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by gavinpc 14y ago
"more beautiful than android and iPhone "... talk about burying the lead.
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by gavinpc 15y ago
I agree of course that it's simpler. This reasoning reminds me of the "nutritionist" argument (as I understand it from Michael Pollan's book In Defense of Food ), in which individual nutrients are presumed to contain in toto the benefit
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by gavinpc 15y ago
Wait, what problem does this solve? I have to agree with @nhebb in doubting whether this can be serious. The idea is provocative, but contains the seeds of its own destruction. If the deficiency in Latin script is that it is (putatively)
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by gavinpc 15y ago
From our point of view (Hacker News readers), it's easy to forget that these blackouts and the mainstream press that they created are the beginning and end of most people's SOPA education. I heard an intelligent and otherwise well-informed
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by gavinpc 15y ago
Works in Chrome but not Firefox, as I've come to expect from this sort of thing. Doesn't hose my CPU, though, as I've come to expect from this sort of thing.
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by gavinpc 15y ago
Obviously the series of "tubes" he refers to is the internet.
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by gavinpc 15y ago
Yes, take note, Ms. Morissette. A typo in a headline about "professional" publishing: that is ironic.
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by gavinpc 15y ago
Note that you need cookies enabled for the site for the app to work. Having said that, as Freud observed, "sometimes 10k is just 10k."
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by gavinpc 15y ago
Very cool, although many of the demos require way too much CPU to be generally deployable. (Tested in Firefox 6 and Chrome.)
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by gavinpc 15y ago
Right — if you're that sure what the next step is, why not take it automatically, or make the entire screen clickable? I guess I miss the "point."