alanfalcon

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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Actually, you should use a period inside parentheses if the enclosed material is meant to stand alone as a sentence. By the way, there is no space before the exclaimation mark in American English. As for double spacing after a sentence, I h
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Considering how the large corporations easily reach the annual cap (currently $6.5 Million per year until at least 2015), the footnote that the 10% maximum increase in royalties does not apply to the cap is a bit disconcerting.
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Here's my (noobish) understanding: On Hacker News when you submit you have the option to include a clickable URL -or- text. The preferred thing to do is to include some text rather than the URL.
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Too late. Seriously. The world got into H.264. We're here. It's it. What is WebM's fighting chance? Did you read the article? Do you have any counter points to Gruber's thesis? The web will continue to use H.264 and all Google is do
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Chrome at least has the right click "Go to URL" contextual option... I'm constantly annoyed when other web browsers don't offer this obvious feature.
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Wouldn't the solution be better approaches to ads? Something like AOL's Project Devil ( http://advertising.aol.com/creative/projectdevil ) seems to be the way web advertising should work going forward.
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
While this is clearly an opinion piece arguing for inclusion of H.264 in Chrome, I feel like this article actually does a great job of actually portraying most of the facts that affect both side of the argument. Certainly it feels like the
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Good point, and true enough. I should have signed up using my Google account (I should still sign up using my Google account). I recently unearthed my AOL user database from the late 90s. Dropping it into a simple text editor, I get a ton
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
They send you an e-mail daily... one that you presumably actually look forward to getting. Surely they could add an advertisement to this e-mail if they wanted?
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Phenomenal, simple idea. I, too, signed up. I can still dig up random LiveJournal entries that I wrote on a whim ten years ago. What would people here rate the chances of me being able to do the same with OhLife entries in ten years?
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
The version number was touted by tech blogs and other media, but not by the Chrome team themselves, a point which they made in response to a comment here on HN if I remember correctly.
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Very neat idea! I know you didn't try posing the same way for every picture, but I wonder if you couldn't put together a video that shows every picture in sequence with your face centered to prevent too much jarring movement? I've always w
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Then you have an advantage! http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/11/aimee_mullins_12/
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Watch the video. It's based on a Youtube clip of someone gently prodding adorable little kittens back into a box with a very soft mallet. No abuse here, and a valid enough inspiration for a quick game.
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
I wonder if 30daysyoanewhabit.com wouldn't be a better URL than habitualapp.com? Then again it does sound very infomercial-ish. I'm one of those people who won't use it as a Facebook thing. Give me a Twitter login and option to have my pro
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
"The pretty lady in the video is Venetia Pristavec, who does all the in-house video content for Airbnb, traveling around to different countries and interviewing hosts. She’s great."
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
According to the article, just eat fewer carbs (and/or higher quality carbs) because even if they don't realize they're doing it, the people who "eat better" or "exercise more" also cut carbs which is what truly leads to the weight loss the
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
I've just completed a Flickr 365 project, so I have a bit of feedback. First, you can't do this for free as you can only show publicly the last 200 photos without a pro account. With a pro account, you simply create a set for your 365 pro
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
Mosly unrelated: What struck me from reading this article is how much the Dyson family obviously served go influence Neil Stephenson. From the birth of digital processing (Diamond Age) to Aleutian canoes (Snow Crash) to the depiction of Or
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
"This cloak is able to conceal a macroscopic object with a maximum height of 2mm. [...] The observer in all cases is assumed to have a fixed height of h." So we could hide microscopic hobbits from the Eye of Sauron?
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
I guess I'm extremely fortunate; I had two: one in economics and one in accounting. I very nearly switched my major to economics or accounting because of them. I ended up with different teachers for next-level courses and realized it was t
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
The article posits that the question of cheating isn't a matter of catching or punishing the students. It's a matter of creating engaging learning experiences and treating students as the teacher's customers. A student will only get from
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
The point of the article has been missed entirely in this comment. The author of the orignal article uses the examples of code re-use and efficiency as just that: mere examples of real world considerations that his students should use in cl
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
His game would work wonderfully. Choose from three spells. Call them Expelliarmus, Immobulus, Stupefy (or whatever). But really it’s rock, paper, scissors. Swipe left to right on your phone to add a jolt of whatever spell is selected. Th
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
For all the great depth and anecdotal insight provided in the article, not one mention of the number one means of "inventory acquisition"? I'm talking about account compromises: stealing passwords, logging on to another player's account, s
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by alanfalcon 16y ago
For anyone who isn't lucky enough to have an LCD screen that displays this message properly, I've take a couple of photos (because screenshots obviously wouldn't work) to show off how clever this is. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dafalcon/5