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bwohlergoon The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs (2014)

the temperature has been addressed in that article.

bwohlergoon The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs (2014)

his advise is to put the eggs into a steamer... the quantity of water shouldn't make a difference in that case.

bwohlergoon Why the Internet Needs IPFS

most websites need a shared database for all users. how do you decentralize them?

bwohlergoon Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

i couldnt find an andoird app for their service last weekend.

terminated my testmonth after 3 hours because of this and went back to netflix

bwohlergoon Clipboard.js: Modern Copy to Clipboard

you know of a better page than html5test?

please, enlighten us.

bwohlergoon Clipboard.js: Modern Copy to Clipboard

i loathe confluences code boxes because of autoselect.

i often only want some lines from it... guess what? it selects the hole thing every time you try to explicitly select a small part of it (as in dragging the mouse while clicking over one word = whole document selected)

bwohlergoon Paris city centre goes car-free for a day

"... Paris is a huge city. Only Berlin comes close, ..."

yeah, right

Paris: 2,241,346 (2014)

Berlin: 3,562,166 (2014)

bwohlergoon Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

the files are mostly there... its just too troublesome for the companies to access the files for one user

bwohlergoon ScyllaDB: Drop-in replacement for Cassandra that claims to be 10x faster

leasing is often cheaper than the alternatives

bwohlergoon Google Glass renamed to “Project Aura”, hires from Amazon

because they're forcing you to open their article to see the new name.

Google renames Project 'Glass' to 'Aura' and Hires from Amazon

bwohlergoon Welcome to the Block Party: The internet after ad blocking

ads are the only reason i use firefox on my phone. its the only mobile browser with extension support

thogh thats the only good thing about it... i'd much rather use opera or chrome, as both are better in almost every way

bwohlergoon Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python

we are talking about Lists, not arrays from an unrelated library which has to be installed first. what you've done there is simply dishonest

In [1]: a = [1,2]

In [2]: b = [4,5]

In [3]: print(a+b)

Out [1, 2, 4, 5]

bwohlergoon Why China's Economy Is OK but China's Government Is Not

nepotism, noun

The practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.

... i think you're mistaking the original meaning with its definition.

bwohlergoon Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data

that was one example he gave, you've not diminished his point in any way by questioning only a part of his argument.

bwohlergoon Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

to achieve what he said he'd need one user per browser tab...

you do realize that facebook etc still track you, even if you're logged out, right?

bwohlergoon Exploiting Android Users

you're probably using adblock then.

homepage: right below his link (paint.net 4.0...) is a "GET IT HERE" picture add which installs crapware

download page: pig green banner "START DOWNLOAD" above his text link for the download.

bwohlergoon Commit messages are not titles

that tool would have to be quite specialized though and needs to enforce test driven development... how else could it check different benchmarks?