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by fooandbarify 15y ago
As snippyhollow pointed out, you're right with regard to frequency and that is the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. However, it is important to realize that the resolution of the sampled signal is separate from the sampling rate and so t
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
It would be easy to argue that most software fits the "tool" label. As far as I know, rms objects to describing GNU as a set of "programming tools" or "development tools" as he (reasonably, in this case, I think) finds those labels unfair.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Ummm welcome to HN, Mr. Bloomberg.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I'm sure most or all HN users would agree that the current patent system is broken. However, as is mentioned in the article and as semanticist pointed out, Lego was able to get a patent on an "obvious" idea, and so was Apple. In other wor
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I think I agree with you, although I feel like characterising this as a "vacation" is unfortunate.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I don't know why your comment was downvoted - I found your link interesting, if very basic. Certainly a well-written primer and it contains a decent introduction to "this".
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I am obviously not mitsche, but this is my experience: I think it obviously depends on people's personal situations and circumstance. Anxiety in particular often presents in an almost paralyzing manner - being accountable to a therapist in
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
This is one case where seeing the number of upvotes would be valuable. There is a lot of (very well-intentioned) advice on this thread that it gets better with time, etc and while that is probably true, parent's comment is right on the mone
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Agreed. My first search will be how to switch the default search engine in Safari...
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
In my well-tested experience, there is a fine line between having fun and making an ass of yourself. The correlation between showing up to class wasted and making an ass of yourself is (again, in my own intimate experience) too large to ign
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I don't see how the two (excelling at language acquisition due to lowered social inhibition vs evolving to excel at language acquisition early in life) are mutually exclusive.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I actually like the design, fwiw.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
One counterargument might be that it is unhelpful to prevent default event behaviour depending on its type or target. Events normally bubble - that is the expected behaviour. Clicks are just another event. In life, rules need exceptions. In
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
While that approach obviously worked for Facebook, I think this is one of those areas where it's hard to pin down a "formula" that will work in every case without eventually having it be proven wrong in a big way. In this case, for example,
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Sure. Facebook could be "MySpaced", too. The whole point of what happened to MySpace is that it was hard to figure out what it would take to disrupt them until it happened.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Absolutely awesome. Have fun! In a similar vein, I'm riding my bike across Canada this summer: http://bybike.ca/
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I have never known a time where Wordpress was not way more bloated than Tumblr is now, and I've been using Wordpress for about 5 years. That being said, the comparison is only valid when comparing them as services - as far as I know, Tumb
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
It is obvious that Facebook makes some businesses lots of money (see: Zynga). It would be more interesting to know who is making money, and what their business models look like.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
If you really have the itch, my vote is to take a year and go all-out entrepreneur. I'm on the far side of an electrical engineering degree and by the end of it an extra year one way or the other makes no difference, but the amount of exper
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
It's not necessarily true that the person who created the content will share the link. Even if they do, if they are far removed from my social network then the only way I will find that content is still by searching for it.
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
Talk to the people for whom you think this will solve a problem If you don't know who those people are or how to find them then it doesn't matter whether or not you implement your idea. I know that this isn't always easy, but finding your
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
I hate to be "that guy" but are downvotes really warranted here? Wouldn't it be sufficient to provide a correction?
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
It's worth noting that you can run Rails on Dreamhost. Don't really remember the details (I'm a Python guy, and it's been a while since I used Dreamhost) but it's probably searchable and if not, I'm sure customer service can help you. Dream
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
This is what I came here to say. OP, I've been in your shoes. In fact, I'm not entirely out of them. But talking to an unbiased third party, especially a professional who has experience helping people, is invaluable. I have had good luck fi
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
[EDITED:] Your condescending tone is unhelpful.
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
My most profitable side project actually plays in an extremely competitive space but I usually stay quiet about it because it's boring, extremely uncool, and borders on sleazy. Anyways, I wrote it in a weekend and it makes me about $400/mon
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
They succeeded in starting conversations, which is clever advertising. Still, I think Groupon ends up on the wrong side of the controversy here - the ad just makes them look kind of insensitive or ignorant/ambivalent towards an issue many p
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
I think it's reasonable to assume that every North American (and European, etc) carrier does this, so quitting AT&T won't help much. I'm sure there are many other good reasons to leave them, though.
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
One huge difference is that couchsurfing is free... do some chores around the place maybe to be nice, but the whole point is sharing and using each other's space for free. I think Airbnb is aiming for a different market, actually - for exam
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by fooandbarify 16y ago
Ahh yes, of course. My apologies!

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