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by yaix 14y ago
"technology world moves fast [...] currently URL scheme will conflict directly with its needs or not" That is your mistake. The URI should be decoupled from the technology you are using. The URI is part of the content and not of the softwar
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by yaix 14y ago
Just saw another classic in the comments of a different story: Top 10 mistakes of Web design http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html More classics anybody?
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by yaix 14y ago
Nice. However, too bad that on scrolling you set a "position:fixed;" style on the map/calender part. On my netbook screen, I can only see the first row of days on the calender, and because of position:fixed, I can't scroll down to see the r
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by yaix 14y ago
Fixing stuff that isn't broken. One critizism. Some years ago, G started putting these little downward arrow heads at the right side of words, meaning "click the link to open a menu". That was great. It put the user in control (again) of UI
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by yaix 14y ago
I really like the "tiles" concept for touch screens. After years of not using any MS product, I may actually use Windows again. Only that MS should have called it "Tiles" and continued Windows as a different product line for desktop PCs. PC
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by yaix 14y ago
The important bit here is "...the type of articles they wanted read. This 'set the tone' for the site as whole." The first few hundred users of your site will determine what kind of users the site will attract, so "being" many of the first
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by yaix 14y ago
Not really, some company is only annoucing that they are planing to do something that sounds innovative. Tiny difference.
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by yaix 14y ago
There are no real unions in China, these organizations are all part of the Party. If you run any organized civil group in China with more than 100 members, you can be sure to be invited for a "talk" to the local Party headquarters, and depe
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by yaix 14y ago
Wasn't that kind of obvious after the discovered similarities that suggested "cooperation" between Flame and Stux developers? Pandoras box is open, will be interesting to see what follows.
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by yaix 14y ago
>>A lot of modern art is like that. As much as I would like to agree with you, but, no, it isn't.
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by yaix 14y ago
Very good read. And, btw: "Art is anything you can get away with." Or, in other words, it's about making money out of crap, sometimes literally.
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by yaix 14y ago
"service event" Added to my list of favourite euphemisms.
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by yaix 14y ago
Waiting for a new category in Google Adsense, next to "content based ads" and "interest based ads", will we soon see "disorders based ads"?
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by yaix 14y ago
Depends what country they are in and if that country actually enforces their own law. Thailand or one of its neighbors is probably a good place to live until any legal uncertainties are sorted out.
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by yaix 14y ago
The design has a problem on my eeepc, because I can only see half of the menu items on the left. I know that "position:fixed" is the "chic" thing to use currently, but still: don't. It almost always causes some problem.
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by yaix 14y ago
The article forgets about the big business of the local gov'ts in China, who are the driving (selling) force behind the building boom. It is correct, that investment in real estate is the best options for most lower and middle class Chinese
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by yaix 14y ago
"""sending unsolicited messages to Facebook users [...]: “You will be SHOCKED when you see this video. Simply “Like” this page to see the video.”""" After almost 20 years of Email spam, people are still that easily fooled? A "shocking video
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by yaix 14y ago
My first though too. They got great support, because they have a name. Any normal Gmail user would receive five automated reply emails from Goog, at most. I'd love to move my email somewhere else, but there is not really any alternative.
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by yaix 14y ago
If you want to turn off you computer, just press the power button for 3 seconds, that cuts power.
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by yaix 14y ago
Both Google and Apple went a smarter way. They just made two different operating systems, one for touch and one for PC. What Microsoft is doing will confuse people only, the touch OS should have a different name.
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by yaix 14y ago
“It turns out there is always an idiot around who doesn’t think much about the thumb drive in their hand.” Good quote. And there seems to always be a Windows PC around that auto-runs anything you stick into it.
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by yaix 14y ago
"Jiang" may refer to "Jiang Zeming" (former President some ten years ago). There was some rumors a few weeks ago that he had died. China is currently in a transition of power from one to the next president (there have only been two such tra
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by yaix 14y ago
"""By playing totally dumb ...""" In China, that is actually the usual way to get around the law.
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by yaix 14y ago
Linking is an inherent part of the web, and publishing on the web means having links to your content. This is like asking somebody to pay for mentioning the name of your book in a reading list. A few years ago, there was a similar case in G
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by yaix 14y ago
It's a terrible thing, good only for lawyers. Nobody understands what cookies are anyway, most people think they are tiny little programs that steal their privacy in some magical way. And nobody cares about that level of technical detail ei
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Chinese Twitter-clone: buy stuff to post more gov't critical comments(bbc.com)
2 points by yaix 14y ago|1 comments
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by yaix 14y ago
So basically what this is saying is, insteat of burning trillions of dollars in Iraq, killing over a hundred thousand human beings and ruining the credibility of the US on the way, it would have been sufficient to just take 100 billion or s
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by yaix 14y ago
Good point, hadn't thought of the process list.
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by yaix 14y ago
Just chmod the shell script to 700, so that only your account can read it, together with an encrypted HDD that should be quite save.
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by yaix 14y ago
Wrong. The energy from solar power can be stored in water reservoirs and that water can be used at night to generate power.

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