AndrewHampton

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   by AndrewHampton 15y ago

   I'm curious if you used this already since you've been working w/ Fog Creek or if this is the first you're seeing it too.
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   by AndrewHampton 15y ago

   From the article: "Black holes, if you recall, are created when stars run out of fuel and die. In dying, they collapse into a much smaller mass with such enormous gravity that it sucks in just about anything that comes light years near
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   by AndrewHampton 15y ago

   It makes me wonder if our relatively little diversity is related to the uncanny valley and our ancestors eliminated any variation that wasn't enough like themselves.
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   by AndrewHampton 15y ago

   It's likely the average of people in the US who have run the speed test.
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   Sony to restore PSN services, compensate customers(news.cnet.com)

   1 points by AndrewHampton 15y ago|0 comments
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   by AndrewHampton 15y ago

   This vaguely reminds me of John Resig's TestSwarm project ( http://ejohn.org/blog/test-swarm-alpha-open/ ). Although I'm not sure what the current status of the project is since the links to the site and github project are now dead: http:/
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   by AndrewHampton 16y ago

   I'm in Virginia, and this happened all the time to me while I was on Comcast, but since switching to another ISP, I never encountered this problem.
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   NYC judge calls off plans for Google library(breitbart.com)

   1 points by AndrewHampton 16y ago|0 comments
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   by AndrewHampton 16y ago

   pg quote from the article: you don’t just write your program down toward the language, you also build the language up toward your program. As you’re writing a program you may think "I wish Lisp had such-and-such an operator." So you go and
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    This seems like a great fit for the stack exchange sites in general. They're building communities of experts in various fields and now you can hire someone who proven to be an expert in that field by going to careers.[stack exchange site].c
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    FWIW, I use http://twitter.com/TrackThis . You just have to follow them (they don't post anything, so no stream spam) and send them a dm w/ the tracking number. They send you a dm whenever there is an update to your package location while
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I'm seeing two SO URLs (5 and 6) before efreedom (8th) when I click that link.
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    Impact (Javascript Game Engine) Sales Report(phoboslab.org)

    57 points by AndrewHampton 16y ago|11 comments
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    Google requests delay of new Google TVs(news.cnet.com)

    1 points by AndrewHampton 16y ago|0 comments
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    From the original article: Meanwhile, at Google, the cash cow is search-driven advertising. That allows the company to encourage engineers to waste 20% of their time on "projects" If I remember correctly, didn't Paul Buchheit create Gmail
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    Here's a picture of what it looks like: http://twitpic.com/3dupcl
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    Show HN: Top Comment Highlighter

    8 points by AndrewHampton 16y ago|2 comments
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I believe magamiako is referring to areas in World of Warcraft where thorium can be found.
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I got really excited about this, so I immediately went to my local Radio Shack and picked this up. Sadly, my hopes of reading my work ID, passport, and store purchases were dashed when I saw the reader only works with the EM4100 family of
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    Interesting Navigation Elements Next to the Scrollbar on MSN.com(today.msnbc.msn.com)

    1 points by AndrewHampton 16y ago|0 comments
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    Ah, that explains it. I didn't see that in the article.
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I don't know much about voice encoding, but I'm really curious as to why all the example files are the same size (46.9 KB). Could someone explain why this is an advancement if the file sizes remain the same? I suspect it has something to d
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I think I would stick with yours if you were planning on continuing development for it. If you're not, I'll probably switch.
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    Thanks for developing the app, I've been using it for quite a while and really like it. Just to be clear, does this mean you'll no longer be developing your app?
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    Node.js 2.2 released(groups.google.com)

    3 points by AndrewHampton 16y ago|2 comments
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I think promises are gone now too. Removed sometime in this past Spring.
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    French Senate passes ban of full Muslim veils(news.yahoo.com)

    1 points by AndrewHampton 16y ago|0 comments
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    The 2.2 stats were updated today: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... 28% on 2.2 and almost 75% on 2.x
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I think there's a third concept as well which is where most of the "openness" hype stems which is the ability to replace entire parts of the platform. Don't like the homescreen, dialer, camera app, keyboard? Just replace it with something
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    by AndrewHampton 16y ago

    I disagree. I think being able to install any .apk file I want from any source on the internet is a clear benefit of this openness.