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by cormullion 15y ago
Yes, it's evocative, with some pleasing poetic imagery. Not being a poet myself I would have tidied up his punctuation and adjusted or questioned some of the plural/singular nouns ('memes ... are a force which flow?', 'surprisingly brief',
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by cormullion 15y ago
I know iTunes isn't very popular with HN readers, so I'll balance things out a bit and play devil's advocate for a while: I like iTunes quite a bit. There are certainly some minor gripes and irritations, particularly with the UI, but overal
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by cormullion 15y ago
Plenty of anti-standing information here: http://www.hazards.org/standing/index.htm
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by cormullion 16y ago
I'd forgotten just how much Clarkson sings the praises of the Tesla in the first half of the review. The electric Tesla thrashes the petrol Lotus Elise in a drag race. Clarkson is obviously amazed - "God almighty:, "this is biblically quick
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by cormullion 16y ago
It's also on the iPhone app store (for £0.59), but it might be a different author. Associating time with colour has been tried many times - eg the Chromachron watch was briefly famous: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2006/11/chromachron-too-advan
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by cormullion 16y ago
OK for a beta release though
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by cormullion 16y ago
I suspect that they're lining up to see Jack Wong. I hadn't heard the name before, but it seems he's a bit of a draw all by himself: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-the-eni... "Every time (Wong) makes a comment o
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by cormullion 16y ago
I think these are mostly "first impressions count" sites, rather than "you come back over and over again" sites, which have different requirements. Sometimes you only have a few seconds to make an impression...
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by cormullion 16y ago
Nice work, and an ingenious take on the more traditional one handed clocks/watches: http://24hourtime.info/2008/11/22/the-sound-of-one-hand-tick... and http://24hourtime.info/2010/04/28/the-sound-of-a-one-handed-...
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by cormullion 16y ago
liked your Haskell version. Makes me want to learn the language!
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by cormullion 16y ago
UltraEdit is to Windows what BBEdit is to MacOS. I know, that doesn't add much to the conversation. :)
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by cormullion 16y ago
Making of post here: http://blog.smallmammal.com/
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by cormullion 16y ago
Compare "Samsung has confirmed that it is [the number of] devices sold [that the number refers to]." with "Samsung has confirmed that its [Samsung's] devices have sold in quantity." I think the snake was right. :)
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by cormullion 16y ago
More than you want to read about this: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=27
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by cormullion 16y ago
newLISP is a scripting language with a Lisp-like syntax. It's designed to be a Lisp-flavoured alternative to Perl or PHP or AppleScript. The emphasis is on staying small (250Kb) and easy to install, learn, and use. As a non-programmer I'm n