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polyvisual··on A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)
This guy's youtube channel is a great resource for terrariums https://www.youtube.com/user/SerpaDesign
polyvisual··on Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
I'm so lazy and it's too easy to click "Cancel"... I have a license but a year after re-installing ST I still haven't added it :/
polyvisual··on Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
The rescue place is really just a private house and a old woman who loves animals... she doesn't take contact info and I'm not sure she has a Facebook account or any social presence.
polyvisual··on Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
"Your tracking situation doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility though."

Indeed. That's what's so invasive about tracking - anything that can be done to track you, will be done.

What if my search had been something more personal? Something I didn't want my wife to know about?

There's no way to opt-out of all this. We're being force fed this for the benefit of some corporation, somewhere.

polyvisual··on Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
4 weeks ago I found an injured pidgeon, took it a rescue place and got chatting to the owner about chickens. I came home, searched for chicked coops on my business laptop. This laptop runs Firefox, uBlock and Ghostery.

Last night, my wife has Facebook adverts for chicken coops pop up on her laptop. We've not spoken about chicken coops since, I've not searched for chicken coops since the original search, she's not searched for chicken coops on her laptop and she's not used my work laptop.

Creepy.

If they want to track you with a "normal" browser, they'll find a way of doing it.

polyvisual··on Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel
"The camera cannot handle exposure times longer than two seconds."

What's the reason for this? Is it a hardware restriction? I suppose an artificial software restriction could be removed by using root / other camera software.

polyvisual··on Pricenoia shuts down
I've not seen priceonia before - what's the difference between that and camelcamelcamel?

Reading the blog post it seems as though camelcamelcamel will be forced to shut at soon, too?

polyvisual··on Sublime Text 3 Updated
Thanks.

I agree - it's the shittest, most user-unfriendly method of securing something against spam I've ever encountered.

polyvisual··on Sublime Text 3 Updated
I've almost given up with Sublime Text. I have a bug with the Linux version on xubuntu which causes the application window to shudder when I scroll. It's something to do with smooth scrolling.

I can't register at their forums as it requires a keyword which you can only get by emailing keyword@sublimetext.com - I've tried three times and each time I've been ignored. I've also tried email the other ST employee, but been ignored also.

Very frustrating when I've paid for a licence.

polyvisual··on Ask HN: Best paid VPN?
I'll add http://airvpn.org into the mix.

I've had no speed issues, they have lots of locations, accept bitcoin, no logging and their owners are quite frequently on the use forums.

I think they're based out of Italy.

polyvisual··on Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets
Coming from Ian Blair, this is fairly unsurprising. It's amazing he's even being put in print, given his prior behaviour.
polyvisual··on TestCafé: Web Testing Framework
Thanks for creating Selenium hugs.
polyvisual··on TestCafé: Web Testing Framework
We're on the verge of running a Selenium Grid server with a ~1000 Selenium nodes connected to it.

I'd like to see how their offering stands up to that.

(Actually, I don't know how Selenium will stand up to that... maybe I should have left this comment until I've got the results!)

polyvisual··on Firefox 23 is available
Yup, I have very similar problems.

Google+ is a great example - it slows to a crawl after a few minutes of browsing - it particularly becomes unusable when I scroll down and it loads more content via AJAX.

I'm on Xubuntu 13.04.

polyvisual··on Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Ohhhhh give me a set of decks and my bag of records and I'll keep myself happy for hours and hours and hours :)

Did you ever have an interest in djing?

Unfortunately my addiction to vinyl rules me out of what would likely be an expensive purchase. Best of kick with your sale.

polyvisual··on Microsoft open-sources Kinect code samples
Wow, when you copy and paste from venturebeat.com a link to the content is automatically appended to the copied content.
polyvisual··on Microsoft open-sources Kinect code samples
"aka “Not GitHub.” Baby steps, baby steps!"

Whatever was actually released, how about people realise that Github isn't the be all and end all of open source code distribution.

polyvisual··on Dynamically generate HTML/CSS for forms, icons, buttons
A useful set of tools. It would be great to give the user some idea of browser compatibility, though.
polyvisual··on API showcase - developer garden
They seriously need to change the colouring of the links and text in the API table on this page: http://www.developergarden.com/apis/applications/
polyvisual··on Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE
ievms is brilliant. It's made my life much easier, thanks.
polyvisual··on CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org
Phew, my first instinct when reading the start of that post was that some rogue code had been committed.

Note: it's a shame most of the comments here are about the title of this post.

polyvisual··on Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
Yesterday I switched to Bitbucket after using Github for about a year.

Bitbucket is absolutely brilliant.

It's a really clean interface and the free private repos suit me perfectly.

Thanks for your work - a new customer here.

Only thing I'd add is the last commit details on folder names.

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