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user-inactivated  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.

Hopefully this will help to end the insane Windows XP market share that exists today in China.

(Though I believe it's unlikely in the short term).

user-inactivated  ·  4052 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Google Graveyard

To expand on your second point, 2011 was the year that they began their spring cleaning initiative - blog posts 1, 2 and 3 so I think you were dead right there.

user-inactivated  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Google Graveyard

Possibly a rip-off of the Pintrest with the same name.

user-inactivated  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific Showdown

I personally have always preferred CamelCase to underscores (maybe due to habituation through my use of Objective-C and Apple frameworks), but I had no idea about the extra time it takes to read - maybe I'll relent one day and transition.

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user-inactivated  ·  4096 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

You're most welcome :)

user-inactivated  ·  4096 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

Ahhh, got it - cheers minimum_wage, I'll definitely try and add that when I get some spare time :)

And when I've tried to use jQuery before in the script it's been a bit of a pain (especially the discrepancies between browsers) but I didn't experiment for long so I might try and revisit that.

user-inactivated  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

Huh, I didn't know that this existed - or that he also had a go at collapsable comments. Cheers.

If Baladas is happy for me to include it, then I most definitely will :)

user-inactivated  ·  4099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

Huh, yes they can indeed! You're quite right.

I was under the impression that these buttons were just for embedding on a web page. Ah well, glad that's cleared up :)

So, what purpose does the bookmarklet even solve if it just replicates the functionality of those buttons?

user-inactivated  ·  4099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

insomniasexx is correct - but for future reference there's Installation Instructions at the bottom of the README.

user-inactivated  ·  4099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

Huh, I didn't know that. Cheers - I'll look into it.

user-inactivated  ·  4099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

Cheers mk, I think I owe you several beers for creating the site in the first place.

Yup - I'll keep it in that repo indefinitely, feel free to add it to the tools page.

user-inactivated  ·  4099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

I think that link was supposed to go the tools page which lists the "Submit to Hubski" bookmarklet. Is that what you're after?

user-inactivated  ·  4099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Enhancement Suite

You're right, that looks horrible - noted in my bug tracker, I'll get onto that as soon as I can :)

user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dealing with spammy users

This is what I'm going for, yes.

user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Linus Torvalds: we never ever blame user programs

I agree, but what do you think will happen when he's no longer around? Will someone else have to step up and take his place? I tend to think that the community would be able to sustain itself without him, even if that meant a loss of efficiency.

user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Set good defaults

If you need some data to back up the claim that "most people never change the default settings", read this article, where after surveying many people's MS Word config files, these researchers found that:

    Less than 5% of the users we surveyed had changed any settings at all. More than 95% had kept the settings in the exact configuration that the program installed in.
user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Year 2038 problem

Many systems store system time as a single number representing the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. The way this number is usually stored in memory means that it has a maximum number - 2,147,483,647 in this case, which corresponds to 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038. After this time, when a system adds extra seconds onto this timestamp, they will wrap around to the negative equivalent (and since there's no such thing as negative seconds, this will cause pretty major issues).

user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looking for some electronic music suggestions

Have a look at The Knife, bonobo and maybe even Flying Lotus (especially his older stuff).

And cheers for submitting this - I'd never heard of Aphex Twin or C418 before.

user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dealing with spammy users

Ah, okay - I didn't know that heavily ignored would be flagged.

That's good to know, as I was just wondering how we can ensure that Hubski stays a place for quality content and good discussion - users like this shouldn't be here IMO.

user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: IOS 6.1 update rolled out by Apple

It would be nice if you could like to a site that isn't caked in advertising, but since all of your posts come from the same site, I assume you're spamming Hubski in an attempt to get page views.

I've submitted this post to #hubski that you might want to look at.

user-inactivated  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski mobile style for mobile firefox on android

I'm looking to build a native iOS client when the API is ready, but until then it looks like we'll just have to stick with the full site.

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user-inactivated  ·  4121 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Individual user pages don't contain styling information (when opened separately)

Sorry, I should clarify - I have javascript enabled too, I only experience this when I open a user's page in a new tab/window (as Fox says).

So the reason for the lack of styling is completely understandable, but it would be nice if this was fixed because it's something I do alot.

To kind-of fix (by forcefully including the dark CSS): 1. Open a user page in a new tab, for example, mk 2. Open your web inspector console (in Chrome Ctrl-Alt-I and then Esc) 3. Paste this:

    var link = document.createElement('link');link.setAttribute('rel', 'stylesheet');link.type = 'text/css';link.href = 'dark.css-1-10-13';document.head.appendChild(link);
user-inactivated  ·  4121 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burial - Loner

All of Burial's work seems to be heavily influenced by the "original" definition of dubstep; the heavily garage-inspired genre originating in London, (have a look at Wikipedia's page on the genre for a fairly comprehensive history.

Most people today will only have heard modern "brostep" songs - usually music characterised by heavy drops and overpowering bass. I'm still a huge fan of these producers too, but some of the old stuff and post-dubstep (like Future Garage) is just magical.

Anyways, I don't claim to be anything like an expert in Dubstep, I just got quite heavily into it over the last couple of years. If you're interested in music more true to the original UK bass, have a listen to the huge "Night" and "Midnight Request Line" tracks that really popularised the genre 5 or so years ago.