graemian

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by graemian 1y ago
It's kind of ridiculous that they don't tell you how you can get this font. There's no download or buy button
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Speed as a Habit(firstround.com)
1 points by graemian 11y ago|0 comments
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by graemian 11y ago
Major strategic blunder: the whole world was updating their proprietary map data for them, but they failed to engineer the process to be spam-proof. Now they've had to stop accepting contributions as a result. Many contributors are lik
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by graemian 12y ago
I assume the side-by-side view is rendered from the raw file with comments inline? Is this using some kind of comment markup language? Where can I find out more about cool ways to render comments like this?
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by graemian 12y ago
Because if you give someone a URL to C code and they run it, you have effective gotten them to remotely execute your code ;-)
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by graemian 12y ago
If a cyclist invested the weekly time he spent shaving his legs in extra training instead, would he be better off?
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by graemian 12y ago
This is especially useful during the World Cup, when you quickly glance at bits of many games and are unfamiliar with the teams and colours and flags
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by graemian 12y ago
Why put the scores on top of each other? The team on the left should be on the left, and the team on the right on the right. Many channels use this left-right layout, but they fail to swap it around at half-time, when the teams change sides
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by graemian 12y ago
2nd coolest thing I ever saw, just behind Psy's Gangnam Style :-)
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Ask Google: How does the Play Store decide what country you're in?
1 points by graemian 12y ago|0 comments
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by graemian 12y ago
Maybe if you want to sell commodity stuff (furniture or cars or beer), but not for innovation. How many ground-breaking tech things have emerged from Africa? Very few. And that's unlikely to change any time soon.
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by graemian 12y ago
Interesting conjecture. I would like to see if there's any hard data to support that.
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by graemian 12y ago
> The world is full of examples of people who work heroically only to meet chronic failure. I'll bet that a large percentage of those people worked in Africa
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by graemian 12y ago
FYI: I've lived in San Francisco for 1.5 months, and I've met plenty people who have lived and worked abroad. I'm not sure what your point is.
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by graemian 12y ago
Exactly! You're more likely to fail for reasons beyond your control (like no electricity, bad Internet) in African than in San Francisco. But those things ARE actually under your control. Just move to San Francisco :-)
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by graemian 12y ago
Remember that immigration effort is once-off, and the payoff is life-long.
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by graemian 12y ago
You've found an excuse to give up on your dreams, have you?
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by graemian 12y ago
I genuinely wish those who "feel for Africa" the best of luck in their endeavors to improve it. I'm just not one of them. I urge anyone who thinks they feel this obligation to carefully consider it: is it genuine, or is it ju
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by graemian 12y ago
I was born in Africa and I'm trying to get out right now. It's not easy, but it's not impossible. I didn't get as good a deal in the birthplace lottery as Steve Jobs and others born in Silicon Valley, but I'll be da
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by graemian 12y ago
Get out of Africa. Africa will steal your life. If you choose to stay in Africa and have your potential limited by silly things like bad Internet and no electricity, then make that choice consciously, and for good reasons, like wanting to b
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by graemian 13y ago
Me too. Suffered a mild heart attack :-)
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by graemian 13y ago
I'd love to know if the partition was completely wiped as you describe. It's a Galaxy S2 running Android 4.0.4. It's the /data partition on the internal storage, I think. How would I find out?
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by graemian 13y ago
It was an Android "Settings > Reset", not from within the app
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by graemian 13y ago
Doesn't work for Bitcoin Wallet on Android :-( I lost some Bitcoins on an old phone that used Bitcoin Wallet ( https://github.com/schildbach/bitcoin-wallet ) by doing "Settings > Reset". I tried using t
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Reahl, the hard-working web framework that's frugal with your effort(reahl.org)
1 points by graemian 13y ago|0 comments
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by graemian 13y ago
Ctrl+ doesn't fix leading (spacing between lines). Is it really that hard to make sure you understand a comment before posting a frivolous reply?
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by graemian 13y ago
@pg: Your blog would be MUCH more readable if you made this change: <font size="4" face="verdana" style="line-height: 2em"> Right now, a great sadness comes over me when I think about reading one of you
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by graemian 13y ago
There's a lot wrong with the US, but this kind of thinking is exactly what's right with it
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Startup idea: freeze people, compound cash for 2k years, thaw them into b'naires(quora.com)
1 points by graemian 13y ago|0 comments
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Google handles domain hacks very badly - the isoho.st story(isoho.st)
2 points by graemian 14y ago|0 comments

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