jcitme | 13 years ago | on: In memory of Aaron Swartz: a collection of PDFs from PDFtribute
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jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Safari is released to the world
Speaking of which, how is the KHTML (not webkit) code now?
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta)
Heh. Judging from the URL of this post, it might be Half Life 3.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page
It's a .png file of the code...
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Re-invent crashes site and tells customer to f* himself
I don't see what's going on. Anyone care to explain/give some context?
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Rails 3.2 feature: unreadable production logs
Does this work? There's a lot of removed code in that commit, does this replicate the old behavior?
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: AMA with Barack Obama
Are we seriously considering otherwise? Obviously the PR department managed it. Obama seems pretty lighthearted, so he has a bit of leeway in responding wittily, but much of it has to be planned.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Comparing Intel HD 2000/3000/4000 Linux Graphics
They're not meant to do anything other than exist. It's used as a low end way to make a PC actually have a graphics card, you know, that can display Microsoft Word prettily enough with Aero. That's what Intel cards started out as.
Moving forward, they're giving the cards enough power to help render movie times, playing games such as League of Legends casually at low (think 1366 by 768, not 1080p) resolutions and medium settings, etc that can satisfy 90% of user needs.
Maybe in a few years Intel will make their own graphics cards that can compare in power to current Nvidia and ATI cards. Until then, these cards serve as cheap stuff that can be found on every computer.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Investors to Zuckerberg: Please step down
That's the worst MBA vs Real life thinking ever. I hope the actual investors aren't nearsighted enough to think that kicking Zuck out will make facebook's stock value improve. As much as everyone loves to hate on facebook, it's not going anywhere without him.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: An Embarrassing, Lazy, Arrogant Money Grab
No. 1080p is 16:9, or 1920 by 1080.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Eugene Kaspersky: What Wired Is Not Telling You
I don't find it unusual. He's building rapport with a reader base by referencing american pop culture, and possibly knowing that many linkbait-y blogs will jump on this as a hook. Nothing too weird, but imo more of a way to bring publicity to his rebuttal than an actual argument point.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: What college rankings really tell us
No love for Berkeley? I would argue that if you were a perspective student reading USWNR, simply due to proximity to the silicon valley makes the average student get much better chances at jobs and experience in tech.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: FB nearly cut in half since IPO (22.28 current low)
I'd suppose that if the stock is worth $20, and becomes $20 after a few months, the employees don't really care. It's the independent investors who were shafted for the most part.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
Let's get another definition. This one is from wikipedia: Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.
As far as I am aware of, any user of WebM are NOT restricted from modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering. The beauty of the current licencing is that it can't be revoked; it is already free. Google can develop future versions and lock it down (suicidal move, though), but as it is the community has its hands on it.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969
Nitpick: It's not drag friction as much it was compressive heating. I suppose if you can avoid the compression, it wouldn't be as much of an issue...
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: New Dropbox Pro plans
Not even. My canon 7D murders my free account (at 10 gigs free...)... an hour of leisurely snapping pics can take a whole gig
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: New Dropbox Pro plans
I have an AeroFS account. Never use it; their client is slower than molasses, takes up a ton of RAM, and frequently spikes my CPU. This is on both windows and linux machines...
Personally, Dropbox + 20mb truecrypt volume for more sensitive files is good enough for me.
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
I do wonder a bit, how will this blurring of the laptop/tablet line affect their cash cow, Microsoft Office? The business world is trained to believe: they NEED office, and office == productivity. The iPad, long without these apps, challenged this ideal. How would the tablet world spilling into the laptop world affect Office sales...
jcitme | 13 years ago | on: Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies
> I think Facebook as a company is in a strong position.
Just curious, but I'd like to hear your opinion on why this is the case, vs all the naysayers that are betting against the company now. Do you have any specific point you find that Facebook can leverage to maintain success?
jcitme | 14 years ago | on: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet
You know what? YOU are the problem. The reddit type who feeds off drivel. A website might be popular because it is good, but do not ever conflate that something is good because it is popular.
HN still has not fallen into the pit of content for content's sake. The people here complain not because they are hipsters, but because we do not want to be fed drivel, meaningless content that rots the mind rather than feeds it.
I want to put it as harshly as possible, so I have one thing to say: Fuck off. We do not need content that lacks content here.
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A framework like that would be awesome, but that has a different meaning from the collection of personal pdf posts/uploads each individual on Twitter contributed.