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by bct 18y ago
Inkscape's the big one.
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by bct 18y ago
Smooshing this together with your previous statement, we get: > Even without the ability to downvote, doesn't the position of the article indicate that there isn't an article with more points? It does indicate that. So what?
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by bct 18y ago
Why I use the implemented definition of "better" in favour of my (admittedly completely subjective) definition? If you surveyed people's definitions of "better [thing that they care about]" you'd get a lot of different answers, but I suspec
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by bct 18y ago
I'm more interested in my definition of better than the algorithm's.
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by bct 18y ago
It indicates that that isn't an article with broader appeal . That's not the same thing as "better".
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by bct 18y ago
You may be right, but I'd rather err on the side of caution. (Being a non-American who's absolutely sick of the 24/7/365/∞ circus you guys call "politics" has probably affected my opinion somewhat)
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by bct 18y ago
Think over the long term. If there's enough HN-vs-not-HN assholery over the short term, political topics will show up less often and there will be less need for both kinds of assholery. If political discussions are allowed to run unchecked,
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by bct 18y ago
What's silly about Digest?
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by bct 18y ago
> Digest access authentication is an immediate and halfway decent fix. It really is a shame that browsers have such a terrible UI for HTTP auth.
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by bct 18y ago
I'd love to be able to come up with something like Nomic in which the rules are expressed in a programming language. I suspect it would be incredibly cumbersome, but it's on my list of things to try.
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by bct 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blub_ (programming)
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by bct 18y ago
> Javascript's ability to do graphics is very limited; you have to do hacky 1pixel divs There's <canvas/>. It can even be used with IE these days: http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/
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by bct 18y ago
Unfortunately some people think that means there's no point in seeking out good brushes and paint. (or worse, that good brushes and paint are an elitist myth)
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by bct 18y ago
> As I’ve programmed in various capacities and looked at hundreds of thousands of lines of code over the years, I’ve never once thought to myself how the task would have been easier if that supposed missing feature were truly there. I t
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by bct 18y ago
Not only did the Nazis ruin an ancient symbol, they ruined rotational symmetry.
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by bct 18y ago
You're still free to have multiple identities though, which is very different from a national ID.
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by bct 18y ago
One aspect that's been overlooked is that single sign-on is only the beginning of what OpenID makes possible. Once you've got an identity that you can use across website boundaries, all kinds of network effects open up.
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by bct 18y ago
Or more in the spirit of decentralization, http://pavatar.com/
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The Blizzard Challenge: judge the output of experimental text-to-speech systems(groups.inf.ed.ac.uk)
1 points by bct 18y ago|0 comments
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BlimLimb, _why's Travelling IRC Bot Troupe(hackety.org)
3 points by bct 18y ago|0 comments
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by bct 18y ago
> A way of tracking your person diets intake (along that line) The data that companies have about you available to you in a machine readable format. (e.g. your grocery receipts)
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by bct 18y ago
> You might want to add that the "View Source" option is only in Firefox once the Web Developer add-on is installed. No, it's a standard part of Firefox. "View Selection Source" is too, which can be useful. I agree that Web Developer (o
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by bct 18y ago
I guess that makes me a modern theologian when I say that the semantic web is already here, it's just not as impressive and dramatic as people seem to expect it to be.
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The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It (CC-licensed book)(yupnet.org)
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by bct 18y ago
Why are you comparing RDF with syndication formats? Atom and RSS are formats for data that fits a specific pattern, RDF is a generic data structure. A better comparison would be RDF and XML. If there is some advantage to putting (e.g.) real
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by bct 18y ago
I don't get spam in my feed reader because I select the feeds it's reading. Does RSS "cope with this thing we call the web"? It would be great if I didn't have to select the feeds, if my feed reader would crawl the Web and show me things I
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by bct 18y ago
Yup - particularly "search for website and download app" versus "open package manager and search for app".
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by bct 18y ago
That's the conventional wisdom, but I'm not completely convinced that those are real problems. If you send someone a content-negotiated URL you can be pretty confident that they'll see the text/html (or application/xhtml+xml :-) version). S
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by bct 18y ago
You could get clever algorithmically, but I think it would be far simpler to look for identifying traits of specific software packages. eg. if you see links to /wp-content/something, you're looking at a Wordpress site and therefore a blog.
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by bct 18y ago
> It also plays a preview of mp3s you mouseover in the filebrowser, not a big feature, but I liked it I don't think that's new to HH, my girlfriend's GG does that.

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