I don't think calling it a race is all that strange. It's perhaps more strange to talk about winning the race or beating another country though, as that implies some finality/conclusion to the endeavor. This can be…
Ah, tt-rss... After Google announced that Google Reader was going the way of the dodo, I spun up my own instance of tt-rss, and used their (paid) Android app too... until I decided to file some bugs on their Redmine bug…
Feedly's mobile app has pretty bad UX (or at least that's been my experience every time I try installing it on Android). For example, in the article list view, there's a single basically-identical swipe left/right…
It wasn't removed; it was simply hidden because it was a work-in-progress piece of infrastructure wasn't ready for end-user consumption[1]. The same underlying code was still used by Privacy Guard[2], so it still wasn't…
Minor quibble, but CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard was a glorified UI on top of App Ops that Google had already been developing. Also, IMHO, it's a bit of a stretch to say that the Google Now shortcut was inspired by PA's…
I find it amazing how some people can make uninformed claims about something, and when their "knowledge" is called into question, instead of backing down, they choose to double-down and insist that they are in fact…
Maybe the author wasn't wrong in the facts presented. But maybe he wasn't giving the another perspective that would alter your perception or understanding of whatever picture he was trying to paint. If you aren't given…
Depending on which streaming service you use, possibly a non-issue when you can simply cache whatever music you want for offline access.
µBlock and µMatrix are parallel offshoots of gorhill's earlier HTTP Switchboard. They're refactored forms of HTTP Switchboard, where each extension focuses on different forms of blocking (µBlock for pattern-based…
HN discussion on the first point from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7831355 I'm still of the opinion that the space at the top makes sense. I sometimes drag windows to the top to maximize, and like…
You say that as if these guys wouldn't have touched Tor if Kim Dotcom didn't intervene. This is just what they do, whether or not they were given the vouchers. If not today, eventually they would probably have set their…
Not a lawyer, but as I understand it, trademarks often cover only specific market categories. That is, someone can in some cases use a trademark in a market category that the original trademark owner does not operate…
<spoiler-alert>They made a silly mistake on their question 13 (Geant4 and V517) implementation. Even though I clicked on the second sC0Min1Max, they marked my answer as incorrect -- it should be correct whether the…
Effectively. Seems to use node-libspotify's ability to pipe the raw PCM stream to a file handle, after which it proceeds to convert to WAV->MP3(320kbps). Provides wrappers on top for playlist handling, etc.
Not sure how you concluded that that was my assumption. To have a "unique position" is completely irrelevant. The point is that Google users are sticky and valuable because Google keeps them engaged, and knows more…
To play along with your analogy: patrickaljord's point is that if sales decreases, then you get less commission. Decreased sales in this case is decreased number of ad viewers that comes as a result of decreased number…
EDIT: jeroen's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8093790) links to a better article. tl;dr (as PeterWhittaker suggests): "Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by Separating Them and Wrapping the Stems in Plastic Wrap".…
I've used AutoIt fairly heavily in the past and can say from experience that, in many ways, it is indeed very convenient for rapid Windows development. Still, to more directly answer the "question" presented in the…
To be fair, the article explicitly states the following: > TL;DR I cannot in good faith recommend Vim to a new developer, even though I use it. Since you're already familiar with vim, you clearly aren't in the target…
Admittedly I can only make guesses as to the actual implementation. It may well be through the cloud, through some Bluetooth/Wi-Fi communication, or maybe even a mixture for all we know. Nevertheless, my point is that…
I don't quite see when in the keynote Apple demonstrated the run-anywhere applications that's discussed in this blog entry. These are all different implementations of applications running on their respective platforms,…
Well... sure, I guess, but although I wasn't direct about it in my above comment, the whole discussion was about mouse control right? If we want to discuss keyboard shortcuts, then Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab/Ctrl+W/Ctrl+T…
Is that really a bug as others are saying? I've always thought of it as making the inverse of the Windows 7 drag-to-top-of-screen-to-maximize (restoring the window) easier, and prefer it that way. More generally, it…
Something that always annoys me about these articles is the ambiguity behind what constitutes "usage". Idling in pocket (but actively connected to phone network)? Data, text, or voice calls? Voice calls using phone…
Relative to each other they make sense. I guess they chop off the right-hand side of the bar at around 20% for effect, so it looks like a larger portion of users are blocking than in reality. Makes marketing sense given…
