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by benihana 14y ago
> Because (in this case), closing the popup actually seemed to reset the scroll location too He doesn't stop propagation on the click event, which causes the # to be appended to the url and the scroll to reset to the top of the page. B
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by benihana 14y ago
I think that in by this point in time, it's a pretty safe rule of thumb to take everything Peter Molyneux says with a very large grain of salt.
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by benihana 14y ago
> When this is used, we are saying that the rights of others trump the rights of this suspect. When we're talking about the possibility of active bombs hidden within a civilian population, I would think it's a no-brainer that the rights
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by benihana 14y ago
But they weren't. Samsung was.
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by benihana 14y ago
Snowden's Secret in Catch-22. http://www.deathdyinggriefandmourning.com/Death-Dying-Grief-...
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by benihana 14y ago
Not all conferences are AAA big name affairs. There are literally hundreds of smaller ones across the country every year who are looking to get people with fresh ideas to speak at them.
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by benihana 14y ago
Malthus said the same thing - that we wouldn't be able to produce enough food because of whatever reason. And yet we humans found some way to continue living and producing food just fine. We increased our food yield and continue to do so. W
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by benihana 14y ago
I'm surprised you can access hacker news back there in 1994.
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by benihana 14y ago
Since you enjoy speaking in absolutes, I'll speak your language. You're wrong. Millions of people not only ask for emails like this, they enjoy them and engage them, and companies all over the world have conversion data showing that people
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by benihana 14y ago
> Wolfenstein and Doom were simple, playful, colorful. You were in middle school when Halo came out, so I can be fairly certain you were too young to remember Wolfenstein and Doom being released. And you're completely wrong. Those game
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by benihana 14y ago
> Fact is, gaming sucks these days because the audience has shifted to the younger equivalent to the millions if people who watch "NCIS: Kansas" on tv. I'm calling selective "get off my lawn" bullshit on this one. There are many, many,
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by benihana 14y ago
So? Winning some arbitrary prize does not mean anything, other than the fact that he won the prize. It implies no level of intellectualism.
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by benihana 14y ago
You're missing the point completely, If a private Ivy League institution wants to redistribute wealth, that's fine. One must opt in to be part of that group, and it only affects members who choose to be part of that group, knowing the con
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by benihana 14y ago
> Management has its place, but in most companies it's a class of intermediate extortionist thugs who keep talent down: you support my career goals, or you're gone yesterday. Only the most progressive companies (Valve, Github) trust eng
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by benihana 14y ago
betterunix has spoken folks. If we just do what he thinks is best, the world would be a better place. Your little 'opinions' are cute but they ultimately don't matter, because betterunix has decided what is best, and that is that HTML mail
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by benihana 14y ago
Presumably you can just boot into windows on your Mac, right?
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by benihana 14y ago
> isn't it entirely possible to get a decent education from a state or community college and not have a lifetime of debt to deal with afterward? This is the key. I know so many people who insisted on going to an out of state of private
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It is tech though. So why does pretending it's not have any bearing on the problem?
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by benihana 14y ago
While at Bronto software ( http://bronto.com/ ), one of the features I worked on was just that. We called it Send Time Optimization, and from what I understand, it's not an unheard-of feature amongst email software providers.
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by benihana 14y ago
> Edit: if you downvote, please reply too. Why do you care about downvotes? Are you actually checking your comment score?
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by benihana 14y ago
What's the point of having a close button on a dialog window that doesn't close the dialog?
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by benihana 14y ago
> 9. Apple's laptop sales will exceed those of HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Gateway combined by 2010. Hm... If you count tablets as laptops, then yes, way way way yes.
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by benihana 14y ago
I really like Rap Genius, but I wish they would tone down the blackness of the background. Reading #CCC text on #000 background makes my eyes bug out.
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by benihana 14y ago
> What do you mean, "possibly"? I'm guessing OP meant possibly for the "sometimes for their own bad" part of the comment.
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by benihana 14y ago
The second sentence really tells all. " Just learned Backbone.js and only found out it’s already out of fashion ." This is why critical thinking and a sight of the big picture is so important. Who cares if something is fashionable? Does Ba
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by benihana 14y ago
Why are you so dismissive of this in such a condescending manner? On hacker news of all places, a site where people go for discussion of articles?
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by benihana 14y ago
Can I ask what the point of this comment is? Obviously one can use a compiler to find the solutions. OP was most likely asking because he didn't want to do that.
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by benihana 14y ago
'Absolutely terrible' is a just a wee bit hyperbolic. It is an idea that has positives and negatives, but you only notice it when it does this. And how many times has it done this since they've implemented it?
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by benihana 14y ago
Speaking as a developer I have to say the arrogance in this post is very disturbing. It reeks of someone who has no idea what they're talking about and can't understand the challenges people other than developers face. To think that manager
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by benihana 14y ago
This doesn't make any sense. Who is saying that we only have to look up to one of them? Both men are human beings with flaws and motivations and ideals and goals who accomplished amazing and great and wondrous things and have made mistakes

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