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Re: Girls With Slingshots - GWS Chaser #1521

Ben Combee — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:12:56 -0000

Hmm, I'm seeing the same news and discussion for a bunch of the old comics around this time -- compare https://www.girlswithslings... and https://www.girlswithslings..., for example.

Re: It’s Not All Awful! Here Are Some Majorly Uplifting Election Results

Ben Combee — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:40:11 -0000

In Austin, TX, we voted to create a new light rail system!

Re: Picard Is Fascinating Because It Makes the Federation (And the Villains) Complex

Ben Combee — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:30:36 -0000

I had that problem watching in CBS All Access on my Roku TV, then I went to the options menu and switched to the second English audio track, and it was much better.

Re: Introducing Feedly's New Organize Experience

Ben Combee — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 11:26:34 -0000

Can you have the feed name link (on a new tab) to the website associated with the feed? You have this in the article view, and having it here would be a great way to go look and see if the site is still active or has changed their feed location.

Re: 6 retro Austin drugstores where you can shop local

Ben Combee — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:49:54 -0000

Crestview Pharmacy closed forever in February.

Re: Yoshiro Kimura’s Dandy Dungeon is out on iOS and... - Tiny Cartridge 3DS - Nintendo 3DS, DS, Wii U, and PS Vita News, Media, Comics, & Retro Junk

Ben Combee — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:48:17 -0000

What about the original Dandy Dungeon? http://www.vintagecomputing...

Re: The complete list of farmers markets in Austin and beyond

Ben Combee — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:38:14 -0000

You missed the HOPE Farmer's Market, every Sunday from 11am to 3pm, at the Plaza Saltillo Metrorail station on East 5th Street. (https://www.facebook.com/HO...

Re: Wileyfox Spark hands-on: For $120, this phone is astounding

Ben Combee — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:13:03 -0000

Their site says that have a Spark+ phone coming soon after this that upgrades the Spark to 2GB of RAM, 16GB of flash (from 8GB), and a 13MP rear camera (from 8MP), priced at £114.99. So if you want the additional RAM, it will be about a £25 increase. Also, both Spark phones are based on the Mediatek 6735 (quad A53 core, Mali T720)

Re: Building portable Jekyll for Windows

Ben Combee — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:48:43 -0000

Can you note that this is a 64-bit build? I just tried running this on 32-bit Windows 7 and had problems from the ruby binary.

Re: Your Git Commit Email is Public - The Flying Developer

Ben Combee — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:46:37 -0000

The link in the post update is back to this page, not to the help.github.com page.

Re: Fargo Q&A

Ben Combee — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:36:58 -0000

I'd be really interested in having the outliner optionally support a subset of markdown, as I'm used to using that for writing docs a lot. The current bold & italic shortcuts are useful, but there's no easy way to mark links other than switching out of render mode.

Re: Fargo Q&A

Ben Combee — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:13:24 -0000

One way is to delete the file from Dropbox -- look in your Apps/Fargo folder and find the matching .opml file, then reload the Fargo page.

Re: Take a bite out of Austin's 5 best veggie burgers

Ben Combee — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:43:05 -0000

I tend to be more of a topping guy than a patty guy with my veggie burgers, but the ones I keep coming back for are a veggie 78704 at Phil's Icehouse and a veggie Ends burger at Billy's on Burnet. I'm also a fan of the ghost pepper veggie burger up at Big Daddy's.

Re: Fargo Q&A

Ben Combee — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:04:43 -0000

Little Outliner doesn't store any data on the network -- it's just stored inside the local storage of the browser. So, the notes would be unique and not shared among students. However, if students didn't have the same computer from session to session, they wouldn't get the same set of notes back.

Re: TechShop

Ben Combee — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:04:22 -0000

The Austin/Round Rock location has been up and running since mid-October. I've already done several small projects there with the laser and vinyl cutters.

Re: Firefox Canvas Performance

Ben Combee — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:59:23 -0000

Mac OS X on a 2.66Ghz C2D MacBook Pro: Firefox 16.0.1 gives 84.8K FPS with FillRect, Chrome 22.0 gives 89K.

Re: How worried are you?

Ben Combee — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:34:32 -0000

The outcome that worries me a lot is Obama winning the electoral college, but losing the popular vote. That's the kind of outcome that completely erases a mandate story for getting anything done early in a second term. I know getting anything passed will be difficult no matter what, but having that kind of message just 12 years after the opposite happened (to much left complaining) with Al Gore will be really disheartening.

Re: If Obama Wins ...

Ben Combee — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:25:12 -0000

Going a little further, I'd not be surprised to see Obama angle for a personal Supreme Court nomination after he leaves office, assuming a friendly administration. He's got a background as a law professor and service in the two other branches of government, and President Taft's appointment as chief Justice in 1922 sets a precedent for that happening.

Re: http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/31052497029

Ben Combee — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:10:08 -0000

Yep, this (as well as tweet display requirements) makes my CryptoTweets sample code for Enyo not long for this world. See http://enyojs.com/samples/c... while it still works.

Re: Kit-A-Day Giveaway: MakerBot Thing-O-Matic (#4 of 5)

Ben Combee — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:14:38 -0000

Love those Makerbot guys!

Re: Try out a webOS app online

Ben Combee — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:45:27 -0000

Just a quick note -- we're very close to posting open-source Enyo, but it's not quite out yet. Also, the source viewer doesn't like C code with #include <foo.h> statements :) You might want to try to incorporate http://code.google.com/p/go... as a way to beautify the source code and also protect against accidental (or malicious) HTML insertion.

Re: My obligatory post on webOS

Ben Combee — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:00:29 -0000

Remember that Enyo is just a JS framework. You can stick HTML directly into a control by modifying its properties -- the big difference is that it doesn't use a lot of template HTML files like Mojo did, but that gains it a lot of speed and reduces memory usage. I hope you check it out in our Early Access -- we've got big plans for it, and I'd love to see Feeder on the Touchpad.

Re: http://blog.wreckandsalvage.com/post/1602767476

Ben Combee — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:07:59 -0000

The whole Penn story is from 2002, BTW.

Re: http://blog.zhephree.com/post/1037044194

Ben Combee — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:59:11 -0000

Yeah, just tested neato! on one of my devices, and I'm not seeing anything from either of the tests I pushed -- one was a selection, the other a page. Does the bookmarklet work in Firefox? Feel free to contact me for additional details.

Re: Hackathon Prizes!! You didn’t think we forgot did you?

Ben Combee — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:52:39 -0000

I can't be there all day, but I may drop in for a while. The project is one I'd find useful, especially if the client could also support Read It Later in addition to Instapaper.