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by jere 13y ago
The site looks like it is probably real, but Bible quotes don't typically help your credibility: >Be careful about the knowledge you will receive about radiation and the effects on our planet, my heart is heavy with sorrow for my ch
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by jere 13y ago
Posted because it discusses flat design and minimalism. I could quote much of the article to explain why I don't tend to like flat design. It looks great, but often at the expense of functionality. >remove all the elements you can w
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Blivand Design(sirlin.net)
1 points by jere 13y ago|1 comments
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by jere 13y ago
>because aside from anything that takes longer than a weekend, I can't ship a side project for the life of me. I know what you mean, so don't rule out actually spending 48 hours or a week on a game. Game jams can provide a hu
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by jere 13y ago
In fact (and I can't believe I didn't think of this before, why have letters at all?!? The user has to scan over the images then go back to the text field and enter in characters. Why not just click to select?
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by jere 13y ago
The first example is not indicative of the actual difficulty because the letters are pink (this is noted, but still). Beyond that, the examples use extremely hard to see letters... that completely defeats the purpose. There's no need i
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by jere 13y ago
Thanks. I wasn't sure how to find that, even though I did do some searches on superbiiz. I'm not sure I understand the discrepancy. Why would the CPU be so cheap ($303.99) compared to the one I posted, which several commenters are
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by jere 13y ago
>Just once, it would be nice if someone making a Mac versus PC price comparison could compare against a part that was better than the one in the Mac.... I'm very sorry. I couldn't find a faster xeon for sale and I thought it wo
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by jere 13y ago
This xeon is $343 at retail for 3.5GHz quad core. http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-1... I know it's not linear, but you really expect Apple to be paying $1000 to $1500 for a 3.7GHz quad
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by jere 13y ago
>As an extra: His response to 1-size-fits-all is laughable, is he forgetting about the 1000s of eating issues people have (gluten, lactose, allergies, diabetes)... Sorry ranting now. Nope, all fair points.
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by jere 13y ago
You have some choice quotes, but here's the smoking gun: >Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus
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by jere 13y ago
I'm assuming the OP was referring to a protection racket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket >A protection racket is an operation where criminals provide protection to persons and properties, settle
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by jere 13y ago
It's Eat, Pray, Love for the tech crowd. I've seen a lot of these articles. It reminds me very much of 4HWW. They're all written like the author is overcoming some major hurdle and achieving some sort of enlightment, but in
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by jere 13y ago
It seems like there is some backstory behind the phone and the versioning (this is the only phone currently offered until the Moto X next month, which has 4.2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Defy#Manufacturer_cri
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by jere 13y ago
>I'd guess (nothing to back this up) that you're going to see a sharp dropoff of Android 2.3 marketshare as people replace their old phones... Kill it with fire. I don't take much issue with making Android 2.3 a second-cla
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by jere 13y ago
Yea, I think that's a pretty bad comparison. If you look at the IE graph you posted, it's less than 1% in the US. Another graph that might make things easier to visualize (the blue and above is who we're talking about abandon
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by jere 13y ago
Derp. I figured someone else would beat me to it. Press or click. It goes through 3 contrasting pairs (based on the wikipedia article): http://jere.in/opponentprocess.html
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by jere 13y ago
Romero and Jobs both get slammed on HN consistently. One of the things people like to point out about Jobs is that he couldn't program and never did any real engineering. To be fair to Romero, he could actually program, make games, and
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by jere 13y ago
Excellent comment. I agree with pretty much everything and wasn't trying to say grains lowered life expectancy, rather just fighting against the notion that life expectancy has constantly increased since we were hunter gatherers. Again
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by jere 13y ago
Nice sarcasm, but... >he had alarming levels of arsenic in his system (probably due to working with metal ores and copper extraction) Also, the argument here that "since he wasn't eating a modern diet and still had health probl
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by jere 13y ago
Yea I was thinking about that... an option that is so plainly impossible that it doesn't need to be considered (over 1/3 of all BTC does it). I imagine $1.5 million is just on the edge of plausibility for some adventurous, wealthy
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by jere 13y ago
>Human beings are designed to operate in 90-minute cycles. At night, we move through the five stages of sleep in that time — the Basic Rest Activity Cycle. During the day, we are guided by our ultradian rhythms, and we move from high phy
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by jere 13y ago
4 poll responders have over $1.5 million in BTC?
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by jere 13y ago
Right. Perhaps I'm thinking of reddit. There, you're told more than 10% of your submissions being self promotion is considered spam.
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by jere 13y ago
Off topic, but gwern, I've noticed you've gone on a reposting binge of your old articles (14 in the last 3 weeks). Any reason in particular that you decided to do this? And isn't this kind of thing generally frowned upon (may
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by jere 13y ago
Wow, brilliant marketing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6529951
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by jere 13y ago
>Of course things aren't as simple as he presents them in outliers, but man did I fall for it at first. Yea, I had just graduated from college and was binging on popsci. I felt really smart because all the popsci authors seemed to r
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by jere 13y ago
I have to say, I always take the criticisms of Gladwell very seriously. I read his first three books several years ago and have constantly felt like a sucker over the years as his detractors have grown louder. And yet I find his responses v
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Christopher Chabris Should Calm Down(slate.com)
50 points by jere 13y ago|49 comments
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by jere 13y ago
>ColdFusion is... not a particularly good choice these days for a variety of reasons. Not that I disagree with you, but I wonder if the reasons you have in mind are valid. A lot of the reasons one might assume CF sucks aren't really

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