hawkw

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1. 31.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   I for one think the icon design (especially Safari) looks great.
2. 32.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   I'm fairly certain I've seen this posted to HN before... good book, though!
3. 33.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   Yeah, this is a great way to keep customers locked in. And I like it since it actually promotes honesty in marketing, to an extent.
4. 34.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   Speech recognition is cute as a tech demo, but I doubt it'll be very useful in the Real World.
5. 35.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   It seems to me that the questions we're asking in the 2010s seem to be less about "how can we make a new technology" and more about "how can we use the technology we already have". We already have pretty much all the computing power we need
6. 36.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   Fair enough. :)
7. 37.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   I think this is a pretty common problem, people failing to realize that good news for one demographic isn't necessarily bad news for another.
8. 38.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   Why is it wrong to look at the issue from a cost/benefit perspective? If an expenditure of resources isn't very effective at preventing child abuse, shouldn't those resources be deployed in a different way so we can prevent as much abuse as
9. 39.▲
   by hawkw 13y ago

   Good point. I'm personally of the opinion that one should not publicly denounce a thing unless they've spent time in the trenches trying to make it work.
10. 40.▲
    by hawkw 13y ago

    Physicists, or at least the ones I know, tend to use FORTRAN almost exclusively.
11. 41.▲
    by hawkw 13y ago

    You wouldn't download a car.
12. 42.▲
    by hawkw 13y ago

    I hope they weren't running any mission-critical software on her...
13. 43.▲
    by hawkw 13y ago

    Remember when PythonAnywhere joked about this? http://pinode.pythonanywhere.com/
14. 44.▲
    by hawkw 13y ago

    So it's open-source Siri in Python? Cool!
15. 45.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    This just in: users don't like social login, water is wet, sky blue..
16. 46.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    You sir are a god amongst men.
17. 47.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    Nice.
18. 48.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    Hooray! Now I can do all my work directly on GitHub.
19. 49.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    So many Node.js libraries....
20. 50.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    Who <i>does</i> that?
21. 51.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    While "better designed" is definitely subjective, I find that HN reads easier and is more visually appealing. Personally, HN feels superior on an aesthetic as well as functional level - many of DN's design techniques feel kind of cliched or
22. 52.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    I'm gonna check this out as soon as they support FTB Mindcrack. The added complexity from Gregtech really makes the game a lot richer, despite the problems I have with that mod.
23. 53.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    Fog distance can be changed on the fly, though. You don't need to start a new game to adjust it.
24. 54.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    As a Bayesian rationalist, wut.
25. 55.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    There's your problem!
26. 56.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    I find it kind of amusing that Hacker News is better designed than Designer News.
27. 57.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    Apple Space is something I'd be entirely behind.
28. 58.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    Well implemented. Thanks for sharing!
29. 59.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    DRM is quite frequently a brilliant parody of itself.
30. 60.▲
    by hawkw 14y ago

    I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the educational philosophies espoused here. As a musician, I've learned firsthand the dangers of learning incorrect ways of doing things. I feel like it's a lot easier to learn something new than to un