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2761.
by leoc 19y ago
Why would she? So you can avoid procrastinating by not feeling the urge to procrastinate? Isn't that entirely useless advice?
2762.
by leoc 19y ago
Just one of Larry and Sergey's excellent adventures, or is there a Google recruiting angle to the Burning Man jaunt?
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Heston Blumenthal, self-trained chef and father of 'molecular gastronomy'(observer.guardian.co.uk)
1 points by leoc 19y ago|0 comments
2764.
by leoc 19y ago
(news.yc automatically munges the pound symbol into 'GBP'?)
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by leoc 19y ago
It's a few times bigger than the ODNB, but not really on a wholly different scale: http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/print/ . (The sample page is at http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/print/psample/ .) The introduction to the ODNB at ht
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by leoc 19y ago
> It dabbles in a mess of pseudoscience Given that this was an invited address given this year to the American Psychological Association, that seems a bold claim to make.
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by leoc 19y ago
It also happens to tie in well with the WSJ article about Draper. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146 )
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by leoc 19y ago
"From what we managed to figure out on our own, the key is to make sure your app works well in Safari (duh!) and to make sure you optimize fonts and layout for iPhone's resolution 480x320 (it has a very high DPI count though)." It seems the
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by leoc 19y ago
The ban on corporate sales of the iPhone may be partly to prevent the early verdicts from being passed by Blackberry fans and others who are accustomed to typing lots of email on a large physical phone keyboard.
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by leoc 19y ago
True; the original Macintosh is well known for having no slots, and for that matter no cursor keys.
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by leoc 20y ago
The phrase "too little, too late" springs to mind. Also the phrases "crippling hubris", "halfhearted sop", "internecine bloodletting" ( http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/26/HNflair_1.html ) and "hat-trick" ( http://www.blinkenlights
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by leoc 20y ago
The article isn't the clearest, but Flair seems likely to be a Smalltalk-like platform implemented in Javascript (and vice versa ). Does this mean that client-side Java is now officially dead? Also, what will Flair's display engine be - do
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Dan Ingalls working on a new web application platform for Sun(computerworlduk.com)
5 points by leoc 20y ago|3 comments
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by leoc 20y ago
If you need a beta tester... http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
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by leoc 20y ago
I can't find the reference now, but I *think* I've just read something suggesting that the install process for an Apollo applet will involve an "install-this-application?" confirmation dialog followed by a download of 30 seconds or
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by leoc 20y ago
Please let users add a few words about themselves on their userpages. It's a useful way to learn a little more about an interesting commentator. And isn't that the main purpose of the site? Links to homepages can of course be useful too.
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by leoc 20y ago
So what about Flex and, especially, Apollo (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo) then? Is Apollo likely to achieve mass adoption? Would startups be well advised to consider building applications on it?