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by jimworm 15y ago
I've played music for years and read sheet music well, but the first time I saw Singstar it was a huge wtf moment.
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by jimworm 15y ago
Journalists edit quotes and mention them out of context. The "1000-page" comment surely wasn't completely serious. Here's a 1-paragraph summary: "Our current approach to building products closes them off from each other, and from the rest o
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Ask HN: Now that Siri is out, will you use Google Voice Actions?
1 points by jimworm 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimworm 15y ago
Kinda, but: A tree can live for hundreds of years, which is long enough for many changes to take place. Not all trees that die decompose completely. Coal and oil are examples of long term sequestration. A lot of the carbon in coal and oil w
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by jimworm 15y ago
The size of California is 423970 square kilometres. At the higher end of the population estimate (80 million), and assuming complete annihilation of the population, that's 0.53 hectares (or 1.3 acres) of constant deforestation for every man
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by jimworm 15y ago
Many mobile devices ignore these units - to my annoyance - in favour of the "reference pixel" as defined in CSS. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#length-units Crazy-speak IMO, and I suspect I'm not the only one... perhaps someone in
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by jimworm 15y ago
Isn't a bloated and inefficient government a problem to be solved with elections though? Well, officially anyway.
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by jimworm 15y ago
The title of the article should be "Google, Apple now powerful enough to hold the entire world to ransom". Given the numbers in the article, that's ~$520 billion of tax revenues they're withholding from the state, and ~$1.5 trillion of liqu
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by jimworm 15y ago
Hmm, so it does. A "reference pixel" they call it.
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Why use meta tags when CSS does the job?
1 points by jimworm 15y ago|2 comments
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by jimworm 15y ago
If you’re reading this, your probability of existing is 1. The probability of all known-to-have-happened events to have happened is always 1. Of course, that assumes that the knowledge is correct; but even the most die-hard skeptic can be a
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by jimworm 15y ago
Question marks sprinkled liberally... reading this guy's writing is like listening to an Aussie speak.
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by jimworm 15y ago
Interesting idea. It's difficult to navigate when everything has a white background with no borders, and not aligned with each other visually. More standard design elements (submit button that looks like a button, reload link with curved ar
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by jimworm 15y ago
It's a fake. http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/blo...
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by jimworm 15y ago
Let's step back a little and consider whether it makes sense to blame a document format for our problems.