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by akamaka 16y ago
Windows lacked the fit and finish of the Macintosh. But it didn't matter. Because there were hundreds of Windows machines whereas there was only a few variations of Macintosh... This has long been the conventional wisdom, but gi
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Ask HN: What Python web programming frameworks and tools are you using?
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by akamaka 16y ago
That is absolutely stunning work! I looked through the entire portfolio just for enjoyment. If you don't mind my idle curiousity, how much does it cost to produce a map of such high quality?
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by akamaka 16y ago
Well, I'm glad that I forced you to read the article, because I really enjoyed reading your comments. :) Although I agree with you, I did enjoy Theil's essay. I think it really captures and explains the desperate and almost suicidal mindse
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by akamaka 16y ago
There's a pretty big mistake in his logic, even without the benefit of hindsight. The iPhone didn't have to be as easy to use as an iPod. It's competing against other phones, and only needed to be easier to use than those. (In any case, I
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by akamaka 16y ago
Right. The next step is to change the URL bar in the browser with each new page, so that history, bookmarking, and link-sharing work properly. I've seen this done using anchor fragments (in other words, only changing the part of the URL af
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by akamaka 16y ago
I love how the music player in the bottom right corner of like.fm stays open as you navigate between different pages. Does anyone know how they did this? Edit: To clarify my question, this is probably done with AJAX, but like.fm also update
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by akamaka 16y ago
The article really should have mentioned the BA-609 tiltrotor aircraft. It's the civilian version of the V-22, and nearly ready for production. The BA-609, with the speed and range of an airplane, has tremendous potential, and is the reas
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by akamaka 16y ago
This can't be emphasized enough. Herman Miller chairs were made fun of during the dotcom boom as an example of lavish spending, and it was totally unfair. Those chairs come with 10 year warranties, so they're still around today. $1000 mi
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by akamaka 16y ago
Actually, Plenty of Fish is the best example of success due to being early. The site lacks any kind of special features that distinguished it from its competitors. Success came from being an early entrant into the SEO game and recognizing
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Setting up the Apple Magic Trackpad on Windows 7(macwin.tumblr.com)
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by akamaka 16y ago
I've been waiting for this since the rumors first started surfacing. As someone who uses a $100+ Kensington trackball, this is a bargain. If anyone has information on Windows 7 drivers for the Magic Mouse (whichare presumably the same), le
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by akamaka 17y ago
I like this: http://fourwhere.com/
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by akamaka 17y ago
Quite a few years ago I had a chance to see Bill give a presentation about his research. Not only is he a fantastic speaker, but he has been incredibly passionate about user interface design since way before it was cool. In this video he d
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by akamaka 17y ago
Whenever I read about Digg's infrastructure, I think of Markus Frind's comments from back in the day. He's the guy who built plentyoffish.com single-handedly. A lot has changed since 2006, but at the time he said that Digg had the worst i
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by akamaka 17y ago
This happens on my Corolla, which is quite old now. If I floor the gas on the highway, it continues to accelerate for a while after letting go the gas. It freaked me out the first time. The folks in the shop told me that I have a build-u
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by akamaka 17y ago
When it comes to human sexual behaviour, pretty much everything is possible, and it seems like anything that you can imagine actually exists. That's why you see dismissive comments like the original one: many people who has been 'working in
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by akamaka 17y ago
And for good reason. This type of research routinely sets out to prove something that is already obvious. When was the last time you saw an evolutionary psychology paper that provided a surprising new insight?
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by akamaka 17y ago
Nice catch. It's funny how it changes slightly with each retelling.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Good idea, as some researchers just showed that naps work: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8524549.stm
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by akamaka 17y ago
I don't know the details, I just googled "Russia alcoholism deaths" to get that figure.
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by akamaka 17y ago
This is pretty terrible journalism. It discusses deaths from people drinking denatured alcohol when it was first introduced in 1920s prohibition USA, but doesn't provide any context. Denatured alcohol is still widely sold today, without an
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by akamaka 17y ago
There's a lot of good advice here, but I'd like to offer another perspective: since you consider this a personality flaw, perhaps you should consider if the projects you choose are well suited to you. As an example, would you make a better
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by akamaka 17y ago
No, Twitter is just another part of the media circus that has been following this, right alongside late-night talk show hosts cracking jokes about it. This ranks alongside the Pentium bug back in 1994, where researchers discovered a legitim
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by akamaka 17y ago
Good question, but skip the article because the author doesn't know the answer.
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by akamaka 17y ago
"My understanding" means what I understand of it, which obviously not very much, because I'm not a researcher myself.
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by akamaka 17y ago
This particular argument is stupid and pointless. To an intelligent person who understands the basic principles of the greenhouse effect, the real questions are "How much?" and "How fast?" My understanding of climate science is that we don'
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by akamaka 17y ago
Sounds fantastic, it's great that you have some early customers. I'm sure they'll give you some good feedback. I hope you post again in a year or two to report where you business is at!
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by akamaka 17y ago
The article about the 2035 glacier melting mistake was valuable to me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057991 I was quite happy to learn that there was a mistake when the IPCC predicted that the glaciers which feed China's and India'
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by akamaka 17y ago
Agreed about making that the default. Another workable approach are keeping a full history graph, and only showing visited links on the site where you originally clicked on them. Or, the browser could highlight visited links in a way that c

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