andyn

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by andyn 7y ago
It seems a bit like Juicero - maybe investors are trying to find a corner of market based on food subscriptions.
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by andyn 8y ago
Chrome won't autoplay videos having audio. Unless you've already interacted with the site.
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by andyn 8y ago
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ is a goldmine of bad examples.
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by andyn 8y ago
I don't think there are so many ads on Youtube that it's enough of an annoyance to subscribe.
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by andyn 12y ago
Not an answer, but people who are using Mint; is there an official upgrade path between releases yet? How do you upgrade?
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by andyn 12y ago
I think this is the missing link: https://github.com/commondream/maths
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by andyn 12y ago
Love that last bullet.
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by andyn 12y ago
I'm using Xymon ( example: https://www.xymon.com/servers/servers.html ). I found it didn't take much work to add a client to the monitor and the default set of reports was enough. There's supposed to be
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by andyn 12y ago
One day I got a cheap-ish NAS then used beets [1] to organise and copy all the music on my computer to it, listening to it with Banshee[2] over the network. Then I got Spotify and don't bother much with it anymore... [1] http:/&#
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by andyn 13y ago
View the source.
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by andyn 13y ago
You'd have trouble finding someone willing to do most of the work of writing a game and especially the artwork. You're in luck though! The game is popular enough that someone else has had the idea of writing a clone: "PokeClo
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by andyn 13y ago
Hmmm... Adblock Edge ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ ) with one of the privacy filter lists ( https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ ) would do in that
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by andyn 13y ago
Use a privacy plugin for your browser e.g. Disconnect ( https://disconnect.me/ ).
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by andyn 13y ago
I'm actively trying not to spend too much time reading other people's opinions on the internet these days, it's such a time sink and you do come away with such a negative opinion of the world. But I'll go through the com
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by andyn 13y ago
I use "Adblock Edge" as an alternative. It's basically a fork of adblock plus but without the "acceptable ads" feature.
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by andyn 13y ago
Seems decent. Thoughts: * Lose the background image. A plain background is fine. * "You have punched out for the day". Okay? But it's a button, do I press it? What do I do with it? * Consider not using the term "Stuff&qu
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by andyn 13y ago
It's easy to get excited, but I remember the hype surrounding the Segway.
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by andyn 13y ago
Headlines with "Emotional" and "So Eloquent" are the new "L@@K! Must See!"
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Ask HN: What have you spent your training budget on?
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by andyn 14y ago
Works right away now thanks!
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by andyn 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but the requestAnimationFrame code fails in Firefox unless they're all prefixed with 'window.' It probably works straight away in Chrome because requestAnimationFrame is defined.
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by andyn 14y ago
I assume they're sorted by the number of downloads from the Python packaging index (PyPI). Tornado might be one of those packages people install from their distro's package or download from the parent website rather than via PyPi. As for th
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by andyn 14y ago
To be fair, Drupal et al. are great for throwing at non-technical users and letting them create their own content.
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by andyn 14y ago
He claims a Perl script that found computers with default or blank passwords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#Statements_to_th...
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by andyn 14y ago
The latest XKCD comic features a panel which you drag around to explore a world. This is that map of that panel.
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by andyn 14y ago
It serves spam when I request the page with curl, and goes away if I put a user agent header in there with "Firefox/12.0". Odd.
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by andyn 15y ago
Here's a cached copy from Google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by andyn 15y ago
"Anyway, If you ever receive such a call, do not follow along" But then perhaps stringing them along means less time for them to be calling other people who may not be aware of this scam?
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by andyn 15y ago
Presumably he's referring to the plethora of comments below from accounts created within the last hour whose only comment is a one or two word praise for this submission. It smells of sock-puppetry, but odd considering this is exactly the s
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by andyn 15y ago
"Depth of Challenger Deep in light seconds"

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