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by kitsune_ 14y ago
I've recently bought my first telescope, a 6" reflector. I'm glad I bought it instead of a new iPad or Retina MacBook. I fear that with the current urbanization trends, in the near future most people will never live to see a dark night sky.
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
No, these are the things covered by the litigation specialists at corporate law firms.
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This isn't about the support level of Facebook's share price. UBS claims that NASDAQ was de facto dysfunctional. Too many buy orders were triggered, cancellations not being fulfilled and so on.
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How could that ever be true? As an example: most people would prefer everything to be free, and a company would like to have a monopoly on a necessity and thus the ability to charge arbitrary prices. Or even shorter, everyone wants to get s
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
Wasn't this posted to HN yesterday?
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The corporate market is much larger than the start up market. Many corporate web sites, intranets and web applications run on either Java or .NET. This isn't exactly a secret. That's only one part of the cake however. Think of all the compa
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You are right. Edited.
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Great way to insult your audience.
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The last thing I would compromise on with my set up is the monitor. After all, I'll be staring into this thing every day for at least two years if not more. No TN-Panel. No glare. I also refuse to buy a 16:9 monitor.
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Reminds me of my friend not shutting down his NES for over two weeks because his copy of Zelda II had a faulty battery. Even with a working battery the save system kinda sucked.
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He is the exact opposite of a "hipster". He is a very smart (and in my opinion humble) guy. I don't know where his portrayal as an arrogant guy comes from. He held an amazing talk / presentation at Rice University called "Video Games and Th
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Most larger corporations of a certain size would probably switch their agencies / suppliers / manufacturers over such a late fee construct. They'd laugh in his face and walk off. "Ah you have a problem doing business with us? We know 100 ot
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
So how much of your actual income is covered by contracts that fall under your "default terms"? And what part is covered by individual contracts?
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
Semantic html is overrated in my opinion. As if every web page or application could semantically fit the header, article, footer, summary, section, nav, menu paradigm. I'm not against it, but probably, we will have another set of semantic t
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
Still better than having to work with 3000x3000 PDF's exported from InDesign...
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That was a very interesting link, thanks a lot.
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Actually, anthropology and history show that tribal human care giving and child rearing were not done by a "father and mother" or a "nuclear family". To the contrary. Tribes shared the responsibilities of raising children, including breast
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Proof for your claims?
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As if an "old style Senator" would base his support for or against a bill on a website's design. This is about engaging young nerds and non-nerds, average citizens and making an impact on main stream media. It's a marketing and PR stunt. It
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
Operation Plumbbob, troops in front of an exploding nuclear bomb (@2:50): http://youtu.be/7mV0Lt2PUjI?t=2m50s Tactical nuclear artillery being fired (@0:50): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46GBjlUOROY&feature=relat...
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Switzerland had a huge surveillance scandal during the 80's. It was named "Fichenskandal" or in English, "Secret files scandal". More than 700'000 people or organizations were targeted, usually people on the left: unions, feminists, environ
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
When I first had a look at the bootstrap source I was astonished. It seems to be a rather vain thing to do. What does it gain you?
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Her cause is different because her documentary wants to explore stereotypes of female characters in popular video games. It's not about how this leads to ... whatever you think she claims this to leads to. The outcome of her exploration is
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/07/10/business/dealb...
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With deregulation I don't mean the lack of regulatory laws. It's not about the quantity here, it's about the QUALITY of the regulatory framework. What good are thousands of pages of "regulatory" law when they are filled with loop holes? In
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
World War 1, 2 and the Cold War have been the greatest engines for technological progress the world has ever seen.
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There are hundreds of trillions of dollars of derivates tied to the LIBOR. If the LIBOR moves 0.01% it translates to shifts in billions of dollars around the globe. Fixing the LIBOR is one of the (if not the) biggest thefts in history. Free
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With poetic licence, the argument that the design is Orwellian in nature, can easily be made :) The "slate", the brand's corner stone, is inspired by the emptiness you feel when you stare into the abyss of the myriad of windows that tower a
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by kitsune_ 14y ago
This design is Orwellian in nature. In the current age of global wars, international terrorism, financial turmoil, outsourced labor, awakening behemoths (China), increasing corruption, people fear the future. Look at Apple, classic 1960's s
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Holy... mother... of... god... I know, this isn't the most insightful comment, but I can't see this NOT having a huge impact on the software industry. I don't know why you focus on STEAM, this could touch iPhone / iPad / Android apps as wel

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