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by amvp 15y ago
Actually I thought that video at the top and what they've done with this introduction/demo page was more interesting than the feature itself. The high-production value of video at the top reminded me of an apple advert, with beautiful photo
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by amvp 15y ago
Reminds me of this short story: The Egg by: Andy Weir http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html Instead of electrons, everyone in the universe is the same person.
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by amvp 16y ago
To be thrifty, is to be careful with your money. Oddly though, a spendthrift is the opposite. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spendthrift
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by amvp 16y ago
I accidentally up-voted the GP, but I agree - it's well written, and makes a fair point which I think isn't too pedantic. Although he mislabels http://eblong.com/zarf/pic/thod/venn-wtf.png 'Strumpet MDs' and 'Medical Security Guards', sh
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by amvp 16y ago
1. Agreed. While I like hardware buttons in general, the fact that the device is otherwise orientation-less, sometimes leaves me sliding my finger around the edge looking for the button (particularly in the dark). A glowing button would sol
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by amvp 16y ago
>These aren't the cuddly nerds we made movies about in the 80's. They're very angry that the cheerleader still wants to go out with the quarterback instead of the men (boys) who are running the universe right now. I'm finding Aaron Sork
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by amvp 16y ago
One thing I've found irritating about the facebook privacy system is that it seems to apply differently to Zuckerberg's own profile. It isn't possible for me to see a list of https://www.facebook.com/zucks friends, for example. But I can'
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by amvp 16y ago
It isn't touch screen. It has buttons on the sides, and a 'touch frame' which is, as far as I can tell, a bezel that acts as a 4 way rocker.
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by amvp 16y ago
I got their flash viewer for this. I do sometimes get the html5 viewer, and I assumed the selection was based on a preference set by the uploader. Isn't it?
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by amvp 16y ago
"I wish I had a definitive answer," said William Fitzpatrick, an equities analyst at Optique Capital Management. "I think the information from Greece and Europe continues to get worse and that is what is weighing on investors." The phrase '
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by amvp 16y ago
Is there any discussion anywhere about what happened?
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by amvp 16y ago
At the announcement he mentioned that there would be multiple availability zones - which we could treat as yeffectivly different data centers. I thought they were _literally_ different datacenters. What exactly is an availability zone?
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by amvp 16y ago
I don't think the people behind this look at this as provocation, but as retaliation. For those that haven't see this: Philip Pullman (who wrote a book titled 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' had a comment on free speech and th
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by amvp 16y ago
I recommend GRC's DNS benchmark. http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm - which lets you compare a range of publicly available dns servers, and measures their responsiveness. 8.8.8.8 or 4.2.2.2 maybe easy to remember, but depending where yo
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by amvp 16y ago
I don't think that gives you a way to achieve a feathered shadows, does it? Plus, adding another element just for the shadow is unsemantic - if that's something that matters to you.
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by amvp 17y ago
To me it underlines why I find YUI3 daunting. The ui widgets they have seem elegant and certainly more comprehensive than jquery + jQUI - but the contrast in the syntax has so far kept me from delving too deep. But I've been working with jq
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by amvp 17y ago
You've a enjoyable turn of phrase
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by amvp 17y ago
You can see the camera man's reflection in the silver ball about 2m28s into the video.
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by amvp 17y ago
I honestly believe Bill Gates is trying to use the opportunity he has to do improve the lot of humanity. Good for him. However this is a massive opportunity for the vaccine companies who stand to gain a lot (far more than the $10bn) from th
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by amvp 17y ago
I did too. They had one of the cleverest logos I've seen. With this redirect dies one of the oldest sites on the web. Sun.com had the 11th oldest registered domain name (tied with IBM.com) https://www.iwhois.com/oldest/
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by amvp 17y ago
Visitors should be awake that visiting tc.com rightnow is equivalent to visiting an suspicious, untrustred site. It could serve malicious content that takes advantage of unknown vunerabilities even on fully patched systems... although i'd h
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by amvp 17y ago
Kudos for actually making the effort to take the measurements. Thank you
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by amvp 17y ago
I disagree. Some things transcend that distinction and should be discussed in every community - they affect every human. And this is coming from somebody who isn't thrilled HN isn't as hard edged tech/startup-culture focused as it once was.
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by amvp 17y ago
Agreed. It may be Off Topic, but it's incredibly important to shine a light on these things - unpleasant and uncomfortable as they may be. It's easy for us to look at history and marvel at the inhumanity that we're capable of, but Milgram's
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by amvp 17y ago
For newer browsers (ff3.5, new safari and webkit) there are css3 commands you can use to provide this kind of eye candy simply. You can add a drop shadow to text (-moz-text-shadow, -webkit-box-shadow, or generally text-shadow), Or to elem
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by amvp 17y ago
Same for me on windows -and I've done this on many machines and keyboards. there seems to be more to this than the article let's on.
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by amvp 17y ago
As an individual, I don't like to have to deal with sales people either (but it's possible my orders aren't big enough that they can offer much of a discount). Most businesses don't feel the same way - they like sales guys, because the orde
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by amvp 17y ago
More specifically, it's haram = -halal
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by amvp 17y ago
Has anybody else noticed a pattern towards more profanity on the site then there used to be? I'm not offended, but I don't really think superfluous curse words really add much to a discussion.
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by amvp 17y ago
Me too. Email in profile.

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