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   by callahad 18y ago

   Google blog's notes on the new favicon: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-new-favicon.h...
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   by callahad 18y ago

   http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/ is a nice eight-language (Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, Shell, x86, Perl) polyglot program. Conveniently, it has a source viewer which will highlight relevant parts of the program's structure for
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   by callahad 18y ago

   The second still shot [1] has the Lightbox2 [2] overlay baked in. Looks like Wired took a screenshot of another site. [1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/images/2009/01/06/car.jpg [2]: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
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   by callahad 18y ago

   Well, three years have passed. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just the natural progression of the prior tech.
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   by callahad 18y ago

   Also in the Twin Cities area: http://www.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/ Help give a nonprofit a new website.
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   by callahad 18y ago

   I appreciate the site showing the black-and-white treatments of the logos, rather then their color variants. Color can be nice, but great logos read well without it.
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   by callahad 18y ago

   AskHN: I'm inspired by the existence of organizations like the EFF, FSF, and SFLC. Do any HN readers or their acquaintances practice law in this field? Is it possible to make a decent living working in favor of "ethically sound" organizatio
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   by callahad 18y ago

   In most "Esc then X" cases, you should also be able to type Alt+X, which jives better with some folks' preferences.
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   by callahad 18y ago

   So how did you get out? I'm six months out of school, and already struggling with burnout centered around the issues in this article. I've decided that I will not accept a future job unless I can use a non-Windows OS, and I have extremely f
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    by callahad 18y ago

    "Cold sore virus" Argh! Can't we just call a spade a spade?
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    by callahad 18y ago

    I'm not sure I buy their assumption that an institution's success can be measured by the quantity of CEOs it produces.
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    by callahad 18y ago

    Ouch, that's a lot of Flash. Is there a low-fi option?
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    by callahad 18y ago

    You may also be interested in: * chronicle blog compiler: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/chronicle/ * ikiwiki wiki / bliki compiler: http://ikiwiki.info/ I find ikiwiki particularly interesting in that it coordinates with a local vcs
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    by callahad 18y ago

    I'm currently using Coherence ( https://coherence.beebits.net/ ) as a media source for my Xbox 360. It works quite well as a home media solution.
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    by callahad 18y ago

    I do hope that the videos themselves are accompanied by a copyleft or otherwise liberal license.
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    by callahad 18y ago

    You pay the school for an education, ergo, it's hard to get kicked out. The employer is paying you. Underperformance is a quick way to be shown the door. I believe that would be sufficient motivation.
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    by callahad 18y ago

    I'd love to see a follow-up article on this. While reading it (from my cube, going on three hours waiting for my IDE to finish installing so I can actually work), I kept thinking back to how work and collaboration played out in college. Stu