drewblaisdell

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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
This may have been true twenty years ago, but it is certainly not true today. Neither party is in favor of limiting government these days.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
Cool idea. You should consider adding Kindle support-- Amazon makes it really easy to send out documents to a Kindle via email so it would not take much time to implement since you're already sending the texts through (inline) email.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
I like your concept (and the name is great). You are probably already doing this, but I would definitely a/b test the speed of the animation on your landing page if you can. ~3 seconds seems like a lot of transition time for me but I can se
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
Does anyone else think that this is because of entrepreneurs with Raspberry Pi-utilizing ideas that are eager to begin working with it?
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
The Pirate Bay does not exist outside of the confines of due process. It exists only because it is transparent and complies totally with Swedish law. No one is doing TPB any favors. If anything, it gets more negative attention than it (lega
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
Google+ just passed 62 million users. It is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. Because of its size, the idea of any sort of limitations on free speech just seems wrong to me. MG Siegler's middle finger isn't hurting anyone, and censo
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
Would you be in favor of outlawing racial slurs and "abrasive language"?
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
I said this on the EtherPad chat, but this is at best a great way to dive into a new project and at worst a good exercise. I'm in.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman It made me feel like I'm not thinking enough about everything around me.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
It isn't a GPL violation because the game is just interfacing with a master MySQL database, not using one to store local content.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
The thing is, we would never have heard about this if the developer wasn't a pompous ass and tried to claim that the way he is doing it is "fine".
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
It's unfortunate how many of the comments in this thread are based on the title of the HN link to this article and not the actual article.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
npm ERR! 404 'hogan' is not in the npm registry.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
Hey, I'm not accusing you of anything. I know @addison is happy when people use those characters. They work!
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
The Thunderbolt logo reminds me of Dustin Curtis' own branding, and the characters on the front page are straight out of eightbit.me. That said, cool.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
The transcription from the recovered recording of the pilots is also particularly unsettling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Findings_...
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Fly the Airplane(dcurt.is)
172 points by drewblaisdell 15y ago|84 comments
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
Quite literally. One of the most obvious applications of this is creating asynchronous multiplayer browser games.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
No, we can't really make blanket statements like this anymore. Not all calories are equal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
The search engine and operating system landgrabs are over too-- just look at Windows 98 and Lycos. - 1999
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"What foods make my brain work best?" by Seth Roberts, PhD(vimeo.com)
5 points by drewblaisdell 15y ago|1 comments
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
And suddenly, I find that I have not lost all hope for humanity.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
I will never, ever work 16 hour days like this. That said, if I cofounded Twitter and Square (and thus had that much of an effect on the world), I sure as hell would work a lot.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
You should preload the rollover image for "Sign Up" so that it doesn't disappear on the first mouseover.
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Live Kinect data streaming rendered in WebGL with Three.js(128.2.77.104)
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
No, the government really does not have the freedom to wiretap our phones... or rather, they didn't during Hemingway's era.
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by drewblaisdell 15y ago
This post should have been called "having ADD sucks."