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by froo 17y ago
Richard Williams (of Roger Rabbit fame)wrote an excellent book about animation called "The Animator's Survival Kit". Upvoted. As an fan of animation this is indeed an excellent book. Another one I particularly enjoyed is "The Illusion of
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by froo 17y ago
Thanks for this thread, I was just thinking about this myself and was going to ask HN... figured I'd check the ASK section first.
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by froo 17y ago
In fact, no country allows unrestricted flow on the Internet of pornographic, violent, gambling or superstitious content, or content on government subversion, ethnic separatism, religious extremism, racialism, terrorism and anti-foreign fe
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by froo 17y ago
If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit My account is close to 700 days old and I still wouldn't submit comments regarding that. I consider myself fairly new with respect
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by froo 17y ago
If you were to believe a lot of the job postings, Ninjas might also be a workplace hazard in the IT industry. Below an example from 37signals http://www.google.com/search?q=site:37signals.com+ninja
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by froo 17y ago
Actually no, but I'll take whatever I can get.
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by froo 17y ago
"The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash." If your credibility is going to be finished, might aswell go
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by froo 17y ago
* I lead the charge in 2008 to win the Best Act Ever award for Rick Astley at the MTV EMA's * I was the youngest competitor at a car rally event here in Australia, competing against the likes of Sir Jack Brabham. (side note, we managed to g
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by froo 17y ago
I've gotten away using a tube of silicone sealant and a hammer (don't ask)
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by froo 17y ago
I think you'd have to make the product appealing to kids. For example, someone built what is essentially an ipod for kids, but based inside a teddy bear http://www.iteddy.com Music devices inside stuffed animals isn't new. I (still) have
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by froo 17y ago
smartsheet looks pretty useful for hypothesizing ideas/testing (in the same way I use adwords to test things out in the wild) I will test it out and report my findings. EDIT - maybe not, it's returning bad requests (error 400) when I try to
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by froo 17y ago
If you can't get your ideal name, think about adding words onto it and coming up with some variation. Many web properties started with less than ideal domain names, ending up with what they wanted in the end. Facebook - thefacebook.com Drop
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by froo 17y ago
I've seen this rough method out in the wild. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197508
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by froo 17y ago
any mods able to delete this? it somehow duped and I was unable to remove it myself due to noprocrast kicking in.
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by froo 17y ago
>I think it's also worthy to note that the origin makes a huge difference. See, I would have thought so too, but Ed is about 5'4", bad teeth and a heavy smoker. One thing in his favour though, he was a snappy dresser as he wore lots of
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by froo 17y ago
I know a Welsh guy named Ed (very short guy) who never leaves a pub without a girl on his arm. I always wondered how he did it so I asked him and he told me his pickup line. He said: "I go up to a girl and I start off with saying hi, intro
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by froo 17y ago
I know a Welsh guy named Ed (very short guy) who never leaves a pub without a girl on his arm. I always wondered how he did it so I asked him and he told me his pickup line. He said: "I go up to a girl and I start off with saying hi, intro
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by froo 17y ago
Interesting and entertaining article. I imagine if the master of ceremonies gave the a physicist the same advice today (say, Brian Cox for example) I picture the guy walking around with a pimp hat etc.
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by froo 17y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Colour Psychology or Colour Symbolism yet and how these two colours are used to illicit a desired emotional response from the viewers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology http://en.wikipedia.o
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by froo 17y ago
>I doubt if there will be any major technological development, inside or outside porn I'm not sure if that is the case. (link below is NSFW) http://gizmodo.com/5129520/realtouch-teledildonics-as-design... As we're seeing people embedd
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by froo 17y ago
>An insurance company somehow gets their hands on search data and finds a way to associate that with their customers You mean like the AOL search data leak? I never read anything about insurance companies misappropriating the data in th
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by froo 17y ago
Cheers for the reply Paul
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by froo 17y ago
Ok, what about if the opposite was true? How do you handle situations where the idea is (in your opinion) great but the person is perhaps lacking for whatever reason? Is this a situation where you pass or do you take a proverbial punt? Have
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by froo 17y ago
1) My idea is fairly new, so I've been working on trying to prove the concept first before I take it further with building a startup around it 2) No, I didn't apply 3) It wouldn't be appropriate at this time. 4) I'll make a note to add a li
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by froo 17y ago
Oh, quick plug for rescuetime. Go sign up for www.rescuetime.com That should definitely help you when you can really see where you're wasting your time with procrastination. It's definitely an eye opener.
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by froo 17y ago
In the past I procrastinated a lot. The problem I found was that the sheer number of tasks to be done was immense and I would often be paralysed by the thought of it. So what I did was get a simple task management tool (I use RTM) and start
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Apples and Oranges -- A Comparison(improb.com)
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by froo 17y ago
Well, I care. Not for myself, but you have teams of guys out there building legitimate web applications that could have a meaningful impact on the web community and instead, douchebags with scraper sites are getting invested in. For all w
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by froo 17y ago
Dear Lawyers, Lame Regards The Tech Community
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by froo 17y ago
Agreed, as would I... even just a cliff notes version would do.

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