aston

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by aston 19y ago
Dunno if you made this, but if so, cool. One thing, though: JPEG's with EXIF data specifying that they need rotation shouldn't be displayed as they come out in the file. Lots of sideways pictures...
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by aston 19y ago
Is that a picture of Gabor from Xobni?
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by aston 19y ago
Not sure what this has to do with hacker news, but it's about minorities, so I'm down. I found it odd that The Economist didn't really do any pondering on the economic part of these statistics. The out-of-wedlock birthrate is probably a lot
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by aston 19y ago
Four word review: Not really that interesting.
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by aston 19y ago
The number of recording artists/groups making money--that is, a profit--on tour is dwarfed by the ones trying to scrape by any other way they can ('real' jobs, selling cd's and other merch at shows, bar mitzvahs, etc.). Even a lot of the to
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by aston 19y ago
I really like the size decrease as the conversation goes deeper. Great UI touch. Is there no way to index old content?
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by aston 19y ago
Your post is one of only two uses on the web of the phrase "situational simile." However, it actually seems like a useful term. Did you make it up, or are you just one of the few cool kids to use it on the interwebs?
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by aston 19y ago
One of the more entertaining parts of the Google Tour. The master plan now looks a lot more complex nowadays.
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by aston 19y ago
Safari uses Apple's font rendering algorithms. They're intended to stay true to the shape of the letterforms without worrying too much about keeping them within the pixel grid. Check out Joel's explanation: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/it
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by aston 19y ago
Probably related to the infinite downside possibility when you're shorting. It's easier to lose a ton of your money when you're wrong.
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by aston 19y ago
Read Salon for free: http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html
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by aston 19y ago
And releasing early.
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by aston 19y ago
pg says NYT was "pwned." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142524
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by aston 19y ago
They have, however, told us their numbers. http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080131/chatty-zuckerberg-tells-... They are not, as you'll see, Google-esque.
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by aston 19y ago
If it works.
766.
by aston 19y ago
Normally, IAAL is accompanied by a disclaimer like "I am not your lawyer. This post does not constitute legal advice. PLZ don't sue me."
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by aston 19y ago
This game is currently in full effect at MIT. I really assumed no one would have time to play it, what with all the psets, but no. Lots of people are into, and they're even trying to pull alums (read: me) in. Not sure how big a deal this so
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by aston 19y ago
What they didn't tell you is that Tupac is there, too.
769.
by aston 19y ago
If Google had won, it would've been. Why hate on some billion dollar corporations, but not others?
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by aston 19y ago
So... if you need some help staying up, http://wakeup.appjet.net/
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Blue LEDs reset your internal clock(technology.newscientist.com)
6 points by aston 19y ago|7 comments
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by aston 19y ago
MySpace and Facebook aren't making more than enough money. That's why FIM doesn't break out MySpace numbers and why Facebook raised a huge round. Business rolling in profit don't need anybody else's money.
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by aston 19y ago
My intent isn't to bat for MD5, really. But since you asked me, I'll point out that MD5 is actually not that bad if you want a deterministic string of randomly distributed bits. If you don't need all 128 bits, nobody's forcing you to keep t
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by aston 19y ago
I can't believe it's 2008 and we're still reading new stories about MD5 collision-resistance. We get it, anybody can manufacture N files with the same hash and different content. Don't use MD5 as a piece of your vote commitment scheme and
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by aston 19y ago
Thanks for pointing out the rap exception to the word drop. No sarcasm. I'm working on a new site that, in part, will be devoted to deciphering rap lyrics. Should be pretty dope.
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by aston 19y ago
6.034 was the Scheme follow-on, and it's now Python, too.
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by aston 19y ago
Why'd this submission get dead'd?
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by aston 19y ago
http://blogs.cnet.com/
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by aston 19y ago
How hard was it for them to get "V"? In other news, as late as yesterday, Visa was a private company. Crazy.
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by aston 19y ago
Design thing that irks me: Seems like a number of mouse hovers trigger an object to get duller rather than brighter. That seems like the opposite of what you want to happen.

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