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by c1sc0 16y ago
I despise MSM's talk about how 'gatekeepers' should get preferential treatment or should be regulated, no matter who those gatekeepers are. It's all a shallow power play: he who directs traffic, shapes minds. The NYT is losing its power to
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I've always wondered if a revival of kuro5hin-style huge articles & stories would be possible. Or maybe we call that blogs nowadays.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Do you know why the Chinese always seem to drink tea from these massive glass jars?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Makes me think of the abysmally low level of reproducibility in the world of wine tasting. E.g. for years a debate has been raging about 'cork vs. plastic' with the traditionalists expounding the virtues of cork while in controlled environm
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Or someone who doesn't like mucky Scotch tape on their brand-new high-tech device? I don't care, but I know plenty of people who buy the iPhone as a design statement & I can see how that tiny imperfection could infuriate these types of
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Renting regulations are pretty notorious in Switzerland. There seems to be a rule for everything & it is notoriously hard to get rid of a bad renter. Also, as a foreigner, it is often difficult to acquire property in certain kantons.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
"Nobody else cares" because for a lot of people it is easier not to care about annoying issues like security & privacy. Never attribute to ignorance what can easily be attributed to carelessness.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
What is it about improving health that brings out the most ridiculous concepts in fitness tool designs? This was advertised next to the article: http://i.imgur.com/PXsxO.png What makes people want to spend money on tools like this when th
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I found just having access to high-quality ingredients at a reasonable price to be difficult in the US. More difficult than in Europe at least & waaay more difficult than in Asia (ok, one datapoint: China).
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Or maybe you're just an outlier who (a) understands how Facebook Connect works (b) actually cares. Does anyone have hard numbers on Social (FB/Twitter/...) signup vs. old-fashioned signup. In other words: as a site owner, why should I go th
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by c1sc0 16y ago
What this mostly did for me was drive home the point that non-geeks don't really use Foursquare all that much. Kinda embarassing to notice that I know almost half of the people behind checkins in my little 80000 ppl town. Thanks for putting
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Good, I wholeheartedly recommend the RIAA to continue on this obviously profitable path.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I actually commend him for taking on that risk. One of the things that saddens me about society today is that we have become totally risk-averse.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
"freedom from fearing we'll go hungry and relief from risk averse behavior like holding on to an unfulfilling job" By that definition being on unemployment in one of the friendly european social security states qualifies. Also makes me wond
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by c1sc0 16y ago
That's awesome. It's amazing how well-connected the hacker news crowd is, I always thought some kind of referral system at HN would be of great value.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
"MS has spent many multiples of what Apple has spent on UX design". I actually have no clue what windows looks like these days but it certainly used to be the other way around. I did notice that UX consistency has degraded over the last few
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I don't know why you got downvoted on that. I totally agree, my first impression was also 'cheap & spammy' ... something those annoying social media marketing experts on twitter would hawk. Here's a blurred screenshot to get that 'First
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Actually, in many use cases & for many organisations 10-20% of budget on IT is a very reasonable ratio. As hackers we may not like it, but that's how the real world functions.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Strongly second this: there is more value in learning to code and then apply those skills on a problem set outside of IT.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Goes to show that unlike political moods, the laws of physics don't change all that frequently. I wish more policy makers would make decisions based on facts rather than popular opinion. Maybe govt. needs some Google engineers?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
My grandfather was an engineer and his house was full of interesting electrical appliances. One day we found this really weird-looking device that had little spools of metal wire running through it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_record
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by c1sc0 16y ago
If it's a one-off computation then a few thousand for a relatively hassle-free setup is bearable for many use cases. I've seen many clusters running idle just because customers initially bought more metal than they could handle. Peak load !
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I find it interesting that so many swimming articles have been making the homepage lately. Sports is an unlikely topic for HN, given the nerd factor and all, but there are many topics in sports / training theory that are certainly 'gratifyi
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Don't underestimate the gobloads of legacy apps based on microsoft tech that are still running in the enterprise. There are a lot of developers out there with a massive investment in MSFT tools & knowledge. Giving enterprises a chance t
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Upvoted for daring to raise the issue of history-rewriting.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Agree on the iPad for airport use. Most of the time my MBPro stays packed in my bag & I just use the iPads on planes these days. One thing that is a bit silly though is when you're reading an eBook & then during take-off/landing you
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Because it's a fairly sturdy machine that makes a great portable workstation? For me it's because I'm invested in the platform: whenever I start a new big project I get myself a new one. (Bonus if I can convince someone else to get me one.)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Caffeine pills? Please educate me on that.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Seriously, you can skip the whole tech part & just talk about your life. I'd buy the book. A good story can be written by just artfully stringing anecdotes together, just go ask Malcolm Gladwell ;-)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
But imagine if they could?! Right now, there is no technical reason why this is not possible, all hurdles are legal ones.

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