Lewton

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by Lewton 14y ago
Sometimes something happens where posts on hacker news are part of the debacle[1] and it results in an influx of new users. I don't want to sound like an old coot, but I'm a bit concerned about the type of user this thing has been attractin
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by Lewton 14y ago
I found both types of examples you gave insulting. Obviously being called dumb is insulting, but being treated like a baby is too. What's so wrong with just saying "This should be changed because ___" "You should avoid doing something like
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by Lewton 14y ago
So good I felt compelled to donate If I learned that much from every 20 minute video I watched my life would be amazing
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by Lewton 14y ago
I feel bad for giving NYT my traffic now I hate how part of journalism is paraphrasing other journalists articles, as I see it only bad things can come from that. Feather becoming 10 hens and all
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by Lewton 14y ago
This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWvG4KAYJfY is why
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by Lewton 14y ago
That's what he's saying. 4Chan came from SomethingAwful
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by Lewton 14y ago
>Facebook's "Like" buttons track you across the internet, even if you don't have an account. There's no way to opt-out of that There's facebook disconnect for that Chrome plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-disco
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by Lewton 14y ago
I learned of it in 5th grade, watching a space documentary in science class.
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by Lewton 14y ago
I know nothing about Monads, I know nothing about Haskell except for the fact that it's a functional programming language that has Monads. Yet I still found this really informative... Makes me want to play around with Haskell and see if thi
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by Lewton 14y ago
hisyam: Yes, it's something you get after getting 20 points or something like that jamesbritt: I've heard of people losing their flag priviliges because of 'abuse' whatever that is
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by Lewton 14y ago
That's what the flag function is for
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Why We Need a Toilet Revolution(thegatesnotes.com)
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by Lewton 14y ago
Now I'm confused. Is it made up tweets? because I recognized two or three of them from threads I've read
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by Lewton 14y ago
This is fairly retarded. It's not hard to make something look foolish when you take a single sentence out of context.
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by Lewton 14y ago
Zach Weiner is one of the more productive people on the internet. He has a daily webcomic at http://www.smbc-comics.com He's also the man behind http://www.captainexcelsior.com/ and writes the script for this comic: http://www.snowflak
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by Lewton 14y ago
I suspect the wait time for changing names on facebook are there to give the illusion that a real human looks at it. AFAIK if you try to change your name to something obviously fake, like "Superman", it will reject it immediately
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by Lewton 14y ago
This isn't a kickstarter to fund the development of the finished product, it's a kickstarter to get these kits out into the hands of as many developers as are interested.
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by Lewton 14y ago
In this demonstration he mentions it's 1200x800 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v... Not exactly high resolution (considering the wide FOV), but not bad either Seems like an oversight that they've left out the s
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by Lewton 14y ago
By then we will all have moved on and you'll be waiting for a raspberry pi style machine that will do full 4320p :p
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by Lewton 14y ago
Are the start locations completely random? I ask because the 3-4 times I opened it, the start location looked absolutely stunning Also: My laptop usually have issues with WebGL sites, they crash or run really slow. This is smooth as can be!
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by Lewton 14y ago
Their response focuses entirely on the issue of them charging them for a name change, and almost completely ignores the bot issue. I personally don't see that as a big issue, it would make sense that they don't let pages change names willy-
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by Lewton 14y ago
Peculiar how this comment is at the bottom of this page, yet has enough upvotes to have made it to the best comments page http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
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by Lewton 14y ago
Don't rewrite, refactor!
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by Lewton 14y ago
This, mixed with drones with cameras like the ones used here: http://vimeo.com/36341233 makes some pretty exciting cinematography possible
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by Lewton 14y ago
I always leave the seat AND the lid down, to cause equal annoyance for everyone
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by Lewton 14y ago
I was expecting this to be a password strength checker, that showed a woman stripping based on how strong your password was... As an insentive
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by Lewton 14y ago
I find your '$1 per bundle sold per dev team' metric disingenuous because it glosses over that a lot of those single dollars will be from buyers who have already paid full price for that teams game
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by Lewton 14y ago
Yes, really. The whole article is thick with sarcasm and jokey stabs
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by Lewton 14y ago
It's a joke. He later on describes how they've become friends.
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by Lewton 14y ago
>You can structure your corporation in many ways. If the old co-founders were cool enough to give up their shares, they would be cool enough to, say, give the current founders proxy rights. A possibility, but certainly this is much simp

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