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by zarify 13y ago
I'm sorry, but are they calling MS innovative for reinventing the peripheral? Only this time for tablets!
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by zarify 13y ago
I'd love to know why the OSX version is bugging me to install X11 all the time. /peeve
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by zarify 13y ago
Regardless of whether it'll disappear from the Play store quickly or not this is kinda cool. Hopefully it means there'll be a FOSS implementation of this at some point and we can get other Linuxy stuff talking to iDevices. (If the
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by zarify 13y ago
Never underestimate the power of the opposition to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We could be having Labor leadership scuffles for the next three years.
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by zarify 13y ago
Well, there's always reversed(str) for Python (I realise this returns a reversed object and not a string object, which is something I dislike immensely). I've always looked at [::-1] as being a bit of a hack, even though we use it
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by zarify 13y ago
The way the skin works is fascinating. I wonder if there's any potential for designing a display that works in a similar fashion :)
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by zarify 13y ago
Eheh, I hadn't heard the term Toupee Fallacy before. But in my situation at least I'm told which schools (or lack thereof) our kids have come from.
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by zarify 13y ago
Speaking only from my own experience with kids who have been home schooled coming into our high school (either directly from primary school grades or partly into their high school years), I have yet to see one for whom that has worked out w
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by zarify 13y ago
The worst part is I think most of the privacy destroying tech stuff makes for some fascinating problems (as the comments around speculation on the NSA tapping fibre a while back demonstrated). People just can't help looking at problems
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by zarify 13y ago
The idea of living within a simulation is an odd one, assuming awareness and control over resources. Being somewhat defined by our limitations and then taking away limitations like memory, ability to learn new concepts ("Whoa, I know k
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by zarify 13y ago
I'm embarrassed to say I know it features in the latest Fast and Furious movie.
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by zarify 13y ago
I was doing some work for a friend of mine late last year and he was still running his DOS-based accounting software from 1987 I think. I can't remember the name of it though. He wouldn't abandon it, so now that he has a new compu
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"Australia Tax" is real: Infrastructure and Communications report(zdnet.com)
112 points by zarify 13y ago|134 comments
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by zarify 13y ago
So essentially like VIP membership of any dating site out there. Or advertising in general. On the other hand, if we implemented this across the board, we could do away with these cumbersome comment voting systems!
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by zarify 13y ago
In Australia at least the cost of preparing your tax return is tax deductible. For that matter the cost of visiting your accountant in order to do your taxes is tax deductible.
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by zarify 13y ago
Sorry, I wasn't being clear. Using HJKL: Navigating vertically is index finger on J, middle finger on K. Navigating horizontally is index finger on H, ring finger on L. Using IJKL: Navigating vertically is middle finger on I for up, mi
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by zarify 13y ago
Thanks for that, I didn't know about Alt-Up (and had always been annoyed at the removing of the parent directory button in Win7). F2 is one I'll have to remember too. Context menus and click-pause-clicks are annoying.
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by zarify 13y ago
I see what you mean about the 1 finger 2 keys bit, but I find I tend to either be moving up and down lines or left and right in a line. With HJKL I'm then using two separate fingers for navigation horizontally and vertically. If I used
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by zarify 13y ago
Command-shift and square brackets seems to be pretty common (well, it works in Terminal and Chrome, so there's about 80% of my usage there).
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by zarify 13y ago
I tend to just thumb it (the left side one, I only tend to use the right one for the command-delete trash shortcut), same as I do with alt- shortcuts on Windows layout keyboards. I find the mental shift from using command on OS X to Ctrl on
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by zarify 13y ago
Huh. Odd that he reckons IJKL would be better for vim keys considering you'd have to use the same finger for up and down, while using HJKL you can use different fingers for up and down as well as left and right.
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by zarify 13y ago
Western Australia. And I don't know, the movie looked terrible so it never came up :)
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by zarify 13y ago
Well personally I find the name easier to pronounce ;P When I recommend LibreOffice to people I invariably have to spell it out :(
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by zarify 13y ago
Hrm, apologies. I was at work and didn't have my Nexus on me. With the back button description I was mixing up its behaviour with the other back button (the one at the top left with the 'back' arrow). That's the one that
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by zarify 13y ago
Given their confidence that someone is foreign, I'm sure they have an equally impressive rate with identifying minors. On the plus side, "think of the children" is usually something everyone can get behind, which is why it&#x
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by zarify 13y ago
I've found pretty much the opposite for the Play Store. I like that it's relatively fast and much more responsive than the App Store (which is quite frankly terrible), but finding anything I actually want is a pretty dismal experi
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by zarify 13y ago
I really like this. It's a nice simple idea and looks really good. Since they came out with the latest version of the SDK I've been trying to think of some good stuff to play around with for the extended set of features they've given access
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by zarify 13y ago
I really wish X11 wasn't a factor for OSX anymore. I keep running into software I'd like to run but their "OSX" version requires you to fire up X first. From a speed and a visuals perspective it's pretty terrible.
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by zarify 13y ago
I suspect that no answer will make you happy here, since a social network "getting it right" is where all the people are. You can't be getting it right if a significant number of people aren't there, and you can't be a competitor unless you
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by zarify 13y ago
"It's not bringing your friends to a new network that's the hard part - it's bringing your data (mainly photos). Getting thousands of photos out of Facebook that are nicely tagged and commented on and into another network is impossible."

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