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by benwr 16y ago
Atoms have neutral charge.
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by benwr 16y ago
Is HN the only place you get news and information? It is one of the few places (specifically community sites) I can get news relevant to programming and startup culture. That's not to say there is no place for some of the stuff further to
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A scientific defense of pseudoscience (Dec. 2009)(jan-krueger.net)
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What To Know Before Debating Type Systems(blog.steveklabnik.com)
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by benwr 16y ago
Sorry, but I don't think that's it.
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Ask PG/HN: Why does the number of previous comments count in comment ranking?
4 points by benwr 16y ago|3 comments
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by benwr 16y ago
How unfair to post this so late! (3am EST)
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What is truth?(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by benwr 16y ago
Someone kick me if this isn't progressive enough, but I don't think any of the women listed really should have been on the list. The others are figureheads for web-focused projects. None of the women listed (with the exception of Sally Fl
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by benwr 16y ago
Agreed. It feels more like trying to get through to a Rapidshare file than anything.
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I thought it was the two free downloads... I guess I'm just no good at this corporate mumbo-jumbo.
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As far as I'm aware, Posterous has done nothing to actively discourage migration of information away from their service, and they certainly haven't threatened legal action on anyone for moving their online information around.
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I don't see any way of killing Facebook "at this point." Think about what Facebook does: It connects people, in a constant stream sort of way. And you can count on being connected to almost everyone you know through Facebook just by signi
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by benwr 16y ago
I'll bet it was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
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by benwr 16y ago
I believe the question decided on by the pan-dimensional mice was less correct.
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by benwr 16y ago
Considering the relative rationality and aversion to groupthink that people on HN seem to have, this seems to me (although I don't have much experience with moderating online communities) like a generally bad idea. I would expect people to
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by benwr 16y ago
As an eighteen-year-old I feel secure in pointing out that expectations of my level of maturity are far lower than they were for my father, let alone my grandfather. I believe that people generally rise to meet social expectations. Whethe
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by benwr 16y ago
"If 95% of the country assigns a meaning to a slang term, well, isn't that what defines it?" As much as I want to disagree, what's wrong with this viewpoint? Could it be that it's time to give up on sending letters RMS-style to journalists
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They Get to Me: A psycholinguist confesses her atrong attraction to pronouns(theamericanscholar.org)
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Anyone else read "The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All In Fun" by Orson Scott Card?
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by benwr 17y ago
Not really: revolutions are usually preceded by protests.
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by benwr 17y ago
The article never lists which twenty-six nations were surveyed. Of the fifteen or so mentioned, only a few aren't safely within the modern "first world."
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by benwr 17y ago
I'm a little peeved by the author's parting shot: "a world where nerd engineers get turned loose in a Montessori preschool, and they have no idea about user interface design and, frankly, they don’t care.  " Everything the author does on t
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by benwr 17y ago
If you want to include them, boolean logic still works for advanced search tags. You can search for 'somethingorother site:.edu OR site:.ac.uk'
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I wonder what the guy who asserts that "awsome" technology won't exist for 6000 years now thinks of the iPad.
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by benwr 17y ago
There were no alternatives to GIF; no one did what GIF did. It seems to me that if every major browser supports Theora and Vorbis in html5 video we will have come out ahead of where we were with GIF: Licensing policies won't change becaus
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by benwr 17y ago
Probably. On one hand, People Still Use IE6. And the people who still use IE6 aren't people who install things like Google Chrome Frame, or the latest updates from Microsoft (obviously). So for the time being, more features, along with c
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by benwr 17y ago
I use Google Reader, but you're right. There isn't enough information in the RSS feed to make it really enjoyable to use. You have to judge what you want to read based solely on the title. One thing that helps, for firefox users at least
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by benwr 17y ago
About 5 years ago, in 7th grade, almost the exact same thing happened to me, but with a TI-83 graphing calculator. I would estimate that there are approximately the same number of kid programmers as there were. Modern PCs and macs don't c
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Haskell IO for Imperative Programmers(haskell.org)
45 points by benwr 17y ago|20 comments

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