horser4dish

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by horser4dish 15y ago
Actually, he didn't do this. Part of the LD is that the theme/topic for the Dare isn't revealed until the game starts. He actually spent about twenty minutes staring at a 5-line text file labelled "ideas," just thinking out loud while he tr
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by horser4dish 15y ago
I actually enjoyed that part of Anathem. I was in highschool when I read it, so a good portion of that book was actually teaching me concepts. His use of alternate universes was pretty fascinating, and having science to back it up (real or
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by horser4dish 15y ago
There are a lot of releases, and fairly often; I've had versions go "out of date" on me within a week of its release. The forums are very active, and when they say something is unbalanced or broken, it tends to get fixed. Some things are no
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by horser4dish 15y ago
That last point is my primary complaint about these systems. While yes, this is actually a quite reasonable series of warnings (the first four carry no penalties at all), it still bothers me that there is no real proof behind any of this. A
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by horser4dish 15y ago
That was my first thought as well. However, I like Hulu's viewing page, so I'm glad YouTube is taking after it (or seems to be, anyway). It's a much less distracting screen than the current YT page is, since all of the suggested videos and
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by horser4dish 15y ago
I have the option to not make it permanent at the bottom of the dialog in 4.0.1 on OS X. By default, it's checked, but it is also clearly there for me. Edit: A screenshot, for anybody that doesn't see it: http://i.imgur.com/rkZ4c.png Just
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by horser4dish 15y ago
I'm surprised they're not offering even a lesser iPod (iPod Nano, for example) instead. While the the gift card makes sense, since it could get a student comfortable with purchasing through iTunes, I think something that doesn't have a firm
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by horser4dish 15y ago
I like the new Gnome Shell. It feels like Ubuntu's Unity shell, but Done Right. The Shell is kind of hard to describe, because it almost- but not quite- does away with the traditional desktop/window/taskbar model. It reminds me, in a way, o
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by horser4dish 15y ago
Sure there is. A while ago, while I was using the 4.0 beta, I ran into a problem: modal dialogs wouldn't work. In beta 4 they worked just fine. Beta 5, just fine. When beat 6 rolled around, they stopped working. I reverted and used that unt
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by horser4dish 15y ago
Is it bad that I want to browse using this bare idea? I had Ubiquity installed in FF3.6, and it was quite handy. The inline maps and other website commands were more and more useful as you got used to them. Integrating it into the browser l
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by horser4dish 15y ago
There's still a market for people who want to manually upgrade. There was a comment thread on HN a few months ago about this as well (no way we'll be able to find it now, I don't remember the story), but it summarized my views very well. I
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by horser4dish 15y ago
Reddit appears at the bottom, below HN and Digg, when I've got it maximized at 1024x768. That's going to get obnoxious fast.
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by horser4dish 15y ago
It seems like a cross between CoffeeScript and JavaScript, leaning towards the JS side. I haven't tried it, but some of the new features it adds seem interesting (like the ability to use "if var isn't value { }"). I like that it translates
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by horser4dish 15y ago
This looks very promising. However, the one concern I have is that e-ink does not work very fast; browsing the web on a Kindle or Nook leaves a lot to be desired. When you're flipping a page, you can literally watch the ink update. We're us
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by horser4dish 15y ago
I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems to me that you are correct. They analyzed a different section (which is in several of their EULAs; under the Mac/iPhone App Stores' as "USE OF PRODUCTS AND THE SERVICES " and under iTunes' as "USE OF PU
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by horser4dish 15y ago
Last time I looked over it (I don't actually use iTunes anymore), a lot of the EULA was devoted to the content and how you can't pirate it, and so on. That seems to me to be the very things that the RIAA and other groups sue over. So even t
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by horser4dish 15y ago
I think the biggest reason that nobody reads these is because of the sheer size of EULA documents. They're dense paragraphs upon paragraphs of legal text. I don't think that it's the legalese that scares people away, but the fact that page
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by horser4dish 15y ago
Yes, you can have multiple accounts per console. And because it's free, I would think (based on a small sample, my friends who own PS3s), it's far more likely that there will be multiple PSN accounts, versus XBL accounts which cost money (t
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by horser4dish 15y ago
I'm curious how they settled. Once the details are shared, then the case's importance will be truly established. For now, we can't really assume which way it went: Geohot asked for a settlement instead of dealing with further litigation, or
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by horser4dish 16y ago
I wasn't saying it was a bad thing. I was curious how this would have led to people getting money that they should not have gotten.
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by horser4dish 16y ago
The president supports repeal of the 1099 provision, but he doesn’t like how the bill makes up for the revenue that would be lost: It requires people who receive higher subsidies for health insurance than they should have
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by horser4dish 16y ago
There's also the possibility of the placebo effect. I agree with donnyg107 in that it'll be a while before we can begin to form a solid "yes, it's better" or "no, we're Reddit" answer... if you're looking for more insightful comments, that'
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by horser4dish 16y ago
I see where you're coming from, I think, but I think both of your ideas can definitely work together. You say that some people can support the antagonist, but I'm not sure that's what you mean. I think there's a difference between objective
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by horser4dish 16y ago
While I agree that Sony should not be suing Geohot for the hacking of his own systems, I think this is a bad move on Anonymous' part. At this point, it has sort of turned into "Sony kept PSN up, Anonymous took it down" and that's not going
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by horser4dish 16y ago
Along the same vein, Kevin Rose wrote a blog post ( http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2011/1/11/cityvilles-viral-growth... ) about Facebook games and why they're so popular. He came to the same conclusion that Ian Lurie did: people want to do stuf
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by horser4dish 16y ago
If you have Verizon and are willing to pay for it (I believe it's another $30/month on top of your data plan?) you don't even have to jailbreak. However, I entirely understand if $60 every month is too much; I rooted my Android phone to use
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by horser4dish 16y ago
I'm not sure I can consider Instagram and applications similar to it "post-Facebook" when they still depend on Facebook. It's true that the connections between people could be figured out or cached, separating the network from the Facebook
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by horser4dish 16y ago
I've been reading HN anonymously for a few years, and while there's been a decrease in quality, I agree with pg in that all is not lost. The main problem, I believe, is in the quality of submissions. There's a lot more fluff/gossip on the f
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by horser4dish 16y ago
Here's a longer article that elaborates a bit more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369595/Jacob-Barnet...