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by Scriptor 17y ago
This is a somewhat special case since the guy already had experience with non-Windows UIs (Ubuntu) so trying something new wasn't very new to him. On the other hand, many Windows users are deeply set in what they're used to, and their initi
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by Scriptor 17y ago
That sounds right for Gmail. Maybe his experience is with another email client.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
What, you've never had to exchange some emails between a small group of people?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
The only thing that bothers me about their site is that every advertisement is the same and often just sucks. I'll take one of those annoying Sonic commercials, but seeing them over and over somewhat grates my nerves. It's a small price to
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Also, I think Flash on OSX buffers more slowly than on Windows. It's why whenever I want to see something online I have to reboot into my Windows partition, where the video almost never has to stop to buffer. On OSX however, buffering for s
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by Scriptor 17y ago
So the fact that Google has a bunch of loosely connected tools that hypothetically could form a social networking site if it was pushed a little harder suddenly makes it a "Facebook-Killer"? Please, the strategies that this article is sugge
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Actually, I feel that at some point in the past the market for PHP books was saturated. Until perhaps PHP 6 comes along, there is little need for new books. Additionally, the way many PHP programmers usually start is with online tuts and do
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Not really, I think this layout is just very common for apps like these.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I think many of us were waiting for this.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Some flexibility would be nice here. I'm sure there'd be a few books I'd like to read in the future, so maybe 10 books with the reader and 10 free ones I can choose later would be nice. Still, the XKCD on the Kindle made me really want to t
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I've noticed that it's very easy for writers nowadays to just throw in a modifier in front of something objective, and immediately, subtly alter people's perceptions. Many people simply read by skimming and don't always stop to think about
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Good hacker essays?
3 points by Scriptor 17y ago|6 comments
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by Scriptor 18y ago
When you get down to it, natural selection is merely about who is able to create the most successful offspring. The fact that the offspring have very similar traits as their parents is the reason why these offspring are themselves likely to
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by Scriptor 18y ago
I had the same question. It is possible that the trait survived as a recessive one for a long time. In the same way that sickle-cell is only lethal if a person has the defect in both sets of chromosomes (homozygous recessive), the weaker ja
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by Scriptor 18y ago
Yep, I go to NYU. Not sure if this is obvious or not, but it's seems really hard to find like-minded techies and hackers around here, unless they're in audio or video tech. Do you know of any other places like this were hackers meet up and
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by Scriptor 18y ago
I'm a student and I might come to this. Can anyone tell me what usually goes on / what people talk about in these meetups?
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by Scriptor 18y ago
Is there any way to stop it from reshifting the focus to a random new tweet? If this is going to be used for something, I think this would have to be the first step. Otherwise, it's mostly just eye-candy.
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by Scriptor 18y ago
Maybe it's because I'm not a member, but the next meeting date shown is January 13.
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by Scriptor 18y ago
Well, I'm going to NYU, so theoretically my being a heterosexual male already gives me an advantage.
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by Scriptor 18y ago
I'm with you on this one. Tonight, while couples are happily enjoying each other's company, I will be eating dinner at a dining hall in my college.
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Native JSON Support in Firefox 3.1(blog.mozilla.com)
6 points by Scriptor 18y ago|0 comments
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by Scriptor 18y ago
I'm amazed at how staunchly biased you're approaching this. Not only does this article take the first leap of paranoia in stating that Google is doing this to sabotage competition, it goes further to say that somehow Google Analytics will b
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by Scriptor 18y ago
Make sure you read the guidelines then: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Scriptor 18y ago
I'm worried about exactly how that person received so many upvotes. This person does not seem to have much basis to his/her hate other than some blog posts. More importantly, there seems to be a sizeable number of people who agree with the
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by Scriptor 18y ago
Also, the title of the submission is poorly worded, suggesting that the Arab producers were asking the question.
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by Scriptor 18y ago
As he stated in the submission's text, he is not starting a website for the average web surfer, but a system that detects money laundering in bank transactions.
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by Scriptor 18y ago
This guy is pulling "facts" out of thin air left and right. The average person doesn't trust computers, automobile mechanics or lawyers Hello? Statistics? Data? Evidence? I guess those are obsolete too now that we have the cloud. You see
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by Scriptor 18y ago
This is a great idea. I'd love to see a language that was somehow compatible with mod_php yet was redesigned with sound principles in mind. PHP is handicapped in that it started as more or less of a tool for counters, and also because its i
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by Scriptor 18y ago
I know exactly what you're talking about and have done a similar thing in one of my own projects. Basically, you need an iframe to contain the HTML, and fetch the actual page through the server. If you load the page directly though the ifra
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by Scriptor 18y ago
I used to play the violin for my high school orchestra. I wasn't great, and I often wondered how professionals could practice for hours on end. Now I realize that it may very well be asked how I could sit in front of a computer programming

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