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cdawzrd··on Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7
If you are using third-party disk (or anything) encryption tools, the keys would be stored in userspace RAM, which isn't saved to disk by shutdown. It only persists parts of the kernel, and presumably does not persist Bitlocker keys.
cdawzrd··on Ask HN: What kind of hackathon do you like?
I like the idea of having a general theme, and then presenting what you've built at the end somehow. I'd rather not do a hackathon that required we use a specific API or product, or otherwise restrict what you work on. Instead, make the hackathon about building things along a certain theme ("music", "transportation", "education", etc).

Also, I may be biased as a hardware engineer, but I only consider hackathons that welcome both software and hardware projects.

cdawzrd··on Reddzine - A new magazine-style reddit client for iPad
Any plans for an Android version?
cdawzrd··on PandaBot: A friendly, affordable 3D printer
This is a FDM printer that is a lot cheaper than the MakerBot ($800 vs $2100). The Form 1 is a SLA printer, which means it is better at making small, precise parts; but worse at making parts that are durable enough for actual testing in assemblies (as opposed to just looking pretty).

It is interesting to see competition to the MakerBot, since $2k is still a bit high, and if the PandaBot's "calibration-free" design works as well as they claim, the ease-of-use factor is still a big thing to exploit.

If it has even moderately good print quality, a commercial, fully-assembled FDM printer for under $1000 is an interesting prospect.

cdawzrd··on The Code Side Of Color
I'm all for designers learning a bit of the technical background behind colors on the web, but this article is full of technical inaccuracies, misconceptions, and misleading comparisons.

"Tens place"? "24-bit color" ignores alpha and color palettes "# means 'This is a hex number'": No, it means a web color expressed as 3 hex numbers.

Plus, I know it looks better to make your colors less saturated, but when you are demonstrating starting from #ff0000 and adding other colors, why not actually display #ff0000 instead of #e93f32?

Finally, spellcheck.

cdawzrd··on Xkcd style graphs
Just select and split off all the text to a new layer, then apply the distortion to the plot layer and not the text.
cdawzrd··on Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean
Google Voice doesn't come stock with Android. You can install it if you have a Google Voice account. If so, you probably know which one you want to use for texting. For example, I'm on Sprint and have GV integration enabled, which means my GV number gets used for caller ID and voicemail instead of my Sprint number. If I use the stock messaging app (or any other like Handcent), the texts go out as SMS through Sprint, with my Sprint number. If I use the GV app, the texts go out using the internet (3G or Wifi) and have my GV number. I never use the built-in messaging app. I'm pretty sure anyone who installs GV understands the concepts behind it and chooses to use either GV or SMS for text messaging without any confusion.
cdawzrd··on Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean
Tip: If you are running CyanogenMod (and possibly some other ROMs), you can take a screenshot by long-pressing the power button to bring up the power menu. In CM10 this is optional and can be enabled in settings.
cdawzrd··on Android can be beautiful
What's wrong with /r/programming?
cdawzrd··on A simplified S3 pricing page
Doesn't work on my phone. I am used to seeing slider controls that don't support dragging on touchscreens, but these don't appear to support the fallback of tapping a point on the scale to move the slide to that point.
cdawzrd··on Ask HN: Weekend side projects?
How do I add breweries? I'm in Boston and there are none on the map, but we have tons of breweries.
cdawzrd··on X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities
Grab the latest of JMZTaylor's unofficial CM9 nightlies! They are very stable and a huge upgrade from CM7 on my original Evo.
cdawzrd··on All you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (NSFW)
Please mark this article as NSFW!
cdawzrd··on Is Kickstarter selling dreams?
MFG.com does the first part of that, without the order aggregation.
cdawzrd··on The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
The newest RAM that you can get as a TSSOP (as opposed to BGA) is DDR1. DDR2 and DDR3 are only available in BGA packages.
cdawzrd··on Netflix begins the deployment of their own content delivery network
ZFS doesn't use that much RAM if you don't turn on deduplication, which is of less use in a system that serves large compressed video files than one that handles tons of read/write traffic as an office file server.
cdawzrd··on HP designjet 3D printer (German site) check the video
Repair. Plastic bit broken on your car / appliance / device? Grab a model from the web and print a new one.
cdawzrd··on Know Your Gmail Stats using Gmail Meter
It's completely broken on my (Android) phone browser. Every time I try to scroll down, it kicks me back to the top of the page.
cdawzrd··on Notch live coding 0x10c
LWJGL, and I think he's working on a level editor rather than actual gameplay.
cdawzrd··on Notch live coding 0x10c
I assume he's building a level editor. The "pyramids" are building-blocks to create stuff with.
cdawzrd··on Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
Related: Verizon Math http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
cdawzrd··on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released
I love Xmonad, but I think gnome-panel goes with it way better than xmobar.
cdawzrd··on Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
> as many as 15 chunks

Yes, 15 * 2048 = a 30k limit on document size

cdawzrd··on That’s it, we’re quitting
Your task killer might be hurting your battery life rather than helping it. In any case, in recent versions (2.1+ I think), Android is better at managing tasks than a third-party app, and overzealous background task killing doesn't help anything.

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-wi...

cdawzrd··on Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac
Should have clarified: In Linux, f.lux does not appear to work with multiple monitors. Redshift works great in Linux.
cdawzrd··on Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac
In addition to being easier to install, Redshift has the benefit of working properly in multi-monitor environments.

http://jonls.dk/redshift/

$0.02

cdawzrd··on Show HN: 7courses, the recipe manager.
1. Would prefer a non-FB/Google login

2. I can't edit ingredient or direction entries after saving them from the "create recipe" form, I have to delete them and re-enter them.

3. The font is a little over-the-top IMHO

4. Consider using hashtags or something else to make the site more bookmark-friendly and back-button friendly.

EDIT: Thought of some more things:

5. I'd like to be able to optionally have my cookbook accessible to the public via some URL (or maybe on a per-recipe basis?)

6. Mobile styles need a little work (browsing from Android 2.2, the white space for headings / lists looks cramped, text isn't big enough, etc)

7. I'd like to be able to export recipes or the whole cookbook in some plaintext format, email recipes to people, have a print view of recipes, etc.

8. This is just a random idea, but it would be cool if the app automatically formatted ingredient listings, i.e. turning "1-1/4" into "1¼", autocorrecting "t." to "tsp", "T." to "Tbsp", or something? I'm not sure if there is a standard way to do this with non-Metric cooking units, but just something I was pondering.

9. It's really easy to lose your work! No delete confirmation, info gets lost if you refresh the "add recipe" form, etc.

cdawzrd··on Hey Google. You should compete with Dropbox.
You just affirmed 3pt14159's comment without adding to the discussion. That's what the "vote up" arrow is for. Also, if you haven't already, take a look at this:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

cdawzrd··on Google Names Five Winners Of Project 10^100, Awards $10 Million Total
Glad to see FIRST on that list. That organization is largely responsible for my (and many of my friends') interest in engineering and product development.
cdawzrd··on $250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs

http://minecraftwiki.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=35905&...

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