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liquidsnakeon Firefox Operating System: Finally Launched at Mobile Congress 2013

Probably the target consumers. From what I saw they're targeting the lower end of smartphones with cheaper devices and people in developing countries such as most of those above are more likely to buy something like that compared to US/Canada or Western Europe, where more people afford higher end devices.

liquidsnakeon Vim Git Gutter

Well, in my case svndiff never worked fine, it would showbad diffs 9/10 of the times, but maybe it was just a misconfiguration on my part.

liquidsnakeon Vim Git Gutter

Great stuff, I was using svndiff before this but it was more of a miss than a hit, this seems to work nicely so far.

liquidsnakeon Europe introduces new Banknotes

I would have liked that as well, don't know what 4ad's experience was but I almost never had any problem with the plastic money. The bills are waterproof, very hard to tear and much more resistant in my opinion.

liquidsnakeon New $250 Chromebook

You are confusing things and that is not true (at least not for past models). See more here: http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...

liquidsnakeon Why couldn't MAC addresses be used instead of IPv4|6 for networking?

Actually the main problem of MAC vs IP, as the response states, is the lack of hierarchy vs the presence of it.

Both IPs and MACs can be changed by the administrators and both can be set such that duplicates exist in the network. However the fact that MACs are set by manufacturer makes them impossible to route as the values are not related to the network locations but related to hardware origin.

Edit: As one of the replies stated, they are also used in Stateless autoconfig in IPV6 (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Modified_EUI-64)

liquidsnakeon Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini...

I've been using Netvibes for almost 6 years now and I'm very happy with it.

liquidsnakeon Chinese RFC proposes separate, independent, national internets and DNS roots

Well, speaking/writing/understanding a language is a skill (that some people have and others need to learn) so I don't see why that would be different from knowing a programming language or algorithms.

liquidsnakeon Romania Has The Fastest IPv6 Adoption Rate

And a population of 3.6% of Romania... I think we can find a 700k pop city in Romania with a higher adoption than that :)

liquidsnakeon Microsoft Bans Linux/Android Dual-Booting on Windows 8 ARM Devices

Exception: HP Touchpad. ICS runs great on it.

liquidsnakeon Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

That's pretty odd since I have a HTC Desire (single core 1GHz) which works really well. (Never been an iPhone owner though)

liquidsnakeon 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

Pixel density isn't the real problem, it's the lack of content. Even though there have been Full HD displays for quite some time most of the HD content is only 720p, especially games on current generation consoles.

liquidsnakeon Instagram for Android — Available Now.

The limited space is one major flaw of the phone and it almost makes it unusable. That is why I suggest a custom ROM. I use one called Supernova and it is great, it is basically the stock ROM with the internal memory moved on the SD card. With it I have almost 2GB of internal memory and almost 100 applications. The instructions are not super user friendly but it is worth it!

liquidsnakeon It’s time to start paying for Android updates

The overhead of these phone manufactures comes from their horrible customizations and differentiation practices. I find the idea of paying $10 for the privilege of updating the OS just so I can get the new version of Sense, or TouchWiz, or MotoBlur, or whatever Sony runs now repugnant.

Well, they don't have much to differentiate do they? They all get the same Android, the hardware is pretty much the same between classes of phones (the customer doesn't really care it's a Tegra 3 or a S4) and there are not too many ways you can tinker with the hardware design so they have to add their own interface to make it different.

liquidsnakeon Great, Another Bootstrap Site

Heck, I hang around on HN a lot and still think that the default Bootstrap theme looks great. Sure, a little variety wouldn't hurt and I'd probably change some stuff (like some of the colors) before deploying a real project with it but it looks and works great and it's better than anything I could make as a programmer.

liquidsnakeon Dude, it's a laptop you want, not an iPad

Well, the fact that the Air can't be used as a tablet and does not have a touchscreen can be considered a compromise as well :).

liquidsnakeon Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen

The OP's tone clearly indicates that he expects some compensation, Linode's TOS are pretty clear: Therefore, subscriber agrees that Linode.com shall not be liable for any damages arising from such causes beyond the direct and exclusive control of Linode.com. Subscriber further acknowledges that Linode.com's liability for its own negligence may not in any event exceed an amount equivalent to charges payable by subscriber for services during the period damages occurred. In no event shall Linode.com be liable for any special or consequential damages, loss or injury.

This also provides an interesting dilemma when it comes to such events. In this case the damage is relatively easily quantifiable, he got X bitcoins stolen so the damage is X times the bitcoin value at that time. Still, it could have easily been user personal data or credit card information, which would have made an evaluation harder to make.

One of the risks of using such a platform I guess and something that anyone who does it should consider.

liquidsnakeon Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

It is against the rules (and against common etiquette) to DOS the machine in CTF events. I don't see how fork bombing the machine helped him solve any challenges so I can't see how someone could approve to that.

liquidsnakeon The Problem with Facebook Connect

Well I guess it matters how important it is for you to get all the users interested in your service or a part of them. Right now there are two categories which you are definitely missing on: 1) People who don't have a Facebook account. 2) People who have one but are more privacy-concerned. How affected you are by these two categories is defined of course by the target audience (demographics and social status for example), but it is pretty hard to draw conclusions without alternate methods of registration (for I know those 500 registrations came from 1000 interested users).

liquidsnakeon The Humble Bundle for Android (and Mac / Windows / Linux)

Tried all the games on my Touchpad running ICS (Cyanogenmod 9 Alpha 0.5) and they all ran flawlessly (except for the video playback in Anomaly but that's a known issue). Great stuff!