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IPO values Zynga at $15 billion to $20 billion(news.cnet.com)
1 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
For fun, i made a chrome extension to replace ads with foreign language flashcards, so that i would be learning a language instead of reading ads. Can't say i succeeded ...
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by ignifero 15y ago
I think it would be a good practice to decouple it from google accounts - I think most people see a distinction between gmail and twitter/facebook . Most won't lose crucial information if their facebook account is stolen, in contrast to gma
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by ignifero 15y ago
Are you freaking kidding me? Facebook, with its lax policy and 3rd party ecosystem (especially in the first years) is basically prostituting people's data.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Me too, maybe they'll be saved by the "hangouts" and photos features?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Anybody knows about 3rd party apps? Sure uncle Google has considered us developers ...
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by ignifero 15y ago
not a big loss [smirk]
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by ignifero 15y ago
it was so embarrassing i had to remove it. what was i thinking
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by ignifero 15y ago
Pi is tough and pees on tau?
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by ignifero 15y ago
I think humanity has bigger issues than that. When are americans going to adopt the metric system?
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by ignifero 15y ago
You got a good case with pi/2, it's truly useful, as it represents the angle between 3d axes, the boundaries of the tangent and inverse trigonometric functions, the monotonic regions of cosine and sine etc. It will even make spherical coord
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's also against facebook's developer policies to share the secret key. You must not give your secret key to another party, unless that party is an agent acting on your behalf as an operator of your application. You are responsible fo
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by ignifero 15y ago
on a related note, tau in greek is pronounced ˈtaff
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by ignifero 15y ago
Not to mention the tau neutrino. But the bigger question is why would one want to do that?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Its a necessary evil if you want free content. Btw, click rates are much lower, about 0.05% for a content site. People also come across thousands of ads that they ignore every day in billboards, shopping windows etc. That's not a legitimate
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by ignifero 15y ago
Would you be willing to pay an annual subscription for his online "museum" then? Donations are fine, but, to me it is a method that also cheapens the said content. It's a way to say "i believe in my content, but not enough to set a price fo
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by ignifero 15y ago
I dont understand the rationale of not wanting ads on the site?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Understand that, but it's no small thing to be able to go out of a bar without your clothes stinking of smoke. Maybe you guys have gotten so used to it you 've forgotten how it was. On the other hand, if junk food becomes so junk that it en
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's not like if you sit on the computer, you increase the chances of the other people in the room to die of cancer.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Depends on what your definition of "enjoying your life" is. And then certain habits such as binge drinking are largely promoted as enjoyable via peer pressure/peer brainwashing. I mean, we have only so much sensitivity to alcohol, and so m
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by ignifero 15y ago
Dude, coding is alot easier than physics. Stop procrastinating on HN, get a Linux machine and start your first project. If you want to do web stuff, learn PHP, otherwise use python. For your project you would need a library to extract text
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by ignifero 15y ago
so what's your suggestion when a country runs out of money? (practical example today: greece)?
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by ignifero 15y ago
How is it different from ordinary coins? (Obviously, in a hypothetical gold-coin economy credit cards would be in gold, too). Btw, practicality was not the reason the world abandoned the gold standard, political and economical needs obviate
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by ignifero 15y ago
People accepted credit cards decades ago. If bitcoin could work as a currency (which it can't, for other reasons), it would presumably be used via equally convenient exchange devices.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Bitcoin is a commodity. Nobody issues it, it is mined and has a predictable, limited supply. People aspire to use bitcoin as fiat money, but that's impossible, there is no one to provide liquidity when the market runs out and there's no und
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by ignifero 15y ago
... Which will lead to 4. Trust. People can only agree to use a currency if they trust it.
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by ignifero 15y ago
30 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed) 4 bugs were fixed (4 previously reported bugs)
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Google's Experimental Black Navigation Bar(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
1 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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Can ICANN really be necessary?(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Maybe because that's how they are sorted in the hashtable/database they use to queue urls? Or maybe because they want to index the shortest pages first, so that they are processed before any duplicates with longer urls (i.e. get /articles/

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