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I don't use an Adblocker, but I did recently disable plugins by default because I was getting some massive performance issues from Flash (Chrome on Ubuntu 12.10). It has massively …

I'm enjoying the new mobile design. My initial reaction was not positive, I saw the similarities to the FB mobile app with the swipe right menu and I thought "oh no." But quickly I…

I'm from New Zealand but have travelled in the US and lived in the UK. The difference is service. You get it in the US. I remember it in every store. Initially I thought it was int…

The best outcome of this campaign would be for someone to identify the tracker chip without opening the chocolate bar. Then post it somewhere else in the world.

Check the ingredients on anything that you think is mostly wheat. It will have soy in it. All bread from the super market for example.

I think one of the great things about the Raspi is that it is not competing on being powerful, it's got an community aiming at an accessible and fun experience.

This is really interesting for me. I've infringed a bit of copyright in my time. Cassettes when I was young, VHS from TV (I cut the ads out - does that count?) my high school physi…

I just asked my wife and she said she just tells people I'm a spy. When I pressed her for why she said what I do is too technical therefore I'm keeping it hidden from her and that …

The ReCSS bookmarklet does a pretty good job of this too. http://david.dojotoolkit.org/recss.html

This reminds me a lot of Penny Arcade, I started reading it 10 years ago for the video game commentary but I've really enjoyed watching the quality of the writing and comics improv…

I may be the only one who likes this. I've recently been looking for an old commodore 64 for nostalgic reasons, there is no practical reason to own one unless you're a demo purest.…

Just watched the kickstarter video but with my headphones pluggeded into 'The Prodigy: Fighter Beat' by accident. It made their video very cool. Sorry for the lack of value - I jus…

Entirely tech-savvy people use the navigation bar as sort of a launch bar for their whole browsing experience also. Chrome enables this fantastically.

I much prefer ramen profitable, I think it will be a shame if Pizza profitable becomes wide spread. I'd never heard it before the article, and I stopped reading to come and comment…

I've got to +1 for YUI3. I started researching the space for building real Javascript applications fully biased on doing it with x and JQuery. But after a bit of research and proto…

4chan anyone?

I watch Hackers about once every two months and listen to the soundtrack every other week. Sometime for a change I watch Antitrust.

My issue with GTD and trying to use a todo system is there seems to be an assumption that you are able to quantify the time/effort to do each of your daily tasks. Developing softwa…

Sometimes I wonder whether I'd have be better off if I had a low paying second job rather than wasting countless hours outside of my 9-5 trying to boot strap start ups. I'm lucky I…

Do you mean Google Apps for your domain? It does work. Quite well in fact.

I definitely think HN has become somewhat of an Apple PR centre as of late. Anyone on here is surely going to get that news from another outlet aren't they?

good luck with the novel. I was gutted bubble city was never finished. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bubblecity1

I'm happy with the technical stuff. I've used Trac, BitBucket and tried Git Hub before. I haven't run Git on Dropbox but I could see how that makes the backed up repo nice and easy…

Are there any websites/services that combine version control, project management (wiki,bug tracker) that would also be suitable as a portfolio? I want to put my work/projects in on…