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by wedesoft 16y ago
What stops you from installing the software on your iPhone? It's not as if the binaries are not available any more.
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by wedesoft 16y ago
Universities should stop using Blackboard. They tried to use a software patent to prevent competitors from implementing "roles" (otherwise known as user groups). Eben Moglen even gave a keynote on this: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/
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by wedesoft 16y ago
Just install EasyPrivacy [1] and Fanboy Annoyances [2] for Adblock Plus. [1] http://easylist.adblockplus.org/ [2] http://www.fanboy.co.nz/
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by wedesoft 16y ago
In the past I used HtDig ( http://www.htdig.org/ ) on my Linux desktop. HtDig's latest release is from 2004 and it doesn't support PDF (only Postscript). Also it is not so easy to set up. More recently I tried Strigi but it seems to be very
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Amazing how the mind locks on to the given pattern. Maybe that's related to the psychological fact that people tend to overestimate the control they have over the physical world. You could also call it optimism.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
10 years ago mobile phones where just microcontrollers with LCDs and Symbian OS on it. Users couldn't even install J2ME software on it. In terms of openness Google Android and Nokia Maemo are now the best mobile operating systems (albeit st
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Read the Port25 article. I especially like the fact that only Microsoft Windows runs the top 10 downloads on Sourceforge: Well, GNU+Linux obviously sucks because it doesn't run popular applications such as "7-Zip" and "Gimp Installer for Wi
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by wedesoft 17y ago
The music and movie industry are having a hard time, too! Soon it will be the newspapers and book publishers. People realise that they don't need publishing companies and soon people will realise that they don't need advertising. But I thin
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by wedesoft 17y ago
I wouldn't want to miss all those Firefox extensions. Especially AdblockPlus and EasyPrivacy. As far as I know Chrome only blocks displaying of ads but not the download. I.e. it cannot support EasyPrivacy at the moment.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Test of time: Once I read an article on a game developers website. The article suggested to let an idea for a bigger project rest for some time (e.g. two months). If you are still enthusiastic about it, then it's more likely that you have t
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by wedesoft 17y ago
That's why I prefer Ruby over Python. It unifies loops and iterators using closures. At the same time the syntax "pretends" to be simple so that you can start using Ruby straight away without having to understand continuations and closures.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
It's high time for a more pervasive use of e-mail encryption and signatures.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
This was maybe the main reason why I switched to Ruby. The largest part of my time was spent on integrating other people's work. Don't get me wrong. It would take me more time to write the code from scratch and it would have introduced redu
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by wedesoft 17y ago
For lack of something hilarious I went on to watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo
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by wedesoft 17y ago
The performance is better if you use an encoding with a fixed byte-length character-set.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Does the statistic include Google Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer?
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Looks like the computer game of the future will be played by both gamers and developers: DRM.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
The article is worth studying as a masterpiece of political rhetorics. A salesman truly shows his skills when selling a bad product. He explains that some side issues in the debate (IPCC claims about disappearing Himalaya glaciers,FOIA viol
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Decentralising social networks, hosting, and search is desirable. But I can't see anything positive in the decision of the Italian court. Remember this is Italy. It's Berlusconi's country. And the guy is hellbent on eradicating independent
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by wedesoft 17y ago
I won’t be able to get to 0% sugar ..., but I’m trying to stop eating sugar, ... I guess we have to be worried if we don't hear from him any more.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Apart from 'irb/completion' I use 'wirble' [1] for colour highlighting of the output in Ruby/IRB [1]. I had to modify it to get it to work with Ruby 1.9 though [2]. I don't think anybody has done syntax highlighting for input. [1] http://p
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Because of you mentioning the snowboarding video I installed Moonlight only to be confronted with this: "Due to Olympic broadcasting regulations, NBC is only allowed to show Olympic competition video on the internet to users in the United S
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by wedesoft 17y ago
I noticed too, that H.264 has some special threatment to improve encoding of uniform regions which frequently occur in artificial images. Regardless of what video codec you use, the rate-distortion greatly depends on the encoder software an
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by wedesoft 17y ago
As far as I know they fined him for pollution or something. He said that he had some clothes and a toothbrush with him because he expected to go to jail for this. But the police set him free on the same day. It would have been different if
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by wedesoft 17y ago
In 2008 somebody in Germany got fed up with the high taxes on fuel. He couldn't afford to run his business (which required a car) any more. So he parked the car on a lawn in the city centre of Frankfurt, wrote "Fuel Profiteering http://www
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Hoping that the politicians will do the right decisions for the wrong reason won't do. The AGW scare has compelled governments to direct resources towards reducing CO2 while neglecting other environmental issues. The lower bound of food pri
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by wedesoft 17y ago
The fact that somebody paid $140 million for a Picasso makes it expensive but not necessarily valuable ;) Nokia's CES2010 keynote video is quite interesting if you think about mobiles. Apparently they have implemented mobile applications fo
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by wedesoft 17y ago
The article seems to assume that the company is worth it. According to TechCrunch they have more than 90000 users and process 3000 queries per day. Their FAQ says that they have 20 employees. I can see that there is some value in knowing wh
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Many map vendors put small mistakes in their maps to make proving theft easy. Changing the layout maybe prevents others from obtaining a consistent set of map tiles by slowly downloading them.
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by wedesoft 17y ago
Well, you could do something like this in Ruby: def my_if_else( cond, a, b ) if cond a.call else b.call end end x = 2 my_if_else x < 0, proc { "#{x} is lower than zero" }, proc { "#{

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