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by jjs 17y ago
You know, I have to say, that given what we know now, even without clarification, it is clearly risky in the short term and dangerous in the long term to [...] base a business on the iPad, iPod, iPhone platform. Elided for clarity, like a
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by jjs 17y ago
Lowers risk of heart disease or stroke instead. Sounds good to me! Not dying from X or Y increases your risk of dying from Z!
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by jjs 17y ago
People cooking for neighbors. Everyone chatting with everyone else on the street. 3 generations of family living under one roof. And an "egalitarian ethos". With 3 generations living together and everyone taking turns cooking for each oth
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by jjs 17y ago
What developer would choose to write an iPhone/iPad app with the risk of having to re-write or trash their app if apple drops the hammer. Your comment is emitting dangerous levels of irony.
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by jjs 17y ago
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by jjs 17y ago
On the other hand if anyone really cares about such contrived scenarios, they can just recode the file and tag it again - most simple watermarks should be removed that way. Unless your name is Aphex Twin. ( http://www.wired.com/culture/li
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by jjs 17y ago
An 8x8 pixel chessboard would require players to memorize which color corresponds to which piece type (for both sides). You could also have certain flickering colors represent certain pieces, but overall it would require good color vision f
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by jjs 17y ago
Funny, I see the solution as being avoiding the attachment to begin with. His argument applies whether or not you have cancer. Relying on another person for happiness is a foolish move. It is a much better idea to learn to enjoy solitude.
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by jjs 17y ago
Glad you like it. :) when i was trying to get this to work a couple of nights ago, i would have gladly given you a hundred bucks for that code snippet, just to make the pain go away. If you like, feel free to give a shout-out to @jjs in y
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by jjs 17y ago
Here you go. Should work in all browsers except IE7 and earlier. You can add as many column divs as you like. Note that the html { height:100% } is needed when in HTML5 mode. <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head&#62
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by jjs 17y ago
> Ok, back to centering that bloody div. div.centered { width: *x*; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
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by jjs 17y ago
Run it through a Markovian classifier like CRM114 (or, if that's too expensive, just do it for the likely candidates identified by your naive Bayesian classifier).
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by jjs 17y ago
Just imagine the outrage if they did this to an individual.
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by jjs 17y ago
Perhaps you simply need to better enforce the HN Guidelines: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. If someone posts something that you strongly suspect they wouldn't say in person, suspend their acco
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by jjs 17y ago
No, this happened several months after the case: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/... http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1086785624507896...
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by jjs 17y ago
Free upvote to the first person who writes a program to play the waveforms directly from the scanned images... ;)
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by jjs 17y ago
No, I think that would still be ethically a form of robbery, even if legally it's not.
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by jjs 17y ago
I jot the intersection street names (and whether I'm uphill or downhill—for some reason, this problem manifests itself most frequently when in SF) in a 99¢ Wal-Mart mini-composition notebook that sits in my pocket at all times.
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by jjs 17y ago
Why bother robbing anyone when you can just trespass on unsafe-looking property and sue?
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by jjs 17y ago
I think we can all agree to stay out of his closet.
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by jjs 17y ago
Why trifle over tiny little epsilons, or NaN, which isn't even a number? ;-)
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by jjs 17y ago
Aha! So the value of your words depended on evaluating them in a sarcastic context. This lack of referential transparency made it difficult to reason about them at compile-time.
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by jjs 17y ago
[...] but without the distracting complexity of referential transparency? How could referential transparency possibly be distracting or complex?
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by jjs 17y ago
Interesting... Fexprs appear to be runtime-only first-class macros.
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by jjs 17y ago
I detest anyone who would try to sap my spare computing resources without first informing me. So adopt the maxim: People who steal my computing resources aren't entitled to correct results. :)
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by jjs 17y ago
Looks like they want [...] Canvas (2D) to be stripped Perhaps that Flash-not-needing paint demo made them sweat!
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by jjs 17y ago
Are you sure she's not already made in China?
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by jjs 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto_memo
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by jjs 17y ago
When I first saw a link to Django Advent, I figured it really was a countdown calendar to the Django 1.2 release.
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by jjs 17y ago
N.B. Despite the title, submitter is did not build the app; this guy did: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=progrium

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