn't enabled while taking off), so I imagine only a few people would have had the time to connect to the wifi at this point. But in general, th
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Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane(gist.github.com)
84 points by watson 13y ago|32 comments
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by watson 14y ago
How does this affect non-US companies? I guess the DUNS rule only apply if you're incorporated in the US
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by watson 14y ago
I did a video of it in case they fixed it before I posted this, but now it seems that they did. Anyway, here it is: http://screencast.com/t/bxMgXQ3mI
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Who hacked the JS animated tooltips at Amazon?(calculator.s3.amazonaws.com)
1 points by watson 14y ago|1 comments
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by watson 14y ago
It's because it's hosted on GitHub Pagee
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by watson 14y ago
But that still says Oct 30th, so it hasn't been updated
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by watson 14y ago
AM or PM?
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by watson 14y ago
I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark and we've seen this here as well. Especially lately I feel that a lot of 1st-time parents stay in city apartments instead of buying houses in the outer parts or in the suburbs. I have several friends, whose apar
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by watson 14y ago
It's a shame they require us to be incorporated. We're holding off so far because it doesn't make sense until we either get investment or our first real employee. But at that time we will most likely be able to aford these tools. It doesn't

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