huffman

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by huffman 12y ago
What is Hacker News doing that makes it better than any other website with links and comments?
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by huffman 12y ago
It's also said explicitly in the article that it was a bit of an act.
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by huffman 12y ago
Don't lots of websites have links and comments? It's not about the capabilities (which are a little more nuanced than "hover over text and see explanations") it's about the quality and community which creates the co
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by huffman 13y ago
To be a little more helpful, they've partnered with Lloyd's of London to provide a nice insurance policy for all renters: https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
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by huffman 13y ago
This is completely off-topic, but you don't have a bold weight of the body font you're using, so the browser is trying to fake it and it looks very fuzzy.
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by huffman 13y ago
This is an interesting wiki article on an ice baron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tudor#The_ice_business
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by huffman 13y ago
"solves problems" encompasses a vast space of decision making, some of which is arbitrary and stylistic. "That's it" is oversimplifying things. "In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in G
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by huffman 13y ago
they don't edit: they ask for it
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by huffman 13y ago
If you wanted it to persist on a display, you could always airplay an iPad to a tv screen.
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by huffman 13y ago
"And it never helps to get a boost from partner."
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by huffman 14y ago
Would "200 students are better than none" be invalid? When you swap out the number with some other word i.e. "Some students is better than none", using "are" is the correct choice.
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by huffman 14y ago
When I was there, all the American flags were just chasing Canada.
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by huffman 14y ago
The app "Find my Friends" allows users to accept requests to be added to someone's FMF contact list, which allows the person who added them to ping their phone at any time to find their location. It's pretty privacy breaching, but I only ha
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by huffman 14y ago
when was the dinner?
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by huffman 14y ago
When you click to remove a post from your newsfeed, facebook prompts you with "unsubscribe from this page's updates" — there's also a tab in the top right of these stories (and of people's updates) that allows you to set the frequency you r
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by huffman 14y ago
Those are good point. I guess I was more curious about how the data is stored — say someone 100 years from now picks one of these up and wants to read the data. Will the format in which it's stored prevent them from doing so?
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by huffman 14y ago
I believe it was noted in some older thread that the reason a lot of people use the web version, is because the native versions were so slow and unresponsive. So there are lots of web users, party because they were pushed away from native —
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by huffman 14y ago
Maybe the medium will last longer, but isn't "If you have a computer with the right software and an optical microscope hooked up to it" a big part of the data decay problem on floppy disks etc.? Even if the data is there, it's useless witho
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by huffman 14y ago
Are you trying to tell me that Stargate has been lying this whole time?
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by huffman 14y ago
It's not really online reading, but we have an iOS "trail map" at thoughtbot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/trail-map/blob/master/trails/i...
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by huffman 14y ago
A good counter example to the pop art painter are Baroque painters, who used very dark colors very heavily in their pieces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_painting
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by huffman 14y ago
I hadn't even thought of that. I wonder how this will effect the car insurance industry.
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by huffman 14y ago
How is this HTML5
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by huffman 15y ago
The main advantages are listed on the page. Being able to apply CSS styles is the biggest one.
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by huffman 15y ago
Their site lists all the ways that it learns and adapts here http://www.nest.com/inside-and-out/#learns - one of the ways uses the weather