ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Does Your Mom Pay Your Phone Bill?
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ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: 300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android
When taping a link, couldn't the browser start to load the page in the background even though the gesture may turn out to be a double-tap.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor
> if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming
Lots of hackers only care about having enough pixels to legibly represent characters in their tiny coding font.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Amazon Prime Air
Why not?
TacoCopter sparked a lot of discussion about drone delivery just a while ago. It's nice to be reminded of it, now.
It just goes to shows these ideas are "in the air" right now. In case you weren't paying attention.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: An engineer's emergency kit business card
Here's a reformatted copy of the article (no lightbox):
http://ajasmin.net/saved_page/an-engineers-emergency-kit-bus...
I really like the concept. Time to to make my own PCB business card.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
Wouldn't that rule apply to a Winamp fund as well?
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity
Forget these OpenOffice layouts. I think LaTeX is more flexible... oh wait, never mind.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: We Analyzed 30K GitHub Projects: Top Libraries in Java, JS, Ruby
What about the web and client-side JS?
From what I understand the list of JavaScript libraries is for node.js as it doesn't even include jQuery.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
I don't know much about manufacturing either. But, wouldn't Sony also make sure their units "more or less work" before they leave the factory?
I mean, the thing could be working on departure and dead on arrival.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Terminal Cornucopia
When I read 'Terminal' on Hacker News I don't think of the airport kind...
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Hadoop in Excel
I don't think "conventional programming languages" (and in particular Java) are well suited to the task of analyzing and querying data.
But Excel is also an odd beast. It's used for laying out reports, pivot tables, plotting graphs, working with database, calculations and VBA macros. Not all features play well together.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
After they got rid of that limitation Microsoft started using unwieldy path names like "Program Files" and "My Documents".
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science
Where does the imprecision come from exactly? Can't we derive the kilogram from the number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a litre of water at an uniform temperature?
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Ubuntu pre-installed and in retail worldwide
Do these cheap Ubuntu laptops have a Windows key on the keyboard?
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer
I've seen sound cards with all kind of glitches such as outputting one of the channels with an inverted phase. I'd be also concerned with whatever audio filters the card may have. Sound cards are just not meant to control precision equipment like that.
Including a low cost USB adapter (even an audio one) that is tested and calibrated to work with the printer could prevent a lot of headaches in setting this up.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Apple Developer Website Update
Apple should have kept us informed from day one.
But, in their defense it may take days to ascertain what exactly happened.
Once a system is compromised it's nearly impossible to trust anything about it. Auditing the logs, and reviewing the code, crypto, and the mix of platforms they're using (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078854) in order to understand what data could be accessed and fix all vulnerabilities is not an easy task.
The PlayStation store was not down for such a long time without reason.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: NetBeans 7.4 – New and Noteworthy
Is Oracle still involved in the development of OpenOffice?
I was under the impression they contributed the code to the Apache Foundation because they didn't want to develop it further.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: VLC for iOS Now Available (itunes link)
Streaming from Dropbox would be great. It seems your have to download a file before playing it back.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8
Try using VueScan. It supports a bunch of older scanners.
ajasmin | 12 years ago | on: Netflix ditches Silverlight with support for HTML5 video in IE11
FairPlay video was (kind of) cracked a few years ago I was in the habit of decrypting TV episodes using Requiem so I could watch them on my Linux netbook. You had to decrypt the files on a computer with iTunes installed though.
I don't know if Requiem has been keeping up with the latest iTunes releases.
Can a tourist get a SIM card in the US?