I don't think calling it a race is all that strange. It's perhaps more strange to talk about winning the race or beating another country though, as that implies some finality/conclusion to the endeavor. This can be…
Ah, tt-rss... After Google announced that Google Reader was going the way of the dodo, I spun up my own instance of tt-rss, and used their (paid) Android app too... until I decided to file some bugs on their Redmine bug…
Feedly's mobile app has pretty bad UX (or at least that's been my experience every time I try installing it on Android). For example, in the article list view, there's a single basically-identical swipe left/right…
It wasn't removed; it was simply hidden because it was a work-in-progress piece of infrastructure wasn't ready for end-user consumption[1]. The same underlying code was still used by Privacy Guard[2], so it still wasn't…
Minor quibble, but CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard was a glorified UI on top of App Ops that Google had already been developing. Also, IMHO, it's a bit of a stretch to say that the Google Now shortcut was inspired by PA's…
I find it amazing how some people can make uninformed claims about something, and when their "knowledge" is called into question, instead of backing down, they choose to double-down and insist that they are in fact…
Maybe the author wasn't wrong in the facts presented. But maybe he wasn't giving the another perspective that would alter your perception or understanding of whatever picture he was trying to paint. If you aren't given…
Depending on which streaming service you use, possibly a non-issue when you can simply cache whatever music you want for offline access.
µBlock and µMatrix are parallel offshoots of gorhill's earlier HTTP Switchboard. They're refactored forms of HTTP Switchboard, where each extension focuses on different forms of blocking (µBlock for pattern-based…
HN discussion on the first point from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7831355 I'm still of the opinion that the space at the top makes sense. I sometimes drag windows to the top to maximize, and like…
You say that as if these guys wouldn't have touched Tor if Kim Dotcom didn't intervene. This is just what they do, whether or not they were given the vouchers. If not today, eventually they would probably have set their…
Not a lawyer, but as I understand it, trademarks often cover only specific market categories. That is, someone can in some cases use a trademark in a market category that the original trademark owner does not operate…
<spoiler-alert>They made a silly mistake on their question 13 (Geant4 and V517) implementation. Even though I clicked on the second sC0Min1Max, they marked my answer as incorrect -- it should be correct whether the…
Effectively. Seems to use node-libspotify's ability to pipe the raw PCM stream to a file handle, after which it proceeds to convert to WAV->MP3(320kbps). Provides wrappers on top for playlist handling, etc.
Not sure how you concluded that that was my assumption. To have a "unique position" is completely irrelevant. The point is that Google users are sticky and valuable because Google keeps them engaged, and knows more…
To play along with your analogy: patrickaljord's point is that if sales decreases, then you get less commission. Decreased sales in this case is decreased number of ad viewers that comes as a result of decreased number…
EDIT: jeroen's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8093790) links to a better article. tl;dr (as PeterWhittaker suggests): "Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by Separating Them and Wrapping the Stems in Plastic Wrap".…
I've used AutoIt fairly heavily in the past and can say from experience that, in many ways, it is indeed very convenient for rapid Windows development. Still, to more directly answer the "question" presented in the…
To be fair, the article explicitly states the following: > TL;DR I cannot in good faith recommend Vim to a new developer, even though I use it. Since you're already familiar with vim, you clearly aren't in the target…
Admittedly I can only make guesses as to the actual implementation. It may well be through the cloud, through some Bluetooth/Wi-Fi communication, or maybe even a mixture for all we know. Nevertheless, my point is that…
I don't quite see when in the keynote Apple demonstrated the run-anywhere applications that's discussed in this blog entry. These are all different implementations of applications running on their respective platforms,…
Well... sure, I guess, but although I wasn't direct about it in my above comment, the whole discussion was about mouse control right? If we want to discuss keyboard shortcuts, then Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab/Ctrl+W/Ctrl+T…
Is that really a bug as others are saying? I've always thought of it as making the inverse of the Windows 7 drag-to-top-of-screen-to-maximize (restoring the window) easier, and prefer it that way. More generally, it…
Something that always annoys me about these articles is the ambiguity behind what constitutes "usage". Idling in pocket (but actively connected to phone network)? Data, text, or voice calls? Voice calls using phone…
Relative to each other they make sense. I guess they chop off the right-hand side of the bar at around 20% for effect, so it looks like a larger portion of users are blocking than in reality. Makes marketing sense given…