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Blarat··on Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this
Wouldn't the reduced size only mean that there would be fewer politicians to pay off? If you mean that a smaller government equals a government with no power, then why have a government at all?
Blarat··on Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours
This is true, but it doesn't just get there by magic. There's still need for "real programmers" behind the scenes.
Blarat··on Why I hate the Kindle
but on the other hand it's even "clunkier" to copy and paste from a paper book.
Blarat··on Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
It's due to the hidden menu, same drill with Office 2010 and finding "Save As.." etc, I've never been much for just using the keyboard, I like using the mouse to navigate the menus ;)
Blarat··on Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
I find that disturbing, one of the first things I do after a clean install of windows is to check the "Show Hidden Files", which was hard to find in Windows 7 :/ I thought most tech savvie people did that?
Blarat··on London riots / UK riots: verified areas
the reports I read said there was a gunfight, so I guess the police got shot at too. But that story might have changed?
Blarat··on Scalability
I have 1.5GB of RAM and I usually have ~15-20 tabs open without any performance hits on chrome, (including Eclipse, Skype, filezilla calc, evernote etc etc open). Maybe there's something wrong with your install?
Blarat··on Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook.
Yeah, and I bet they lock their houses when they leave for work and that's like not open at all! </sarcasm>
Blarat··on US claims all .com and .net websites are in its jurisdiction
Do you have anything to back up that claim?

My sister is in that range and she and most of her friends pay for content when they can, or so she tells me.

Blarat··on The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped
I don't think you have to worry about getting stuck due to the cold, I don't think the phone will get cold enough for that to happen.
Blarat··on Poll: What do you think of Google+?
I didn't realize it had hit mainstream media, I guess swedish media is behind as usual (or I'm reading the wrong sort of mainstream media)
Blarat··on Poll: What do you think of Google+?
I haven't seen any hype surrounding google+ except for HN and other similar communities. I don't think the regular FB user is even aware that google+ is in testing phase, or that google is even working on anything like it. Heck, how many have heard of google wave outside of the geek circle?
Blarat··on 2000 shell companies at one address in Wyoming
And with some tax planning no company would pay any tax... It's pretty easy to hide profits in the books
Blarat··on Apple Removes 3rd Palestinian Intifada iPhone App
I guess they did follow the rules, as it was just after Israel sent a demand for the app to be pulled from the market that it got pulled. That to me says that it was approved by apple... OTOH it could've slipped passed the review board
Blarat··on Apple Removes 3rd Palestinian Intifada iPhone App
I read the article, where exactly did it state that they "hate the west and all it stands for". Popular political figures like to repeat it, but I have yet to hear it from someone that isn't from the west...
Blarat··on Impressions of Android from a dev's perspective
It could be that your phone isn't supported, try this: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.KelliNoda.Battlehe...
Blarat··on Firefox 5 slips out ahead of schedule, gets official June 21st
I sure hope that we have enough advances in 4 years to make todays browsers obsolete...
Blarat··on TEDTalks as of 06.16.11
Miro
Blarat··on RIM implodes: announces layoffs, 500,000 PlayBooks shipped
they ran a bettery test for 1 hour and extrapolated the result which gave: the X2 should last about 5 hours and 20 minutes on a charge

and one important thing in the next line: and 5:39 for the average smartphone.

So it's pretty much in line with what the parent posted...

Blarat··on Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
Soylent Green perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
Blarat··on Piracy: are we being conned?
http://progressquest.com/

maybe this should be a better "hit" than pirating then :P

Blarat··on The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal
"Here in Vietnam you can buy a DVD of any recent Hollywood movie for 50 cents. Is it a coincidence that the domestic film industry is junk?"

Well I live in Sweden where DVDs/Blue Rays are quite expensive, but still the domestic film industry is still mostly junk. I don't think one factor has much relevance to the other ;)

Blarat··on Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
So you can help out with bandwidth when downloading media (TED talks for example). Back when I used miro that was what I used it for at least.
Blarat··on Apple Denies Amazon’s Claim That ‘App Store’ Is Generic Term
What I really don't understand is how Apple can do this due to the face that Amazon won't (and can't) sell any "Apple app store apps" on their store, so they won't be a competitor. For me it's if a company that produces patches to repair bicycle tubes called their product for "band aid", same idea but different markets.
Blarat··on Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America
>We've been through enough format changes to understand that "this is my media for ten years, then I'll need to convert it or buy it again." Access is the key, not ownership.

I guess this is what the RIAA/MPAA doesn't like with the streaming business, they can't resell the same material every time a new standard comes out.

Blarat··on Windows 7 Network Awareness: How Windows knows it has an Internet connection
I think that making it phone your own NCSI server instead would be quite interesting, just in case your computer gets stolen.
Blarat··on Should We Buy Expensive Wine?
well during a wine tasting competition in sweden the winner managed to not only name all wines, she also managed to say which region AND producer it was. So yes if you make the same test with experts the result would be quite different.

And most expensive wines need to mature before you enjoy them, if you uncork them right away it won't be a very pleasant experience.

Blarat··on Should We Buy Expensive Wine?
yeah the Tokaji Eszencia is expensive. But on the other hand you should be able to easily distinguish the Eszencia in a blind test due to the viscosity