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by Volt 11y ago
I've used this pipe as my Hacker News RSS feed for the last 5 years, which flips the link structure so the main link for each entry is to the comments. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=0e19519adf0515251..
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by Volt 13y ago
>"less is more" Less what? Do be more precise. I've heard that with regards to complexity – not so much with regards to power.
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by Volt 15y ago
>The inevitability argument can be made for YouTube, but I don't think it can be made for Google search. I think it can. Around the time that PageRank was published, Jon Kleinberg also published the HITS (hubs & authorities) algorit
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by Volt 16y ago
Potentially dumb question (I haven't checked myself), but does this mean that Apple removes the names from the open source Darwin releases?
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by Volt 16y ago
Let's not forget that this was actually put on a Game Boy cart. Highly dubious.
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by Volt 16y ago
The only name that I've seen for this is "impulsive highlighting". There used to be a Wikipedia article about it, but it was unfortunately deleted since it cited no sources. http://awurl.com/C8uVAsoJN (Yes, I know it looks like a question
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by Volt 16y ago
I find that Google gives me better results when it matters. So although DDG has been my primary search engine, there are times when I'll enter my query into Google and get something that better satisfies my information need as either the fi
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by Volt 16y ago
I have no idea personally, but I say "tuh-ple" because it comes from "n-tuple" (think of how you pronounce "quintuple").
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by Volt 16y ago
I guess that's true. Personally I guess I never noticed because I have Quicksilver indexing my Safari history. I can also use it to do all my Web searches.
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by Volt 17y ago
Alternatively, OpenFrameworks[1] (C++) targets the iPhone. I haven't used OF before, but I assume there's a speed/familiarity tradeoff here if you already know Processing. [1] http://www.openframeworks.cc/
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by Volt 17y ago
> Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines I used Opera 5 on my 50 MHz 486 when no other browser was truly up to the task. Continued using it on other machines until Safari 2 hit on the Mac. I've always though
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by Volt 17y ago
If anyone is interested in knowing, Iwata was at HAL Laboratory (before recently moving to Nintendo proper) where he programmed such games as Kirby, Earthbound, and (at least the original prototype for) Super Smash Bros.
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by Volt 17y ago
Probably not. The only place they're really warranted is on Twitter, so if Twitter did it themselves that would go a long way. There is the whole URL masking annoyance as well, so ideally Twitter would support long URLs, but that might not
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by Volt 17y ago
DNS servers co-operate and the system has lots of built-in redundancy, whereas URL shortners have none of these properties. It's not just the indirection that makes them fragile.
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by Volt 18y ago
So true. http://nullstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/inconsolata.... (Thanks, Google Images)