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by jcl 16y ago
You see more if you turn on "showdead" in your profile.
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by jcl 16y ago
Oh man, that's really bad. I rarely use the GMail app, so I hadn't run across this particular limitation yet. I found a forum thread where someone found a sequence of interactions that work around the problem, but select/copy/paste really
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by jcl 16y ago
Also, you can long-press on a text field, which brings up a select/copy/paste menu. This seems to work across all Android apps, and presumably works on non-keyboard phones.
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by jcl 16y ago
Reminds me of the "Theory of Relativity in words of four letters or less" (which is also quite readable): http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html
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by jcl 16y ago
I understand that. However, the parent post (among other online sources) says that they made it impossible to avoid the mushroom, which is not true. I think this is an important distinction, since they clearly could have put the player in
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by jcl 16y ago
Actually, you can avoid or accidentally miss the mushroom. The game design simply makes it less likely, but it's not impossible.
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by jcl 16y ago
If you read around the personal attacks, ESR has an interesting point: The rules of open source allow anyone to fork Google's work, which allows people trust the platform more, which spreads the platform in ways that would otherwise be impo
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by jcl 16y ago
There are coding style guides that advocate using the strict operators everywhere it makes sense. http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html
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by jcl 16y ago
Also Javascript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Referen...
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by jcl 16y ago
It's a little better for the developers than that... like $1.23 per game: "By default, the amount is split equally between the seven participants (including Child's Play and EFF), but you can tweak the split any way you'd like."
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by jcl 16y ago
Still, it's a good idea to put some number for anchoring, and the current average is not a bad one. And a number that seems to come from other people could be more influential than a "recommended contribution". Edit: As others point out,
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by jcl 16y ago
The point isn't to make the user follow the ad -- the point is to force the user to parse the ad as a step towards something the user wants. The theory is that this gets a message into the user's brain in a way that traditional advertiseme
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by jcl 17y ago
I was pretty sure he was referring to VP6-encoded Flash video, not some version of H.264 that is harder to decode. Could you provide more information on non-hardware-decodable versions?
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by jcl 17y ago
Apple stands to gain more than just licensing fees by threatening any non-H.264 codec. As Steve Jobs points out in his "Thoughts on Flash", Apple has millions of devices in the wild whose hardware is optimized exclusively for H.264. If an
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by jcl 17y ago
All video codecs are covered by patents. All the popular ones, maybe. But MPEG-1 is over twenty years old, so unless there is a submarine patent out there, all the patents on it have already expired. Likewise, most aspects of MPEG-2 sho
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by jcl 17y ago
What Hollywood needs is a "premium" experience that is obviously, dramatically better than anything at home, suitable for films aimed at all ages, and worth a surcharge. For years I've been praising a process invented by Dean Goodhill call
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by jcl 17y ago
I don't see Jobs addressing the performance of CS5-exported apps in point 5 ("Fifth, there’s Touch.") or elsewhere. The only place he says anything that could refer to Flash native apps is point 6, in which he argues against cross-platform
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by jcl 17y ago
The sad thing: CS5 Flash could also export to native iPhone apps. A native exported app would run faster, consume less power, and potentially have better integration with the underlying platform, all with exactly the same interface as an H
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by jcl 17y ago
I think the reason people are blase is because the story makes it seem like Apple brought the problem on themselves. The leak was utterly mundane; no one broke into the Apple campus or smuggled anything out, no one bribed or attacked an em
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by jcl 17y ago
Yes, "conflict of interest" is not quite the right term. He probably meant something like "source of bias".
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by jcl 17y ago
Posted more than a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397996 (The URLs look identical... I wonder how this made it through the dupe filter?)
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by jcl 17y ago
Here is the follow-up post, mentioned at the end of the article, about the three Ghost Army alumni artists: http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/archives/198123.asp
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by jcl 17y ago
Commentary on the New York Times article posted last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435034
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by jcl 17y ago
If Apple's strategy for building things requires strict secrecy, they must be prepared for occasional failures in that secrecy. This was simply an accident, bound to happen eventually. Apple can cope with it; otherwise, they wouldn't be u
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by jcl 17y ago
I also found this to be the most interesting part of the article. I was surprised that the current had a positive, localized effect, even though it was being applied to the skin instead of the brain itself. I think the article's speculatio
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by jcl 17y ago
Norvig did some curation over the years, however. One of the answers mentions that the ternary "if" expression is scheduled to appear in Python 2.5, which is information from around 2006.
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by jcl 17y ago
A funny little bit of snark hidden in the middle, following some decidedly unpythonic code: If u cn rd ths, u cn gt a jb in fncnl prg (if thr wr any).
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by jcl 17y ago
Did you try the "forced" versions linked at the bottom? Maybe it's detecting your browser as a mobile one.
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by jcl 17y ago
You mean this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_cupping I think it differs in that fire cupping is not traditionally done over an existing open wound but rather specific locations on the body (neck, back). It might be a cheap way to do
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by jcl 17y ago
# kiss in the rain - Weather forecast - waterproof lip gloss catalog Seriously, I'm surprised this one very specific goal ranks so highly. I guess I'm in the wrong demographic to understand it. But is there some pop culture thing that mak

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