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   by kalid 15y ago

   I'd suggest making this more clear on your pricing page -- I was initially interested, but confused about what a subscription meant to existing apps.
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   by kalid 15y ago

   12. iPad. Windows has had tablets since 2001. The focus on feature-by-feature comparisons is why Apple is cleaning everyone's clock. I wrote this 2 years ago when the iPad came out ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025200 ): ------- In
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   by kalid 15y ago

   Great comment. I think the difficulty in defining what makes a good teacher is as difficult as what defines a good parent. In rough terms, I think a good parent means someone who raises a compassionate, honest child. Similarly, a good teach
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   by kalid 15y ago

   That's great, I have a few similar items too: thoughts.txt - random musings about life ideas.txt - startup ideas, etc. quotes.txt - favorite quotes feelgood.txt - events / activities I really enjoyed [good to see what makes
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   by kalid 15y ago

   Really interesting. I use Notational Velocity to keep track of text snippets, but it doesn't have the "see also" feature. I imagine it could be very useful.
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   by kalid 15y ago

   Great article, and very true in my experience. One of my favorite, unexpected benefits of blogging is it's like a time-machine/memory dump for your brain. Here's what I mean. When you're thinking about a problem, you struggle, and struggle,
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   by kalid 15y ago

   I'm curious how he's able to move giant appliances / half-ton loads of steel out of people's homes by himself.
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   by kalid 15y ago

   Agreed. The whole "Einstein was bad a school" seems to be a myth based on a misinterpretation of the 1-6 system (apparently Germany and Switzerland had them reversed). Some more discussion to the origins here: http://skeptics.stackexchange
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   by kalid 15y ago

   The wii is a great example of a system that everyone has and nobody plays. I can't count the number of times I've visited people's houses with the wii unused. All the casual gamers Nintendo attracted won't be buying another system again.
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Awesome, congrats Michael!
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Hi, shameless plug but I've found people enjoyed these two guides on traditional version control and distributed version control: http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-versio... http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-t
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    by kalid 15y ago

    I was shocked when I looked at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo... The US has 0 (zero!) mandated days off. Even China gives people 5-15 days minimum.
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Joe Heller True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter island. I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel to know that ou
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Thanks for the pointer! I enjoy discussions about .999... because it really makes us question what we mean about infinity (and assumptions about the reals).
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Yep, exactly :). (Should have made it more clear that I was referring to other systems like surreals and hyperreals, but wasn't clear whether the parent was joking or not).
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Hrm, I can't tell if you're joking, but the existence (or non-existence) of infinitesimals is an axiom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_property It took thousands of years to accept that the parallel postulate might not be requir
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Yep, that's the problem with long expiration dates -- the client may never check again (that's what we wanted, right?). The workaround is to request a new url which restarts the process. Separately, the easiest way to get started with all t
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Thanks, I appreciate it!
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Yep, exactly -- not only can the images be cached, but the HTML too! The ideal way to do it is have the "loader file" (index.html) only cached with last-modified date, so as soon as it changes the client is aware. The client requests the fi
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Thanks! It's easy to get self-conscious about putting humor into a tech article :)
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Yep, I was surprised too to see it on HN :). I think one of the meta-takeaway is that understanding the fundamentals of web caching can help with your general CS knowledge ("There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invali
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Thanks for the kind words (I'm the author). My main, ever-evolving goal when writing tutorials is to try to write what I'd like to see: 1) Explain the underlying concept 2) Show variations 3) Explain how to do it yourself 4) Show how to ver
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    by kalid 15y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
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    by kalid 15y ago

    From the first paragraph of the wiki page: "It is designed as an alternative to the iPod interface which was used exclusively by Apple Inc." The connector looks like an attempt to confuse people with the iPod peripherals and visual branding
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Thanks for the link! I remember reading that study somewhere. A salient part of the article: "This is what economists call "the commuting paradox." Most people travel long distances with the idea that they'll accept the burden for something
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    by kalid 15y ago

    I keep firefox 3.6 around for this exact reason. I've been burned too many times by losing plugins.
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    by kalid 15y ago

    I don't think reading studies is the only way either, but I don't think most of us have questioned what makes us happy outside of soceity's default settings (money/fame/toys/vacations). People make all sorts of tradeoffs which are non-optim
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    by kalid 15y ago

    I agree. I'd rather people graduate high school actually knowing algebra than pretending to know calculus.
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    by kalid 15y ago

    Humans are notoriously bad at predicting what will make them happy.
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    by kalid 15y ago

    http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan...