aristus

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871.
by aristus 17y ago
Yes, but rarely, in my experience. That kind of behavior is ultimately self-defeating.
872.
by aristus 17y ago
I would say no. Or rarely. High-pressure work breeds a certain humor (eg ER medics) that can be mistaken for callousness.
873.
by aristus 17y ago
That would become a backdoor app economy. If any little company could install apps on their employee's phones, I'd start making apps to sell them without the 30% cut to Apple.
874.
Edward Tenner: Unsung Inventors [pdf](princeton.edu)
1 points by aristus 17y ago|0 comments
875.
by aristus 17y ago
I've been impressed with the Smit and excited someone's selling them, rebranded or no. I'll probably give this guy a shot when my birthday rolls around and report back.
876.
by aristus 17y ago
The app was a mix of yui2 (widgets) and jq (selectors). Yui3 has both.
877.
by aristus 17y ago
Ah! I will verify and correct. Thanks.
878.
by aristus 17y ago
I was porting an app prototype from jQuery to YUI3, and started taking notes on equivalent snippets of code. It seems to be useful, so I wrote it up.
879.
A Rosetta Stone for jQuery & YUI3(carlos.bueno.org)
41 points by aristus 17y ago|14 comments
880.
by aristus 17y ago
Popularizing scientific findings is also a service. I have that conversation a lot with people. :D Maybe it's not "hacker news", I can't say.
881.
by aristus 17y ago
Experimentally confirming things you think are true is still science, especially if you can quantify the results precisely. And as he says 1 minute in, this experiment was first done 30-odd years ago, when scientists (perhaps obtusely) did
882.
by aristus 17y ago
1) More or less, yep. Even those "natural rights" had to be demanded and paid for in blood. I'm talking about how the world has worked so far, not how I think it should be. It's useful to pretend otherwise most of the time, but when shit go
883.
by aristus 17y ago
I started Archivd with friends in Sep 2008, just about when the economy fell through the trapdoor. Aside from constant panic we hardly noticed. :) The first 6 months were the most productive I can remember. We didn't last long, about a year
884.
by aristus 17y ago
Nope. I don't oppose it at all. Rights are demanded , not granted. Given the situation we have now, granting "two person" marriages at the expense of higher numbers would satisfy the most people with the least amount of upheaval. If and wh
885.
by aristus 17y ago
10+% is my horseback guess for how many people really care, not the % of gay people. If it were larger the argument would be over already, I think. Marriage goes far beyond a contract or power of attorney; for example, spouses have Fifth a
886.
by aristus 17y ago
My argument would be amoral but straightforward: a politically-significant % of people want gay marriage, and make a strong case for it. You could reasonably implement it as "two persons" and go home. The % of people seriously agitating for
887.
by aristus 17y ago
Right now by defining it as "one man, one woman" the opposition is pissing off 10+% of the population. Claiming that gay marriage will lead to polygamy or bestiality is inflammatory. It's like saying that being religious is a dangerous choi
888.
by aristus 17y ago
I made a field guide to brackets a while back: http://carlos.bueno.org/brackets-of-the-world.pdf
889.
by aristus 17y ago
The CueCat rides again, except now with spam potential. o_O
890.
by aristus 17y ago
I was just about to buy a SmartQ v5, or a Ramos w7, for precisely this purpose. Well done. Now, before you get my $189, tell me more about this "external USB 3G" business. Does this device come with a 3G radio, or not? That's like saying my
891.
by aristus 17y ago
Tastes like Teen Spirit.
892.
by aristus 17y ago
Huh. I have that accent-folding widget for YUI2...
893.
by aristus 17y ago
Ha, I saw that one. I thought he came off like an arrogant princeling, and the mood was ugly. In retrospect I think he was just inexperienced.
894.
by aristus 17y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work for Yahoo. The Yahoo/Bing search deal has only just been approved by the EU. Yahoo's search engine is still their own and will be for the next couple of years. The Bing deal is actually a very odd beast, and I'm n
895.
by aristus 17y ago
Ugh! I hit a similar problem in Chrome beta, where I could only recurse 20 levels deep when calling functions across frames ( eg top.window.foo() ) before it blew up.
896.
by aristus 17y ago
The hemicircles are still too clever by half. We tend to judge the difference in the height of the facing edges, but a hemi that is twice the height of another is actually 4 times the area. So an 80/20 split will appear to be more like 66/3
897.
by aristus 17y ago
Christ onna bike. They seem to have gone out of their way to invent charts that are even more confusing than pie charts. Let's do an annulus! With a wavy edge! And then differently-sized hemicircles... wha? This is interesting information
898.
by aristus 17y ago
Inflation hurts the poor to a greater degree than the absolute value of wealth it steals. If all I have is a paycheck or two, a jump in the cost of everything hurts me a lot more than someone with a pile of dollars and assets.
899.
by aristus 17y ago
No, waves are anticipated, tsunamis a possibility.
900.
by aristus 17y ago
It's the fallacy or relativism, which is a special case of believing too much in syllogism.

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