graemian | 10 months ago | on: Kermit Font
It's kind of ridiculous that they don't tell you how you can get this font. There's no download or buy button
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graemian | 10 years ago | on: Google Map Maker will be temporarily unavailable for editing
Major strategic blunder: the whole world was updating their proprietary map data for them, but they failed to engineer the process to be spam-proof. Now they've had to stop accepting contributions as a result. Many contributors are likely to switch to updating someone else's map data, and Google risks no longer having the most up-to-date maps of the entire planet. Larry Page needs to kick some ass.
graemian | 11 years ago | on: Annotated code: Circles bouncing off lines
I assume the side-by-side view is rendered from the raw file with comments inline? Is this using some kind of comment markup language?
Where can I find out more about cool ways to render comments like this?
graemian | 11 years ago | on: CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow
Because if you give someone a URL to C code and they run it, you have effective gotten them to remotely execute your code ;-)
graemian | 11 years ago | on: The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs
If a cyclist invested the weekly time he spent shaving his legs in extra training instead, would he be better off?
graemian | 11 years ago | on: Redesigning The World Cup 2014 Brazil
This is especially useful during the World Cup, when you quickly glance at bits of many games and are unfamiliar with the teams and colours and flags
graemian | 11 years ago | on: Redesigning The World Cup 2014 Brazil
Why put the scores on top of each other? The team on the left should be on the left, and the team on the right on the right. Many channels use this left-right layout, but they fail to swap it around at half-time, when the teams change sides!
graemian | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Card – An interactive CSS3 credit card form
2nd coolest thing I ever saw, just behind Psy's Gangnam Style :-)
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
Maybe if you want to sell commodity stuff (furniture or cars or beer), but not for innovation. How many ground-breaking tech things have emerged from Africa? Very few. And that's unlikely to change any time soon.
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
Interesting conjecture. I would like to see if there's any hard data to support that.
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
> The world is full of examples of people who work heroically only to meet chronic failure.
I'll bet that a large percentage of those people worked in Africa
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
FYI: I've lived in San Francisco for 1.5 months, and I've met plenty people who have lived and worked abroad.
I'm not sure what your point is.
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
Exactly! You're more likely to fail for reasons beyond your control (like no electricity, bad Internet) in African than in San Francisco.
But those things ARE actually under your control. Just move to San Francisco :-)
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
Remember that immigration effort is once-off, and the payoff is life-long.
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
You've found an excuse to give up on your dreams, have you?
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
I genuinely wish those who "feel for Africa" the best of luck in their endeavors to improve it. I'm just not one of them. I urge anyone who thinks they feel this obligation to carefully consider it: is it genuine, or is it just an excuse to stay in your comfort zone?
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
I was born in Africa and I'm trying to get out right now. It's not easy, but it's not impossible. I didn't get as good a deal in the birthplace lottery as Steve Jobs and others born in Silicon Valley, but I'll be damned if I'll use that as an excuse for a life of mediocrity.
Frankly, if the factors you describe are really what's stopping you from reaching your goals, you're likely to fail anyway.
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Agony of an African programmer
Get out of Africa. Africa will steal your life.
If you choose to stay in Africa and have your potential limited by silly things like bad Internet and no electricity, then make that choice consciously, and for good reasons, like wanting to be near family. If you stay because you feel some deeper connection to Africa because you were born there, get over it. Get out of your comfort zone, live your own life. Consider carefully the costs of maintaining that irrational connection. Personally, I think it's a cop out, an excuse to be mediocre. It's a global world, stop thinking locally.
What would Elon Musk have achieved had he stayed in Africa? Substantially less. Get yourself into an environment that is supportive of your dreams and goals, not one that works against you.
graemian | 12 years ago | on: ClanBase is no more – we are sorry
Me too. Suffered a mild heart attack :-)
graemian | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy
I'd love to know if the partition was completely wiped as you describe. It's a Galaxy S2 running Android 4.0.4. It's the /data partition on the internal storage, I think.
How would I find out?
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