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by benaiah 14y ago
So, you 7 or so other people in Alaska - where are you, and what kind of stuff do you do? The tech scene up here seems pretty sparse outside of oil and telecom stuff.
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by benaiah 14y ago
Curious as to whether this uses a complex-system "ant" approach. I just modeled one for a final last semester.
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by benaiah 14y ago
Go with HTML5. It is the current standard, and is the way forward. It's widely supported. Really, for just learning HTML, you shouldn't be dealing with the kind of specialized stuff that HTML5 addressed, other than its semantic elements.
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Little Inferno Mocks the Players Who Love It Most(wired.com)
2 points by benaiah 14y ago|0 comments
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by benaiah 14y ago
While it may have been accidentally implied, I never stated that hospitals overflowing with customers is a good thing. I merely stated that if you offered the same care for lower prices, you would have no shortage of customers. In addition,
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by benaiah 14y ago
This article irks me, not because I disagree with it (I do), but because it misrepresents the position it attacks. It claims to set up a balanced view of its opposition, but then hamstrings this view by only considering a tiny piece of it.
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by benaiah 14y ago
Read the article the original rant was posted as a comment on. It discusses exactly that.
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The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent(conceivablytech.com)
2 points by benaiah 14y ago|0 comments
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by benaiah 14y ago
This isn't moderation (that would be the retitling posts that keep showing up). This is flagging, which is a user action. Pedantry aside, you're probably right. I'll write them an email, though I'm not hopeful as to the results.
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by benaiah 14y ago
I apologize for the showdead mistake - that should have been pretty obvious. Still, these posts don't get upvoted, so the front page remains untrammeled, and showdead filters them out anyway. There were some screenshots floating around rece
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by benaiah 14y ago
But it seems pretty obvious that these measures haven't fixed it. In addition, it doesn't seem to be so much the high karma people that are the problem, rather the large numbers of low karma people who exercise their unfettered use of the f
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Suggest HN & PG: Fix the flag button
1 points by benaiah 14y ago|7 comments
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by benaiah 14y ago
Sugar Daddy Programmers? /joke
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by benaiah 14y ago
> Let me paraphrase the conversation in the desperate hope you will at least read this since you refuse to read the thread you are discussing > ... your continued insistence that your arrogant and pointless accusation was correct is
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by benaiah 14y ago
I just posted a long comment that's apropos to the discussion, relating to the young Silicon Valley types who categorically dismiss "old people". I won't repost it here, but here's a link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203133
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by benaiah 14y ago
When I said "insane", I meant more "this is not something you would expect or that is immediately obvious". My phrasing wasn't the finest.
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by benaiah 14y ago
It was a non sequitur, and a straw man - you said that python was 5 times slower than C at best and 30-50 times slower than C at worst on some benchmarks. dnu pointed out that the benchmarks did not represent real-world Python code, since r
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by benaiah 14y ago
I'm really tired of the arrogance prevalent in startup culture. H;onesty is great, brutal honesty is usually quite helpful, but bragging and putting other people down under the guise of honesty is not. This is particularly bad when combined
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by benaiah 14y ago
This is insane. Awesome, useful, and cool, but insane. I like it.
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by benaiah 14y ago
That would be unusual, but 80% of a program's performance is generally tied up in 20% of its code. If you can replace the 20% with a couple widely-used C libraries, then you get vastly improved performance without actually having to write m
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by benaiah 14y ago
Only because you are using the extremely thin version. There's a thicker version of the font that's perfectly readable as body.
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by benaiah 14y ago
Considering you can install Ubuntu on several Android tablets, then your stretch goals are technically achievable. In terms of everything else, I don't know specifically, but probably. It's a full Linux kernel with root access, so virtually
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by benaiah 14y ago
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/iphone-safari-viewport-... Essentially, when you rotate the device to landscape, it doesn't correctly reset your view the content, so you end up zoomed in.
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by benaiah 14y ago
Their default text size isn't that small, it's just that they render pages to a larger surface than then display by default, in order to avoid breaking old sites. This can be avoided by adding the appropriate meta tag to the site, but that
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by benaiah 14y ago
While it is inexcusable to do this as a web developer, there is a layout bug in Mobile Safari to which this is the easiest and sometimes only solution. The designers aren't disabling zooming because they hate people who zoom, just because t
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by benaiah 14y ago
You can already get almost exactly that on Android, which has convertible laptops such as the Asus Transformer Prime already available.
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by benaiah 14y ago
Runs Android, not a full OS with access to the kind of stuff the surface has access to. He's talking about $1000 laptops running a full-featured OS.
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by benaiah 14y ago
This is probably due at least in part to the Mac's text rendering, which is considerably thicker than Windows. It's pretty common to find text that is ridiculously thin, mostly on designer's websites. I'm no devotee of Windows or Mac (thoug
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by benaiah 14y ago
Lorem ipsum is used a lot for typography, as well, so this wouldn't work in many (probably most) cases. Pretty cool, nonetheless. It would be useful in some situations, certainly.
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by benaiah 14y ago
The first guy is talking to the second guy, even though they're very far apart. We used to have to use a special part of the computer for this, but now we can use the regular part that we use for most of our other stuff. We also used to hav

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