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Memory accurate reimplementation of Space Invaders in C(github.com)
5 points by dredge 7y ago|0 comments
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Introducing GIF search on Twitter(blog.twitter.com)
134 points by dredge 11y ago|89 comments
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by dredge 12y ago
Early last year Google asked people to report such problems. You probably won't see any direct impact from doing so, but there's no harm in trying. The form is still live at least: http://searchengineland.com/googl
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by dredge 12y ago
The article contains some good observations, but I'm struggling to understand this one: "Some sites try to communicate with Google through comments in robots.txt" In the examples given, none appear to be trying to "commu
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by dredge 12y ago
For the command to match the description, shouldn't that be "echo -n"? Otherwise the signed string would include a trailing newline. I do not expect this will make a material difference to the challenge - presumably you used
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by dredge 13y ago
(a) They are a charity. (b) They demonstrated the Pi running Quake 3 at a reasonable frame rate in 2011. There's a picture of it in the blog post. (c) The competition rules say "To submit an Entry, and Entrant shall email a link t
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3D Jello Printer(spritesmods.com)
4 points by dredge 13y ago|0 comments
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by dredge 13y ago
I had almost the opposite experience! The big difference for me was that my old Amiga 600 has a PCMCIA card slot in it. I bought a modern (and very cheap) SD card reader that fit it and copied the necessary device driver over to the Amiga v
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by dredge 13y ago
The Guardian's style guide[1] has it in lowercase, as does the BBC News[2]. Reuters[3] is slightly more nuanced: Capitalise as a noun, lower case as an adjective e.g. internet banking, internet cafe. [1] http://www.th
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by dredge 13y ago
http://www.bbc.com.nyud.net/future/story/20130701-why-you-fe...
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by dredge 13y ago
Can you recommend any automotive firmware reversing resources or published work? Thanks.
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by dredge 13y ago
Thanks for the interesting tool. Perhaps a couple of examples (from the time of writing) of niches you've identified with it would be helpful to first-time visitors? I know there's the slideshow on the homepage, but after putting a search p
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by dredge 13y ago
I'm used to playing the "UK, United Kingdom, Great Britain, England..." guessing game in drop down lists but putting "United Kingdom" in between Gabon and Grenada is a new one. I'd almost given up looking by that point. (Presumably the list
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by dredge 13y ago
The video has a music soundtrack ("Ring of Fire") which gets it blocked in Germany. Wikipedia have an article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_G...
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by dredge 14y ago
No, it doesn't. Your linked example contains: User-agent: * Disallow: / While the (new) digg.com/robots.txt contains: User-agent: * Disallow: Those are very different. The former essentially disallows bots from crawling th
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by dredge 14y ago
From my experience, when Google de-indexes a site, they also suppress any PageRank the Google Toolbar would have shown for it; that doesn't appear to be the case here, digg.com is still PR8. Having toolbar PageRank[1] and yet no cached page
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Studying Intel Microcode Updates(inertiawar.com)
7 points by dredge 14y ago|0 comments
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Looking at the silicon to understand the 8085's undocumented flags(righto.com)
2 points by dredge 14y ago|0 comments
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Curiosity has "not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics"(jpl.nasa.gov)
42 points by dredge 14y ago|8 comments
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by dredge 14y ago
It's a pun. He was the president of the Windows division!
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by dredge 14y ago
To anyone else wondering: this submission only seems relevant to google.com and not the more country-specific domains (e.g. google.co.uk). Unfortunately for many people that's where they'll be redirected to when clicking the link above. Thi
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by dredge 14y ago
You may already know this, but the Ethernet controller on the Pi is actually a USB device, built into the LAN9512 [0] USB controller/hub. The TS-7800 has a dedicated Ethernet controller, which presumably explains some of the difference. [0]
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by dredge 14y ago
I was just writing that! It was on HN too, of course: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1442385 I was surprised then that anyone would be using a 512-bit RSA key in the wild, let alone now.
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by dredge 14y ago
They do not. There's only one "English" language option.
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by dredge 14y ago
They switched their Map Kit framework over, too. So all apps that use it have now switched to Apple maps. It's not just one app.
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by dredge 14y ago
To anyone else lured in by the "Ubuntu 12.04 (.deb)" install option - you need to add the playdeb repository to your sources list for the big "install this now" button to actually work. Either install this package: http://archive.getdeb.ne
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by dredge 15y ago
Or choose 'Verbatim' under 'More search tools' down in the bottom left.
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by dredge 15y ago
Once upon a time it was possible to get a clean (not rel=nofollow) link from one's Twitter profile: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html Presumably for anti-spam reasons, Matt Cutts (of Google, and regular Hacker News co
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Remove any URL from Google via Webmaster Tools(davidnaylor.co.uk)
6 points by dredge 15y ago|1 comments
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by dredge 15y ago
I will hazard a guess that people were using it to 'spin' content for SEO purposes, by automatically translating others' content to foreign languages and back again. If so, I imagine the double resource drain of doing that and then Googlebo

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