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PidGin128··on Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser
pagemaker?
PidGin128··on PointerPointer: points to your cursor
This is technically interesting, but voyeur-istically creepy.
PidGin128··on Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
yo. (of course, it did take two days to post...)
PidGin128··on Show HN: The most beautiful places on earth
The social media bar is interfering somehow on chrome 21.0.1157.0 (Developer Build 139621 Windows) (with plugins set to click enable) and 1024*768 screen on xp.

Mainly, all the page under the bar is blank. this affects where the overview map thinks the center is, when you double click to zoom in. also, made the individual site pages uselessly narrow.

edit: deleting this node "<div id="share_btns" class="panel">" makes it usable.

PidGin128··on Fear and Loathing and Windows 8
what device do you have that complies so quickly? My understanding was explicitly eight seconds for most things.
PidGin128··on What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.
And then subsequently introduced into our water supply..
PidGin128··on What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.
Wiki-Travel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitravel
PidGin128··on IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit
Blackberry Pearl 8130. OS 4.5.

Right side convenience key assignment? "Application switcher".

Works exactly like desktop Alt-Tab.

Not that this one random four year old example proves you wrong. It's just the experience I can share. (Here's a screenshot that I found from elsewhere: http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd504/Kirkx1/utf-8BU25hc... )

PidGin128··on Heavier people should pay more to fly
This is a reply to both of you:

Baggage handling type people don't have to haul you around and stow you beneath the plane. I was recently bitten by an overweight bag, and subsequently broke it into a second carry-on in a return flight. 25$ for extra bag, 100$ for overweight...

Anyways, what I was traveling with was unreasonably heavy, and would be a hassle to toss into the stowage, probably be a greater burden/wear on the conveyors etc.

PidGin128··on Weird World War II Security Puzzle
Have you ever folded it?
PidGin128··on Last.fm web site primary and failover down
Since the originally submitted link was deleted from last.fm's forums, here's the replacement, and a link to their blog:

http://blog.last.fm/2011/07/18/library-and-streaming-service...

http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/756231

PidGin128··on User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer
I personally suspect that some of the confidence garnered on the word processor might have been because it was more of an appliance, and didn't have a persistant state? When powered on, it was set to work on a specific task already, everything to interact with to change functions or settings, would be reset if you pulled the plug, or switched it off.
PidGin128··on Reverse Engineering Superbugs
It's interesting to note how a major issue in this field, is data volume itself. (As he points out.)

Also, amazing that the organization released the data initially.

PidGin128··on Jamendo reaches 300k CC-licensed tracks, releases free mobile apps
I'm also surprised to see BB support. Does anyone know if I can install it without the AppWorld installed?

Edit: Doesn't appear so. Also, their webpage didn't seem very mobile friendly.

PidGin128··on Settlement in George Hotz Case
Ford and John Deere are two brands that I believe have been integrated into the identity of some. I'm trying to think of other examples, news, maybe beverages? coke&pepsi is now obvious to me, others are harder. I guess apple/google/microsoft is the only other I can find.
PidGin128··on Review my startup: sanetax.com - A real Tax Professional prepares your taxes
Is anybody aware of a similar service for finding (traffic) lawyers? Searching for such is unpleasant (especially in a different locality).

Edit: I've now signed up to the service, as I've procrastinated equally with my taxes, however- I still don't know what to do. I appreciate the goal is to match taxed/preparer, but I'm not sure what forms are appropriate, which makes uploading them difficult.

I see there is a progress indicator to communicate how far along the preparer is with the submitted paperwork, maybe a similar guide for what to submit, and what might be missing? (Also possibly augmented by the preparer if the site doesn't want to become a guide?)

PidGin128··on Why does Adobe Reader need so many updates?
I assumed it changed the processor affinity for a running process. :/
PidGin128··on OM: "My web without Facebook Connect"
https://www.facebook.com/download

I myself was surprised when I found it.

PidGin128··on Structure Synth, an IDE for creating recursive 3D art
the shots on your flickr pool link are reminiscent of demoscene releases. Kind of makes sense though, since I presume much of the more abstract features of a compo are stored/drawn in the same [similar] way.
PidGin128··on Amazon: New Kindles Selling at Record Rates
I was under the impression that towers had some type of signal baffle to prevent reception from devices a certain number of degrees from the horizon.

I have no merit or citation to exert with this claim.

PidGin128··on Using Python to Encode Cassette Recordings for my Superboard II
Took me a while to remember why I had been on that page before.

It's in the blogroll of the console hacking elite. (Wii side.)

Newer posts still interesting, glad to see other insane people still functioning (re: the vending machine change experiment).

PidGin128··on Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system
This is an interesting idea.

Perhaps an intermediate site, that you log into with an OpenID, and which then gives you a new OpenID that has some form of ranking/karma system enabled?

Or- Just a standardized method to track karma/ranking across disparate sites? Maybe an extension to OpenID, feedback for feedback?

The only obstacle I see, is how the information would be conveyed. Without the participation of the hosting site, it would be little more than a static link.

Maybe a tangent of Flattr's offerings?

PidGin128··on Human-shaped pylons carry electricity across Iceland
The choice doesn't have to be form over function, or the reverse.

I think we can agree both tasks are handled nicely.

Also amusing, a story on electricity delivery, in "Wired".

PidGin128··on TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it never existed anyway
I first thought of a solution, whereby we share distributed lists of hostnames, in the same way torrents are tracked.

I then remembered that you can switch to alternative DNS providers. Google's comes to mind, because its 8.8.8.8 address is easy to remember.

PidGin128··on Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity.
Just hope they don't try to replace you, and claim your life too.

The pen-light idea mentioned elsewhere is a nice addition to the notepad idea.

Most of my solutions so far usually regard trivialities. When a train of thought was genuinely worth finding in the morning, I would usually leave a relevant web search open on my phone (along with all the other things to not forget, or check later. Quite devastating is the browser choked...). Also, the display would be jarringly bright... Although, if it was a compelling enough idea, it would be enough to win me away from sleep.

PidGin128··on Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity.
If we're generous to ourselves, it looks like a jump of ~5k in the page's analytics view (in a few weeks, I'm sure YT will mention us explicitly).

I wonder where else links were coming from?

PidGin128··on Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility
Perhaps the site is trying to set a negative example, so it might be learned from?

Also peculiar, if it hasn't been updated in eight years, why is it using silverlight? [And regarding http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606292 -- that lack of awareness could be considered a bug of silverlight's linux plugin itself.]

PidGin128··on World Population Graphed By Latitude And Longitude
Obviously, the map portion itself feels a lot like earlier google maps iterations.

What sites have you seen the app on, specifically? They state in the help pane to have broken it into it's own self contained web-app to facilitate it's use by many different sites.

PidGin128··on Welcome to the new decade
A lot of downvotes without any explanation. Although, at this point it's already recovering.

Assuming the commentor hadn't seen unicode notation, how could they know it wasn't related to lisp?

PidGin128··on How to Write an Operating System
The comment doesn't meet the guidelines, certainly.

However, a lesson could have been gleaned from zero points. There is no need to dig a grave.

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