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by null_ptr 13y ago
That's ok, Google can keep their OS for themselves. I look forward to taking some time later this year to put Ubuntu Touch or Firefox OS on my phone, and weaning off their services altogether.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I think the stub is for an improved experience for the average user with slow internet access. You're likelier to download and run a 1MB file and then wait for the install to finish, than you are to wait for a 25MB file to finish downl
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I think this is an understated problem. Vowel-stripping from names has become a part of today's bleeding edge tech culture, but it's really just a work around the crowded domains market. Vowel-stripped names sound and look OK to m
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by null_ptr 13y ago
You're right. I'm sure it's no dumb luck Microsoft and Apple try to get their products into classrooms. Getting those young minds used to their designs and specific ways of doing things, setting them as lifetime customers. Wh
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Isn't it that you need to phone in with information like your SSN to activate them? Doesn't seem like you could register any address you'd like.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I disagree with "The top of the line smart-phone or tablet you own today will be obsolete by the end of 2014 if not earlier." I will use my 2011 smart phone until it physically breaks. If a 1.2GHz device with a 300MHz GPU, 1280x
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by null_ptr 13y ago
What exactly would you call it then, if not a banner ad? It's a large, colorful, rectangular 5:1 panel that advertises a company. Cut the doublespeak.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I'm not surprised, Pinterest is the ultimate consumerist social network and thus worth a lot of money. The method of self-expression is obsessively arranging and curating shopping lists of colorful items, and sharing them with like-m
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by null_ptr 13y ago
The legs slide horizontally off Bender's ass on Firefox 24 on Linux :-( Nevertheless, great work!
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by null_ptr 13y ago
It all adds up, and over a long period of time.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Gross, glossy screen that reflects light sources back in your eyes. Why do people put up with this crap?
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by null_ptr 13y ago
If the author is reading this: please use regular HTML in the future. Make your work future-proof by avoiding presentation gimmicks and delivering your content in a plain, honest way. Thank you.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I'll like them more when they offer their pre-paid customers the same benefits they have on their post-paid plans. They got a lot of good will because of their recently announced reduced international roaming charges, but "post pa
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Is this on the Gmail web interface or on the Android app? I remember ads in the web interface that are placed above the message list for a while now, but putting them in the app where screen space is scarce would be an awful experience. If
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Ask HN: What charities do you donate to?
14 points by null_ptr 13y ago|22 comments
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Firefox too, probably not browser-specific.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
You have some parenthesis issues in "if rand(2^x == 0) x++" that my tired, C-laden mind had problems parsing just now.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Yes, please, make your interfaces as unusable as you possibly can. Get on that trend bandwagon and never let go, let it take you far, far away.
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Mozilla Pushes "Shumway" Flash Into Firefox(phoronix.com)
1 points by null_ptr 13y ago|0 comments
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Blog posts about other blog posts. It's a pattern that many here seem to follow. It really makes you aware of the real ratios of content to fluff and creation to recycling in today's tech community.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
66 is young.
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Age of Unreason(monbiot.com)
2 points by null_ptr 13y ago|0 comments
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I wonder how well-received the coming .tech/software/app/etc. gTLDs will be. Will people still want to grab the .com for their company?
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by null_ptr 13y ago
This is superficial and hard to quantify, but .com has a junky feel to it nowadays. Their co.uk sounds more reputable.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Linux, GNU software, the BSDs, Apache, and the entire culture and ecosystems built around them have long earned a distinguished place in history, among humankind's major achievements in science and technology. Here's to the next 3
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by null_ptr 13y ago
They should've picked guardian.io and used 4em Droid Sans everywhere with lots of coffee mug stock photos.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Does anyone here use FreeBSD on their day-to-day system, and if so why? How's laptop support compared to modern Linux distros?
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Ask HN: How much savings did you have before quitting your industry job?
66 points by null_ptr 13y ago|72 comments
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by null_ptr 13y ago
So many Ruby/Python programs are dependent on several frameworks or libraries, nothing seems to be self-contained anymore. That's putting me off, too, however I think that's in part because of my outdated expectations (as muc
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Your own site currently consists of smack talk, memes, and a mailing list button. How about you focus on creating great content instead of link-bait headlines, and let your work speak for itself?

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