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by mxavier 16y ago
That example you chose was a bit meta (perhaps intentionally so). I watched "Good Copy, Bad Copy" (which was fantastic by the way) and Tecno Brega is typically created by mashing up several popular songs into one. So yes, the artists are us
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by mxavier 16y ago
To underscore the weirness of the Android Markeplace, when you search for chomp, the actual app with the name of "Chomp" appears under about 6 or 7 versions of some game called "Hungry Shark"
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by mxavier 16y ago
Roku if all you want to watch is netflix and some other streaming services (which I can't enumerate right now). Boxee if you'd like to watch a lot of local content as well streamed over your network. I ended up choosing Boxee the day after
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by mxavier 16y ago
Second. I use twitdroyd (mostly for reading tweets), but I'd be pretty pissed if they actively modify my tweets. I wish the article would be more specific that.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I really could have used this tutorial a few months ago. I made a bit of a toy node/backbone app. My first iteration attempted to unify the models across frontend and backend, unit testing them, etc, but it ended up being so kludgy and ha
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by mxavier 16y ago
There's a free (though probably less featureful) app for Windows I've used for years called Windirstat that does a similar job, albeit while looking much uglier.
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by mxavier 16y ago
Unless your provider is anything like mine, Sprint. They load your phone down after each update with apps you don't want (Nascar, Blockbuster, NFL) which cannot be uninstalled without rooting and seem to randomly just appear in running task
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by mxavier 16y ago
Your last sentence is pretty flawed/ad-hominem. That being said, I do agree in the sense that the comment at the end of the post annoyed me and degraded the value of the article. Certainly, blog about whatever you want, but if you just pick
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by mxavier 16y ago
It's trivial features like this that seriously gets me to switch. The main reason why I switched to duckduckgo wasn't the privacy or better results, it was vi-like bindings. On that topic, consider this additional binding scheme that DDG us
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by mxavier 16y ago
There are some subtle effects with Comic Sans that don't get considered, even by big companies. For example, my old phone was a Samsung Blackjack II running Windows Mobile. Ignoring the hassle of having to download the upgrade to WM as a zi
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by mxavier 16y ago
Most Bulgarian teenagers don't have access to nuclear centrifuge controller units for the purpose of designing/testing their code.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I think some of this has to do with proliferation of ad-blocking software (I hardly know anyone anymore who doesn't run AdBlocker Plus or an analog thereof), but perhaps even more to do with a more savvy audience. Ads were once an avoidable
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by mxavier 16y ago
Click on the Plans and Pricing page. No mention of Plans nor Pricing other than saying I can try it for free (unless it's in the 2:50 long video that I don't want to watch). I see this happen a lot on these service-based sites and it never
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by mxavier 16y ago
Considering this is coming from the University of Glasgow, I wonder what sort of cool stuff they might be doing with this technology with Haskell/GHC.
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by mxavier 16y ago
Really wish the video wasn't so small and wasn't private on the vimeo site. Fullscreen buttons never play nicely with my tiling window manager.
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by mxavier 16y ago
If you don't own apple products (iPhone, iPad, an Apple computer), this list will be pretty much useless to you unless you haven't heard of dropbox.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I'm not sure Ryan Dahl should be considered an armchair expert with respect to Node.js.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I'm not sure about the reason why Anonymous took on Gene Simmons but I can't imagine how he denied people their freedoms.
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by mxavier 16y ago
This seems like it would be huge for the Node.js people. The next big milestone for V8 for node has to be the GC issues that have been wreaking havoc on node apps under high load.
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by mxavier 16y ago
You beat me to it. There are a ton of different energy drinks that taste the same to me as Red Bull but it in no way has a lemon flavor. I don't even think Sprite has that much of a lemon flavor. It has always tasted more like grapefruit. M
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by mxavier 16y ago
Probably whenever the zombie fad passes again. I don't have any evidence to back this up but I feel like they might have been promulgated by the same person/people.
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by mxavier 16y ago
It's interesting to see these icons and actually recognize what sites already use them. For example, I believe OKCupid uses several of these icons in their GUI such as the report flag, edit, views, etc.
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by mxavier 16y ago
I sometimes log into MySpace just to see how bad it still is. Their frontend developers still don't appear to care about user experience or have any design sense. They've smattered the site with ajax, rollovers, effects, etc, and as usual t
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by mxavier 16y ago
1. Cut a hole in the box. 2. Put your wave in that box. 3. Make her download the box. And that's the way you do it.
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by mxavier 16y ago
It is unfortunate however that he indicates the problem is that most of the content he watches that isn't on user-generated sites is via Hulu or Netflix. As far as I know, Boxee currently does not support those two platforms. I'm not blamin
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by mxavier 16y ago
I guess I can understand the demotivation part. I'm heavily invested in Ruby/Rails at my job and I'm often bummed out that I can't easily use Haskell idioms at my day job. However, I think the title is a little bit inflammatory (as is custo
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by mxavier 16y ago
Pretty funny coincidence that he'd have yet another thing in common with the Larry David/Curb Your Enthusiasm situation he found himself in. There's a whole episode of CYE about penis cakes (Meet The Blacks).
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by mxavier 16y ago
IE6 from a non-government email address and/or not during normal corporate business hours = dirty overalls + straw hat
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by mxavier 16y ago
I've been using screen every day for probably > 2 years now and had no idea you could do this. Thanks!
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by mxavier 16y ago
I wonder how this dynamic plays out for homosexual relationships.

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