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by Mahn 10y ago
> The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. A lot of people seem to enjoy it though, I don't think you can generalize this. Different features for different types of users.
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by Mahn 10y ago
In theory the solution is simple: show click-bait ads to people who enjoy them only . Publishers still get make money and the ads don't get in the way for people who don't care. This is why Google and Facebook are kings in the on
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by Mahn 10y ago
It's not about what it is today, it's about what it can become. Minecraft is firmly in the trajectory of becoming absolutely massive, and if nothing stops its pace in the next few years, it's not crazy for Microsoft to bet th
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by Mahn 10y ago
According to Wikipedia this makes it the second best selling video-game of all time [1], only behind Tetris. Pretty impressive. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
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by Mahn 10y ago
I know this is probably not the feedback you are looking for, but: your page at http://www.mrhythmstudy.org/ uses a non-standard font (Avenir Next) which doesn't show up in Windows; instead what I see is an ugly Times
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by Mahn 10y ago
Sadly we are still very far away from understanding the human brain enough to be able to connect and communicate with it directly, so while that would be great, in the next 20 years it is more feasible that we'll just keep polishing th
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by Mahn 10y ago
> if you allow the masses to do absolutely nothing while providing them the necessities for life Perhaps I'm underestimating the issue, but isn't there already today a sizeable chunk of the population in the world that does n
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by Mahn 10y ago
* No comments * No line jumps * Cryptic variable names * Magic numbers * Multiple return points in the middle of the function Yeah, this code might be doing good things, but I wouldn't be thrilled to inherit it in a project. I mean it&
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by Mahn 10y ago
I almost always watch YouTube videos without sound. For me putting the headphones on and fully concentrating on the sound and image of a video is too big of a "commitment" when I don't even know what the video is about. It&#x
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by Mahn 10y ago
I wouldn't call it missed opportunity, they just decided they wanted to be the page you go to when you search on Google rather than the place you go to discuss and debate, and they succeed wildly at that. But yes, it's a shame tha
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by Mahn 10y ago
Only on HN would one question the nature of a pun :)
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by Mahn 10y ago
I don't know that most people do that, but right click and mobile seem to bypass OP's method as well.
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by Mahn 10y ago
For the record you don't actually need to depend on new APIs like "document.execCommand('copy')", simply shifting focus to an off-screen textbox area when ctrl is down will do the trick in 95% of the cases, with ful
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by Mahn 10y ago
So apparently it's cool to data-mine data like this as long as it's totally going to be used only for a power saving mode.
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by Mahn 10y ago
Anecdotal, but when our app got featured on the Chrome Web Store, we saw "clusters" of people coming from single IPs and running Chrome OS, which we would later find out to be US high-schools; for us that was pretty interesting, t
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by Mahn 10y ago
Makes you wonder how autonomous self driving systems are going to handle cases like these. How far could a self driving car "see" to realize the navigation data it has is incomplete and should instead improvise?
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by Mahn 10y ago
Search was speedy enough for me, 1 second at worst, no complaints here.
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by Mahn 10y ago
Superb idea, it makes so much sense to look up foreign words this way that it's suprising we weren't learning languages this way already.
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by Mahn 10y ago
In fact it's quite possibly the only piece of software that HN hasn't bashed or harshly criticized so far :)
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by Mahn 10y ago
You forgot 5. (In a more distant future) After a plethora of features, long time Go developers become disappointed with how much bloat the language acquired over the years, decide to start from scratch and design the definitive language to
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by Mahn 10y ago
So basically like every modern movie loosely based on actual real life events. Then again, movies are almost always designed to entertain and munch popcorn, not so much to inform.
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by Mahn 10y ago
Just a heads up, "Apply HN" is for built products/services, not ideas.
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by Mahn 10y ago
On that note, it's pretty impressive that the NY Times already had online presence back then. This was way before Geocities and Lycos.
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by Mahn 11y ago
So there's no cure, no vaccine, and you can't kill them. Terrifying. An outbreak of this thing would have free pass to eradicate entire species, including us.
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by Mahn 11y ago
There's an unwritten rule here on Hacker News that says that you are supposed to bash any piece of technology that received praise when it was originally introduced on HN, but is now 3 years old or older. The moment in time when someth
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by Mahn 11y ago
I do this too, single quotes for simple/static strings, double quotes for (potentially) complex/dynamic strings. Nothing wrong with that as long as you are consistent, though I suppose it's a very subjective thing.
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by Mahn 11y ago
Have you considered that you may not like your current job? I know this isn't always possible, but if you can, consider looking for a job that you care and feel more passionate about. You are less likely to procrastinate if you like wh
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by Mahn 11y ago
Now you have me intrigued, I didn't even know there was another type of podcast.
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by Mahn 11y ago
On that note, how come that (almost) no browser vendor is experimenting with better UIs for tabs? It seems that they have remained the exact same for the last decade in both Firefox and Chrome. I get that they are functional for the casual
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by Mahn 11y ago
It's built on chromium and atom, but written in JavaScript and CSS, so technically I guess you could say that it's a browser in a browser.

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