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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Given how many of these middle school Students are probably devouring the ultra-violent "Hunger Games" trilogy in anticipation for the film, I find this complaint/decision odd.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I understand the line of argument that essentially goes "Daisey still highlights a situation that needs to be addressed", but that is fundamentally different from suggesting that factual correctness somehow doesn't matter. Indeed, Daisey is
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
My biggest problem with Daisey? The fact that the only thing he gains from his fabrications is self-aggrandizement. So many of the things he claims to have seen aren't in essence untrue: hexane poisoning did happen , he just didn't meet (a
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I don't necessarily mind effort spent on making sure that music is presented properly-- what I mind is when it supersedes all other concerns about the music.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
stop being so paranoid about what you think you can't hear, and enjoy the damn music. I'm a composer who works in film/games. I can assure you this is exactly what I'd like people to do when they listen to my music. I spend 99% of my ti
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
These are all perfectly valid critiques of the notion that "my data is protected by Path's privacy policy", and they are excellent reasons why Path was right to apologize and correct a genuine problem with their app's behaviour. But they ar
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I'm frankly not surprised-- Winer has complained in the past about comments. From the perspective of someone who often disagrees with him, I've never really understood why he had them in the first place, as he simply does not tolerate alter
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
What makes the new Windows logo appear so weirdly revolting to me is the fact that it is minimalist, but not distinctive. Contrast this to the simplified Apple logo that one sees upon booting OS X-- minimalist, but entirely distinctive. The
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I'm upvoting just for your edit, as I think disagreement via downvotes is a bit childish and all too common. Having said that, I doubt Microsoft is moving in a direction an Arch Linux user would call "minimalist".
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
This strikes me as a bit hand-wavey. ("Don't pay attention to the glaring technical inaccuracies that have somehow made it into the "official" biography of a technical icon, focus on the human story). It is certainly possible that Isaacso
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
A depressingly large number of recently manufactured routers do , and it is on by default by mandate of the WiFi alliance. If the router is Cisco/Linksys, in many instances you can't disable it, at least as I understand it.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I think you're reading into this what you want to read into this rather than what is actually there. Sure, this is being used to build JSF's, but really it is a romanticization of American production-- an antidote to the "nothing is made he
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
This point can't be made often enough. I can't say that I think there are "too many" (or even "an increasing number") of posts on HN that seem to assume that everyone here has precisely the same set of (often extreme) values, but these kind
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I think the dichotomy between perceived empowerment and actual empowerment is interesting. Children who are allowed to do "whatever they want" seem empowered, but in actuality, they are disempowered by being deprived of necessary practice
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Although I'm sure I'm one of the "idiots" at HN Dave has referred to in the past[1], I have to say that this is pretty absurd. I mean, its one thing to criticize Google for something that may, in fact, been a real case of agism. But 1) we r
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
The big takeaway from this isn't that the GOP is a knee-jerk anti-hollywood, anti-SOPA party. Indeed, there are plenty of people in the conservative establishment who were either supportive of or mute on SOPA and SOPA-like legislation prior
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Regardless of whether you think it is moral to abolish private educational institutions, there's good reason to look at other aspects of the Finnish education model rather than this one single point. Finland does not use multiple choice exa
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
As a person who holds a degree in Music Theory, I find this interesting and frustrating at the same time. Interesting in that the pitch relationships of individual notes seems a lot clearer, but frustrating because the visualization is so l
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
An interesting note: Mike Schmoker's book Focus addresses most of the points raised both in Seliger's and pg's essays; indeed, he comes to many of the same conclusions that Seliger does, recommending heavy doses of close readings of texts
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I'd previously tried WiaB and wasn't able to get it running, but, inspired by your comment, I managed to get it up and running in a single evening. You weren't kidding: it is easy (especially if you figure out early that Google's original
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
This might be true if the phrase "pc manufacturers are dominant in the tablet space" weren't included in the report.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
That's a brilliant move on Target's part-- how easy must it be to find your nearest target on Google/Bing/Etc Maps? Pretty forward thinking of them, if you ask me...
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Is it just me, or is anyone else incredibly impressed with The Verge? Their reviews are incredibly detailed, and yet they still manage to make extremely interesting, short, and informative video reviews for many products. Add to that the fa
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
One of the most important things I take away from this isn't that anyone has subverted DNS-based filtering with a popular, easy-to-use system, but rather that they could . In an argument against SOPA/ProtectIP/etc., it is very powerful n
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Eh, I'd argue it responds much more aggressively and quickly when it has serious competition. Note that I didn't say Apple doesn't innovate when it doesn't have competition, I said it innovates more when it responds to market pressure,
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
They're probably talking specifically about Honeycomb, which started showing up in devices in Feb. 2011 according to Wikipedia, but only now is being open-sourced. So that does seem to have been withheld. Not that missing that deserves the
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
I've owned almost every kindle up to the current and experienced one crash- while using the "experimental" web browser. Not one of my 3 kindles has ever crashed while reading a book.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
What is particularly sad here is that Apple responds to market pressures just like any other company: when faced with serious challengers, they are forced to innovate and improve. When faced with a $300 million dollar movement to basically
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Yeah, a large, heavy book fell on my Kindle, breaking the screen. I took that as an excuse to get an iPad, and while I have loved owning one of those, I just bought a replacement Kindle, because the reading experience is just plain better.
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by icarus_drowning 15y ago
Spent a long time comparing a "low"-end Mac pro with the highest-end i7 iMac recently, and I came to the conclusion that, for my needs (media production, music composition), a Mac Pro just made no sense at all. The Mac "pro" market is heavi

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