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by crux 16y ago
In my experience New Yorkers hate to make idle chat unless they've been given a reason. In general, we're happy to give directions, and we are happy to talk to people if we're in some constrained situation, like standing on line together, c
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by crux 16y ago
"We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way.” What utter bullshit. As though any user has ever been confused by a multitude of interfaces for something that consists of: a name an
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by crux 16y ago
I really appreciated this blog post. At first I thought it was going to be a Scoble-style 'I got my first moderatorial slap and now my blogger ego is bruised' blogger poutathon, but raganwald clearly delineates between the sort of bonding,
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by crux 16y ago
If somebody offered me a dollar to stand up when I heard a certain word in a certain talk, I'm sure my effective intelligence would go down, not up. I'd spend all my attention waiting to hear a certain word, and cease paying attention to or
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by crux 16y ago
"Unfortunately he is just too valuable to Apple and they told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them ... It's a shame. We hardly ever see anyone at the house." That
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by crux 16y ago
Here's one I took for another purpose, a couple days ago: http://i.imgur.com/I3478.jpg
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by crux 16y ago
I like the pilcrow so much, I've got a big ol' pilcrow tattoo on my arm.
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by crux 16y ago
Off topic, but—I can't get over the dreary blog title. 'Defeated spirit'. It's so at odds with the can-do entrepreneurity of the blog.
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People in the second half of the alphabet buy things more quickly.(slate.com)
2 points by crux 16y ago|0 comments
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by crux 16y ago
I am a little skeeved out but the unattributed (and presumably unauthorized use of a free hacker webcomic for advertising purposes.
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by crux 16y ago
Who is calling this the Twitter revolution, besides people like Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington? The tech bloggers of the world might be adept enough at covering the constant soap opera of startup culture (and the relatively very rare t
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by crux 16y ago
This is not Jason Calacanis's take on the Google Algorithm Change. This is just Jason Calacanis spamming for his website. He's saying, 'It's funny you mention content spammers—let me tell you some more about the NEW Mahalo!'
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by crux 16y ago
Another factor that led to the original hypothesis of color deficienty, disappointingly unaddressed here, is that the Greeks had habits of making color comparisons that moderns would find quite loose indeed—for instance, the sea was the col
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by crux 16y ago
Not to take anything away from these guys—they obviously have a great amount of drive, intelligence, vision, and focus—but I'm a little perturbed by the utter amazement of the host. 'Who actually makes their own iPhone app?' I wouldn't trus
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by crux 16y ago
One of the issues here is that paper cards aren't just a well-entrenched and pleasing communication tool, but they're also a status tool. American Psycho is the model here—If I give you my business card and you see that it is letterpress-pr
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by crux 16y ago
I have never seen anything like that in my life. I had assumed they must be some kind of purposeful artwork or something—and then I saw that the author had reproduced the same effect for himself. It was like being introduced to a minor law
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by crux 16y ago
Does anyone else find it a little sad that in 2011 we're still reading stories like this? 'I was able to get most of my system up and running in Ubuntu, after downloading the right drivers, though printing doesn't work and the keyboard some
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by crux 16y ago
Man, I don't know about that. That review is suffused with so much over-the-top ideology that I'm getting real Battlefield Earth vibes.
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by crux 16y ago
To what end? Do you suspect that the author thinks there was another letter of the alphabet in the 18th century?
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by crux 16y ago
You seem to be completely missing the point of this article. What are you contending? That there was no difference between s and ſ, and that they were used in free variation? Or that there is no need to know anything about ſ today because i
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by crux 16y ago
I don't understand what people like KirinDave are referring to when they discuss Minimalism. Anything beyond drill-down UX exercises like eliminating information clutter in visual design seems to immediately break down. Assuming we're talki
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by crux 16y ago
I seem to be hearing from a few of you that you might not be as familiar with that sort of card game as I had assumed. Which makes sense; the days that every family spent most of its free time in card play are long gone. And if War and Poke
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by crux 16y ago
My 'which will here be defined' was an attempt to describe the set of games like poker, bridge, whist, war, 66, skat. Conventional folk games played with one of only few sets of conventional decks.
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Ask HN: boardgames or (and not) card games?
8 points by crux 16y ago|7 comments
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by crux 16y ago
"Its newspapers - with one or two exceptions - are awful. Endless sub-clauses roam across prairies of newsprint in search of the point, like homesteader wagons on the Oregon trail circling around a knackered old buffalo." That's quite a cla
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by crux 16y ago
Flavors.me offers pretty much the exact same feature set, with the ability to set your own domain. For instance (plug), zdsmith.com maps to flavors.me/zdsmith.
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Daring Fireball: Viber(daringfireball.net)
2 points by crux 16y ago|2 comments
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by crux 16y ago
This does pretty heartily violate Kant's categorical imperative.
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by crux 16y ago
I actually just happened to be watching a really good talk by Jon Kabat-Zinn at Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc where he leads a meditation session, and provides some basic concepts to refer to as well. Relatable, artic
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Phile: A site for discussion and collaborative knowledge building(phile.com)
3 points by crux 16y ago|0 comments

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