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by akamaka 17y ago
Not really. If you look closely at the video, you can see it's just flat pieces of foam layered on top of each other. Presumably, she hand-made one chair for the competition. My guess is that the "crazy 3D modeling" involved a bunch of t
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by akamaka 17y ago
To be fair, Microsoft invested a lot more into catering for Korean users than anyone else. Just three years ago, I set up Firefox on my Korean friend's computer, and found out that he couldn't properly type Korean in his webmail program, wh
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by akamaka 17y ago
I'm running a business where aspiring talented people pay a small fee to take part in a show, in hopes of gaining exposure.
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by akamaka 17y ago
They overlooked Kevin Mitnick's business card, which is probably the coolest ever! http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranh/106709219/
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by akamaka 17y ago
I agree, and also suggest playing guitar, if you like music. It helps in a few ways: switching the activities of your hands (left hand gripping the guitar neck, instead of right hand gripping the mouse), it builds finger strength, and most
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by akamaka 17y ago
My biggest problem with ImageMagick is the command-line API. I never use it enough to learn it off by heart, but it's not intuitive enough to quickly pick up again when I need it. Unfortunately, GraphicsMagick seems to use the same paradig
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by akamaka 17y ago
I think this speaks more to the low quality of these blacklists than to a problem at Amazon. Did anyone who noticed the offending site contact Amazon to have it removed, or are they simply content to keep adding more blocked IPs as the off
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by akamaka 17y ago
No, it doesn't, in my opinion. I almost never see dupe links here, and I don't think it's a problem at all.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Downvoted by accident, sorry. Hope we get an undo feature someday.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Tale of Genji Brave New World
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by akamaka 17y ago
They haven't added any fundamental innovations that Facebook hasn't already implemented. This is an example of the worst kind of design, where the designer has gone through a self-absorbed process of moving around and resizing elements that
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by akamaka 17y ago
You don't have to be successful at anything. I spent most of my twenties dwelling on my failures and wondering what I was doing wrong. I wish someone had just told me to chill out and do what I enjoy, but nobody did. You seem to have a lot
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by akamaka 17y ago
As a reader, I'd say you come across more credible by posting here, since I know that you're not linkbaiting for ad revenue.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I lost any interest in what Malcolm Gladwell has to say about race after he argued that East Asian children have better math skills because their ancestors cultivated rice and not wheat. http://www.pressrun.net/weblog/2009/09/outliers-what
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by akamaka 17y ago
Opening the boomtango page takes a long time on my machine, mostly because it's trying to download an image from PayPal. I hope you guys can make all the images local, so it loads instantly.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I see. I'm under the impression that Microsoft doesn't support SVG in IE for political and competitive reasons, and that this proposal isn't going to change that, so I really don't see the point. I guess I don't really know how proposals li
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by akamaka 17y ago
Sounds nice in theory, but then again, so do most proposals about making stuff more extensible. There's more examples out there of how extensibility went wrong rather than right. (for example, OpenGL 1.x extensions vs. Direct3D's continuall
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by akamaka 17y ago
Hey admins, have you considered toning down the shade of orange a bit? It's pretty distracting right now, compared to the neutral colors of the rest of the page. I'd suggest using something closer to #ff9955
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by akamaka 17y ago
These guys aren't the only ones working on this. Here's a couple of links to some interesting concepts Boeing is exploring: 2006 article, with more detail: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200... 2009 article, new
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by akamaka 17y ago
Almost none. I've been reading HN for about one year, and Something about the minimalism of the layout and lack of signatures makes me just read the comments and not think about who wrote them.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Interesting idea, but now old threads like this, where people voted by modding up, don't make sense: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
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by akamaka 17y ago
I voted for banking. One of the things that keeps poor people poor is transaction fees, high interest rates on loans and, most importantly, difficulty understanding and accessing more advanced financial tools and tax rebates. I voted for th
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by akamaka 17y ago
The interesting thing about this case is that the infringer was sued by a company that used their software, not by the copyright holder. I'm not sure I'm happy about that, given the way a few rabid free software fanatics have acted in the p
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by akamaka 17y ago
See the Flag of Mozambique, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mozambique
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by akamaka 17y ago
These tests are completely useless, since most of the measurements are done at a point where response time has already degraded unacceptably. I don't need a web server that performs slightly better when massively overloaded. The sweet spot
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by akamaka 17y ago
Let's not forget that BackBlaze started this, by making a graph that compared their prices to S3, etc. (and were also criticised for that in the previous HN thread).
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by akamaka 17y ago
Although the article doesn't give any information about Zoltan's ideology, I imagine him as a black hat hacker type, motivated more by the sheer challenge of it than anything else. Considering how little his actions mattered in the overall
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by akamaka 17y ago
Cool article. I've also read that they used parts from ordinary household microwaves to create fake targets for the US anti-radiation missiles. Something that's sorely lacking from the article is any information on US long-term strategy.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Interesting and unusual books for a hacker. Can you give us a quick mini-review of what you think so far?
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by akamaka 17y ago
I only read the first chapter of Malcolm X's autobiography before I lost my copy, but boy was it ever worth reading. I think everyone should take an hour to sit down and read the first chapter, even if they don't like books.

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