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Or they should have used Masonry in the first place :-/ Now that I have no reason to play the 1:1 game, I can go back to loooong photos that work better everywhere else.

Wondering the same. I got a weird Google Chat message through Hangouts a few months ago. Tried to uninstall Hangouts but it's a "system app" and can't uninstall it.

For clarification, this is the Settings option -inside- Hangouts, not Android settings.

Contrary to the NPR article, somebody further down this page said this hack may affect Messenger users too. So I'm sticking with Hangouts!

NPR said the Messaging app is safe... ?

Seems to me Google could just update the "Hangouts" app to handle this, assuming people download the update. Yes or no? I think news articles are saying you have to wait for your service provider to issue an update? Sounds like bad advice.

I've been saying that for a while. I bet Google could dominate the enterprise market with HUD data while everyone else is playing around with Unity3D gaming apps. Of course AR gaming will be huge but data doesn't need to be 3D to be useful, or we would already have 3D displays. 2d info is more useful than 3D info, focus on that. We all watched Johnny Mnemonic browse file systems in 3D (long time ago) and that never came to pass, because it's pretty much useless to see a file system in 3D.

I never actually played it but I know what you mean about macros. Before UO there was a game called "Flash Attack" for Galacticom BBS and it was a really fast-paced multiplayer game, you had to have a good macro setup in place just to keep up, which led to a lot of creativity that was really fun. This was around 1988 and the latency was mind-blowing fast. And it had in-game multiplayer chat where everyone could chat at the same time and you could see them type every character, which made it a lot more personal. All in text mode.

IMO it was the Internet. C and Pascal dominated till 1994, then Java books were everywhere. I loved TP5 (the manual was awesome) but dropped everything to learn Java which promised the world: write once, run everywhere and Internet applications! Woohoo. Then Perl and Javascript were on the scene. WIRED magazine! Very exciting times. Netscape Navigator Gold baby. Delphi was "Microsloth Windoze" not even on my radar.

What browser are you using to turn off CSS?

I figure a large percentage of HN users are technically sophisticated, and that point of view is as interesting to me as the non-technical point of view.

If I was looking for a replacement, maybe I'd look for an RSS aggregation plugin for WordPress? Personally, I have my own PHP code that will slice and dice feeds however I want.

I got about halfway through building a "news blend" app where you tap just the categories you want and it would blend all the latest articles from just your categories into one news feed and email that to you daily. But we never finished it.

I have to agree, but I was looking to limit the "cost" by making it easy and fun. I could see the demographics, most of them had time to kill. And with young people, you never know what will be cool, fashionable or viral. Easy-to-break is subjective too. Sibling, parent, teacher, advertiser, somebody looking over your shoulder? They couldn't break it. I think every generation has something like this, a Cracker Jack decoder ring, passing notes in class, some 1337 letter generator.

Back in the Myspace era, I was bored and created an easy encoder-decoder for people to play with. It worked with Twitter, Facebook and Myspace (cut-paste your encoded text) because it only used basic characters. As you can't see in this animation, I later added random spaces and punctuation to the encoded text so that theoretically it would be harder for social networks to detect and block. The text was encoded in Javascript as you typed, which I thought was cool :-)

You can see it here as a GIF animation http://pjbrunet.com/friends-secret-messages.gif The decoder was just as easy, another pink box under the encoder. Obviously a pro could crack the code but that wasn't the point.

It was free. I advertised it to hundreds of thousands of people at the top of my blog which was 99% social media users and many of them were interested in privacy related topics as I could see from the Google queries. Looking at the CTR on that banner (asking people to try it) I concluded nobody cared. I was obviously targeting people who weren't tech savvy. I had some friends try it, they said they felt like James Bond ;-) That particular app had no traction, but my "pipe letter generator" did much better.

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Same here, I'm back to using a text file. I can access it from all my devices with DroidEdit. For todos, any UI is a distraction, but that's just me.

I was upset when they killed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBlogLog ;-)

Don't forget Oculus.

It's a Microsoft strategy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

Doesn't Zuck have enough of the Internet?

Be careful out there...

http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/thank-you-seth-vidal

http://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-durham-hit-and-run-that-k...

Good to know, thanks Hacker News. Better "dependency solving" is appreciated. Though I stopped using Fedora, I assume this will make it to CentOS eventually.

Forcing trains to slow for turns is not a complex engineering problem, IMO. Here's my safer, low-tech solution that wouldn't cost billions of dollars and wouldn't be vulnerable to hackers. Before the turn, pound a "stake" into the ground. Then add a simple lever under trains that forces them to slow down. When the lever hits the stake, the train is forced to slow. No human intervention required. If you need different speeds for different turns, just position stakes further left or right. 20mph stake slows the train to 20mph, easy. (Extrude the metal enough that it wouldn't be easy to tamper with.) Seems like this billion-dollar wireless solution would be vulnerable to hackers. Personally, I'd feel safer with a mechanical solution.

Uh, yeah but didn't Cyanogen recently announce they're working with Microsoft? But maybe that's just a coincidence.

It's official, Windows 95 is the version limit of Windows.

http://pjbrunet.com/95-new-windows-limit/

The swim tracker sounds interesting, but not available yet.

Just a 2 cent tip: For interviews, it helps to respond to their answers. Feels more like a conversation. I realize it's easy to email 20 questions and call it a day. Been there, done that. In my experience, if you ask three questions you get as much content as asking ten questions and the individual answers are more interesting as a result. Your mileage may vary ;-)

I think the intended application is for digital art, which is where I think this shines. If you're a photographer, for example, printing X originals and destroying the negative is already dead simple.

In the past, I think paying for digital work was more about resolution. Here's a preview, now pay me for the full resolution. But I think if there's some consensus among collectors, maybe this will work.

What you're saying about future transactions benefiting the creator, that might be interesting to explore. I thought I heard some galleries have terms that limit who you can sell the art to in the future. Returning some percentage of future transactions back to the artist (or gallery) would be cool, but that could always be added as a feature later, right?

As far as keeping a list, I was never able to do that. I have paintings all over the US and 99% of them I have no idea where they are and who owns them. I lose touch with people. And often the transactions are with complete strangers, do you really want to keep in touch with all these random people? Even if I have somebody's email, I don't want to bug them about my artwork. I gave a couple of paintings to my university and I never had access to the room they were displayed, they could be in a landfill by now, no idea.

Maybe all this "BTC blockchain as a platform" stuff is too tangential and undermines (no pun intended) the potency of BTC as a cryptocurrency.

Maybe there could be a "Platform Test Coin" to beta test all these far out ideas, then spin off the successful projects to their own independent alt coins?

Even assuming the BTC network can handle a lot of bloat, wouldn't it be cheaper for users of XYZ platform to use a (less expensive) altcoin blockchain? I'm not an expert on inserting data into a blockchain, just thinking out loud here.

But factor in the value of 3 months. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp

"They're all over the place, looking for you. You just need to be found or you can find them."

Expanding your network on LinkedIn can help.

I was thinking X-Men. In the last movie, didn't they have robots to detect mutants underground? LOL.

If we look at the market adoption curve (Marketing 101) most of the money and most of the demand is in "old" technology. But extremely old tech, extremely new tech, either way there's going to be demand across the spectrum relative to the supply of developers.