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by kunai 13y ago
Agreed. This is politically charged linkbait.
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by kunai 13y ago
Really? This hipster crap again? Flat design is just design. It's a type of design like anything else; there's nothing "proper" about it. It's not "proper" when people screw it up because they don't include sufficient visual interface cue
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by kunai 13y ago
You've just given me a new scripting project to undertake over the weekend. :)
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by kunai 13y ago
I know that I've been on an xkcd spree lately, but for some reason the HN frontpage is filled with circumstances that match. http://xkcd.com/795/
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by kunai 13y ago
This is not only a problem that exists with Microsoft. Many PC makers push crap "widescreen" 16:9 displays with far less viewable area than a 4:3 screen, and obscenely little vertical res/height, and push it as a "feature." I'm sick of Appl
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by kunai 13y ago
I've been wondering why there hasn't been more energy piled on to fuel cell vehicles. They're EVs, but have far longer ranges and zero emissions. So far, only Honda's FCX is the fuel-cell vehicle on sale in the United States; there are no o
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Ask HN: I don't know what to do. I'm lost. Help.
5 points by kunai 13y ago|4 comments
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by kunai 13y ago
I always pronounce it "Jee Eye Ef." Maybe I'm just weird that way.
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by kunai 13y ago
How is it great for battery life? When applications are inactive, they're already not using CPU cycles. Task-switching involves focusing context, which does eat up CPU time, whereas with standard UNIX multitasking, switching between tasks d
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by kunai 13y ago
Very true. I've used a variety of web browsers, but I've settled on Links as the best one. I can easily watch YouTube videos and in VLC, so no problem there with regards to video. The only thing I fire up Firefox for is my work-related acti
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by kunai 13y ago
That's quite ridiculous; iOS style multitasking is severely crippled. XNU does multitasking fine already; there's no need to screw it up. If you're sick of Safari's memory and CPU usage, just switch to a different browser, but to say someth
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by kunai 13y ago
Actually, gluten-free means that there's a very small proportion of gluten in relation to the product, not that 100% of it has been removed. ---- "The current international Codex Alimentarius standard allows for 20 parts per million of glut
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by kunai 13y ago
Sources? I would be dismayed, and even shocked to find out if milk had added sugar in it without consistent labeling. At least in the United States, milk must be sold with pasteurization, homogenization, and no additives. If it is different
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by kunai 13y ago
My genetic markers for gluten were negative, but I do have IBD, and consuming any gluten at all usually causes a marked exacerbation of my symptoms. I am not well-versed in dietetics; although my parents are both physicians, and have seen m
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by kunai 13y ago
Well, this is anecdotal, but I'm 14, and a few slices of bread landed me in the hospital with two emergency blood transfusions, and a final diagnosis of IBD. It was... bad. Another classmate also ended up hospitalized with a celiac diagnosi
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by kunai 13y ago
"There also appears to be an increased incidence of celiac disease, with one study which looked for antibodies from 1950s American blood samples finding that celiac disease is about four times as common as it was" http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by kunai 13y ago
Well, then I'd take it that many schools banning peanut butter outright due to the fractional number of kids with peanut allergies is... overreaction?
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by kunai 13y ago
While I agree with most of what is in the article, I always wince when I see whole grains advertised as healthful foods. They're not. Wheat contains gluten, a known gastrointestinal irritant, and celiac and IBD patients know that wheat is o
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by kunai 13y ago
How is the hardware/driver support for NetBSD in comparison with FreeBSD or Linux? Is it better, worse, or about the same? I'm considering using a Mac Mini G4 as a server, and was wondering whether to put FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Linux on it. I
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by kunai 13y ago
You forgot Zuck; the guy has plenty of charisma.
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Tim Cook is "Charisma-Challenged"(businessinsider.com)
2 points by kunai 13y ago|3 comments
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by kunai 13y ago
Mir is actually making a lot of progress, but I can also see why Canonical would want to create their own display server rather than use an existing one. Part of it is NIH, but the other part is probably the lack of full integration and con
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by kunai 13y ago
I don't understand the appeal of Glass. The solution that it's trying to solve, which is at-a-glance information, just seems far, far better executed by projects such as Pebble. With Pebble, there's a clear distinction when your attention i
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by kunai 13y ago
Google Groups; although Google and its obstinacy won't listen.
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by kunai 13y ago
It would be very interesting to see how the quality of BSD code is compared to Linux.
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by kunai 13y ago
The time overlap is quite odd, but you have to remember that _why had been planning for the pages he sent us to arrive since March last year. Also, Randall's wife has cancer, and the poetic and unfathomable comic may be an explanation of th
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by kunai 13y ago
I don't understand why economy is so berated by passengers. It's fine for me; I'm 5' 11" and I have plenty of legroom and the people I sit with are generally polite and well-groomed. All of the nightmare stories I hear just do not make sens
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by kunai 13y ago
It's not quite that easy either. Seats on airliners must be "9G" after the September 11 disaster -- meaning that they have to survive 9G's of force. I doubt it would be possible to create seats that would stay in place with even 2Gs of forc
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by kunai 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/635/
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by kunai 13y ago
TV wasn't that bad 10-15 years ago. Formulaic as they were, 90s sitcoms used to always entertain, even if they didn't have much new to bring to the table. Now, of course, we have mindless nonsense on TV, but I'm afraid YouTube is even worse

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