jongibbins | 4 months ago | on: Steam Machine
It sounds like a similar idea to what Atari launched. https://atari.com/pages/atari-vcs
Let's hope Steam put a bit more effort into it than Atari have.
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jongibbins | 10 years ago | on: Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
Hmm... What's up with this page?
"Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition has blocked a page! Malware detected! Access to this page has been blocked."
Any idea what's in there tripping out Bitdefender?
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: RT's Abby Martin speaks out against Russian invasion of Crimea 3/3/2014
I love the RT news channel but cannot comprehend what good any military action by Russia will bring.
Well done to Abby for adding her strong personal opinion, not to be outvoiced by that of the state.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: This URL crashes Chrome/Chromium
Opera 20 on Windows. Boom!
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Norway says Bitcoins aren't real money
"Bitcoin says Norway isn't a real country" ... probably
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside the US?
On further inspection it looks like it's just diverting to show my localhost:80 here.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside the US?
I think the site may be down. Visiting http://www.healthcare.gov gives me an upside down IIS7 logo!
http://www.healthcare.gov/welcome.png
(I'm in the UK)
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: uoou.info: the weirdest website you'll see this year
It looks fantastic. Would love to see the source code.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you use Google Now?
Google Now is great if you travel a lot by road and have regularly occurring destinations and/or at regular times. It has a great ability to predict "Are you going to xyz?" - If you answer yes, it already knows where you are going and presents the satnav all ready to go with traffic reports etc.
I find that so so handy.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Facebook Says Its New Data Center Will Run Entirely on Wind
When they say 'wind' do they mean all the hot air produced by all the people using it?
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Internet.org ... seems to be missing?
Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when hacking?
Anything with a good consistent rhythm and beat is good for me. I particularly find that (surprisingly!) liquid Drum & Bass helps get you in 'the zone' of concentration.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Sesame, the wireless Mac lock
Serious call centres are red hot on data protection, at least here in the UK. I can imagine these being useful there. That said, with 200+ of these little things in one building i can imagine the bluetooth range might get a tad busy!
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How does your CV look like?
Always keep to two pages maximum. I have a lightly coloured header with my name in large letters at the head of page 1, the rest in a nice, clear, structured list of skills and previous jobs.
If I remember later on I'll link it up here for you to see.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your linux distro?
If you're looking for an aestheticaly pleasing desktop with lots of shiny, Ubuntu and Mint are the still the flavours of the month.
As a proper computer user, mind, add another +1 to CrunchBang Linux. Works great on my desktop as it very nippy without bloat but the laptop was the best to benefit as I can easily get an extra hour or two from the battery life because of it.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Use ASCII art to help fast module search in Sublime Text
And I thought I was the only one doing this!
It's an excellent idea if your code evolves too much to keep up with approximate line numbers alone.
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Gmail is Down (as well as other services)
No issues here I'm afraid (UK).
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Pluggable Phone Technology Movement - PHONEBLOCS.com
Indeed. This is scam material in the making! Just check the whois for an obvious sign its a fake.
phoneblocs.com (fake) Registrant Name: Wy Ifi
phonebloks.com (genuine) Registrant Name: DMJ Hakkens
Any chance of this link being altered or removed?
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: SWEDISH RAPPING SENSATION AKA ICE CHAIN (GARBAGE)
Is this link meant to be an advert or something?
jongibbins | 12 years ago | on: Snowden accepts Venezuela's asylum offer
Strangely enough, the Tweet from @Alexey_Pushkov declaring this has since been deleted ....
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