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hendrik-xdest

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About hendrik-xdest

So you are the guy that reads Hacker News profiles. Well, for your entertainment: I wrote the software that increased and decreased the brightness of the stars on the set of the fake moon landing in 69 - to make it look more real, you guessed it.

About 10 years later, I was born.

Another 10 years later, you could find me in-front of a SNES. 10 years on, I was studying for my CE diploma as a side-project to Quake 3 and partying. Or both. And finally, yet another 10 years later, I am old.

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    Comment #7703836

    If you havn't heard about it - re:publica is Europe's largest social media conference, mostly featuring on digital life in culture, media, politics, and business. Here is an overvi…

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    Comment #7522071

    I wouldn't give too much on this just yet. From the information in the article I can't tell if the word "strong" is correct for what was passed today. If anything, an indicator tha…

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    Comment #6893512

    I don't think that will last. It shouldn't take too long for rights holders to figure out that there are videos and live streams on Twitch that contain music and cut scenes, as wel…

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    Comment #6780275

    I thought the MTG hype ended when I stopped playing in the 90s. It has taken a kind of revival in recent years due to popularity of online card games. With one coming from Blizzard…

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    Comment #6327035

    Nice find. There are no other possibilities to start this easter egg, though. Yet, there are actually three different images that might be shown: http://diclr3aci3hzg.cloudfront.ne…

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    Comment #6326986

    Oh no, does that mean that meta keywords are relevant for Google search again?

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    Comment #5774531

    This sounds like a Hollywood magic trick. Tarantino filmed a gruesome headshot to distract censors to get his desired version of Pulp Fiction into cinemas. This might very well be …

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    Comment #5606132

    Been doing this for years. I usually call the file ie8.css, though.

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    Comment #4920868

    There are quite a few. From the top of my head: Pandemic. Even non-European is not unheard of. For example my all-time favorite: Robo Rally ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRally…

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    Comment #4920665

    German-style board game is a term that refers to specific game mechanics. The reference to Germany stems from the success of the "The Settlers" board game. In contrast to well know…

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    Comment #4564405

    I can already hear our customers ordering page enhancements that show an arrow or a bubble pointing somewhat in the direction of where that FB button should be in the current visit…

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    Comment #4515328

    Ah, so that's why Google removed TLS compression with Chrome as discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510829

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    Comment #4487951

    I don't think this will work. If you follow the RFC completely an e-mail "text space\@moretext"@host.com is valid, as well. Some services have two input fields for an e-mail addres…

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    Comment #4448993

    They did not. I've read in a German newspaper today that a piece of the metal casing has been found 300 meters off, near one of the main roads of Munich. They coated the bomb in st…

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    Comment #4448702

    Here is a better recording: http://vimeo.com/48399328

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    Comment #4355689

    This is not completely true. You can share copyrighted materials but you are not allowed to bypass or crack any security measures to do so. Also, the information on cracking a prot…

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    Comment #4354881

    It's not. You still have to have the complete text of the law and manually add the changes that are described in the Bundesanzeiger. It states for example something like "Change in…

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    Comment #4327806

    It worked: http://allthingsd.com/20120801/facebook-platform-exec-ethan-...

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    Comment #4312677

    I think this is related to statistics regarding how fast the power grid can be expanded in relation to how fast it has to expand. Can't find any news items on this, though. There a…

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    Comment #4311794

    Have a look at the new ShowCase TV series Continuum for some ideas on how an implanted Glass chip may enhance police work in the future.

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    Comment #4229161

    I really didn't want to put caps into a headline ;) You are right of course. But it seems I am not able to edit it anymore.

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