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by ktf 16y ago
> there are a ton of interesting bands coming out of Brooklyn right now Not to nitpick, but many of the bands "coming out of Brooklyn right now" are bands that moved there from elsewhere to try to ride the "Brooklyn band = good" wave.
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by ktf 16y ago
> there's very little literary, musical, or otherwise artistic culture here and people just don't seem to be very intellectually curious outside of tech I don't have enough hours in the day to go to all the film festivals, concerts, a
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Half-price ebooks from No Starch Press(nostarch.com)
2 points by ktf 16y ago|1 comments
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by ktf 16y ago
Or in Japan!
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Random.org -- True Random Number Service(random.org)
1 points by ktf 16y ago|0 comments
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by ktf 16y ago
Learn to play go! It's the greatest computer-free brain exercise I've ever experienced, by far.
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Conrad Barski's Land of Lisp coming in October(nostarch.com)
38 points by ktf 16y ago|12 comments
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by ktf 16y ago
That's true for Monday as well, which I've always thought was cool: 月曜日 = Monday 月 = Moon, 曜日 = day of the week
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by ktf 16y ago
I can't believe nobody has brought up the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster
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by ktf 16y ago
I actually find this data interesting, as long as it's anonymous. It should probably be something you have to opt-in for though.
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by ktf 16y ago
We're just talking degrees of (what we perceive as) realism. The fact that the technology hasn't caught up yet is no reason to dismiss the entire idea. Think about Technicolor, for instance. Unrealistic, and to some, headache-inducing. But
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by ktf 16y ago
We don't need sound, because we have intertitles. And we don't need color, because we have enough shades of gray to represent color "well enough." Adding these elements would be far too distracting. And if we weren't distracted by sound a
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by ktf 16y ago
People said the same thing about sound. And color. And widescreen. And so on. Attack the films themselves, not the medium. It's only going to be as good as the artist who uses it. Don't fear new technology, even if you are an over-the-hill
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by ktf 16y ago
It uses this library: http://libimobiledevice.org/ So presumably, it's available to one and all, regardless of distro. (At least until Apple gets wind of it...)
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Can You Survive a Benevolent Dictatorship? (Doctorow on the iPad)(publishersweekly.com)
4 points by ktf 16y ago|3 comments
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by ktf 16y ago
First off: learning anything is not a waste of time. Second, the same could be said of any subject: most students only learn math because they're forced to, or history because they're forced to, and they're not likely to retain that infor
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by ktf 16y ago
This was my reaction too, at first. But Ebert is a hugely influential cultural figure, spreading ill-informed opinions to a public who would rather listen to what he says than think for themselves. Willful ignorance is a metavirus.
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by ktf 16y ago
Kurosawa worked with a team of writers, cinematographers, actors, assistants, producers. Seven Samurai was designed by committee -- Kurosawa just happened to have been at the head of that committee. This is true for almost every film in e
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The White House: open-source Drupal developer?(arstechnica.com)
6 points by ktf 16y ago|0 comments
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iPhone OS 4 jailbreak available, enables multitasking on 3G(arstechnica.com)
19 points by ktf 16y ago|4 comments
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by ktf 16y ago
Land of Lisp is looming, don't worry! (I'm editing the book, by the way.)
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by ktf 17y ago
And yet there's still no Linux support? At this point, I can watch streaming movies on every device I own except my computer.
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by ktf 17y ago
Yeah... ever since the switch to Silverlight, Netflix streaming has been unwatchable even on my fairly up-to-date desktop machine.
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Quickly switch to ALSA/OSS instead of PulseAudio(webupd8.org)
1 points by ktf 17y ago|0 comments
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by ktf 17y ago
Pale Fire, by Nabokov. A story of insane obsession, which I'm sure many HN readers could relate to...
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by ktf 17y ago
Snow Crash is amazing. But it definitely IS related to software :)
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Electronics Manufacturers Use US Legal System to Thwart Hardware Hacks(ip-watch.org)
1 points by ktf 17y ago|0 comments
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by ktf 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1169343 Or: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html
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by ktf 17y ago
The Apple logo has changed at least 2 or 3 times. And the Ubuntu change isn't drastic enough that people will stop recognizing it.
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by ktf 17y ago
They need an RSS feed to keep people updated!

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