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orik··on Valve's OpenGL debugger open-sourced
Wow- Valve's on a roll! I wonder what else we will see open sourced from them in the next couple of weeks.

They're probably talk more about whatever they're up to at GDC this year.

orik··on Lammily - Average is Beautiful
I'd feel more comfortable pressing the "Back This Project" if the button said "Powered by Crowdtilt" underneath it.

The whole "looks like a kickstarter but isn't on kickstarter.com" thing scared me off.

orik··on Ron Paul Launches Snowden Clemency Petition
You're thinking of Rand Paul.
orik··on Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
I never realized they fixed that! What great news!
orik··on Nvidia submits patches to open source driver
It's easy to assume that theres a cause and effect relationship between Linus's words and Nvidia's actions, but we have no evidence this is the case, and shouldn't jump to such conclusions.
orik··on Ask HN: Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!
There's a huge difference between this and a car salesman.

A car salesman goes through all sorts of paperwork and meets with the person they are selling the car too, and they hand the keys over.

This is much more similar to the service where you take a photo of a Key and you get mailed a copy of it for 5$; except it's semi-anonymous with bitcoin.

orik··on AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100
You mean an ARM machine?
orik··on Antimatter experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen
we could simply use the energy directly, but I think he was talking about storing energy.

>most efficient ways to store energy

orik··on CarWoo is shutting down
TrueCar has a price that they evaluate the car at, and they give you a slip of paper that you can go into any TrueCar dealership and buy that car from them at.

With this method, sometimes the car dealership sells a car for lower than they were hoping with the local market, and sometimes they make a killing off the customer.

CarWoo, on the other hand, asks each dealer individually what they want to sell the car at, and then forwards that price to the user.

orik··on Major setbacks for two new smartphone OSs, Tizen and Ubuntu Touch
don't forget about the mir/wayland thing.
orik··on Spotify position in support of systemd in the default init debate
Did they actually change the author of the post? I don't see it in your submission history anymore.
orik··on How's my SSL?
Oh sorry for the late reply. The Chromium based Opera builds.

I actually never used Opera on the presto engine, and although I miss having more horses in the race, I think Opera based off of chromium is great.

orik··on Kingston displays 384GB of DDR4 in top-secret Intel server at CES
Space in a datacenter gets prohibitively expensive fast.

You'd need a real nifty virtualization platform to oversell RAM like we currently oversell bandwidth and cpu time.

A high performance swap farm might be the way to go with things, but things break when everyone starts using huge pages.

orik··on How's my SSL?
Opera seems to be good across the board on Win8.1 and OSx 10.8.5
orik··on We switched from an icon font to SVG
yeah except the third party font issue is a known vulnerability and there isn't one for svg's.
orik··on Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699
Much closer to 1080p content shown on a 1800x1080 screen.

Your hyperbole is dishonest.

orik··on SSD stress testing finds Intel might be the only reliable drive manufacturer
Didn't test samsung huh?

I've been exclusively using Samsung and Intel SSD for production machines- however I'm not too worried about the power cutting out. With dual power supplies and several diesel generators in my datacenter, I'll be okay.

orik··on The father of batman is of the people of riddick , the joker had no chance
what.
orik··on AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast to Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy
I highly recommend Music Bee.
orik··on Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked
You can't remove your phone number from already published phone books. You can only omit yourself from later editions.
orik··on Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked
I think if some private parties already have access to the info (people who have already downloaded the DB) then we're all better off having access to the list to see if we are on it or not.
orik··on Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
Nice use of Maplestory assets - I did the same sorta thing in the summer of my 7th grade year for a "intro to game design" class.

Can't find the game anymore, but I had edited the chirppy sprite (http://i.imgur.com/ccSY4RE.png) to be holding and firing a bow.

I ended up getting a A- on my final for using assets that weren't mine. That's pretty small compared to the sort of things you could run into when you're actually putting this stuff on an app store.

I'd recommend toying around with a sprite editor and getting familiar with pixel art techniques like dithering. You might even enjoy it as much as coding!

orik··on FreeBSD Journal announced
I'm willing to bet it will be available in an open format "on the web".

The additional formats probably exist to serve a wider audience.

It would be nice if I could get it in TeX though.

orik··on Dell Ultra Sharp 24" 4K display
16:9 has won, and will continue to be the standard for some time.

Get the Cannon 4096x2560 or the Chrome Pixel if you need something closer to square.

orik··on Luna delivers your packages when you're home for the night
I'm worried about my security with this application. I'm essentially telling strangers with a delivery van that my home will be empty until this time.

I'll deliver to my Office for now. I'm excited about this service but skeptical.

(EDIT: Upon re-reading this comment I noticed I came off sounding like this service might be a scam. I'm moreso worried about MITM and subpoenas)

orik··on Japanese plan to solve world’s energy problems: Turn moon into a solar panel
Not on our moon. How ugly.
orik··on The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License
I'm not a fan of this license. I'm going to avoid software with it.
orik··on Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden
Yeah because how dare any citizen question it's government, right?

/s

orik··on Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?
The difference in decapitation and blunt force trama is huge.

People die every day. Being squeamish is no excuse for not reporting accurate and honest information.

orik··on The Wikipedia Adventure
Totally unusable on mobile. What a shame.
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