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by jcl 16y ago
I haven't seen the movie, but given the history of Pixar and Toy Story, I think there's a good chance Toy Story 3 will be good: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1334660
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by jcl 16y ago
In at least one security audit, that was exactly what happened: http://www.darkreading.com/security/perimeter/showArticle.jh...
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by jcl 16y ago
Well... Scheme, actually. The author is one of the PLT Scheme developers. The PLT DrScheme environment has features built in expressly for running the code in this book.
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by jcl 16y ago
"Having a large number of tabs open" is a good first approximation to "savvy".
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by jcl 16y ago
Of course, that's not including the time lost to support calls: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177261/Google_s_Pac_...
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by jcl 16y ago
As an example, the presence of an image on Google Images is exactly how the Vancouver Olympics gained a fifth mascot: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7187...
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by jcl 16y ago
Still, it could be even higher than 50% wrong, since sometimes the most capable people underrate their ability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by jcl 16y ago
The story behind this is that there was an article in Scientific American in the early nineties featuring Clifford Pickover's procedural computer graphic images of "alien life forms". These consisted mainly of a series of spheres along a p
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by jcl 16y ago
It looks like the vote is just there to give people something to click on -- no real world consequences. They have an entirely separate vote for the "Top 150", probably equally riggable. (Finally we will know who is better: Aristotle or S
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by jcl 16y ago
Actually, the article mentions that there is a "mini-industry of Word alternatives for novelists", and it links to an example: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html Presumably this is the kind of program the author is thinking
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by jcl 16y ago
The court found that ownership of file extension designations cannot be appropriated under the Lanham Act -- file extensions are inherently functional, and functional uses cannot be trade-marked. It stated that computer programmers and com
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by jcl 16y ago
A link to the article itself (instead of the blog): http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005011-264.html?tag=mnco...
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by jcl 16y ago
Apparently Apple eliminated the icons to make it less obvious that their browsers weren't displaying all of a site's content. Someone has hacked together a way for sites to override that behavior: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010
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by jcl 16y ago
He describes his business in a past HN post: "I sell apps on the app store. A lot of small cheap apps." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060019
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by jcl 16y ago
Many developers use automatic translation tools - some built by Adobe - to convert Flash code so their apps can run on Apple gadgets. Is anyone actually doing this? My impression was that the only way to convert Flash to something iPhone
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by jcl 16y ago
It's funny to see Adobe listing things like Gnash, Haxe, and Red5 as advantages of Flash, after impeding their early development.
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by jcl 16y ago
Another article says that he was a "20-year independent contractor with the company", not an employee. He also had a patent on the device, so presumably he was pretty careful about IP boundaries. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/florida-i
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by jcl 16y ago
There might be no fun, but there's definitely fear, which is also a valid motivator -- though more stick than carrot. There's no fun in a "relatively secure, virus-free platform", but that doesn't stop Apple from billing their OS as such.
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by jcl 16y ago
Their volcano is vacationing on another planet.
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by jcl 16y ago
In any discussion of Flash performance, usually someone posts a report of their CPU fan spinning up each time a web page with Flash is running, or a performance meter getting pegged, or the computer's performance notably degrading. So ther
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by jcl 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't a site that maps names and e-mail hashes to a homepage URL make it really easy for a spammer to take a list of name/e-mail pairs and find the ones that are in active use?
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by jcl 16y ago
Really? For me, the top result is an HN post from a year ago that precisely answers the question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554889
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by jcl 16y ago
The big problem, I think, is that this decentralized system requires "a centralized database with pointers to user profiles". Who pays for and curates this database?
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by jcl 16y ago
http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=Who+is+Tara+Ploughman&v=
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by jcl 16y ago
Have you seen Toy Story 2? It is actually a decent movie. It was originally slated to be a typical Disney direct-to-video sequel. But the Pixar guys didn't want to do substandard work, so they worked hard on the preproduction and managed
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by jcl 16y ago
You might be more familiar with it than you think: http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Legend_of_Bagger_Vance
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by jcl 16y ago
And, according to the following page, the planetary day names eventually made their way to Japan in the first millenium, by way of India and China: http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowjpn.html I was always curious about the Friday -> "gold"
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by jcl 16y ago
The creators have a FAQ which describes their methodology: http://www.squidspot.com/Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces.html Interesting: The fact that Helvetica is number one and matches up with Hydrogen's position is purely a nice coincidence.
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by jcl 16y ago
I'm a bit disappointed Computer Modern didn't make the list, but I guess this chart is purely from a designer's perspective. The sources are lists of "best", "most popular", and "typefaces no one gets fired for using". Still, I don't think
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by jcl 16y ago
Well... hacked around, at least. I imagine it still makes a bunch of the apps in the market hard to use.

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