WCityMike

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by WCityMike 9y ago
The title of the piece is a bit click-baity, as the court opinion specifically states, as the article notes in its last paragraph, that “because [Gray] was not a minor sending sexually explicit images to another consenting minor, we decline
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by WCityMike 9y ago
Honestly, I can't believe how tone-deaf the entire organization has been on this. I know that's not popular to hear, but I keep seeing people tell them, over and over again, that the loss of customizability and functionality -- a
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by WCityMike 9y ago
Re: 7: I loved that show, and don't recall an episode similar to what the OP describes, so I think he's clear there. The only similarities between the two is the parallel-universe concept, which is a longstanding topic of science
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Ask HN: Can Facebook's color-background stuff be adblocked?
1 points by WCityMike 9y ago|0 comments
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by WCityMike 9y ago
As a legal assistant in Illinois, which will start using this software statewide by the end of the year (excluding Cook and some other counties, which adopted other software), this is troubling news.
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by WCityMike 9y ago
At least in Chicago, public transit options exist.
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by WCityMike 9y ago
My perfect Facebook would be crosspollinating Facebook and the structure of a RSS reader. I want to be able to skim through EVERY update on EVERY page and person I follow, star/flag the ones I'm interested in, and then read the o
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by WCityMike 9y ago
Just Google "In Re Seagate Overturned".
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by WCityMike 10y ago
"He writes the science fiction that would have existed in an earlier era, had science existed then" made me think with amusement of caveman science fiction [1]. I've been a fan of Chiang for a very long time. I'm a real
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Ask HN: Office skills testing that isn't method-specific?
1 points by WCityMike 10y ago|2 comments
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by WCityMike 10y ago
Quick run through pdftotext and minor cleanup: http://pastebin.com/raw/V7FaFS0Q
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by WCityMike 10y ago
TV Tropes is the definitive rabbit hole: http://www.tvtropes.org For me, a close follow-up is the SCP Foundation: http://www.scp-wiki.net/
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by WCityMike 10y ago
Thank you!
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Ask HN: When was the first text file?
1 points by WCityMike 10y ago|3 comments
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by WCityMike 11y ago
In case it's not immediately clear, this is Maciej from Pinboard. Note the handle is the same as his blog's name.
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by WCityMike 11y ago
Chicago is doing something very similar with Divvy. [1] [1] https://www.divvybikes.com/
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Ask HN: iOS HN apps withintegrated save-to services?
1 points by WCityMike 11y ago|0 comments
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by WCityMike 11y ago
You never know, a little mascara and rouge can make those Browser Plugins look really nice.
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by WCityMike 11y ago
As far as I understand, at least per Lessig's team: Dems said in order to participate in debate, you must poll 1% in three polls IN the six weeks prior to the debate. Depending on what polls were counted, Lessig either qualified or we
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by WCityMike 11y ago
You know, it's kind of worth noting that Amazon's not the only culprit for this kind of behavior. Unlike Android, you can't buy a book through the iOS Kindle app because Apple has banned apps that directly compete with its o
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Ask HN: Whitelisting Facebook Connect, Blacklisting Facebook?
1 points by WCityMike 11y ago|0 comments
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by WCityMike 11y ago
Thus the comment in the article about a programmed maximum.
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by WCityMike 11y ago
Respectfully, this doesn't reflect my experience at all. I live in Chicago. I was referred to a sleep specialist, saw them, had a sleep study (the Matrix wiring and unpleasantly early sleep time is accurate, though), got my machine,
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by WCityMike 11y ago
I'd be curious as to your reaction to Ars Technica's review, in which they complained about what they perceived as a "debilitating" Start Menu issue: "This database is (inexplicably) maintained by a system service r
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by WCityMike 11y ago
I believe you're mistaken. Here is its debut, and it's pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jREDSWOYY#t=1m23s Google "Cereproc" and "Roger Ebert" and you'll find that he was
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by WCityMike 11y ago
A lot of people have already talked to you, and I'm only coming to this thread from my HN Daily digest. If you are still around and would like at least one more piece of input, I will say this: for me, one of the things that helped me
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by WCityMike 12y ago
I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http:&#
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by WCityMike 12y ago
What's worse is that they won't let this be disabled by an about-config switch. They're basically turning Firefox into an iPhone and AMO into the App Store, amputating the add-on ecosystem and users’ add-on experience withou
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by WCityMike 12y ago
I'm a legal assistant for a mid-size law firm that mostly caters to other small- and medium-sized businesses. I basically just enjoy the topics discussed here.
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by WCityMike 12y ago
While this is a neat idea, 600,000 titles seems to me to be a small figure.

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