fiddly_bits

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by fiddly_bits 13y ago
Nexus 4 also cannot do wifi-calling, seriously degrading its usefulness in spotty celular zones. http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/38694
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
My script wrote an individual email to every recipient in my list; so none of them knew about the others anyway. I speculate that the email servers that received them, particularly the larger service providers, might have seen multiple copi
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
This is my position exactly. And skeumorphism wasn't even in my vocabulary (until now, thanks!). The example I tend to compare email to is the general design of early electric lights: so many of them simply looked like gas lamps into which
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
A recent problem I ran into was sending Xmas cards to friends and family. We had over a hundred addresses to send to and I didn't want to send them all by hand. So, I wrote a script. Of course, most of the emails went straight into the spam
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
Most of the problems I mentioned: conversations of any length could be read in the normal English left-to-right and top-to-bottom direction, adding someone to a conversation already in progress was easy (as was removing someone), I don't th
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
Nothing ambitious was mentioned in that article. And if you want a to-do list you should check out something like trello.com Otherwise, a spiral notebook and a pen is a great deal better than your inbox as a to-do list. --Please feel free t
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
That's my point. The title dates the story. It's supposed to take place in the near future, but for the title to make sense it will have to take place in the recent past.
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
My suspicion is that the rat-thing was inserted after-the-fact to facilitate the book's ending. It's been a while since I read it, and I remember enjoying it, but the rat-thing always seemed like a cheat to me. Also, snow crash? LCDs don't
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
An alien observer might also note that as soon as we discovered what we could do with oil, we busied ourselves with using it up as fast as possible.
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
It really is an amazing testament to human ingenuity that something as mind-bogglingly complicated as the modern automobile could have ever become a consumer item. But their cost is profound (DanI-S sums it up here http://news.ycombinator.
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
Also, let's add wi-fi hot-spots to all of them so that they'll create a giant mesh-network, providing cheap internet access for everyone. And ponies! Everyone gets ponies!
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
Must be perspective. I, for instance, think we should all be terrified to share the road with scores, hundreds, or even thousands of multi-ton mechanical devices traveling anywhere from 25 to 70 mph which are operated by people, easily-dist
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by fiddly_bits 14y ago
You have many of the same observations as me, but form a different conclusion. Although, one thing: you say, "My goal is to safely get from Point A to Point B..." Cars are a great way to kill 30 or 40 thousand people a year. Not very safe.
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by fiddly_bits 15y ago
On a related note, gskinner is also responsible for one of the coolest regex tools: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ It's written in Flex and is also available as an Air app, makes writing regular expressions almost intuitive.
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by fiddly_bits 15y ago
The author really sets his screen to yellow text on a black background? Makes my eyes tired just thinking about it. Anywayz... on a Mac you can flip the colors of your monitor by holding down ctrl-option-command and pressing 8, if you like