Kevin_Marks

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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
This is pretty much exactly what OAuth does - enables the user to authorize a web service to access another one on their behalf, with per-app, per-user constraints.
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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
Thanks. I have got better at titles over the last 10 years, true. Now I'd call it something like 'Turing: the movie you'll never see'
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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
The use as a menu button dates back at least to the Sidekick II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SidekickII.jpg (though that has one long and 2 short lines).
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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
What the author misses is that with colour LCD displays you can do sub-pixel anti-aliasing with the 3 RGB sub-pixels, if you start from a vector, which is why HTML type looks better than Photoshop rendered type.
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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
I contacted the curator at the Lincoln Museum by email. His response: This is entirely a hoax. Clever, too. We have an official stastement to that effect due within the hour. -James James M. Cornelius, Ph.D. Curator, Lincoln Collection Abra
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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
I contacted the curator at the Lincoln Museum by email. His reponse: This is entirely a hoax. Clever, too. We have an official stastement to that effect due within the hour. -James James M. Cornelius, Ph.D. Curator, Lincoln Collection Abrah
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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
The orignal seems to be down now. Note that there are many ways to name the bits you parse a URL into: http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-piece...
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by Kevin_Marks 14y ago
New app "Nerds Around Me" lets you stalk via Google+ checkins
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by Kevin_Marks 15y ago
Relying on RSS feeds is tricky, as many of them are partial extracts, summaries, or just plain wrong (eg archival standalone pages linking to the current front page, stale feeds, links to now-defunct feed services). If you want to help peop
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by Kevin_Marks 15y ago
According to MG Siegler, Chrome is in the bizdev-required proprietary 'with Google' part of Android, not the Open Source part. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th... That means we're stuck with legacy browsers in
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I have a problem finding your URL. You post a QR Code. Now I have 2 problems:(epeus.blogspot.com)
2 points by Kevin_Marks 15y ago|0 comments
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by Kevin_Marks 15y ago
the old social search that actually crawled the web used the information from the Social Graph API - see what it has for you here: http://www.google.com/s2/search/social Looks like this is Google betting purely on an owned graph via Googl
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by Kevin_Marks 15y ago
Chris Dodd's sanctimonious bluster translated back into English: http://j.mp/MPAAbluster
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Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus shun HTML, causing the infographic plague.(epeus.blogspot.com)
7 points by Kevin_Marks 15y ago|0 comments
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Our brains make the social graph real(epeus.blogspot.com)
1 points by Kevin_Marks 15y ago|0 comments
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by Kevin_Marks 15y ago
Is Kragen making an elaborate joke about duck typing here? Penguins don’t implement the “fly” method that can be found in birds. And you don’t go around causing things to fly without knowing what kind of bird they are. (Ducks themselves dec
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by Kevin_Marks 16y ago
Fair point; I think a lot of the US carrier customisations have been detrimental. What I was getting at in the original post was that we're going to see a lot of things running Android that we didn't expect, and that aren't on Google's road
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by Kevin_Marks 16y ago
If you want an HTML equivalent for RSS, there's hAtom: http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
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by Kevin_Marks 16y ago
Being able to swap out the phone dialer with a SIP client means my Droid can make and receive calls when I'm on Wifi in Europe, where it's CDMA network doesn't exist.
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by Kevin_Marks 17y ago
Alex's fears remind me of 'real programmers' reactiosn to the Web when it came out. The iPad is the Web made physical. http://epeus.blogspot.com/2010/01/ipad-is-web-made-physical....
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by Kevin_Marks 17y ago
The first iPod had the wheel, but it physically rotated. It did have the piezo clicker too though.