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by akavi 14y ago
Regarding your first point, I've lived in small apartments with high ceilings (12 ft) and small apartments with low ceilings (~8 ft, if I remember correctly). The low ceiling'd one actually had higher square footage, but felt noticeably s
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by akavi 14y ago
Insert standard comment about how this does not touch on HATEOS and is therefore not only not REST, but evil and perverse and all that is wrong with the world
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by akavi 14y ago
I really liked the demo controlling the music player; it struck me as the one I'd be most likely to actually see in the near future (The door with the different signs was neat, but requires a bit more hardware). I'm curious where the sensor
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by akavi 14y ago
A version that works in bash: yes 'c=(╱ ╲);printf ${c[RANDOM%2]}'|bash Source and credit: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13612327
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by akavi 14y ago
If I remember correctly (One of the founders is an acquaintance), logging companies frequently have large parcels of land of varying quality, size, and even contiguity. Being able to cheaply determine the the composition of the trees on the
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by akavi 14y ago
A very reasonable argument. However, pragmatically, the real reason is that the driving force behind copyright law in the United States (and therefore in much of the world) is the Walt Disney Corporation, which has decided that it will use
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by akavi 14y ago
We hacker/engineering types seem to have an almost visceral rejection of the idea that we are anything less than in total, conscious control of our actions. You see this mostly in reference to advertising ("Oh, I don't see ads, and even whe
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by akavi 14y ago
You are clearly not literate in Chinese. There is very little "iconic" about Chinese characters, with the exception of a select few ("Pictograms" is a gross mischaracterization). No attempt was made during their (thousand-year long) formula
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by akavi 14y ago
Now that's holding a grudge. Irredentism is a peculiar human drive that I've never fully understood.
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by akavi 14y ago
Presumably (at least if you accept the Efficient Market Hypothesis), predictable information like that is already priced in to the stock.
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by akavi 14y ago
I say this with absolutely no judgement regarding the value of the iPad Mini, but I'm struck by the similarity between this criticism and the criticism leveled against the original iPad ("it's just a giant iPod Touch!").
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by akavi 14y ago
Wait, high schools starts earlier than Elementary? I'm... dumbfounded by the idiocy of that (And a quick google indicates this isn't uncommon!). Who on earth thought this was a good idea? Flip the ordering around and I'd bet you'd see sig
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by akavi 14y ago
The IP (may be | is) worthless. The people, on the other hand, still have the potential to be very valuable (Remember, the reason that Color was able to raise so much money was because the team of founders has an impressive record of succes
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by akavi 14y ago
Naming it "A/Bingo" and hosting it on his own site? Nah. Naming it "A/Bingo" and hosting it on his own site for the intent of garnering linkjuice while at the same time presenting the name choice as simply a guileless, clever pun (as he doe
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by akavi 14y ago
Ooh, that's clever. And a little more greyhat than I've come to expect from patio11
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by akavi 14y ago
Is this their official launch? The company I've worked for has had one for a while... Regardless, I'm a fan. The fact that granting and revoking access is so trivial meant that when I was an intern I still had full ability to come and go re
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by akavi 14y ago
You vastly underestimate the value of predictability in billing to a business's "Chief Fretting Officer". If you asked companies if they'd rather pay a random amount between 100$ and 500$, or always pay 500$, 9 out of 10 would opt for the
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by akavi 14y ago
Does anyone have a link to a good beginner's guide explaining the output?
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by akavi 14y ago
The OED attests that silverstorm's usage is the older one, predating yours by 8 years (1604 vs 1612). Regardless (and I feel like such a broken record saying this), meaning in language is determined by consensus, not dictum, and at least fo
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by akavi 14y ago
That's a curious position to have on a website focused on entrepreneurship. Pretty much every YC company risks money (vasts quantities for some) in the hope of making money.
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by akavi 14y ago
@grecy, no. Pregnancy is explicitly a protected class.
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by akavi 14y ago
Living there [Mars] is comparable to getting by on Antarctica, and provides similar challenges. That right there is complete, unadulterated bullshit. The cost of getting a pound of supplies to Antarctica is several orders of magnitude che
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by akavi 14y ago
And there succinctly described lies the economics of agglomeration.
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by akavi 14y ago
a bit too easy That's an awful curious criticism to level against a platform.
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by akavi 14y ago
What am I looking for? Edit: Apparently "quietly" in some search strings (Not just "Apple", "Insurance", for example, behaves similarly) removes the top yellow ad box, as well as the side map. I'm not sure there's any significance to this,
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by akavi 14y ago
I've heard EVE online described as such. Well, not so much spells, since it's space oriented rather than fantasy, but it does have a complicated, realistic economy with corporations, wars, and economic exploitation.
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by akavi 14y ago
What's the advantage of doing animations in CSS rather than JS? I can't imagine it's computationally cheaper.
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by akavi 14y ago
Each person gets $100k; $50k per year for two years.
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by akavi 14y ago
Is it? The numbers I've seen suggest that Reddit is more male-dominated than Pinterest is female-dominated.
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by akavi 14y ago
Judging by the video, it looks like the layout of the buttons is fixed, only their presence is toggleable. If so, that's a bit of a bummer.

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