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by mcantelon 17y ago
Juno is a minimalist, Sinatra-like framework: http://wiki.github.com/breily/juno
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by mcantelon 17y ago
For an overview of the context of the state's research on, and use of, solitary confinement I'd recommend the book "Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control": http://www.amazon.com/Brainwash-Secret-History-Mind-Control/... . Despite t
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by mcantelon 17y ago
Even introverts require some social interaction. They simply require much less social interaction than extroverts. I didn't get the impression that she was complaining about people not interacting with her, but simply illustrating that all
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The VC's Secret Glossary(ovp.com)
1 points by mcantelon 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcantelon 18y ago
I've often wondered the same, about suicide perpetrators. Opportunity squandered!
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Pirate Bay Founder Devises DDo$ Attack(blogpirate.org)
89 points by mcantelon 18y ago|34 comments
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by mcantelon 18y ago
I'm pretty amazed that noone has released a cheap, open e-reader with an e-paper screen. Seems like such a beast would be an easy sell.
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Parchment: a web-based Z-machine interpreter(code.google.com)
1 points by mcantelon 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcantelon 18y ago
Yeah, I had the same experience (after upgrading to 9.04 b0rked and I had to reinstall).
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by mcantelon 18y ago
If this post weren't by Linus, would it make the front page? It would be nice to see Hacker News remain about ideas rather than personalities.
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Demonstration of CAKE: Canvas Animation Kit Experiment(glimr.rubyforge.org)
2 points by mcantelon 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcantelon 18y ago
I'm working on an interactive fiction framework with a web framework flavour. It's my first Ruby project and depends on Shoes for cross-platform UI. Defining rooms, items, and non-player characters is done in YAML. I'm about midway through
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by mcantelon 18y ago
Can people play their XP games via the virtualized layer? If not, then there isn't true backwards compatibility, just more bloat.
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Entourage MQ: publish/subscribe messaging system for HTML/JavaScript applications(doc.appcelerator.org)
11 points by mcantelon 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcantelon 18y ago
War is a much simpler problem than global warming, yet we can't agree its validity or stop it. Given this, both war and global warming are probably inevitable until evolution produces a more rational and forward-thinking dominant species.
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by mcantelon 18y ago
A used MacBook is all you need to do iPhone dev and is much cheaper than a few grand. Nonetheless, I am also not a fan of Apple's control freakishness. I am not willing to invest in development of a product that Apple can disallow at a whim
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Google releases web browser plugin allowing the creation of interactive 3D applications(google-code-updates.blogspot.com)
57 points by mcantelon 18y ago|12 comments
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4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll(musicmachinery.com)
120 points by mcantelon 18y ago|29 comments
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Lord of the REPLs(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
80 points by mcantelon 18y ago|13 comments
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GitBug: an App Engine-based issue tracker for GitHub(gitbug.appspot.com)
28 points by mcantelon 18y ago|4 comments
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New York Times' "The Local" uses Google Docs to gather user-submitted content(maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by mcantelon 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcantelon 18y ago
All you have to do is ask them to raise your quota. Why are you omitting this fact? http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=A...
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by mcantelon 18y ago
Criticism of Google App Engine for lack of backwards compatibility with status quo web stacks misses the point. GAE's use case is interoperable small pieces that scale, not traditional monolithic web apps. As a platform for startups, rather
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by mcantelon 18y ago
Seems like it'll have great prospects. At a reasonable price many folks will likely go this route as it cuts through the pain of dealing with the current mobile state (which should become more management in the future as smartphones gain al
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Recessions promote breakthrough innovations(blog.summation.net)
1 points by mcantelon 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcantelon 18y ago
I just took a look at it... nice work. The composite layout module seems useful as well for scenarios when panels is overkill. I'm not sure what specific business model you should use, but as far as a target user I think small/medium public