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by Nogwater 16y ago
http://www.SpellingThing.com/ Improve your spelling through daily practice.
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by Nogwater 16y ago
Fair enough. Still, fires do occasionally make it into the cities (I'm pretty sure I remember seeing one eat a neighborhood in San Bernardino a few years ago).
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by Nogwater 16y ago
This thinking would only work in places where fire can't jump very far AND a very high percentage of people have paid. Living in Southern California with Santa Ana winds (warm, dry, and often over 50 mph) this would never work. The fire f
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by Nogwater 16y ago
I'm having trouble emailing you. First I got an auto-response that said that I needed to be white listed. I replied to that to confirm. I got another replying saying that my email was sent, but just now I got a bounce that said that "Mai
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by Nogwater 16y ago
How much "throughput" do you need before stats like this start to mean anything? For example, if you only acquire 5 new users per month, can you really calculate a meaningful churn rate?
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by Nogwater 16y ago
How about instead of increasing the cost, we decrease the value of squatting on a domain? Browsers (via a plug-in or built-in mechanism) could show a little warning page before loading the actual site if the site is known to be a squat pag
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by Nogwater 16y ago
IANAL, but my guess would be 'yes'. It looks like a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work to me. It's definitely a gray area.
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by Nogwater 16y ago
Out of curiosity, how large would the time capsule need to be to contain 5TB of data encoded that way?
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by Nogwater 16y ago
This one (disclosure: I maintain it) links directly to the HN page: http://twitter.com/HNComments
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by Nogwater 16y ago
Thanks. If you register it does show you the number of rights/wrongs for each word in that training session. I'd like to add something to show overall stats so that you can see your improvement. I don't have any hard evidence to show tha
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Ask HN: Review my Project: SpellingThing
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by Nogwater 16y ago
It's not an official feed, but here's one that I've been hosting for a while. http://twitter.com/HNComments
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by Nogwater 16y ago
Why do you need write access to my account?
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by Nogwater 16y ago
Does anybody have a list that shows which of the new features are available on the old 3G model? Is it just the multitasking and video that don't work?
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by Nogwater 16y ago
Isn't Bespin more of an editor than a full IDE? I haven't used it in a while. Does it have build and debug functions now? Don't get me wrong, I think we'll get there eventually, I just doubt it'll be this year.
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by Nogwater 16y ago
Does anyone have recommendations on which of these to watch?
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by Nogwater 16y ago
My interest in computers waxes and wanes, but in the past 20 years I have never felt sick or disgusted. Maybe the week here and there that I take off is enough, or maybe I just haven't reached that point yet.
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by Nogwater 17y ago
Maybe I'm an unusual case, but their picks were pretty good for me. Out of my few hundred contacts, it correctly chose a good top 10 that I would want to follow. Maybe my chat history helped out on that. That being said, they screwed up
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by Nogwater 17y ago
Right, I have the option to choose from many nearby locations but they're all very precise (even if they're not accurate). I want something that's accurate but not precise. It sounds like Goolge Latitude has it. Hopefully they'll add it
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by Nogwater 17y ago
Any idea how to make the geo-location feature on buzzes less accurate? I'd be OK with city level, but not block level.
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by Nogwater 17y ago
I think it was the animation of the word cloud. I found it really distracting.
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by Nogwater 17y ago
On the up side, you site inspired me to finally install flashblock. :)
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by Nogwater 17y ago
Where else do manufacturers decide on the price of the good and not the retailer? I know lots of items come with MSRPs, but they're just suggestions. Also, what about resale price maintenance? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resale_price_mai
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by Nogwater 17y ago
We have two positions available. For both we would like at least a year of experience with C#, but if you're a perfect fit in every other way we'd still like to talk to you. 1. We're looking for someone who's really good with MS SQL Server
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by Nogwater 17y ago
Here's why I'm not worried about an Amazon monopoly (I'm open to changing my mind on this). 1) It's not really a monopoly as long as the authors/publishers sell through other vendors too. Will I buy eBooks from Amazon, Apple, Barnes and No
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by Nogwater 17y ago
I looked up IPS on Wikipedia once they mentioned that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal_display#In-plane... It only really mentions the "con" of requiring a brighter backlight/more power. What are the pros?
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by Nogwater 17y ago
Exposed (or nearly) nerves for communication. I imagine that they lead to a lobe in the brain that's able to both generate and process mind-to-mind communication. Maybe something like our temporal lobes and Broca's area which handle heari
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by Nogwater 17y ago
It also seemed like most of the other animals had their nostrils on in the shoulder area. (I need to watch it again to confirm.) Why not the Na'vi? Probably because if they looked too alien (four eyes, four arms, no noses), the audience wo
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by Nogwater 17y ago
MS didn't just bundle the browser with the OS, they tied the OS to the browser and claimed that it couldn't be removed. They also routinely set IE as the default browser even when users had chosen otherwise. Netscape certainly dropped the
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by Nogwater 17y ago
I'm not a physicist, but doesn't the conductor need to fully encircle the card to make a Faraday cage? I would think that something U-shaped (in one dimension or another) like a typical wallet would just act as a waveguide. Even if it does

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