Regardless of physical dimensions, a fine dot pitch display. My current screen is a 15″ normal (non-widescreen) display SXGA+ which has been great. That works out at about 116 DPI or a 0.2177mm dot pitch. It’s well worth whatever it costs extra to get a good built in display. Screen DPI calculator.
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Links for 30 August 2009
google-diff-match-patch – The Diff Match and Patch libraries offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text. (tags: diff patch software algorithms)
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get (tags: journalism writing)
You work for me, Computer: Dropping Django (tags: python django)
Liquidware Antipasto: Introducing the Illuminato X Machina (tags: arm [...]
Links for 23 March 2009
Command-line Fu The best UNIX commands on the web – (tags: linux programming reference bash shell)
Chrome Experiments – Detail – Browser Ball – “Open new windows. Throw a beach ball through them.” (tags: programming javascript)
GlobalScale Technologies – SheevaPlug Dev Kit – (tags: linux embedded marvell)
ack — better than grep, a power [...]
Links for 06 August 2008
Leaving Yahoo – Chad Dickerson: "I'm leaving Yahoo! to pursue another very exciting opportunity: joining the Etsy team as CTO." (tags: blogpost etsy yahoo)
AP News – Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web – "How unusual is it for a 71-year-old American to be unplugged?" (tags: internet mccain politics usa)
Freighter Travel – Internet Guide [...]
Links for 25 June 2008
Year 2038 problem – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Better get on with fixing this, we've only got 30 years… (tags: c code computers software unix y2k)
Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition – Free Visual Studio, nice… (tags: c++ development free microsoft)
Hanoi crazy night traffic on Vimeo (tags: timelapse traffic video vietnam)
iBanjo – Programmer Insecurity – [...]
Links for 14 June 2008
Last-gasp win for Swans as Eagles falter – 8 June 2008 – "Sydney had to come from a 36-point half-time deficit to win this one, yet win it the Swans did — 12.11 (83) to 11.12 (78) — hitting the front for the first time in the match at the 32-minute mark of the final [...]
Links for 07 June 2008
APOD: 2008 June 4 – Chasing the ISS – Timelapse of the space shuttle discovery catching up with the ISS, from earth, complete with an iridium flare! (tags: astronomy photography space timelapse)
Bug #226279 in linux (Ubuntu Hardy): “Kernel 2.6.24-17 – broken resume from suspend to RAM” – It sure is broken… extremely frustrating, particularly considering [...]