cont4gious

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by cont4gious 12y ago
great work! i did one the runs on osx a couple years ago. might be broken now, haven't run it in a while. https://github.com/helloandre/cam2ascii
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by cont4gious 15y ago
This is a fantastic example of a company embracing technology (or more generally newer forms of business) and not holding on to the "old way" of doing business. The fact that their printed volumes account for a negligible amount of their re
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by cont4gious 15y ago
I think since Ford is sending the upgrade USB sticks directly to customers it would now be quite easy for someone with malicious intent to send out fake "upgrade" USB sticks to unsuspecting Ford owners. I'm not sure how dangerous it would b
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by cont4gious 15y ago
Atwood's Law alive and well.
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by cont4gious 15y ago
but absolutely none of that requires a unique identifier, which is where this article focuses most of it's gripe.
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by cont4gious 15y ago
i completely agree. i didn't mean that it would in any way be wrong, i am just really interested in how they did it, and wanted to look at the source. yet another example of a need for a sarcasm punctuation mark.
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by cont4gious 15y ago
Is the source/a paper/a blog post going to be released so that we can look at (read: poke holes in) it?
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AWS Downtime Counter(awsdownti.me)
9 points by cont4gious 15y ago|7 comments
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by cont4gious 16y ago
I like this simply for the content on the page, not necessarily the actual project (tho it's cool too). It's snarky, self-deprecating, and dryly funny.
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Show HN: My weekend project IsThisInAGirlTalkSong.com(isthisinagirltalksong.com)
1 points by cont4gious 16y ago|0 comments
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by cont4gious 16y ago
I think it's interesting that the idea of deleting an account on a web service is "incomprehensible" (a bit out of context, but still relevant). It's kind of funny how reliant we've become on a few companies and services.
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Vim, Python, Git, Mercurial on the CR-48 in ChromeOS(github.com)
4 points by cont4gious 16y ago|0 comments
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by cont4gious 16y ago
while you may not support the company and it's methods, the point they are trying to make is more honorable: making the dmca more complicated is pointless.
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by cont4gious 16y ago
I was thinking of the NYT articles. Even if I don't have to pay to read them, the principle is the same. I shouldn't have to register on a site to read the content. I can understand registering to interact (comment, etc) but not to simply a
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HN Stories Behind Paywalls
29 points by cont4gious 16y ago|35 comments
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by cont4gious 16y ago
This is a really good article when considering use cases for your users. Sometimes classifying it under 'stupid user syndrome' just isn't good enough, you have to understand that they are not unintelligent, they just don't grasp the same do
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by cont4gious 16y ago
not only is that filed in the wrong place, but by someone clearly not understanding _what_ they're filing. you can't fix stupid.
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by cont4gious 16y ago
I see the biggest problem being SEO. How can you guarantee top placement (as your example shows) in search results?
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by cont4gious 16y ago
oh, ok, thanks! i would have made the assumption that this would have fixed it and been frustrated.
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by cont4gious 16y ago
Did I miss something, or why are these in your head tag? Why not put them in the body tag so they don't load until after the browser has rendered the page?
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by cont4gious 16y ago
I think you're simply showing your lack of exposure to new technologies. As 1053r noted, there are tons and tons of new things coming out all the time. Yes, it seems that with the advent of fast, cheap hardware most platforms perform genera
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by cont4gious 16y ago
thanks. i fear confrontation might be the only available option at this point.
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by cont4gious 16y ago
you're absolutely right. Thanks for the reality check. I just needed to get it off my chest and that was the inappropriate way to do that. The post has been updated to be a bit more level-headed.
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Co-founders: Please pull your weight(andrebluehs.net)
2 points by cont4gious 16y ago|4 comments
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by cont4gious 16y ago
i always heard it was a spoon. or was that someone else?
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by cont4gious 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of this. I'm up working during that time most nights anyway, and it would be great to be able to work with other people. Can we get one of these going around in atlanta?
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by cont4gious 16y ago
very nice idea and execution. might want to make it clearer that the person you're trying to get the file from doesn't need a dropbox account, as that seems to be the big idea behind this.
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by cont4gious 16y ago
This would really defeat the purpose of personalized recommendations. The test account was for a quick look at what we offer, not as a long-term solution.
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by cont4gious 16y ago
we're working on this right now, actually. We're going to support making arbitrary meal portions. Right now it's hard-coded to only 4.
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Preview HN: match-making site for food
38 points by cont4gious 16y ago|36 comments

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