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by macrael 16y ago
I think it might make HN a smaller place. Because the current design of the site puts so little emphasis on usernames, it is difficult to know if a comment I am reading is coming from someone I've read before. Just as in the real world ther
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Ask HN: Is there a way to get access to my comment voting history?
4 points by macrael 16y ago|3 comments
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by macrael 16y ago
(also, is is "long haul" not "long hall")
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by macrael 16y ago
Looks like most HBO shows are available on the German iTunes store. My guess, though, is that they don't post their video there until the DVD's are available. Can anyone confirm how that's worked for HBO in the past?
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by macrael 16y ago
Really great point. Slightly off topic, the standard for rating systems seems to be 5 stars, but I prefer 4 star systems because they force you to make a +/- choice with no cop out ambivalence choice. I'd be curious to see the same distance
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by macrael 16y ago
Where Does Gmail live now? Google Docs? If they are lumped together in "social" then that division would seem to be much less focused than the others. And perhaps misnamed.
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by macrael 16y ago
You're quite right about The Wire. Maybe this is just naturally the way that the art is going to be funded in the future. Really, all television is developed exclusively at the network level. NBC, CBS, and HBO all fund the creation of TV th
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by macrael 16y ago
Netflix, too, is getting into the production business. http://blog.netflix.com/2011/03/house-of-cards.html I guess it is inevitable, but it makes me sad. What makes either of these developments any different from Comcast trying to buy NBC
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Cocoa's NSMutableArray changes implementation based on the size of the dataset(ridiculousfish.com)
58 points by macrael 16y ago|16 comments
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by macrael 16y ago
Well, I agree that a drastic difference in quality between the two versions of the app invalidates the data from MLB, the grand parent of my post asked why the quality is different between the two. Specifically, wether it is MLB's fault or
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by macrael 16y ago
While perhaps limitation is a strong word, it is clear that the development environments/tools/api's for the two platforms are very different. Is it not possible that one is simply better suited to producing high quality apps than the other
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by macrael 16y ago
A well implemented following system could solve a number of problems. The most important feature of this would be to automatically create (or suggest) "follow" connections based on your upvotes. If I upvote someone a few times, suggest I fo
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by macrael 16y ago
For those who don't know, Wil Shipley is the author of Delicious Library. < http://delicious-monster.com/&#62 ; A perennially popular MacOS app. It is a great way to catalog most everything you own. It started off being only for books,
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by macrael 16y ago
By what measure? If Paul Allen wants people to remember that Bill Gates used to be a dick, and people read his book and do so, maybe that's all the positive expectation he needs. Even if it hurts his own reputation maybe it is worth it to h
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by macrael 16y ago
Another example: the beetles. Perhaps one of the greatest creative partnerships of all time, churning out two records a year for 7 years, and then were sick of each other and broke up.
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by macrael 16y ago
You are absolutely right, but just because he has changed and the world has forgiven him doesn't mean we should forget his past self. There are still lessons to be learned. And, his philanthropy doesn't justify his past bad behavior.
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by macrael 16y ago
Some are famous for bad reasons, but many are famous because they are great. Fame gives you the ability to direct many people's attention where you like, which seems pretty valuable to me, no matter what you do.
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by macrael 16y ago
There is always a balance. I do too little to document, and often find myself wishing I had something to remember an event by.
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by macrael 16y ago
Besides the fact that those two apps involve the taking of photos, they couldn't be more different. I don't think Gruber's like of one and dislike of the other can be seen as any kind of hypocrisy. I'm also curious what how his response (or
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by macrael 16y ago
Can anyone who has some hardware knowledge give us a rundown on what is currently being used to decode H.264 in hardware and this offering? We clearly can't know that much before we test actual drives, but is there anything concrete one can
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by macrael 16y ago
Fascinating. Dropbox is e first really popular "filesystem in the cloud" so it stands to reason that we are going to start to see services built on top of it. Rally, it is a piece of the old "everyone will have a server" dream. Except, inst
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by macrael 16y ago
San Francisco danger is now over. I'm on a Search and Rescue team that was called up by the Sheriff's Office to be on call, but nothing notable happened and everyone is going home.
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by macrael 16y ago
I forget where I read this recently, but someone pointed out that magazines cost money to buy, but are chocablock full of ads. Apparently, the revenue from subscriptions and people buying the magazine at newsstands is insignificant compared
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by macrael 16y ago
Doesn't that thinking discourage the creation of consumer software? Just because someone isn't making money off of my software doesn't make it ok for them to have it for free.
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by macrael 16y ago
More than anything else, Computer Science is young . Unlike other disciplines, there has not yet been a schism between the theoretical and practical yet. In school, we learned a bit of everything. I took classes focused on algorithms and c
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by macrael 16y ago
I'm pretty sure it was http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/ I'm embarrassed that I don't remember for sure. I was mostly guided about by my friends that trip.
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by macrael 16y ago
This is the oldest bias there is. Singling out technology is a bit myopic, because as far as I can see, every field is obsessed with what's next. The sciences are an obvious example, the whole point is to discover something new and present
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by macrael 16y ago
Could you elaborate on why you don't think the parent comment has a point?
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by macrael 16y ago
Why make this a Chrome extension rather than a google labs type feature?
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by macrael 16y ago
I don't buy it. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights was built to be amended should change be necessary. More importantly, it is clear that the Bill of Rights is, to some degree, a cobbled together response to the specific grievances the

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