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by harpastum 14y ago
I guess the question then is how many parts did you have to replace for each of those computers? Did repairs/upgradeability factor into the long lifetimes?
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by harpastum 14y ago
From my reading, the reason it was unacceptable was that since the wires were previously identical, the manufacturers attached an arbitrary wire to the case, so 50% of the time it wasn't the neutral one. So, once we switched the polarized
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by harpastum 14y ago
I think zacharyvoase's point was that it might either emphasize or deemphasize how much hotter or colder something was. Because the eye doesn't see blue->yellow->red hue changes consistently, what looks like a "big" change on the
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by harpastum 14y ago
Any links for those comments from Mike and Gruber? I haven't seen them.
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by harpastum 14y ago
I see your point, but "retina" is just a simple stand-in for "pixels so dense individual pixels are no longer distinguishable". It doesn't seem like the author was saying 'just apple devices' -- it's simply a convenient way to reference tha
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by harpastum 14y ago
Yup. I updated my comment with working code. Just figure out the small case, and extrapolate once you find a match.
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by harpastum 14y ago
I believe a constant solution exists, because Fizzbuzz repeats after 8 items. Still working on it... <EDIT> Yes, here's a constant solution: http://codepad.org/Id9eu0Ax
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by harpastum 14y ago
TLDR: Here's a constant-time solution: http://codepad.org/Id9eu0Ax Matching the the sequence of fizz/buzz/fizbuzz disregarding numbers is a repetitive case. Start with 3 Fizz 5 Buzz 6 Fizz 9 Fizz 10 Buzz 12 Fi
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by harpastum 15y ago
This is actually pretty awesome. Is it completely P2P? How much server work does it take to keep up a conference?
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by harpastum 15y ago
I just don't understand how they could possibly be five times larger. There are 4x as many pixels, so by straight pixel count it could be 4x larger. However, current PNG compressors are really good at optimizing flat color areas, gradient
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by harpastum 15y ago
By default, iPhones vibrate once for emails, twice for texts. Through the accessibility settings, you can set completely custom vibrations for each of the contacts in your address book (e.g. you could make morse code of each of their names)
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by harpastum 15y ago
Is this a serious issue with current electric cars? I would assume there's something you can do with a heating mechanism or something for the batteries when they're in danger of getting really cold and losing their charge.
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by harpastum 15y ago
I appreciate your sentiment, and I think 37signals does get more attention than they deserve on many occasions. However, the superior tone of your comment really rubs me the wrong way. Calling people who find value in something you don't
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by harpastum 15y ago
Interface builder (and now storyboards) have allowed WYSIWYG iOS interface layouts since 2008. There are definitely more dependencies and interrelation between a native app vs web app, but there is definitely a high-quality layout engine th
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by harpastum 15y ago
Karunamon does a pretty good job describing it, but now that Wikipedia is back up, here's a section of the court's opinion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985) ): The phonorecords in question were not "stolen, c
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by harpastum 15y ago
Downloading apps/videos over 20MB on 3G isn't allowed, but you can browse the iTunes music store an buy songs (unless they're over 20MB, which is rare). It seems to me like a sanity check. If a user accidentally downloaded a few 100MB files
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by harpastum 15y ago
Pretty awesome video, but it looks like they cheated a little bit by weighing the back of the device, so that it would land on its back rather than screen. An iPad 2 weighs 1.33 lbs, and has ~0.5 sq. ft of surface area when flat, which acco
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by harpastum 15y ago
Both methods are indirect ways to make money off of the user, but affiliate links aren't really advertising. It's reasonable to include links to the products he's talking about, and it doesn't hurt the user experience of going to amazon.com
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by harpastum 15y ago
Sorta similar to an experiment I made a while ago [1]. I do think there's something to spatially-oriented chat, but it doesn't seem to get much traction [1] http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/newmap -- You're a dot. Move using the arrow ke
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Ask HN: Contract-less Contract work
2 points by harpastum 16y ago|1 comments
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by harpastum 16y ago
I don't think that has much to do with using a separate, automated account to make the posts. If weekends turn out to be an issue, the person running the posting script can just edit the post date (e.g. set it to "the first monday of the mo
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by harpastum 16y ago
"The winning formula is screencasts + code challenges + gamification." This is also the formula the Khan Academy is using. I think they're both on to something pretty huge.
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by harpastum 16y ago
If you like Snow Crash, I definitely recommend checking out Daemon (and its sequel FreedomTM ) by Daniel Suarez. Just found them recently, and they're fantastic.
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by harpastum 16y ago
Not that I've ever heard of. From my experience, your best bet is to find someone you trust that is a great programmer (even if they can't work for you), and have them vet candidates for you. The truth of the matter is that there is an am
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by harpastum 16y ago
That's one of the things I've been thinking about. Maybe a speed dating layout, where people can travel from person to person?
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by harpastum 16y ago
Clickable: http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/tutorial Note: Firefox DOES NOT work. I'm sorry if this prevents anyone from testing, but there are some FF bugs I haven't been able to clear up.
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Ask HN: Review my webapp experiment — Open Forum
2 points by harpastum 16y ago|3 comments
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by harpastum 16y ago
This reminds me a lot of turbo/retroencabulator [1]. After you've watched the video (don't go first or it will spoil it), you can check out the wikipedia article.[2] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w [2] http://en.wikipedia.
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by harpastum 16y ago
The site appears to be down. Does anyone have a cache/description?
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by harpastum 16y ago
I believe fredoliveira was calling scientology a cult, not Anonymous.

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