Semiapies

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   by Semiapies 17y ago

   What about the things that aren't "good", but aren't harmful to anyone - things like lolcats and blog posts about how the whole web should be running out of home servers? Shouldn't people be able to do those?
2. 2312.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151478
3. 2313.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   When people fall prey to one-true-wayism (as the article does), they wipe out a lot of possibilities.
4. 2314.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   You might try Acme SAC: http://caerwyn.com/acme/
5. 2315.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   Optimizing for revenue collection is designing the rules to be easily broken . This does not enhance safety. If you want to bust a lot of speeders by a school, you must first have a lot of people speeding by a school. The best way to d
6. 2316.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   A minimally- and anonymously-substantiated rumor. Even their headline isn't as definite as this one.
7. 2317.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   Something vaguely along these lines would be a reasonable action. If local laws make the sensible operation of a legitimate website criminal, then the operators of that website would be smart to block all traffic from that country.
8. 2318.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   Most people don't assume that this sort of thing could be against a law, since it's a government doing it to them; they just glower and pay the tickets.
9. 2319.▲
   by Semiapies 17y ago

   I hate when people downvote decent questions.
10. 2320.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    A clearer title might have been "Why the web is not ready for the iPad (yet)", as people have seized upon this as some kind of attack on the iPad, when it's nothing of the sort.
11. 2321.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    I'm firmly and un-ironically set on "Brilliant". I looked at it and went blaah for a moment or three, but noticed that yeah, despite it superficially looking like a mid-90s amateur flashback, it was actually thoughtfully - if intensely -
12. 2322.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    "I just went to great length explaining what my claims are based on" Which struck me as a lot of unconvincing verbiage to support an absurd claim. "I just asked four non-engineer, non-technical, non-mathemetician friends " And you have a
13. 2323.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Don't really care about ChatRoulette. I gave up using "random web page" as my home page back in the mid-90s.
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    by Semiapies 17y ago

    "Neither are indices, data, corpora" Seriously? Just a quick Google suggests otherwise: 36,900,000 for indices vs 29,200,000 for indexes 1,440,000,000 for data vs 11,900,000 for datums (Heck, many people aren't familiar with "datum" to
15. 2325.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Please. There's no need for pointless dialect chauvinism; "radii" is the accepted and more common plural in American English as well as the UK version.
16. 2326.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    This system has come up before a few times (the one with the most discussion I see in a quick search is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877535 ). The problem with this system is that it seems to require 10 usable fingers, which exclude
17. 2327.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    "Radiuses" is a real, but less-common and less-accepted plural for radius. A quick search and check of references will confirm that. "1 - 10 of about 92,000 for radiuses." "Results 1 - 10 of about 5,700,000 for radii [definition]."
18. 2328.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Presumably they'd burn even less fossil fuel if they went out of business.
19. 2329.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    "There's some vague evidence of difference, but we don't know one way or the other." Which is the most common answer to medical articles with provocative question-titles like this.
20. 2330.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Not at all. But he'll get a pass for being good-looking.
21. 2331.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    It varies. Compare this young guy: http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/12010TanLeather3822Web... with this older man: http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/11810DGscarf3456Web.jp... The second man has serious style, and his outfit cou
22. 2332.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Compare what you wrote with something like this response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136775
23. 2333.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Obligatory mention of having to use Readability for light-on-dark text... EDIT: Some of us are on the other side of 30 and won't waste our eyesight on a blog by someone who thought white-on-black was kewl . Those under 30 shouldn't, eithe
24. 2334.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    I'm sure he'll have a reason why you're not writing "English", either.
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    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Ah, UK English. Not sure why UK English vocabulary should apply to this site; it does not appear to be based there, and the people who make it appear to be from the Netherlands.
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    by Semiapies 17y ago

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglarize Hmm. Which dictionary do you work for?
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    by Semiapies 17y ago

    What, and be obvious?
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    by Semiapies 17y ago

    "Going on trip. Please break into my house - my St. Bernard needs feeding."
29. 2339.▲
    by Semiapies 17y ago

    Hulu's an outlet for TV and movies among those using it. Vimeo's a place to show some original videos - one that most folks haven't heard about YouTube has become a medium for sharing video for the general public.
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    by Semiapies 17y ago

    That's the most useful "under construction" page I've ever seen.