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grimboy | 12 years ago | on: Getting a bit creepy

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/android/mock/ is a neat way to stop applications asking for too many permissions getting what they want. It'd be nice if it were being maintained somewhere/possibly pulled into CyanogenMod.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: The “Steam Box” era begins with the Piston, a $1,000 PC-in-a-console

What are you going to plug all the gamepads into then?

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Rel="logo" (2011)

Yes but the point there was that sites had motivation to misrepresent their content. What motivation could you have to misrepresent your logo?

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Did porn warp me forever?

Maybe he should be an exhibitionist.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: IRC is dead, long live IRC

Try reading beyond the title?

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour

I don't think it's that bad, probably because I quite like the aesthetic, but it really could do with being just a little bit less busy.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: How Reddit was created: ‘I wanted to make the world suck less’

Reddit gold is a freemium model, not donations. Are Conde Nast meant to continually bankroll something that doesn't generate profit?

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

Second wave feminists decided that that word in particular was bad no matter the context.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

Because it stems a flow of twitter posts?

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account

Stalk-ey favours? Those are the only type I could think I would ever make to Facebook employees. (Yes I know what this says about me.)

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School

I think one of the differences with Methamphetamine is that it can and generally is smoked which gives a much quicker onset and rush which makes it more addictive.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Factorization diagrams in Haskell

I feel like expanding that set a little is really only a matter of picking a more distinctive arrangement than a circle. Like 11 would be more readable as 3 vertical lines of 4, then 3, then 4 again. Just varying the shape a little would go a long way towards making them more readable, and you could still fall back to a circle for larger primes.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: NoPassword

Not sure but perhaps it could be this: http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2011/03/positivessl-untrusted... ?

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Why Raspberry Pi Is Unsuitable for Education

>esoteric open source architectures with no applications in the real world

Why does an open source architecture have to be esoteric? It could just as easily be conventional. We don't know for sure that ARM will be as popular in the future. Presumably aim isn't to teach individual intricacies but rather the overall concepts.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Ejecta, A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas Implementation for iOS

Any actual benchmarks?

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Nigerian scammer gets a laptop from me

For those wondering it's this: http://419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Valve is bringing Steam to your TV Today

Laying out the buttons in the same way as the controller and the groups in a circle rather than a square must help quite a bit.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Modeling Physics in Javascript: Gravity and Drag

Why would you post a link to an example using floats then? I mean sure, part of the trick involves treating the float as an integer but the number is still meant to be interpreted as a float.

Your assumptions about speed might be true for something like a Nintendo DS which doesn't have a floating point unit but a 3DS does, a vectorised one no less. Also in Javascript integers that can fit into 32 bits are actually integers nowadays.

All in all, I believe your information is outdated.

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Tough times on the road to Starcraft

Looks like this is as close as you'll get for now: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stratagus/stratagus/trunk/files...

ETA: Just remembered. They open source 7 Kingdoms a few years back so you can find out what the code from a commercial RTS looks like. http://www.7kfans.com/wiki/index.php/Download

grimboy | 13 years ago | on: Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle

Well in that case I apologise for my countrymen I suppose.