Surio

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by Surio 14y ago
I actually first found Ruby Monk by searching for "Perl Monk for ruby", so in a way, the name works to their advantage. I know that this site kept coming up on HN radar frequently (in the last year at least) on various occasions, and I am f
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by Surio 14y ago
Off-topic: But I consider all those softwares you mentioned to be (still) bloody good at what they do too. So, why bother changing? ;-)
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EDIT: Someone else also pointed this. Apologies for multiple posting. No. Opera Turbo was and is still a very desktop feature, and it does significantly speeds the browsing experience. They have moved this convenience/feature over to their
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by Surio 14y ago
> Many teens still prefer Opera for unknown reasons here. This demographic trend in true in many places. One reason could be that Opera offers an unprecendented level of hackability and configurability (for a closed source browser) that
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by Surio 14y ago
As pointed before, this was discussed a few days ago here (the original was on quartz.com, so is this like a "reblogged in theatlantic" thing?): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801782 FWIW, this comment from that thread had many good
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by Surio 14y ago
Just to clarify, I was talking about the video there.
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> He obviously had a lot of cultural exposure to the US Which he has promptly gone on to satirise in the gangnam video. Oh the irony. ;-)
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by Surio 14y ago
Sorry about this, and I am probably flogging a dead horse, but I am just getting the details right here, that's all. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... Per his own admission, he didn't attend both Boston a
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by Surio 14y ago
@slowpoke did that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826022
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I remember reading elsewhere that he accepted that explanation (right in the beginning when the video went viral first) as well. He was recently signed up for some record deal by the man that talent spotted Justin Bieber. Perhaps there was
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by Surio 14y ago
@slowpoke gave a reason in his answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826022
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Exactly. This was discussed on many talk shows as well and that was the consensus arrived at regarding the message of the video. I was really trying to find the links to this, but couldn't.
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Excellent audio+video mashup. EDIT: They even managed to find some footage (sort of) replicating the lift scene from the video! :-D
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by Surio 14y ago
"unique sense of humor." I think the appropriate word you're looking for (or rather, to be used instead) is "satire" . And that completely changes how you view the whole thing.
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I didn't feel it was as bad as some of the comments here seem to indicate. I would give them a lot of marks simply for the effort to begin with and considering that it is simply a labour of love (as many of these videos here seem to be), it
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by Surio 14y ago
Juxtapose "who is this 'Lady Goo Goo'?" next to "Oppa Gangnam style", and you've solved the puzzle of what he wanted to convey. ;-)
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Man, this is really livening up my weekend... And thanks for showing us the lighter side of Noam Chomsky. My respect for the man went up several notches.
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This is what is so great about remixing other people's ideas Agree 100% with that sentiment. Indeed, that's one more reason to like this guy, PSY "According to The Guardian, PSY has waived his copyright to the music video. Although this
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by Surio 14y ago
What stingraycharles said. It depends on the adaptions. I liked this one by the Ohio marching band 110 Gangnam style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDficEfonAE
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Another one: Ohio 110 marching band plays Gangnam style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDficEfonAE
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Very nice to hear that one. Most stories about people involved in media, music and entertainment seem to highlight that they don't have any those obviously redeeming qualities
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Even I don't think this demerits your comment but the Gangnam video doesn't have anything on it that carries a stamp of any of those you mentioned. It is asiatic+uninhibited+spontaneous and in a very non-American way too.
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EDIT: Thanks for making my weekend. All the videos were Hilarious! [snip]. London Mayor Boris Johnson has gangnam'd too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/video/2012/oct/09/boris-j... Here's a another one: http://opalang.org/gangnam.sty
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by Surio 14y ago
+1 for "Gangnam Style is a poignant example of a world-wide entertainment trend that wasn't started in America". You said it. I wanted to say that too, but didn't feel it was necessary within the discussion context taking place (where I was
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And yet they have different colours, different tastes, different blah blahs.... Look, its Saturday today, we both have a lot of time, and this can go on and on, but I think we both know what I wanted to convey :-)
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YMMV ;-) But, yes, your point can be equally valid too. When it comes to visual arts, the whole thing is soooo open to interpretation.
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Apples and pears, I'm afraid.
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What the other person said, how can you be so sure it is bad w/o even having seen it in the first place? :-P FWIW, it is an excellent satire on pop-culture in general, hip-hop videos, OTT dance moves in most music videos, etc. And the tun
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A great analogy.
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If you read @yegge's response (I reproduced it here) This only started happening after I asked about the domain name. It used to point to a history page about Duck Corporation (previous name of On2 -- http://web.archive.org/web/2010080201

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