MCompeau

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by MCompeau 14y ago
It's great how you can use spacebar to start a new game, definitely fuels the addictive/impulsive play. Unfortunately the cycle is broken everytime I have to take my hand off the keyboard and use the mouse at the Game Over prompt.
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JP Morgan Loses $2 Billion: Calls for Tougher Regulations(rawstory.com)
2 points by MCompeau 14y ago|2 comments
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by MCompeau 14y ago
Exactly the same situation here. I can't consume media "legitimately" in many circumstances even if I wanted to thanks to arbitrary restrictions regarding regions and DRM.
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by MCompeau 14y ago
This discourse goes beyond the anachronistic references indicated by these icons and calls into question our entire system of interface metaphors. At one point in time imagining the information stored on your computer as a system of "files"
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Nevada DMV Issues First Autonomous Vehicle Testing License to Google(dmvnv.com)
1 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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Quantum Entanglement Can Reach Into the Past(livescience.com)
2 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto / Remote Computational Designer, specializing in 3D parametric design Blog: http://www.emergentforms.com/blog/ Projects: http://emergentforms.com/projects.html Trained as a design architect, I am exploring ways of
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Google's Failed Plans for Future Growth(reuters.com)
1 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple Building Off-Campus Cafeteria so Competitors Can't Eavesdrop on Employees(9to5mac.com)
1 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 14y ago
This is an interesting development. I have a lot of colleagues in the architecture industry who are heavily dependant on SketchUp for early-stage conceptual work. I wonder if Trimble, a company with focus on hardware and BIM will push sketc
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3D Printing Drugs and Chemicals(newscientist.com)
2 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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Visualization of every road, air and shipping route on earth(vimeo.com)
1 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 14y ago
Do the Udacity course on Web Application Engineering (CS253 http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253/CourseRev/apr20... ). It just started a few days ago and goes for the next few weeks. It will likely provide you with the baseline ski
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Smartphone Will Pinpoint Your Location Down To The Inch Inside Buildings(singularityhub.com)
5 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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How I Learned Python by Visualizing New York City Traffic Data(emergentforms.com)
2 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Won't Hand Over Data on Occupy Wall Street Protester(readwriteweb.com)
3 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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How to create an ant spiral of death(io9.com)
5 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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Google Wants to Serve Ads Based on Your Phone's Background Noise(thenextweb.com)
1 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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The camera that can see around corners(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by MCompeau 15y ago|1 comments
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Google Defends Hotfile in Court(torrentfreak.com)
96 points by MCompeau 15y ago|17 comments
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Is the LHC throwing away too much data?(newscientist.com)
3 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft warns that OnLive Desktop’s Office streaming app violates license(venturebeat.com)
2 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 15y ago
If you are targeting geeks maybe consider a special focus on multi-monitor wallpapers? I'm sure there are other ways of honing your focus on geeks beyond just the subject matter of your imagery.
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Anonymous Members Tricked Into Giving Up Bank Details(newscientist.com)
2 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 15y ago
After seeing these mind-blowing quadracopter videos from UPenn popping up online all over the place for the past couple years, its great to finally see a culminating talk about the work being done there. Congrats guys!
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by MCompeau 15y ago
I feel incidents like these raise an interesting question about the long term credibility of any crypto currency system. For instance if a traditional nation state felt its monetary system was threatened by a crypto currency could they empl
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by MCompeau 15y ago
I was wondering how much people still place value on owning the domains related to their properties. I recall pg making a post a month or two ago where he noted that founders were becoming much less concerned with acquiring the perfect dom
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by MCompeau 15y ago
I don't understand: is this article slamming Sony and Samsung for their price and then saying that Apple is basically priced the same? Am I missing something here or is this just a biased editorial with no substance?
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by MCompeau 15y ago
If I recall Microsoft is using its patents to collect fees from Android licensees, yet here they are trying to make an appeal to the hacker ethos that Google is being anti-competitive. Sounds like they are trying to have things both ways an
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by MCompeau 15y ago
Second time today a garbage list with incomplete/fragmented/misspelled descriptions makes the front page (other submission here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3621609 ). Obvious spam.

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