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jdn | 12 years ago | on: Using GameStop as a bank

What is going on with that Wikipedia article. The first two sentences are written badly to the point of being incomprehensible.

jdn | 12 years ago | on: Principles For Designing Smartwatches

The point about small displays being the same in many ways as big displays was great, until the rather confusing conclusion. If both have in common that they are more suited for consuming information rather than accomodating interaction, how is a smartwatch, a small display, an excellent tool for interacting with a TV?

jdn | 12 years ago | on: Hands-on with Jolla, the Nokia that could have been

The reviewer seems very quick to dismiss the gesture based UI. His primary complaint seems to be that navigating it doesn't work the same as existing smart phones. Any HN users have any experience with it who could comment?

jdn | 12 years ago | on: How I got blacklisted by Uber

A shame. I was at this hackathon and witnessed this pair working on the hack; very driven and talented hackers. This sort of activity should be encouraged from such young talent, not punished.

jdn | 12 years ago | on: Tessel, a NodeJS-based microcontroller

The question I have for this is, why not just use Node with Firmata on an Arduino? Anyone give me the apparent weakness of that setup that makes this more preferrable?

jdn | 12 years ago | on: The Hackathon Experience Is a Hack

It seems there is a lot of "startup weekend" events masquerading as Hackathons. A Hackathon shouldn't be about business, or funding; no one should be leaving that room with investors interested in funding their 24 hour hackathon idea. It's for fun, collaboration and learning. When one of the judges took to stage at Hacked.io in London and banned business pitches, there was a small cheer.

jdn | 12 years ago | on: Install Ubuntu On Your Chromebook

True, but the chroot is by far the most common and most stable method, and the one targetted in the article. Though as you say, the title is wrong.

jdn | 12 years ago | on: Install Ubuntu On Your Chromebook

The developer mode warning only occurs on boot, as you say. Having owned by the ARM Chromebook and the Pixel since both were released, I've probably seen that warning less than 8 times since install. The Chromebooks very rarely need to be turned off, and the one time that does happen often, on update restarts, actually bypasses that warning.

jdn | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use?

Dovecot on an Arch DigitalOcean droplet. Then pull the mail into GMail for ease of use and because I don't trust my own sys-admin skills not to blow up in my face.

jdn | 12 years ago | on: The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life

I've heard this too. I've seen it recommended that you buy "Bee bread" as well, though this seems tricky to get hold of. Whilst I've never tried either, I have noticed that hayfever is incredibly localised. I get awful hayfever in my native Essex, but just 180 miles away, nothing at all. Anyone had any similar experiences?

Bee bread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_pollen

jdn | 12 years ago | on: Agda by Example: λ-calculus

To the killing? It was partly replaced by G52IFR, which focuses on Coq, and also partly because the university seems to enjoy killing off modules from departments that don't do HCI. Human-computer interaction is currently eating the department.

jdn | 12 years ago | on: The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer

It's quite amusing how accurate this is, knowing Haskell users across a number of these levels. It's quite a handy learning tool as well with the added explanations at the bottom.
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