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ne0phyte··on KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators
Neat. I sold my TI-84 Plus in favor of a HP RPN calculator: It's not really comparable, but there are more open source projects around calculators like the WP34s[1] project which turns a cheap HP business calculator (HP 20b/30b) into a RPN calculator with a lot of features.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/wp34s/

ne0phyte··on 64-bit ARM Kernel Development Demo on a Nexus 9
But people and apps often refer to "Linux on Android" while it's nothing but a chroot environment. Android is already running the Linux kernel. Calling it "running Linux on Android" is stupid.
ne0phyte··on Apple Event October 2014 Live Stream
They want you to buy a current gen device so you can watch what you can buy in a couple of weeks.
ne0phyte··on Show HN: A minimalist's web clipping (Chrome extension)
Just the id didn't work, but adding "chrome-extension://fpienblnmnnlojdcknfmeicdefhafako" seems to work. Thanks.
ne0phyte··on Show HN: A minimalist's web clipping (Chrome extension)
Ah okay. Yeah, I have that enabled most of the time (sometimes things like online payments don't work without).
ne0phyte··on Show HN: A minimalist's web clipping (Chrome extension)
It's not working in chrome 35.0.1916.153. I tried to drag different things (links, text, pictures) and I always get exceptions in the console and nothing happens except that the drop field shows a check mark. Error: http://pastebin.com/Cm7z3YtJ
ne0phyte··on Color Flood: Wilson's Algorithm
Weird. It's super smooth even in the Android WebKit control embedded in the HN app on Android 4.4.2. It's been a long time since I switched to Chromium but I really thought Firefox got faster by now.

Quick screencast: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4MGwWE_SNv0elNfUVdmalp5NVE

ne0phyte··on Steam Gauge: Steam’s most popular games
Wow that's a lot. I've got ~3000 hours of TF2 (and a couple hundred hours in other games) but I've been playing TF2 since early 2008 and it never affected my grades at school or my work.

I agree that time I enjoyed is definitely not time wasted. Playing with friends is just as good as programming to me. It's 100% unproductive though.

ne0phyte··on Building a WebGL Logo
And it'll use a lot more power. I wouldn't want a simple logo to keep my GPU busy for no reason when surfing on my phone.
ne0phyte··on How to be a hacker
Doesn't matter. If there is no hacker you can call yourself a hacker without any other hacker complaining :D
ne0phyte··on Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards
Good luck with that. Depending on the condition they go $1500-2000+ on eBay these days.
ne0phyte··on Outlook.com DNS records disappeared
outlook.com, xbox.com, microsoft.com, live.com, ...

Pretty much all sites are down for me (Germany).

ne0phyte··on Instagrams from North Korea
Just use a social media blocking browser extension. You should do that anyways.
ne0phyte··on NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you
I've always done that and I just checked the comments to see if someone else complained about that horrible flaw.

How on earth did they think that text selection as an event to open a popup is a good idea?!

ne0phyte··on Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney
The drone could deposit the load at the landing station where you can pick it up. And food won't be cold after a 100m walk.
ne0phyte··on Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney
The idea of registered landing platforms is actually pretty good. They don't even have to be on private property, but maybe a platform every ~100m or so would be enough. If you order something you get a code or maybe can use your phone to get the delivery from the drone.

That would make the "where to land" and "how to drop the payload" much easier.

ne0phyte··on Removing my children from the Internet
> Kids will take any reason they can find to pick on somebody if they feel like picking on somebody. Anything that sets their victim apart from them.

Then why add even more fuel to the fire?

>Same argument might be posed against anything that is even remotely fun or public or both. There are some people who gained massively from their pictures or videos going viral and overwhelming amount of people who gained or lost exactly nothing.

Yes, it was advantageous to some people that their video/s or picture/s went viral. But what does the chance of that happening have to do with people posting pictures of their half-naked kids? Would you want your kid to become a meme that gets posted everywhere? Of course there is the chance that things a kid does in public can be embarrassing, too, but again: what does that have to do with the chance that some picture or video that _your parents_ shared online starts to gain traction?

Oh and I'm 20 years old so I obviously don't have kids yet. I just know what it feels like to get bullied.

ne0phyte··on Removing my children from the Internet
I don't think that's the problem. You know how cruel kids can be. Imagine your classmates in 4th grade would find pictures of you bathing naked.

There simply is no good reason to share such photos publicly/online. Show them to your friends on your phone if you really ahve to.

"Once uploaded, a picture stays forever". There are plenty of cases where embarrassing pictures went viral and destroyed whole lifes.

ne0phyte··on The Workman Keyboard Layout
At least on your computers (where it matters) you can change the mapping. If you can touch type you can simply ignore the labels on the keys.

I'm building a custom mechanical keyboard (with blank keycaps) and I have changed the various function layers several times and had no problems with adjusting to that. It all comes down to the question what you do mostly and how easy you can get used to new layouts both physical and in software.

ne0phyte··on Show HN: Pix.pe – Easily sharable pixel art
I found the easter egg but I'm not sure what exactly it does. At first I thought it's one iteration of conways game of life but that's not it. Enlighten me!
ne0phyte··on Rebuilding the line-mode browser (in node.js)
Don't forget Vimium for Chrome: http://vimium.github.io
ne0phyte··on Rebuilding the line-mode browser (in node.js)
As far as I know Chrome still uses GDI for its font rendering on Windows instead of the much better DirectWrite API. Firefox, IE10 and so on are using DirectWrite.
ne0phyte··on Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game
I didn't finish the tutorial. For impatient people it takes too long :D

Saying that you can need to put together the same or all different forms/colors/fills should suffice. Whoever doesn't understand that probably won't have much fun with the game anyway.

ne0phyte··on Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game
Found a bug :)

When placing the third object in a bin clicking several times real fast gets you a) tons of points or b) -1 per click.

ne0phyte··on Hands on with the CODE keyboard
The build quality of the razer keyboards is rather bad. That's why.

Also this features Cherry MX Clear switches and standard profile keycaps so you can easily get a set of replacement keycaps if you need or want to.

ne0phyte··on Hands on with the CODE keyboard
Yes and no. There are a lot of people who are into keyboards and they buy a backlit one because they want to not because they need to.

Source: I'm mechanical keyboard enthusiast :)

ne0phyte··on Hands on with the CODE keyboard
It's already sold out but it was the only backlit mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Clear switches on the market.

Unless you don't mind soldering and/or building a custom keyboard from scratch that's a huge selling point.

ne0phyte··on New Sublime Package Control Site
Install GIT. Otherwise stick to downloading repos manually as zip, unpacking them and moving them manually.
ne0phyte··on  in Your System Prompt
At least provide a screenshot. You even linked to a page saying that you should never use that character on a website.

It's a rectangle for me as well.

ne0phyte··on Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains
Uncaught TypeError: Type error - gearsketch_main.js:53

Am I the only one getting this? Chrome 28; Windows 7.

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