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oevi··on What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
You can use the excellent OneTab extension for Chrome: https://www.one-tab.com/

Just click on the button if you notice a slow down and restore the tabs later either selectively or as group.

oevi··on German government agrees to ban fracking indefinitely
You might want to read a bit about "Energiewende": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_transition_in_Germany
oevi··on Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?
Used it while living in China and never had any problems with it. Love the native Apps (Mac, iOS) and the fast and reliable connection. I think it's worth the money.
oevi··on Pebble 2, Time 2 + All-New Pebble Core
I also have a Forerunner 235 and I think it's the most underrated smart watch out there. It has superb battery life (up to 11 days), always on display and heart rate monitor as well as a tight integration with iOS (notifications, apple health).
oevi··on Universal.css
https://github.com/Idnan/furnish-js
oevi··on Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers
Here is a map showing high speed railway connections in Europe. German ICE trains usually peak at 300 km/h on selected tracks while the French TGV can go up to 320 km/h.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_railway_line#/media...

There is a huge project upgrading existing railway tracks throughout Germany to make it possible getting from Berlin to Munich in under 4h by 2017.

http://www.vde8.de/---_site.project..ls_dir._likecms.html

oevi··on A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in endings of German town names
Here is a visualisation comparing the "ingen" towns of Baden-Württemberg and the "ing" towns of Bavaria:

http://ssz.fr/places/?de#ingen$/ing$/

oevi··on A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in endings of German town names
This is the tool the viusalisations are made with: http://ssz.fr/places/

You can pick different countries and run your own expressions against them.

oevi··on Project Seen
Here is a nice article from a similar project that explains the trick in detail:

http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/

oevi··on CSV Challenge
JavaScript in the browser console.

Assuming you are on this URL:

    https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jorin-vogel/7f19ce95a9a842956358/raw/e319340c2f6691f9cc8d8cc57ed532b5093e3619/data.json
you can do this (might take a few seconds):

    var csv=""; JSON.parse(document.querySelector('pre').textContent).forEach(function(item){if (item.name && item.creditcard){csv+=item.name+','+item.creditcard+'\n'}});
oevi··on Tänzer – An industrial web server framework for Tcl
ProjectOpen [1] could be an example. But from my experience it is basically a legacy project used in (large) companies, because it filled a gap 15 years ago when web based PM software was still rare.

The funny thing is, that the use of Tcl is explicitly advertised as security through obscurity:

"The combination of AOLserver and the TCL programming language is not commonly found in the Internet, so a potential hacker will need to expend a considerable amount of criminal energy in order to reverse-engineer the application stack." [2].

[1] http://www.project-open.com [2] http://www.project-open.org/en/project_open_architecture

oevi··on Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite
In Germany most of the banks use ChipTAN [1] for online banking. With that scheme it's impossible to make any transaction without having physical access to the card.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_numb...

oevi··on How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well
Why? For beginners web technologies are perfect. you can have results like a first static page within the first day and from that point go on to eventually build complex web apps. and all that with the same tools and languages. you will not be a programmer at first, but you might become one.
oevi··on Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
I think you meant Ning [1].

Xing [2] is the German LinkedIn.

[1] http://www.ning.com

[2] https://www.xing.com

oevi··on China Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Companies Like Google
I live in China (I'm from Europe) and the article is a really good representation of the daily work life here. Without a good VPN service the internet feels like half of the stuff is missing. Ironically the NY Times is also blocked in China.

- "This happens in every company with an internet connection." Yes, that's right. Now multiply this by 100. As described in the article, the internet is not only censored but also unreliable. Some sites work only sometimes, others break silently. If you work for an international company, the websites and services your western colleagues use, will not work for you (dropbox, fb, google, xing, etc).

- "This is like saying how terribly inconvenient it is that not everyone in the world watches US based TV channels" No, the whole point of the internet is to be accesible from everywhere. Advertisers on US based TV channels target an US audience. If I release an Android app on the Play Store, I expect it to be downloadable by everyone with internet access.

oevi··on Poll: What is your #1 productivity killer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
oevi··on Show HN: Dump receipts as you get them through the year, recall them at tax time
A similar German Startup in the same field just failed: https://www.reposito.com/
oevi··on HTML minifier revisited
Do you have a source for that higher ranking of faster sites thing? Just interested.
oevi··on Who tweets about xkcd?
A good trick to get this information without viewing the source code is to simply hit the tweet button ('Share' on the bottom of the page). It will open a popup window with the static URL of the page as a template tweet. Works on most pages and without a twitter account.
oevi··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
this already exists: http://mealsnap.com/
oevi··on Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor?
For general purpose graphical tree editing a tool like yED [1] might be the most flexible solution. yED's native GraphML can be easily transformed into other XML-like Structures.

If you like a plain text solution the TGF Format might suit your needs. It can also be visualized and edited in yED but it's very limited in its feature set.

A very nice and simple solution for visualization of small trees is to parse plain text with XSLT and transform it into SVG [2].

For are more programmable concept i would recommend to have a look at the combination of D3js [3] + JSON (or XML).

[1] http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html [2] http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1472 [3] http://d3js.org

oevi··on Google's robots.txt
Wikipedia's robots.txt is quite verbose: http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt
oevi··on Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp
As a daily WhatsApp User myself, here are the reasons why I prefer it over other similar messenger services:

1. It's the facebook of messengers (now it's just facebook...). In most of Europe an Africa there's a 90% chance , that your friend with a smartphone has also WhatsAp installed. Even the older generation (40+) uses it frequently. In Africa, they even have a song about it [1].

2. Cross-Platform: It's available on most common smartphone platforms and looks almost identical across these. There are no hassles of sending stuff (videos, locations) across these platforms. Changing your smartphone is not a problem as long as you keep the same number.

3. It feels snappy: In comparison to iMessage, FB Messenger it's fast and has no disturbing gimmicks. You see messages instantly and it feels like a chat when iMessages feels more like bloated sms...

4. It works in places with unreliable network like rural regions. iMessages fails here often, FB apps also need a stable connection to work properly.

5. A few years ago unlimited text plans were not as common as in the US. Because of this people looked for an alternative to paying ~19c per text (EU). WhatsApp was one of the most polished solutions with a low entry barrier.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaFkpVrC2sw

oevi··on Show HN: TextIt – Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world
Is the visual interface build from scratch or based upon an existing framework?
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