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by eykanal 15y ago
I definitely believe that it does. Whether you're a programmer or not, markdown is SIGNIFICANTLY faster to write than actual HTML code, and when the purpose of using a templating system like this is often to reduce the time required getting
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Motorola - Google's Plan B(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
Don't forget spaces. And Poland. Another point is that letter placement within words is significantly non-random. By intelligently choosing which letters to try in each position, the hacker could at the very least minimize the number of tri
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by eykanal 15y ago
My main question is, given that Apple saw that Amazon was able to price everything really low, why didn't Apple do the same? Wouldn't they consider that lower pricing would mean more people buying, particularly at the magic $9.99 level?
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Amazon accuses Apple & publishers of collusion(arstechnica.com)
1 points by eykanal 15y ago|1 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
You're highlighting the difference between "in principle" and "in practice". Probably all these companies think that in principle the patent system is screwed up; they spend BILLIONS of dollars buying and litigating patents, and most like
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by eykanal 15y ago
Introducing a feature like this would dilute Google+. As it stands, Google+ is a social network; it's primarily intended as an online place to connect to people you know in real life. This feature would make it more of a broad "discussion c
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How to be a good data journalist(guardian.co.uk)
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by eykanal 15y ago
Another possibility: when submitting a link, simply have an automated check against previously submitted links, and give an automatic upvotes or two to the previously linked submission. In this way, if a bunch of people resubmit something (
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by eykanal 15y ago
What exactly is your complaint here? How do you expect a multinational corporation to deal with this sort of issue? How do they know that you're the parent, and not just some pervert who likes pictures of kids in bathtubs? I'm fully support
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by eykanal 15y ago
For those of you who aren't familiar, there is an intitution that was set up not long ago call the Public Library of Science (PLoS): http://www.plos.org/ They have free journals in numerous fields, and gradually more big-name authors (in
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by eykanal 15y ago
Sooo, why is this top link on HN? Am I missing some nifty tech embedded in the site, or is everyone here just interested in fish?
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by eykanal 15y ago
The one point (OK, one of the points) which I think will be VERY confusing to the power user is that the "Automatic Termination" function will remove programs from the application switcher. Given that they're still existing as a process, wh
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by eykanal 15y ago
You make two different points. > "You don't even know what the thing is yet." That's a good point, and Google+ is likely to change significantly. They may make stuff way better as it progresses; who knows? > <the comments about
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by eykanal 15y ago
The labels themselves aren't important; it could be salt, pepper, oregano, and sugar, for all it matters. The descriptions of what each level means are very clear. Their rationale of "C, D, and F employees would already know where they stan
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by eykanal 15y ago
I want to meet the guy who's A+++ at modem-whistling.
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by eykanal 15y ago
In defense of the cops, doing something like that is just asking for problems.
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Why aren't Facebook friend groups generated via algorithm?
1 points by eykanal 15y ago|2 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
I completely disagree. Read what you just posted... you got to the test and answered the questions. That means you read through the entire privacy policy. If any other policy would have been linked here, you would have skimmed it and moved
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Curl + mailx = real-time site monitoring with notifications(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
1 points by eykanal 15y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
People keep posting links to mass media reports of this news. Are there any good blog reviews analyzing how this will actually affect software development? I don't trust the media to even have gotten all the facts right, let alone to give m
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Why is Git so confusing?(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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Cost of Internet (and storage space) decreasing linearly since 1980(blog.backblaze.com)
2 points by eykanal 15y ago|1 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
I agree with this, but given that there's barely funding for research itself now, this task has fallen to nonprofits. Hopefully they can do a good job of it.
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by eykanal 15y ago
(Doggone HN noprocrast settings...) I think I'm realizing that the problem here is one of responsibility. To use your terminology, you are claiming that it is the responsibility of the researcher to document everything he (or she, whatever)
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by eykanal 15y ago
What a terrible way to describe it! > Now the mid-circles are pretty good at documentation, but the inner circles, the researchers, are very, very bad at it. Institutionally bad. So bad, that the whole function of documentation to bridg
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by eykanal 15y ago
I'm somewhat confused why this is an issue. Who listens to anyone in a specific field? How many non-plumbers read up on issues that matter to plumbers? Most research publications are describing incremental advances in highly technical field
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Microsoft calls WebGL "harmful"(blogs.technet.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
This technology is cool, yes, but it works pretty terribly. I've done work with this device in my postdoc, and you really can't get any useful signals from it. There is another company similar to this one - NeuroSky, google it - and they're
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by eykanal 15y ago
Good article. The fact is, the index itself isn't worth nearly as much as the algorithms. Heck, open the index, and let anyone add to it. MSN, Yahoo, Bing, anyone... let them add to that single index and make the index awesome, and then any

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