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by ignifero 15y ago
What if there is a windows client in the works, or itunes integration? I think Dropbox should really be worried here ...
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by ignifero 15y ago
Excellent choice, but a little odd. Is Apple planning to buy twitter? They could use a few extra servers ....
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by ignifero 15y ago
Not a platform, but you can create your own channel on this blatant ripoff of HN : http://textchannels.com
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by ignifero 15y ago
What is he going to do when ipad 3 comes out?
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Chinese teenager 'sells kidney to buy iPad and iPhone'(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by ignifero 15y ago|6 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Dropped out
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Poll: Did you go to college?
5 points by ignifero 15y ago|14 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Did not go to college
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by ignifero 15y ago
Finished college / university
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by ignifero 15y ago
Did postraduate studies
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by ignifero 15y ago
By definition fiat currency relies on governent regulation (and an internet protocol cannot be considered representative government, unless you create a committee to oversee the protocol, in which case we're back where we started).
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by ignifero 15y ago
The oatmeal has been extremely tame and polite in his response. It's funny how an anonymous crowd can make it seem as if he was in some way attacking or offending them. Here's the story: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk http://theoat
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by ignifero 15y ago
Treating bitcoin as a currency is kind of wrong. It's a commodity with limited and predictable supply, like gold for example. You wouldn't call it a pyramid scheme, just like you wouldn't the gold market a pyramid scheme. His points against
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The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal(arstechnica.com)
205 points by ignifero 15y ago|119 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
That's my question too, shouldn't they have launched a website to display those +1s? Or at least release an API so that others can use it?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Couldn't agree more about the clutter. Try loading techcrunch; it blocks Chrome for 10 seconds on a sandy bridge i7! It's this sheepish behavior of bloggers that lowers the quality of their content as well. Just gathering random people's fr
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by ignifero 15y ago
One of the peculiar things about language acquisition is that children learn it much better than one would expect. It's the "Poverty of the stimulus" paradox that led Chomsky to assert innate capacity to process grammar. http://en.wikipe
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by ignifero 15y ago
That's pretty much standard now, as facebook has made it impossible to grow a social app otherwise.
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by ignifero 15y ago
... and balance is restored.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I suspect it's because you don't really learn what grammar or syntax is until you have to (i.e. until you learn a second language). For the same reason, you don't know what is "incorrect syntax", since people rarely make syntactical errors
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by ignifero 15y ago
Can you believe this guy? He switched from a model-m-clone keyboard to something that looks like logitech. Sacrilege!
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by ignifero 15y ago
The solution: divide the community to more specialized subgroups. That's what http://textchannels.com is doing
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Mobiles 'may cause brain cancer'(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
If anything, they should sue themselves for leaking the news.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Second toughest in the infants - Underworld The belly of an architect OST - Wim Mertens rainymood.com
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by ignifero 15y ago
The usual complaint about C++ is the misleading compiler errors when one uses the STL. I disagree there are other readability issues. Encapsulation and polymorphism exist precisely because you don't want to know what's underneath. It goes
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by ignifero 15y ago
But still hardly innovative behaviorism
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Startup Hopes to Make Sickness Social(technologyreview.com)
1 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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Finally, a real scientific controversy: arsenic in DNA(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Talk about modesty...

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