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Kartificial··on Why No HTTPS?
Judging by the contents of the list for the Netherlands, we are doing quite well: https://whynohttps.com/country/nl

Most pressing ones are uva.nl (major University) and at5.nl (local but relatively large news site).

Kartificial··on The Math of Card Shuffling
So why won't you play a truly random shuffled deck?
Kartificial··on As a back end dev, how can I make life easier for the front end devs?
I would say that working closely together with the front-end devs is key. Listen to what they are trying to do, and see where you can help. Mind you though, that it should be balanced, because you want to avoid doing work that is unnecessarily complicated to make the life of the front-enders better.
Kartificial··on Concrete AI tasks for forecasting (2014)
Number 31 ("Play poker well enough to win the World Series of Poker.") is a pretty empty statement, as 1 tournament does not reflect your skill at poker at all. Short term variance is too big of a factor when it comes to one 1 tournament result.
Kartificial··on IPv6 Wall of Shame
For those who are looking to navigate to some of those pages, be aware that there are a few nsfw sites on the wall of shame.
Kartificial··on Roads to Rome
Very cool maps indeed, would love to have this on my wall sometime.
Kartificial··on PHP 7 Released
That sounds amazing, do you have any sources / benchmarks to back this up?
Kartificial··on Chrome is developing a Sidebar API
Important part here:

"Does this API expose any functionality to the web?"

"No"

Kartificial··on Tota11y
But why would you place this tab on a live site? It's a great tool for developers, but there's no need to place this in production imo.
Kartificial··on Show HN: WhatsApp for Desktop
The default desktop app for Hangouts doesn't float your boat? https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/6098392?hl=nl
Kartificial··on Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
I think something of a timeout on the message bubbles is needed.. As to not cloud the screen too much. Nice work though :)
Kartificial··on Google Maps 2D Driving Simulator
Good stuff, small remark: the braking and accelerating on the car are pretty poor (as in, both take forever).
Kartificial··on Commits.io – Create a poster from your code
Fun stuff, also, is this typo on purpose? "Comming soon"
Kartificial··on Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (1994)
Is it me or is this page really scrambled on Chrome 38/Mac OS X Yosemite? It loads fine, but as soon as I scroll down, the background is black and the letters get scrambled in blue
Kartificial··on CSS: It was twenty years ago today
"What’s your opinion on pre-processors like SASS and LESS? Does CSS have anything to learn from them?

(...) My own favorites would be nested comments, and single-line comments (starting with //). When CSS turns 50 I’ll tell you why they were not part of CSS from the beginning."

Now, this makes me really wonder why single-line comments weren't part of the spec from the beginning. And I can't wait 30 years... Anyone an idea?

Kartificial··on Dutch Girl Fakes a Trip to South East Asia
For what its worth, she mentioned in a television show that she got a 7 (out of 10) mark for the project, which was people thought was rather low. The fact is that she does a kind of art study and that the teacher was not all to impressed with the 'art' she created for the project.
Kartificial··on BBC News website: responsive design in beta
A representative of the technical team did a talk at the Mobilism conference. Which was my favourite of all talks that conference. Interesting stuff.

Video: http://vimeopro.com/mirabeaunl/mobilism-2013/video/68025331

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jcleveley/mobilism-2013-a-story-of...

Kartificial··on Show HN: Update Android Apps Dynamically with no User Interaction
Is this what the app by Pokerstars uses? The app is not available in the Play Store due to the gambling nature of the app, but it checks for updates itself when opened.
Kartificial··on When Random Isn't Random Enough: Lessons from an Online Poker Exploit
Did this exploit actually got exploited? Or did they notify the site and gave them an opportunity to fix it before they released their findings?
Kartificial··on Show HN: Bubblin
Nice work.

I can imagine it would be appreciated that the page jumps to top when you turned a page, don't you think?

Kartificial··on The New York Times Redesign is Live
So they still hold on to the old train of thought of desktop users and mobile users. Shame really.
Kartificial··on Animation to Explain CSS Triangles
That's essentially doing the same trick twice, only with a slightly larger version that matches the border color of the box and is positioned behind the smaller triangle.
Kartificial··on HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
Why is this called a HTML5 Flash player? What is HTML5 about it?
Kartificial··on Disable Facebook Chat Seen Status - Chrome Extension
Facebook should implement a setting where you can disable this feature, so others cannot see if you have read their message, but at the same time this info is hidden for you as well.
Kartificial··on Non-Scientific Reasons To Do A PhD In The Netherlands
First time I've read an argument against the lack of language barrier, interesting, and point well made.
Kartificial··on DynamoDB Local Secondary Indexes
Ah, nice feature addition. I recently started using DynamoDB and was wondering why the range was restricted to only one field.
Kartificial··on Fake holidays are the new infographics
I guess I missed the news that explains the link to infographics in the title. Can somebody explain where this title comes from?
Kartificial··on The Minuum keyboard project: mobile keyboards reimagined
Interesting approach, at first glance I was not really convinced, but seeing the possible applications in wearable electronics, this might be the ideal solution.
Kartificial··on Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5
The workspace has been shutdown here, too many bombermen.
Kartificial··on Africa’s Mobile Explosion
From my traveling experience in Ghana I can say that mobile usage there is crazy big. Everybody has a phone, but almost always a really basic (partly broken) phone. So except for the richer audience, smartphone are almost non-existent.

This, however, does not mean that mobile internet is also non-existent. Although data reception is pretty much bound to larger cities/communities, it goes through the entire country. And sometimes I even had reception in the most desolate places.

But the most interesting thing was that phones are actually used for calling people. When you exchange numbers they just randomly start calling you to ask you how you are and whatnot.

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