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matthewdavison Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal challenge

Guess this is what billionaires do with their free time. Bill Gates did this to his house many moons ago.

matthewdavison A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building

>In summer, cruise ships, charter boats, and commercial fishing vessels bring thousands of visitors to Whittier’s harbor on the west side of Prince William Sound.

Sounds like tourism is a large portion of income.

matthewdavison QCraft: A Beginner's Guide to Quantum Physics in Minecraft [video]

Never ceases to amaze me what people can accomplish in Minecraft.

matthewdavison Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And Text

I realize that the patent was filed in 2012, but there's plenty of prior art. For example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8 The whois for type-n-walk show it was created 2009. And archive.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131301/http://www.type-n...) shows that there was actually an app in existence at that point. -

matthewdavison HTML5 Bookmarks – daily news articles and bookmarks

The magnifying glass icon, while looks like a way to search the bookmarks, actually opens ALL bookmarks in separate tabs.

matthewdavison Why are firetrucks red?

Why does that read like Yahoo answers?

matthewdavison This extension has transformed my Chrome and computer experience

This may be a stupid question, but why don't our browsers do this automatically? This seems like a good idea.

matthewdavison What you need to know to keep your online accounts safe

That's why I use QR codes. And offline QR code generation.

matthewdavison Chrome has updated - How to fix the changed New Tab page

I actually find myself using a blank page in firefox. But in chrome(ium) I use the extension Currently - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk... Makes a new tab actually useful for me.

matthewdavison One Beautiful Attempt to Fit the US Civil War into a Single Chart

It was a beautiful attempt.

matthewdavison Constitute: The World's Constitutions to Read, Search and Compare

I was expecting side-by-side comparisons at first. Then I saw the format and realized it's EVERY constitution. Wow.

matthewdavison 7 Things that WILL go wrong when you run a Webinar

I work for a company that heavily uses Linux and work in a position where I do all my work exclusively remote via web share/phone call. So we need a web sharing application that is stable on linux & windows. We've had good success with Elluminate (now owned by Blackboard). It's re-paint algorithm seems to be bearable.

Great suggestion about #2. I know a number of my colleagues that don't get that. And screenshare a 1080p display and don't even use a fullscreen presentation. So the text is completely unreadable on small screens.

matthewdavison Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors

> Ubuntu is quickly becoming the server of choice as well

Source?

matthewdavison Switching from Gmail to FastMail

>Snowden used lavabit.com, which is located in the US (and probably being scrutinized a bit more than usual these days).

Any proof to this? And, no, twitter is not a source of record.

matthewdavison New Android Market for Phones

Maybe this will be included with the money Microsoft makes with every android device.