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I think I am not the only one who is missing some sound samples. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MvtQp2-UA

That's a fan made trailer.

One important point here: In the article the author says that the location of the database is /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases. That's not entirely correct. It only gets copied there whe…

Same for my Amsterdam droplet, all ok.

Not to forget the gravity constants of the Death Star and The Island, defined by the SensorMananger. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sens... http://develope…

Quick overview: They had a Nagios backdoor, which led to a leak of the customer database of their dedicated server administration console (Hetzner Robot). They are not sure how it …

Last time I checked, Solr and Nutch (the web crawler) had a really bad documentation. Only some wiki pages slapped together, mostly outdated. Any improvements on this front?

Pilots now have iPads strapped to their legs. Or, that's what a friend of mine does. It really useful (with a dedicated pilot app, not Google Maps), but they always have a "real" G…

Many documents and a scarf from the king.

German bookstore Lehmanns, known for academic books, is selling Vi, Emacs, Linux, BSD and Latex reference mugs. They even got one with the number Pi and e on it. For example, the V…

30 days, and you can pin certain versions.

Yes. But clients will understand this one better, with different known devices right in front of their eyes. Some of our clients can't map a resized browser window to a smartphone …

A real time killer and really great game concept developed in Löve is mari0, a Mario and Portal clone. http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

Definitely CynanogenMod. Probably (I haven't checked them all) the most complete and best testet Rom out there. Available for nearly every major Android hardware.

I was refering to my own feeling when loading HN, a (in comparison) very simple website. I am sorry if it sounded like I was talking about any website in general. That is not the c…

On the server side, it is ycombinator's decision if they can handle the additional cpu cycles. i believe they can, or else they wouldn't have enabled it. on the client side, I don'…

Oh, that is correct. Sorry, I need to read the headline more carefully. Missed the 'P'.

been there, done that: http://ip.beached.org ;)

At work, we use a shared Keepass file (Keepass is a password manager). We are only a small team, so this works out quite well. And this leads us to very secure (and different!) pas…

Nice find, but for me that's just basic design principles applied to an icon design. The golden ratio isn't really something that's new or anything...

Because they value speed and cross-browser compatibility more than conforming with the standard. As long as the errors are minor and don't affect the page display (and I am sure Go…

Same thing happend to a german professor in 2008, where they also accidentialy swapped IP numbers. The accusation was child pornography, the news got hold of it and, of course, his…