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Fun with responsive windows(fucking-windows.com)
3 points by idiotclock 11y ago|0 comments
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Japan’s protest movement mixes men’s rights with anti-consumerism(wagingnonviolence.org)
1 points by idiotclock 12y ago|0 comments
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by idiotclock 12y ago
I think the name, anoncat, is very clever. Maybe I'm predisposed for cat-like-things. But anyway the application is very clever too. How come you store the chat messages?
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by idiotclock 12y ago
I think that the distribution of VARD is allowed (if non-commerical), but editing the source code isn't. I think this because I cannot find the source for VARD. That's why I think it's strange it is licensed CC.
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by idiotclock 12y ago
Would this also work for a GNU Social or pump.io service? Or diaspora?
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by idiotclock 12y ago
Zotero is an excellent EndNote alternative OpenShot is an imovie like video editor, I like it because it's easy to use Rhythmbox is a featureful itunes-like music player. Audacity isn't protools, but it's great for mixing aud
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by idiotclock 12y ago
One of the problems searching in these books is that there is no standardized spelling in early modern literature. There is a project called DREaM, at McGill to standardize for "distance reading" (macro analysis).[1] It uses a pro
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The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists(firstlook.org)
4 points by idiotclock 12y ago|0 comments
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by idiotclock 12y ago
I get the feeling its being let by the way side. It's harder and harder to switch back to HTML, after using features like calling. It's much faster, no?
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Ask HN: Does anyone still use gmail HTML view?
1 points by idiotclock 12y ago|4 comments
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by idiotclock 12y ago
Thank you for this brief and calm comment on the delicacy of politesse.
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Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?(chessboardjs.com)
316 points by idiotclock 12y ago|126 comments
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Jail2Net, PBX to accept calls from prisoners and post their recorded messages(github.com)
1 points by idiotclock 12y ago|0 comments
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Using R to divide our countries as we do our wealth (2012)(mhermans.net)
1 points by idiotclock 12y ago|0 comments
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by idiotclock 12y ago
The message is that our personalities are encapsulated by objects and media. These items of evident importance are of course legitimated by the benevolence of facebook's curation. Facebook is not a social experiment, it's a market
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1-kilobyte chess game(1kchess.an3.es)
25 points by idiotclock 12y ago|5 comments
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by idiotclock 12y ago
>So we've been developing English for a very long time. If "little used verbs become regularized over time, but new verbs formed [are] never formed as irregular verbs", then why do we have still have irregular verbs at all
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by idiotclock 12y ago
Is anyone else frightened the increasing efficiency of capitalism? Since when does user-experience depend on best fulfilling my consumer desires? Shouldn't I try to soften this impulse?
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by idiotclock 12y ago
Gaza and the West Bank are one entity, according to the Oslo Accords of 1993 Chompsky writes: "The policies are quite clear. Their roots go back to the 1967 war and they have been pursued with particular dedication since the Oslo Acco
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by idiotclock 12y ago
The Gospel of Weird Machines? What excellent style the alchemist owls have! Simple website, strong language, and a careful selection of titles: "the right reverend preacher pastor." But why is a raven like a writing desk?
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by idiotclock 12y ago
Sure, "people in their fifties" (and of all other ages) are doing a variety of things to promote social justice. But I don't think it is helpful to put down Aurora's effort -- including yelling at the police at protests.
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by idiotclock 12y ago
I think both
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by idiotclock 12y ago
I think this is a great observation. Middle men make big money off of migrant workers.
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by idiotclock 12y ago
Ad are certainly obnoxious. It is interesting to think that with a "reduced set" of features advertising would improve a website. Advertising does more than detract from user experience. It is formative of consumer desire. Targete
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by idiotclock 12y ago
I figure an added crime, oh web designers, would be the very use of "trivial code"!
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by idiotclock 12y ago
There are many problems with this. As an uncle, I find the options for girl-toys to be so depressing. I'm sick of the excessive pink. But I'm glad people have decided to rewrite it. Its a pleasure to hear Barbie tell it like it is
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by idiotclock 12y ago
A friend and I were discussing the Brave New World and 1984 once. We took it for granted that our world resembles one of these dystopias, if not both. She summarized there difference in terms of access: Orwell's universe depended on a