just_the_tip

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by just_the_tip 15y ago
"A language is a dialect with an army and navy"
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by just_the_tip 16y ago
It's an issue of using a subpar client, not a subpar format. I have yet to find a decent epub reader for a computer. Stanza for iPhone, iBooks, and dedicated hardware render epubs beautifully.
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by just_the_tip 16y ago
You can get $5 O'Reilly EPUBs from the App Store everyday. Extracting an epub from an iPhone app is easy. First you unzip the .ipa file. Then you cd to Payload/*/book. Finally, you zip up the files to an .epub file: zip -X ~/book.epub mimet
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by just_the_tip 16y ago
I suppose everybody here knows the ins and outs of the browser landscape and has their own favorite. Most everybody else doesn't care about browsers and would find a selection screen annoying. Ubuntu has worked hard at reducing the effort t
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by just_the_tip 16y ago
King County also levies a sales tax.
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
>The browser should have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with video and audio decoding. I know! While we're at it, who had the brilliant idea to put image decoders in browsers? I say let QuickTime decode GIFs and PNGs.
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
Most of those titles are public domain books scanned as part of Google Books and complete with OCR typos. Right now, Amazon's selection is better.
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
Hopefully this means we can standardize data exchange on something like Ethernet so that if some faster technology is invented on the physical layer, it would be easy to upgrade. This scenario is what Bonjour is made for. Imagine plugging i
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
Video of a Netflix hub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA0LKfEv3c
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
LG was never an ODM (sic). And they don't manufacture hard drives. Sure, they manufacture displays but so do Sharp and Philips. Also, I was under the impression that Lenovo merely acquired IBM's PC business. All the other companies are ODMs
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
You sure about LG and Lenovo?
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
I think it has to do more with policy than it does with the telcos. Japan, Korea, and Sweden are outliers which have had massive funding (direct and indirect) from the governments to build up their broadband infrastructures. The hands-off,
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
In regard to the printer sharing problem, it's pretty much solved today thanks to zeroconf (marketed as Bonjour by Apple). It makes addressing computers and advertising services in the local area network much easier. I wish more developers
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
Here something similar based on social sites: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
Or you can just use Amazon's console. https://console.aws.amazon.com/
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
He did this by including obfuscated code that modified the internal state of Adblock Plus without notifying the user.
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by just_the_tip 17y ago
The plugin is updated frequently also because doing so lands itself in the Most Popular Add-ons chart. Giorgio has a history of pushing the limit to see what he can get away before backtracking when someone calls him out on it.