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ebladeon Poll: Where are you currently living?

Singapore

ebladeon Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web

It seemed that the general idea of web being slow is so polarizing that each and everyone of us can't even pinpoint where the problem is. I suspect the problem is a multidimensional one.

ebladeon BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45

Happy to see that these powerful little things are getting more affordable. What does those expansion pins do? Can they be used for I/O like button and LED?

ebladeon Dear Apple: I give up, WireframeApp will become open source

Same here. I used D-U-N-S Profile Lookup[1] and entered the company's detail (Singapore company). An hour later, I received an email containing the D-U-N-S number from noreply-appledev@apple.com

[1]https://developer.apple.com/ios/enroll/dunsLookupForm.action

ebladeon The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments

It is suspended now.

> We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads.

ebladeon Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5

It started with the implementation of an Infinite List Component that handles items with unknown sizes. Only a very small set of DOM nodes is actually created to fill in the actual visible screen area. They will then be constantly recycled to render next / previous data on-demand. As a result, memory footprint is kept minimal, regardless of the amount of data in the Store. Making this work is the easy part. Making it fast with the complexity and variety of items such as News Feed stories is the real challenge. The bottleneck lies within the core processes that a browser has to perform: layout and compositing.

I wished jQuery Mobile has Infinite List Component that handles the list item recycling the last time I used it. It is the equivalent of UITableViewCell's dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier.

ebladeon New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora

While I agree that Esplora is a true departure from previous designs, I don't think "fragmentation" is really an obstacle here. As always, users just need to choose the board model under Tools -> Board menu. As the underlying library and code, I believe are still the same.

ebladeon You don't have to be local

Hit up with those in HackerSpaceSG maybe?

ebladeon Show HN: Responsive Email Templates

You could set 2 versions: text and html. Email clients that do not support html will fallback to displaying text.

ebladeon Eric Lippert is leaving Microsoft

Yeah, I read that Objective-C got it's ARC feature after static analyzer was integrated to Xcode. No more manual reference counting is definitely a plus.

ebladeon Show HN: 6 Months in, first iPhone app into app store today

It's there on the site.

What instruments can Stratotune be used with? Stratotune is suitable be used with instruments from the brass, string and woodwind families, including acoustic, classical and electric guitar.

ebladeon Show HN: UpShot, Open Source Screenshot Sharing via Dropbox on OS X

The thing is upshot doesn't seem to trigger if portion of the screenshot is selected. Capturing the whole window works though.

Edit: someone has opened a github issue for this https://github.com/fwenzel/upshot/issues/28

ebladeon Toba catastrophe theory

I've been there 2 years ago and the lake is so immensely huge. Difficult to imagine how powerful the eruption that made it.

ebladeon Show HN: Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta.

This is likely a service I'd use once in a while. Say I want to convert an html to mobi once per month, the listed pricings do not fit my use case. That means one conversion for 5 bucks.

I know it isn't easy to set up the pricings but would there be any "pay per use" for people like me?

ebladeon Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite

I think the "eight week" translates well if the average daily usage is half an hour?

ebladeon Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite

If your kindle is non-3G, the content that you email to your kindle address will show up when it's connected to wifi.

ebladeon Show HN: I'm building a webapp for serious cyclists

A few of my friends use Endomondo to track their cycling activity and get the statistics, share routes. It works nice and basically you just need a smartphone with GPS and a bike and you're ready to roll.

They're cycling hobbyist though but bike quite often.

ebladeon Internet Freedom in Malaysia #stop114a

Is this akin to Thailand's lese-majesty or more broader? Seems backwards!

ebladeon How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

I am in Singapore and have been using it for a couple of months now. Works great.

ebladeon Microsoft abandon Metro name due to legal challenge

Could it be that newspaper and subway system that were named Metro are both operating locally so there's no brand confusion while Metro AG has worldwide operations?

ebladeon Stop Calling People Morons.

It's professor Hawking that's wheelchair bound.

ebladeon The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance

I read a book by another female author that suggested the same theme as this article: The Introvert Advantage - How To Thrive In An Extroverted World by Marti Olsen Laney.

A nice read overall and made me aware of many obvious but often went explained why introverts behave they way they are.

ebladeon TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps

Question: where did get the map and terrain data from if I may know? I used shapefiles from OpenStreetMap but they aren't as complete as I thought they are.