mcantor

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931.
by mcantor 17y ago
It does seem to me that those vital first 10 minutes disproportionately affect a submission's life expectancy.
932.
by mcantor 17y ago
I'm surprised that there are no voting systems which simply detect cliques, and make your votes weaker when you're voting for someone in your clique. That is, the more you vote for someone's submissions, the less "power" your votes have whe
933.
by mcantor 17y ago
This entire article literally only says two things: 1. The Nexus One doesn't have multi-touch. (Is this even true?) 2. The Nexus One can only store 200MB of apps. I've seen few articles that stretched further to find something, anything, t
934.
by mcantor 17y ago
There's actually an entire site devoted to it, in the style of FML/IMMD/etc.: http://autocompleteme.com/ (Sorry if I just wasted anyone's evening!)
935.
Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret(lifehacker.com)
148 points by mcantor 17y ago|46 comments
936.
by mcantor 17y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think the G1's soft keyboard can be calibrated.
937.
by mcantor 17y ago
I've been with T-Mobile on my G1 for 6 months. I get great 3G service in the Cleveland and New York areas... even customer service is fast and helpful. Just FYI. I'm a T-Mobile fan.
938.
by mcantor 17y ago
What about the Droid's software keyboards are different that makes them more usable? I'm always trying to force myself to use the G1's software keyboard, but I can only seem to use it in one of two ways: wantonly mash and hope the predictiv
939.
by mcantor 17y ago
Most Turkers are women? That's very odd to read. I distinctly remember an article posted to HN a few weeks ago where a "Turk Boss" asked Turkers to take pictures of themselves, and a vast majority appeared to be Indian men.
940.
by mcantor 17y ago
Still holding out for a similar phone with a hardware keyboard. BTW, I've heard tell that the Droid has a hardware keyboard, but you can't feel the difference between keys, making it less usable than the G1's keyboard. Can anyone corrobor
941.
by mcantor 17y ago
Agreed! I think the most worthwhile part of the article was the initial caption: "Do you really never want to get lost again?" I was actually quite touched by that point. Unfortunately, everything past that was masturbatory.
942.
by mcantor 17y ago
Upvoted. This article is cute, but boils down to just another vacuous diatribe against some nonspecific issue gleaned from the latest trend, gilded with verbiage.
943.
by mcantor 17y ago
I feel like the optimal path is a middle road between the two extremes you listed. I try to learn as much as possible. Once I have learned something, I am quite confident in what I have learned, but I recognize that at any given time, new
944.
by mcantor 17y ago
I can't wait for this to be true. Future, get here faster!
945.
by mcantor 17y ago
Full disclosure: I took this guy's class in college. I don't think that wanting to symbolically "ban" a word, and writing a book about its effects on our culture, are mutually exclusive.
946.
by mcantor 17y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you post a shortened link here instead of the canonical one? Does goo.gl give you some kind of clickthrough monitoring, or was there another reason?
947.
"Nerd" and "Geek" Should Be Banned, Professor Says(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by mcantor 17y ago|3 comments
948.
by mcantor 17y ago
Dupe of Mr. Blank's original post (as noted in this article), submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007750 Some excellent discussion in the first submission.
949.
by mcantor 17y ago
Could you perhaps explain why?
950.
by mcantor 17y ago
Excellent discussion; I had no idea this had been posted before. Thank you!
951.
Louis CK - "Everything is amazing, and no one is happy."(youtube.com)
10 points by mcantor 17y ago|2 comments
952.
by mcantor 17y ago
FTA: "Often the story of what happened in between films is grander, and far stranger, than what eventually got made." Okay... is that really the end of the article? I'm disappointed with how flippant this sounds, but: I think this article
953.
by mcantor 17y ago
That's a fair explanation. I think I understood the spirit in which that point was intended; it just stood out to me because of how often people harp on content being #1. I liked the post overall, for sure!
954.
by mcantor 17y ago
FTA: Writing in the Atlantic Monthly in 1891, W.J. Stillman, a journalist and critic, decried the effects of the telegraph on his profession. "America has in fact transformed journalism from what it once was, the periodical expression of th
955.
by mcantor 17y ago
I think it's kind of funny that "needing good content" is listed as a "con" in #3.
956.
by mcantor 17y ago
Apparently one of the comments that the author took umbrage to: "Socially mainstream means leaving work at 5pm and going to the pub, that’s what 'normal' people do." When do "real" developers drink their beer?!
957.
by mcantor 17y ago
I wonder if it has to do with when you posted it during the day?
958.
by mcantor 17y ago
Maybe the potential for a simple synopsis is an indicator of a potentially excellent work, rather than the opposite. Who knew "Little fellow must dip a ring in lava to defeat an evil overlord" could last for three books?
959.
1 Billion Spammers Served - Deep Insights into Spam(projecthoneypot.org)
68 points by mcantor 17y ago|13 comments
960.
by mcantor 17y ago
I have to be honest; while I enjoyed this article, I mainly upvoted it for the author's use of the phrase "shrimp-induced torpor," which elicited giggling from me in turn.

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