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by hernan7 16y ago
Same landfill as the Atari "E.T." cartridges.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Lots of paperbacks have ads in the last few pages (other books by the same publisher, order forms, sample chapters for the next book in the series, what have you). The difference is that these ads are after the main portion of the text, not
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by hernan7 16y ago
Actually, if his orders included killing civilians, then those were unlawful orders. And if he was obeying them that would make him a war criminal, no?
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Coming to America, circa 1922(blog.marklamster.com)
5 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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System to predict market size of a product. Unfortunately, it was a market flop.(technologizer.com)
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Russian spies wrote passwords on paper(computerworld.com)
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Flying car goes into production(cnn.com)
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by hernan7 16y ago
". We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones.” They must indeed have some units left to sell still -- just today I heard an ad for the Kin on the radio.
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Solar system animation, rendered in CSS(neography.com)
1 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Making the candidates reverse a linked list over the phone? Either the job market is worse than I thought or somebody is power-tripping something awful.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Yes, he is changing the numbering from pi to tau.
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3D Video Hazardous to Your Health(audioholics.com)
46 points by hernan7 16y ago|19 comments
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Reception issues? Not in Steve Jobs' reality(fakesteve.net)
13 points by hernan7 16y ago|2 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
In the real world, unfortunately, if you need to challenge the faulty logic of your opponent, you already lost the argument.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Was it Joel that said "obsolete hardware goes in the trash heap; obsolete software goes into production tomorrow"? I can't find the quote right now...
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by hernan7 16y ago
Well, you don't need to be a genius to be creative. Also, who is to say that some entrepreneurs aren't geniuses? Just because they apply their intelligence to business instead of writing novels or proving theorems, doesn't mean they can't b
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by hernan7 16y ago
"It is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive" -- Oscar Wilde
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by hernan7 16y ago
One thing I want to do is to interleave video from 2 cameras to do something like this: http://www.well.com/~jimg/stereo/stereo_list.html for a movie instead of a single picture. So, something that I can use to slice and interleave 2 movi
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Ask HN: video manipulation libraries?
4 points by hernan7 16y ago|5 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Reasons people will post reviews of a product on Amazon: 1) That's where they bought it -- sometimes when I buy something at Amazon I get an email from them asking me to review it 2) Sharing one's opinion is its own reward 3) Lots of people
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by hernan7 16y ago
So, basically customers buy their product using other people's money.
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by hernan7 16y ago
I guess Lombroso was wrong then...
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by hernan7 16y ago
By the way, isn't this what working for Apple is supposed to be like? Except that when you do get to go home, you can't even discuss what you were working on during the day. Edit: downvote if you must, but info on the work/life balance at A
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by hernan7 16y ago
Or, if they bought a $500 lemon, left it taking up space in the company parking lot and kept commuting as usual. In that case, are the $500 tax-deductible?
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by hernan7 16y ago
See also: http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-softwar... At least Greenspun took into account the need of his engineers' air to be humidified.
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The myth of the short attention span(lefsetz.com)
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by hernan7 16y ago
Sorry, non-native English speaker here... Never heard the term "limerence before". Seems to be a kinda-sorta synonym of "infatuation", no? Why everybody in this thread is using it instead of just "infatuation" -- some Internet meme that I'm
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by hernan7 16y ago
Well, the article says he graduated in 1975, so probably the obnoxious prof's are long dead/retired.
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Great literature retitled to boost web site traffic(mcsweeneys.net)
13 points by hernan7 16y ago|1 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
The million dollars were revenue; not sure about the guy's net profits when everything was said and done. If I understand correctly, there was some kind of SLA in place -- the people who bought all those pixels expected them to be on line f

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