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by jpadvo 16y ago
It is a lightweight, inexpensive, spaceship-deployable sheet. Currently it is being used as a drag parachute, but it could just as easily be used as a sail. I think.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Read his post again, and pretend he's talking about unit testing instead of working out. The emotional and psychological kick I get from running is in some ways very similar to the feelings I get from writing good unit tests. Everything is
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Interesting idea! A couple things to think about... 1) The image on your front page has some pretty bad compression artifacts, which is kind of a turn off. 2) It would be cool to allow color effects, like sepia or black and white. 3) Simple
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I was responding to the claim in the title about "cloning" Qwiki. What Banksy did was nowhere near cloning Qwiki. Turns out that Banksy is just claiming to have built a proof-of-concept showing that the underlying technology is simple. You
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by jpadvo 16y ago
What is the primary practical benefit of this? It seems to simplify doing some really cool things, but I'm not sure what those things are...
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by jpadvo 16y ago
This is disingenuous for several reasons. 1) They just received $8 million in funding to further develop their product. I.e. That money hasn't been spent making it a better product yet. 2) A few hundred lines of markup does not a product ma
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by jpadvo 16y ago
On my laptop, I just scroll through quickly and it isn't a problem. Where this would be useful is on my iPod touch - which often doesn't re-render the contents of the screen when scrolling quickly.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
PG said that the pagination is "To cut load. I'm not sure it helped much though, so I may not keep it." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118936
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by jpadvo 16y ago
It sounds like the "bickering" at Netscape over their about:authors page was simply the result of having a culture where people would bicker about things like the details of an about:authors page.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I'm kind of surprised at all the grumpy comments -- this idea made me smile. I like the idea of a team leaving their collective signature in a hidden-away corner of a website. The semi-secrecy (after all, how many people are ever going to r
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by jpadvo 16y ago
This is why I love HN. Thanks for being here Rasmus, you just made it that much cooler. :)
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I think it is to link to the best source. In this case the WSJ, both because of lesser sensationalism and their original work. However, it was considerate of you to think it through like that. :)
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Does anyone know what kind of process was used to create this?
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Sounds like broken window theory: "Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unocc
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by jpadvo 16y ago
You bring up an interesting point. Having controls that stand out and grab attention is good when you don't regularly use them. But while working, in most cases you'll already know the interface well, and don't need it to stick out in order
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I should have been more clear - I am trying it, and do have anecdotal evidence that it is good. I don't mean consciously distracted - having a cluttered real-world desk can be a subconscious drag on productivity, and so can a cluttered scre
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Grayscale to increase your productivity
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by jpadvo 16y ago
The argument is premised on the idea that AdWords pays publishers "close to nothing" when they show ads for Google's own services. Does anyone have data or personal experience that backs this up?
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by jpadvo 16y ago
The down votes may be because there has been some discussion of the idea, with pg coming down against it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507970 > "The reason HN doesn't need downvotes is that HN, unlike Reddit, kills lame article
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by jpadvo 16y ago
It does seem like things fly by too fast. Here's an idea: what if every person saw only a random subset of the new stories? Kind of like how Facebook has "Top News" and "Most Recent," but instead of intelligent filtering there would a simpl