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781.
by mcantor 16y ago
I absolutely love the use of the scroll effect. It feels very smooth and natural (Chrome).
782.
by mcantor 16y ago
Did anyone else get a vague sense of terror at the possibility of their heads exploding as they read through the list of songs-likely-to-become-earworms, worrying that reading the title would start each song playing in their head, one-by-on
783.
by mcantor 16y ago
I was completely taken off-guard by the time travel humor: "Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon."
784.
by mcantor 16y ago
I once asked a team leader, who had .net and PHP experience and was in the middle of a large Ruby On Rails project, what the benefits of Ruby and Ruby On Rails were. She could not think of a single one. I once asked a liberal what the ben
785.
by mcantor 16y ago
I still don't get it, dude. What could they have written in that blog post which would have rang true to you?
786.
by mcantor 16y ago
How do you get more sincere than, "We failed. We let you down. And we apologize."? I'm asking this in all honesty; I don't really understand where you see this as being insincere. Just curious.
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Groundhog Day (Movie) as a Buddhist Parable(huffingtonpost.com)
3 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
788.
by mcantor 16y ago
Did you know they used Goog-411 to collect spoken phonemes to improve their auto-captioning of YouTube videos (so they can search them)? Source?
789.
by mcantor 16y ago
I have to call shenanigans on this. My social circle regularly has huge debates via Facebook links and wall posts; off the top of my head, I can recall discussions about birth control, existentialism, web frameworks and the impact of video
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Stay-at-home mom uses coupons/rebates to consistently get ~75% off groceries(couponsavingssahm.blogspot.com)
2 points by mcantor 16y ago|2 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
Incidentally, this theory predicts that all the new(ish) programming languages attracting buzz these days — whether Ruby, or Scala, or Clojure, or Go, or whatever — will fail to attract large numbers of programmers. I'm a little confused.
792.
by mcantor 16y ago
The camera isn't, but our brain still is when we process the picture taken by the camera.
793.
by mcantor 16y ago
I feel like posts such as this one say some pretty scary things about intimacy in general, even honest intimacy.
794.
by mcantor 16y ago
He reminds me of moot, the founder of 4chan, only he seems to be more technically adept. The key story is the same, though: "I created this side-project on a whim when I was young; now it's taking over the internet and I have no idea how t
795.
by mcantor 16y ago
Interestingly, "Sunday" in Japanese is expressed with the kanji for "sun" and the kanji for "day". It's obviously pronounced differently, but the literal meaning is the same as the English phonetics.
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How Did GM Pay Back Its Bailout So Fast? Well, It Didn't...(reason.com)
119 points by mcantor 16y ago|62 comments
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Use kinetic energy to recharge your phone while you walk - $150(greennpower.com)
1 points by mcantor 17y ago|0 comments
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Interview with indy 8-bit musicmaker, Magnus Pålsson(resolution-magazine.co.uk)
1 points by mcantor 17y ago|0 comments
799.
by mcantor 17y ago
Where'd you get the money to live on while you were doing your unpaid internship? What I'm getting at here is that part of the point of the article was that unpaid internships favor people who come from more privileged backgrounds.
800.
by mcantor 17y ago
Was your internship paid or unpaid? Where did you stay while you were interning? How were your living expenses paid for?
801.
by mcantor 17y ago
Despite asking dozens of people and reading hundreds of articles over the years, I have literally never heard the same explanation of LLC's, S-corps, C-corps and related tax, liability and paperwork infrastructures twice.
802.
by mcantor 17y ago
Man, every time I see an article about this language, I think, "Oh! Oh! Someone has cleverly encoded a programming language into a computer-readable representation of a Go board. I love that game." Then it's this ferschlugginer
803.
by mcantor 17y ago
Wow.
804.
by mcantor 17y ago
I feel like it's worth noting that the title was, " countries get the HIV epidemics they deserve," not " people get the HIV infections they deserve." I think the author's point was that the country's culture results in HIV problems, not
805.
by mcantor 17y ago
It sort of feels like an extension or parallel to "Perfect is the enemy of good."
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Worse is better(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by mcantor 17y ago|3 comments
807.
by mcantor 17y ago
I've read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte, and I think it would benefit you even though you are not talking about manually generating charts. For example, he talks about how it's easy to be misleading with a chart b
808.
by mcantor 17y ago
Because old farts never need to compare time zones...?
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by mcantor 17y ago
My internal monologue, just now: "Wow, I can't believe he posted that on Hacker News." "Wow, I can't believe that's getting upvoted on Hacker News!" "I'm totally upvoting that."
810.
by mcantor 17y ago
Ah, I see. So it's more likely that 23 people upvoted the story, said, "Ho-hum, stupid MTV!" clicked the "Install" button, said, "Ho-hum, stupid Wordpress!" and then moved on to the next iPad article. Well, I'm less inspired by HN's colle

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