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by arikrak 13y ago
Why are all these Gwern.net posts showing up now?
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by arikrak 13y ago
It looks like Google Forums but with StackOverflow-style votes. I guess they didn't really use aardVark for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine) . I wonder why they didn't try to make a b
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by arikrak 13y ago
I think its more like Microsoft Expression Design. It even looks similar. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3618...
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by arikrak 13y ago
I think the basic new compose window is an advantage since I often want to reference previous emails while writing one email, and it lets me do that without creating a new gmail tab. (I always though Google should add this feature: http:&#
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by arikrak 13y ago
I hosted my WP blog for free on OpenShift and (with free Cloudflare) it was able to handle Reddit/HN traffic spikes without a problem. Not sure why everyone doesn't do something similar.
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by arikrak 13y ago
View the source. Usually there would be a separate script that creates the animation. In this case, the page is the source. The animation and page are one with the source.
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by arikrak 13y ago
Update: There is an extension like this, called permanent readability: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/permanent-readabil... (though I think it strips out the junk after the whole page loads.)
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by arikrak 13y ago
OK so it would make more sense to use an alternative that does it in the browser, e.g. http://www.notforest.com/ .
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by arikrak 13y ago
I never really got why they kept so much of Android open-source. It didn't seem to make sense both from Google's business perspective and from the user's end. Why does Google need to let companies like Amazon create competing
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by arikrak 13y ago
Learneroo - cofounder (NYC, New York) I created http://www.Learneroo.com for interactive education and I'm looking for a cofounder to help continue developing it. Looking for an experienced Rails and Javascript programmer.
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by arikrak 13y ago
Extensions like Readability and Clearly let you read just the main content on the page. It would be nice if they had an option to automatically load pages like in that mode. Besides avoiding all the clutter websites put, the pages would al
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Learn Java Programming with Online Challenges(learneroo.com)
1 points by arikrak 13y ago|1 comments
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by arikrak 13y ago
How are they able to sell it this cheap? Similar smartphones often cost $500-$800 unlocked and this is only $200! I understand the unlocked price is heavily marked up, but still...
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by arikrak 13y ago
I created a table of interactive programming resources that just recommends 1 (or 2) options for each category: http://www.learneroo.com/courses/12/nodes/96
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by arikrak 13y ago
One of the reasons Facebook beat MySpace was because Facebook insisted on real-names. (See Quora for more discussion http://www.quora.com/Facebook-1/Why-did-Facebook-succeed-whe... )
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Ask HN: Feedback on Learn-through-Challenges Site
1 points by arikrak 13y ago|0 comments
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Learn Java Programming (and More) by Solving Challenges(kickstarter.com)
3 points by arikrak 13y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 13y ago
I like his overall message, but I wonder about the details. E.g. he attacks the existence of HTML and CSS, but there needs to be some universal format to store the markup and design in. So I guess he's attacking the idea of hand-coding
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by arikrak 13y ago
You can filter the repo results by their number of stars and forks.
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by arikrak 13y ago
Douglas Engelbart would be proud. I wonder which will be more common in a few years - something like this, or collaboration fully in the cloud, like c9.io.
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by arikrak 13y ago
Instead of hellbanning, couldn't the site just rely on more extensive algorithmic ranking of comments and submissions? That way comments that are probably low-quality will only appear to a small number of users.
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by arikrak 13y ago
>Any task that can be reduced to simply following a set of instructions over and over is being done by robots and software. Agreed. Along similar lines: Any problem that can be solved with clearly-defined steps can be programmed so that
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by arikrak 13y ago
>Function: Work out what has changed >Dev Method: git diff >Normal Method: Open two documents at the same time, look through to work out what the differences are. I don't think non-programmers are all manually comparing docume
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by arikrak 13y ago
He has some great stuff on the site, and I'm thinking of using Tangle to help teach math, but I'm wondering if letting people drag numbers is really so helpful?
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by arikrak 13y ago
Craigslist is a poor website but since everyone uses them, everyone is locked into using them. Any site that helps people use Craigslist with other sites might cause people to eventually switch from Craigslist entirely. This applies to both
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by arikrak 13y ago
I previously asked on Quora about why Apple could do things that Microsoft couldn't. But it seems Microsoft can now do them too. I think they may no longer be considered a monopoly. http://www.quora.com/Why-can-Apple-fa
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How I Hope to Improve Online Education (The Goals of Learneroo)(learneroo.com)
1 points by arikrak 13y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 13y ago
Since the phone story isn't news, how do they manage to make a such a big deal out of it?
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by arikrak 13y ago
I think it cans be interesting to see the links people are sharing, just Facebook doesn't do a good job deciding what to show you. If they put a greater effort into really knowing what topics interets you, they could only show you links on
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by arikrak 13y ago
New York, NY I recently created an online-education site with Ruby on Rails and I'm looking for another technical co-founder who knows Rails and Javascript well. I'm also looking for people who can create educational content. Email me at ak

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