larsu

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by larsu 14y ago
The winners from here on out will the ones who make the Web functional and simple. On a site with lots of ads (including a popup ad), social media "sharing links", a sidebar with unrelated content, and persistent top- and bottom bars.
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by larsu 14y ago
I doubt that foot / finger coordination is good enough to get the timing right without losing some keystrokes.
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by larsu 14y ago
What do you mean? I think it would probably be shorter in most languages given the right toolkit.
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by larsu 16y ago
To only display information about a specific command, you can also use help <command>
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E-mail Sign On(peej.co.uk)
25 points by larsu 16y ago|20 comments
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by larsu 16y ago
You're right. But something like this would be harder to fake: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/img/tignish/features/security-i...
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by larsu 16y ago
Bit Hack #6. Turn off the rightmost 1-bit. Now it finally gets more interesting!!! Bit hacks #1 - #5 were kind of boring to be honest. Does anybody know a practical use case for that? I have personally never encountered a situation were I
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by larsu 16y ago
Firefox's html warnings in the browser's content window seem to make this particularly easy, though.
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by larsu 16y ago
They certainly would have leverage if they built a phone people really want. This is exactly how Apple gained that leverage. Alternatively, they could team up with the other manufacturers and boycott carriers which refuse to sell their pho
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by larsu 16y ago
Of course it is. Proof in the pudding: iOS has none of it. You missed my point, which was that the crippling is not Android's fault but that of the carriers and phone manufacturers . Its also not due to some inherent property of iOS t
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by larsu 16y ago
The amount of crippling done by the carriers is not Android's fault nor is it in any way advantaged by Android being open. The same crapware has been on Symbian and other (closed) mobile operating systems for a long time. Apple is the only
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by larsu 16y ago
It's not about theoretical openness, but whether the manufacturer you bought your phone from passes Android's openness on to you, their customer. Most (all?) of the successful ones (HTC, Samsung, Motorola) don't. Since Android is Apache-li
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by larsu 16y ago
Please don't. I once dealt with code like this and it becomes unreadable very quickly, especially if many different types are involved. However, if printk would be declared with __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)) (I don't know if it is),