ArcticCelt

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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
If I remember correctly reddit founders originally applied with some mobile app idea and even if their idea was rejected they got in anyway. I wonder if there is many more cases like this.
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
>why there are so many people that defend the government of Iran. Because there is not so many people who defend the government of Iran, they just care about the hundred of thousands of innocent civilians, children and women included, w
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
Just to confirm what you say about Google trying to be too smart I just searched for "SPYW" because to be honest I have no idea what is that word or abbreviation. So Google decided that I am searching for the word SPYWare and I was no able
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
>I'm betting that when given a cleaner, more enjoyable alternative to the mandatory commercials, overpriced fatty junk food, and general awfulness that the current moviegoing experience has degraded into, we can steal a fair amount of b
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
I am a long time reddit user and am of the opinion that the "mainstream" subreddits serve as honeypots to attract disrespectful juvenile users and should be kept for that purpose. Making it easier to find the most interesting subreddits wil
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
>But if you, as a customer of those websites, agree to them knowing you are there, and they chose to share that with others, what right does the government have to prevent that? >Why is this not a 'just don't use the service if you
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
>The original debate started when developer Mojang decided to make the working title of their new CCG-like game "Scrolls" Not exactly. The debate started when Mojang decided to trademark the single word "Scrolls" and put themselves in a
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
>I've actually been experimenting with mics, but I'll definitely re-record once I find the right one. I once heard a very simple trick on a Mixergy interview. Record yourself under a blanket. The interviewee who was a professional audio
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
Exactly. The only thing that this video proves is that she has the right reaction by analyzing and experimenting with different objects. That's how we learn.
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
For someone else? No. For my own project? Anytime.
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
In that case force labels to revert 100% of the rights back to the original creators after 25 years. We will see how much those so called "artist rights lobbyist" work for that one.
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
I'll go one step further about what you said and guess that a search with a generic English name in a search engine will return 1000s of results with your application at the bottom of page 100. With a unique name you are now on page one at
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
Android : Brain N-Back https://market.android.com/details?id=phuc.entertainment.dua... It's well done with good features and free (I am using it since couple of weeks). I think it's a port of this open source project: http://brainworksho
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by ArcticCelt 15y ago
Also, the www became more or less mainstream in the mid 90s and mainly for college students and young professionals or tech workers in western countries. He went in full hiding in 2001 but was already hard to find since a couple of years an
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
Or do like the FBI and offer them a job, when they come for the interview they get frogmarched into the police cruiser.
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
Ok, I though you were satirizing his content. I just want to confirm to other readers that the list of points you mentioned are verbatim from his web site.
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
To me yes. In a professional image scale I would definitively rank facebook.com less professional than gmail.com but maybe slightly better than WorlOfWarcraft.com
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
I am pretty sure this was pure satire and a simple role inversion of the exact same monologue that programmers make from time to time. This: As a nontechnical founder, I get approached to do a startup by code jocks every few days. "I have t
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
This article seams to propose that morality and civility improve linearly forever when in fact it's more like the stock market with frequent crashes and long periods of decline. I am maybe a pessimist but I think that modern society is near
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
Nah, I have a particularly good memory for movie scenes. The construction vehicles scene and arrest scene are two different things. Bill gets arrested while speeding (while singing Sinatra's My Way in a sports car) and he wreck Paul Allen's
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
Then for the few legitimate remaining articles, I'll postulate that reddit users go to comment after only reading the headline and never follow the link of the article. Maybe HN readers are more diligent and do read/visit the articles more
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
I did a follow up story ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rndTuXG51kI
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by ArcticCelt 16y ago
Wow 14% female! That's at least 5 times mores than in my computers science classes. (no joke)
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by ArcticCelt 17y ago
He is 17, so depending of is financial situation, using the million to get a top notch education could be his better idea.
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by ArcticCelt 17y ago
From an article on Toms Hardware: >It seems that the game may be making repeated requests for authentication between levels before allowing the player to continue. >An early crack was also released for Assassin's Creed II (which hit
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by ArcticCelt 17y ago
I am tempted to start contacting some of his old interviewees and ask them what they think about it. I'll ask them to contact him if they are pissed by the fact that they were tricked into giving their free time. Many of them precisely said
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by ArcticCelt 17y ago
Last Christmas we were playing some kind of Jeopardy in my family and of course everyone was trying to use their portable wireless device to cheat one way or another. It's really an acceptably functional "external memory".
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by ArcticCelt 17y ago
No need to prove that Apple is evil or not, that's Google claim not Apple one. Apple claim to be original and sophisticated not that they are the next mother Theresa, they fully embrace the fact that they are a business and don't pretend ot
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by ArcticCelt 17y ago
"eating large quantities of meat and then fasting between meals to approximate the lean times that his distant ancestors faced between hunts. Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the inv
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by ArcticCelt 17y ago
I am presently typing this from my exertainement bike :) It's a recumbent stationary bicycle to which I installed a little platform where my laptop stand. I can watch movies, play games, browse Internet social news sites while not feeling g

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