whughes

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by whughes 17y ago
Come on. Only Western search engines exist? There's more to it than just Google and Bing. Baidu has 60+% of the Chinese search market.
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by whughes 17y ago
Of course. Kazakhstan is not a third-world country. It's a former Soviet republic, an oiled country, and basically a Russian satellite.
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by whughes 17y ago
He didn't say you were just stupid, or that you were wasting your money. He said fair trade was evil . That means it's not so easy as saying "if you don't like it, don't buy it." Ignoring evil is not good, even if other people are doing th
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by whughes 17y ago
Consider PageZipper ( http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/pagezipper ) or AutoPager ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925 ).
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by whughes 17y ago
This was posted a few days ago. Using the normal link would flag it as a duplicate. However, I think in most cases I'd prefer the printable version. Some articles are split up into multiple pages, and the printable version combines them and
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by whughes 17y ago
I have to disagree. Nintendo's 'modern' games are wildly successful by every standard.
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by whughes 17y ago
Their metrics indicate that it works, and I'm inclined to believe the hard evidence over the vague guidelines of the UI textbooks. Besides, Google is used extremely frequently. They may want an interface that is efficient rather than one th
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by whughes 17y ago
Stop building lame mashups.
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by whughes 17y ago
Judging by your response, maybe they shouldn't name it Cuilbot. I wonder if their overzealous bots and subsequent blocking are reasons why they launched with such terrible results. I heard several reasons for that catastrophic failure: *
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by whughes 17y ago
Your rephrasing doesn't make any sense. Bill Gates wants to convince people that hobbyism can't create good software, and he needs the money. Why should the audience (pirates) care about whether hobbyists make a living, as long as they get
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by whughes 17y ago
It doesn't matter. The war is lost anyway. You're not going to change anyone's mind; people simply don't place value on files.
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by whughes 17y ago
You're conflating a few different types of computer literacy. Introductory programming, especially nowadays, doesn't have much to do with knowing whether the monitor is the computer or how to transfer files over a network. Certainly if you'
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Better cheap than good: renewable power for developing world(arstechnica.com)
2 points by whughes 17y ago|0 comments
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by whughes 17y ago
None of their demos are particularly outlandish. Surface has been duplicated n times; Microsoft has had the best, most polished implementation, that's all. If you look at the real Natal demos, they're certainly doable for a big company like
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by whughes 17y ago
These are things that people aren't posting , though. This program doesn't look at a field on people's profiles which states their sexuality. It guesses from the information which they make available. You may well conceal the information y
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by whughes 17y ago
I highly recommend that you try it on real hardware if you're going to try it at all. It's much, much snappier, even on a Pentium II or III, on a real machine than in a VM.
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Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1(haiku-os.org)
72 points by whughes 17y ago|20 comments
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by whughes 17y ago
The reviewer's techniques aren't even particularly interesting. It's no surprise that she (presumably) was caught out, since anyone could have verified that bias with a quick glance. I'm more interested in learning about people who do this
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by whughes 17y ago
Now you have me confused. People are watching videos on the Web, so they need 3GHz chips. Applications which require 3Ghz chips are not economical for use on the web and should be on the desktop. I think there's been some disconnect here, b
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by whughes 17y ago
Not great for the 10-20% minorities which are supported by the government of the whole country. They'd probably face oppression under a new regime, or themselves begin to rebel.
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by whughes 17y ago
It's also strongly reminiscent of cnn.com for me. A design which focuses more on the site's unique features would be nice.
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by whughes 17y ago
A resizable normal keyboard application is just not Apple's style. I can see them adding a hardware key and a popup, like Dashboard or the Dock. They can add more flashiness (pop-in, fade, whatever) that way, and it's also less confusing if
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by whughes 17y ago
I don't spend most of my time on the computer computing, though I'm sure there are people who do. They're not called e-mailers or Webbers either. There's nothing wrong with tweaking your environment to provide a more comfortable experience.
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by whughes 17y ago
Let's be fair here. These are chat bubbles . They're not buttons or text boxes. There's no inconsistency in behavior between different versions in different UIs. They're just a pretty way of displaying a chat conversation. It's generally p
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by whughes 17y ago
I wouldn't put too much stock in the results. Tr.im had that intentional downtime, but more importantly, ls.gd is down right now for me (may change later): http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ls.gd I'd stick with bit.ly or ow.ly. Also, the
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PageZipper - Life's too short to spend clicking "Next"(printwhatyoulike.com)
1 points by whughes 17y ago|0 comments
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by whughes 17y ago
Photo Booth is also the name of the built-in Mac OS X webcam demo app, which is probably known to a lot of their users. I would think of a ticket booth, too, but frankly I think the "daily" part is the weak link here. It's not engaging like
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by whughes 17y ago
The classic, absolutely terrifying example from the Korean peninsula: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark.... I have never seen an image which is so effective at showing the disparity between countries.
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by whughes 17y ago
If he had just destroyed the phone (broken in the water?), then his death would have been much more plausible. Why would he leave it somewhere if he had drowned?
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by whughes 17y ago
Now I'm curious. First of all, any random Core Duo could probably put a significant dent in that timeframe if all he had was an Athlon 64. Second, what would the effect of CUDA be on this? It was extremely useful in that MD5 contest earlier

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