Hopka

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/janhapke; my proof: https://keybase.io/janhapke/sigs/MlNCEF_WfnaLGrztInsLIMcXePL4-E56iOxYOlPWYVw ]

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Comment · 5 years ago

In addition to the power efficiency, one advantage of an e-ink screen is that it does not illuminate a room at night. And interestingly, a Kindle or similar device still seems to be the cheapest way to get a touch-enabled e-ink display of a reasonable size.

FWIW the Kindle Paperwhite also has an Experimental "Beta Browser" that can display websites and execute some JavaScript - I am using that for a similar project, a basic dashboard / light switch web application hosted on a Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/janhapke/screendle

Comment · 7 years ago

I use Pencil, too.

It has some limited features and the UX could be better, but it is open source and works across Linux, OSX and Windows, so other people on the team can edit diagrams I have created.

Comment · 7 years ago

It is a feature of the GIF format. You can specify how often the animation shall loop or that it should loop forever.

Comment · 8 years ago

I still use Picasa, because it is so fast and easy to just copy an SD card somewhere to my hard drive and have it show up at the top of Picasa seconds later.

Then I browse the pictures, star the ones I like and process them.

An no other software I have tried so far comes close in terms of speed and UI efficiency.

So I would also love to try PhotoStructure and have signed up via your landing page.

Comment · 10 years ago

Do you need Photoshop or Lightroom to use these tools or do they work standalone as well? I can't find this info on the website at all.

Comment · 11 years ago

I can highly recommend Dreamlines. It's a great place to work.

Comment · 12 years ago

Can it play web radio, i.e. shoutcast streams?

Comment · 12 years ago

Following that link consistently makes my Firefox crash. Anybody else experiencing this?

Comment · 12 years ago

The automatic alignment helps prevent ghosts from camera shake. But it would be interesting to see how they avoid ghosts from moving subjects like leaves in the wind if they are effectively exposing longer (by taking several photos in a row).

Comment · 12 years ago

I tried a lot of the popular Backup solutions (like Acronis and others I don't remember now), but none of them really worked for me.

I'm using HardlinkBackup for incremental, local USB backups (periodically creates a new folder with a full snapshot of the entire disk but de-duplicates across snapshots with NTFS hard links).

http://www.lupinho.net/hardlinkbackup/

For Cloud Backups I'm a happy Backblaze customer.

Comment · 12 years ago

OK, I've been digging into this a bit further. When I do a request from a remote machine, I do get an Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header, but from my local machine, this header is missing.

I assume that the proxy on this network discards the header and thus breaks the site.

Comment · 12 years ago

It is not working at all on either Firefox 30 or Chromium 34 (both Ubuntu). All I see is two large maps and a bit of text in between.

The developer console has a few CORS errors, though:

> XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/06/18/tigris-.... No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://www.nytimes.com' is therefore not allowed access.

> XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://core2_euw1.fabrik.nytimes.com./info. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://www.nytimes.com' is therefore not allowed access.

I suppose accessing through nytimes.com would work, but it redirects to www.nytimes.com...

Comment · 12 years ago

PoS = Proof of Stake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake

Comment · 12 years ago

I guess this means they won't be announcing Retina MacBook Airs at WWDC in June.

Comment · 12 years ago

So it's not as easy as walking into your bank, sending a text message to the ATM and walking out with a lot of free money.

You actually need physical access to a USB port of the ATM which is hidden somewhere inside. So I guess the hack here is that the money inside an ATM is very well hidden and even protected by exploding paint barrels so it cannot normally be stolen even with physical access for a long period of time. But it is possible to get the Windows XP based software to dispense money from the safe by injecting a trojan through USB.

Unfortunately, the article does not make that very clear.