junkbit

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by junkbit 14y ago
Romans didn't have a number zero.
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by junkbit 14y ago
Games like L4D are designed to run on Xbox which uses DirectX
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by junkbit 14y ago
Whenever I look at screenshots I always try and click the close button in the picture. Every time.
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by junkbit 15y ago
Free healthcare and dentistry
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by junkbit 15y ago
If either side is compromised it is difficult to reissue (e.g. if they are undercover in another country). The beauty of public keys is that they can be revoked and the other side can use your new key without you having to transport/transmi
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by junkbit 15y ago
Some of The Muppets videos went viral on YouTube in the past few years. Other short form work also tends to go viral, YouTube is often credited with rejuvenating SNL, despite NBCs insistence on taking down every clip People are brands too.
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by junkbit 15y ago
That would take 25% of the per unit price for a start. Then there's the lack of control.
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by junkbit 15y ago
Awesome Window Manager is great for dual monitors. Once you master it you can switch focus between them without leaving the keyboard.
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by junkbit 15y ago
Much more expensive per episode though
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by junkbit 15y ago
Yes this is why Sony just announced big loses. All Japanese exports are getting more expensive in dollars http://www.google.co.uk//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds...
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by junkbit 15y ago
True, but Larry said in the call that Moto will have to bid to become the halo device each year on an equal footing
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by junkbit 15y ago
Hard to believe that was the same year as Pulp Fiction. 1994 doesn't seem that long ago. Fascinating snapshot in time. I think we can forgive him some buzzwords as he is addressing a marketing audience.
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by junkbit 15y ago
Here is a 60min DOOM post-mortem by John Romero from the Game Developers' Conference. http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014627/Classic_Game_Postmortem... If you look around the free section of the GDC site there are a lot videos about other c
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by junkbit 15y ago
Bananas ARE berries, so are watermelons and tomatoes. But strawberries and raspberries are not berries. Berries have seeds on the inside; a strawberry's seeds are on the outside, and raspberries are little clusters they are called something
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by junkbit 15y ago
It's not that unlikely, we have Darwin on the back of the £10 http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/Images/DarwinTenPoundNo... They'd probably do a special coin for 1 year though, the notes don't change very often
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by junkbit 15y ago
Vic Gundotra said that the APIs are coming but they are still deciding on features while in closed beta
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by junkbit 15y ago
That's the whole point of OAuth; so that you can sign in without giving them your password. You can revoke the permissions of any 3rd party in your twitter settings page.
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by junkbit 15y ago
I think most of the world's debt is privately held. For instance the UK is the third largest owner of US debt after China and Japan, but we ourselves have a massive public debt.
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by junkbit 15y ago
How long does it take the data to reach us?
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by junkbit 15y ago
Instant On really benefits from the fast sequential times and random cache hits from the low latency/high IOPS. I would imagine there is a lot of paging on a low memory machine. The first generation macbook air users said that the SSD made
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by junkbit 16y ago
Git is a polite way of saying bastard before 9pm on TV in the UK, e.g. You lucky git . They also use it in Ireland and down under.
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by junkbit 16y ago
For a companies that sells big iron servers the Dell, IBM and HP websites don't inspire confidence.
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by junkbit 16y ago
Yes encrypted.google.com is really fast, it even has google instant, but I had to turn it off as my default choice in chrome because it won't let you search images. Video and news work but not images.
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by junkbit 16y ago
The release announcement says that Gtk3 has switched to Cairo to draw the toolkit behind the scenes: Cairo drawing throughout. GDK no longer wraps the antiquated X11 drawing API; we've made a clean break and exclusively rely on cairo for
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GTK+ 3.0.0 released(mail.gnome.org)
95 points by junkbit 16y ago|23 comments
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by junkbit 16y ago
ChromeDeck is pretty great. It's an HTML5 TweetDeck app in the Chrome Web Store that feels almost native. Multicolumn layout for your lists, inline video / photos, and desktop notifications with sound. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/
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by junkbit 16y ago
They've been working on the important features first such as gopherfs
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by junkbit 16y ago
Cheap hard disks have grown faster than the last mile of internet connections over the years, creating a bottleneck. I think people's expectations are tied to the large disks and the files that they hold.
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by junkbit 16y ago
He has a self-deprecating charm. An everyman; like Homer Simpson. He's also like that snake-bite guy form Australia with a hundred scars who says 'give it here lads, I'll see if it's poisonous' Occasionally you will see him get worked up
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by junkbit 16y ago
If it wasn't for TWiT I'd have never of heard of Mahalo.

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