nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Dear Apple, let's talk about photos
I have a Dell Mini with a tiny SSD, and I use selective sync to only sync my Documents folder. I then symlinked ~/Documents to ~/Dropbox/Documents. It works quite nicely. (and I do sync a few other folders, this is just an example)
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Twitter Should Shut Me Down
which are decidedly different things. By definition, the bigger problem with spam is receiving it, not clicking on it.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: Squaresend - Less annoying mailto links
Instead of a bunch of comments just saying "this is cool", it has some upvotes. When people leave specific feedback it's usually criticism.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Development on a Chromebook: an opinionated guide
I don't know of any company that's still making new netbooks, so unfortunately that option might not last too long. I like tablets, but I hate them for killing the netbook market!
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today
I think my first experience with programming was a Rexx app on an old Palm OS device back in elementary school. I made an interactive fiction game, if I remember correctly.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: You know, Google, the web already had this feature
I have that option enabled, and it just defaults to 360p. As far as I can tell, that option just makes it not increase the resolution when you click full screen.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story
I've seen many games that let you "earn" ingame currency by downloading apps or completing surveys. A few of these games _indirectly_ require you to download the incentivized apps by providing very few coins in the actual game, or making the ads the only way to get coins (other than with real money). Apparently that's sneaky enough for Apple.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown
Opera Mobile was one of the first things I installed on my Gingerbread phone, but more for the UI than the rendering.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: I want to write software that helps kill people.
Yeah, I know my view is idealistic... Having a gun for self-defense may be reasonable, but killing is never "the right thing to do" except as an absolute last resort in such situations.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: I want to write software that helps kill people.
I don't agree with it, but I think the American idea of guns is like what you said about knives: hunting guns are okay (like how kitchen knives are mostly used to cut tomatoes), but there's a line drawn somewhere for "assault weapons" (nobody cuts tomatoes with a switchblade).
Personally I think that although this idea makes sense for knives, guns cannot be justified because they have no purpose other than killing (hunting is still killing).
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Comcast injecting JS
Sprint does this too.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: ISP Advertisement Injection - CMA Communications
Sprint is another (lesser?) offender -- their mobile broadband injects a script in every page that loads compressed versions of images until told otherwise. (Annoying, but at least it's well-intentioned.) I've long since blocked the IP, but it gave me a bit of a scare to see unfamiliar code in my own websites.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell
Upon seeing the title I was expecting an article about movie piracy. I think this was ultimately more interesting.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Donglegate: Why the Tech Community Hates Feminists
Agreed, equating the entire internet with the "tech community" is more than a little bit sensational. There certainly are misogynists in the tech community, but I doubt they were responsible for all of the overall backlash.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
Lua is known for pairing really well with C.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"
And that doesn't work on mobile, because they have a "forgetful" mobile site :(
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Tech predictions for the next 10 years?
* CPU speed will get vastly more ridiculous, but battery life probably won't improve significantly (on x86 laptops).
* ARM will have around 50% market share as tablets become ubiquitous and laptops move to ARM. Those laptops will run some form of Windows, but Windows will continue to sell poorly on tablets.
* Reliable, reasonably fast internet will be available to almost all of the US.
* Cloud computing still won't be fully adopted. More computer users will do most of their work in a browser, but smartphones and tablets will still run many apps locally and desktop OSs will still be structured similarly to today's.
* Something huge and crazy will happen to education and Khan Academy will be involved in it.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone make a laptop like the Cr-48?
The Verge says this about the Pixel: "Google’s greatest advantage is that it doesn’t need bleeding-edge specs to build a high-functioning computer."
That could be exactly what I'm talking about.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone make a laptop like the Cr-48?
Never mind, I found rjtech.com. The designs don't look spectacular, but that's just from the pictures. What does look great, though, is the "No OS" option.
nkorth
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone make a laptop like the Cr-48?
I could deal with a 15.6" computer if it meant decent resolution, but more 1366x768? Really, Asus?
Aside from that, it looks promising. I'm seeing it for about $400 at a couple places.
