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with a trivial script to setup bindmounts and such, you can easily run a full linux distro on android's kernel, concurrent with the main Android OS. Debian Kit for Android is just …

emotional responses by weird aspies is not particularly surprising to me

a blank page even after enabling javascript on every host - google, googleapis, blogger, blogblog, streak - suspect cookies are required on some of the hosts too

NBC aired a race from Newport a month ago, and a similar round of articles circulated. does anybody remember all the 3D racecourses and SGI logos everywhere in 1992 america's cup? …

up until OSX DP1 the x86 builds were regularly shipped to ADC members with a familiar Mac UI. it seemed like "Classic" aka OS7/8/9 binaries running with minimal emulation was the m…

i had that happen in SF, sent an email, got a phone call about 7 mins later, they said they were downtown, i said i was at Van Ness, 10 mins later i found their subletted unlabeled…

for now.. Taibbi wrote about a new law that exempts reporting for 5 years

aliexpress,taobao,ebay,amazon-stores,paypal button,bitcoin,square in a busy location. lots of competition on the ad-hoc sale tip. tightly coupling this with a particular kind of it…

stop-script dialogs on GMaps + Twitter also (2x2ghz Atom, 850MHz ARM, webkit/firefox). its easier to ctrl-W than bother manually rewriting www to m on twitter and hoping it still w…

mozplugger has long played every media format ever by hooking into system ffmpeg/mplayer tooling, on firefox/iceweasel. likewise most minimalist webkit wrapers (midori, surf) just …

ive had mechanical issues with every headphone ever. V6 has a flimsy folding hinge mechanism with tiny plastic tabs that break off, Beyer 770's cable has split in half and frayed o…

it doesnt matter where, once i tell people i wont sign NDAs or work on closed-source code, theyre no longer interested. i'm sticking with boston though, at least it has seasons

ive been unable to get Craigslist's phone-token thing to call my VOIP DID without throwig errors. title there and here is misleading, i need a username/pasword to login to both VOI…

i didnt want to write new code each time my data-model changed: migrations, model code, new controllers/views. this meant a Resource class, a uniform controller request/response cy…

this is in the parser files in puma: * Copyright (c) 2005 Zed A. Shaw puma's README wording make it seem like the Ragel parser is some new thing unique to Puma, and doesnt mention …

when i moved to SF i walked around the TL and rang building managers of nicer buildings and asked to see what was available. in Boston the most up-to-date info was not online but i…

Vaio X has a standard DC barrel pot, ive powered it on anything from junk-heap printer wall-warts to 20-cent car-adaptors to lab bench-supplies without hassles. other things it has…

sure, SSH to your iOS device and add/edit a .plist entry in your editor of choice

can't' see it either - in Chrome or Firefox. i think it is a and CSS interplay of some sort. if i switch to a really old browser with neither scripting or CSS like Lynx i can read …

why should each city have the same skillset and specializations? that sounds pretty boring. is SF leading the way in bio and health-care innovations? what about open-source data-y …

he could throw a maximized webkit and editor in ~/.xinitrc but he wouldnt have anything to complain about

a structure of a thread is informative in itself http://joey.kitenet.net/blog/entry/thread_patterns/ or a somewhat modernized take http://blog.whats-your.name/post/2011/06/02/pas-d…

because it's closed source "The reason GitHub isn't open source is the same reason we started GitHub" - Chris Wanstrath.

SONY is fantastic. a Vaio X and Vim, Chromium and Xmonad is a perfect dev box. their shortwave recievers are a cut above the competition in selectivity and build quality. im still …

CSS is actually a complicated thing. have you read PBrowser's papers on it and checked out their formalized subset BSS?