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by engtech 12y ago
That was a great article. I love the idea of the heartbeat feature. Is that a real feature of the iwatch?
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Ask HN: Corporate software reuse assets database?
3 points by engtech 12y ago|2 comments
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by engtech 12y ago
You'd think, but most consumer equipment is abandonware and the firmware isn't updated once a newer model is out.
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Ask HN: openSSL/heartbleed for internal company apps?
1 points by engtech 12y ago|1 comments
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by engtech 13y ago
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it looks like if you could install a system font on a computer then you could create a unique fingerprint for that computer that is detectable by any website? I am uniquely identifiable out of the 3.7 milli
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Goldiebox construction-themed board game targets engineering for girls(adweek.com)
1 points by engtech 13y ago|0 comments
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Threat Level: Silk Road Raided, owner allegedly tried to hire hitman(wired.com)
1 points by engtech 13y ago|0 comments
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by engtech 13y ago
http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/
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Rat Park: addiction caused by living conditions?(bbc.com)
1 points by engtech 13y ago|1 comments
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Declassified Documents Prove NSA Is Tapping the Internet(wired.com)
214 points by engtech 13y ago|76 comments
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by engtech 13y ago
I have a boxee and I'd been thinking about how to implement this for a while. It seems like it should be possible to have a box act as a web server proxy where it mirrors a web page to several displays. It would be pretty slick if you
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by engtech 13y ago
except for the fact that you couldn't tell up from down in the dark because it was symetrical. It was really annoying when you went to pause, and instead turned netflix on.
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by engtech 13y ago
do you have Netflix working on that setup?
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by engtech 13y ago
xbox 360 media player was never able to handle mkv files (unless there's been an update in the 2 years that I've had my 360 powered down) There was also that xbox 360 dashboard update that downgraded the playback quality of avi fi
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by engtech 13y ago
"There also seems to be some performance problems arising. But nobody has been pushing any updates to fix that. So you need to reboot the device every now and then." I've been having the same problem. I've configured it
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by engtech 13y ago
I was happy that they included the "you should change your password on all other websites if it is the same" line. I find that's the biggest hurdle that average users can't grasp, it's not about one website getting
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by engtech 13y ago
57kb of raw text without the images -- text is cheap. :)
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by engtech 13y ago
I'd trust gwern's speculation. http://www.gwern.net/ The content here varies from philosophy to poetry to programming to prosaic FAQ. It is everything I felt worth writing for the past few years that didn’t f
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by engtech 13y ago
You have to enable the typo option and the amazon referrer rewrite happens. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194
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by engtech 13y ago
You have to enable the typo option and it happens. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194
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by engtech 13y ago
1. when I go to this link: http://qz.com/96206/google-admits-those-infamous-brainteaser... It shows several stories at once, not just the google brainteasers stories. 2. In general, people would rather read the real ar
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by engtech 13y ago
Black Mirror S01E03: The Entire History of You was a pretty decent episode of a Twilight-Zone-like show about the dark side of having a video recording of your entire life. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/
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by engtech 13y ago
Thanks! This is a good read. https://medium.com/about-work/1cd9fbf8ca15
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by engtech 13y ago
Actually, Game of Thrones can teach us a lot about UX design: kill your darlings.
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by engtech 13y ago
What if the lobster is under-aged?
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by engtech 13y ago
I think almost all of his books are available as audiobooks. http://www.audible.com/search/ref=sr_ab_1_1_3?searchAuthor=I... I'd start off with Use of Weapons or the Player of Games
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by engtech 13y ago
I find that using a Kindle or Android ebook reader really helps avoiding the task switching, as does dual monitors. Leave your computer on the task you are working on and you won't "lose" the result in a sea of windows. Actually, it's a g
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by engtech 13y ago
The Disney wiki confirms that Alice is not a Disney princess. Leia Organa isn't a Disney princess either (yet). http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Disney_Princess
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by engtech 13y ago
I miss when Rory Blyth (original author, I don't know who is cutting and pasting it to their private website at wyorock.com) used to run a blog called http://www.neopoleon.com/ There was some great stuff on there. He stopped blogging in 2
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by engtech 13y ago
You've heard of Anita Hill, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill

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