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by metamemetics 16y ago
> For Youku’s Koo, Chinese Internet companies are developing superior business models > YouTube, owned by Google, is inaccessible in China. Kind of hard to determine one business model is superior when they aren't even allowed to
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Are you affiliated with Lambda Lounge in STL?
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http://luaforge.net luaforge seems to still be active and doing a pretty good job aggregating libraries. Check out the "luarocks" and "kepler" project pages for ideas. Or just grab some mysql bindings and start from scratch. Let HNers kno
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http://luaforge.net/projects/ul-str/ Last updated June 21st 2010. Readme seems to indicate it supports all the important stuff like compare, concatenate, encode, lower<->upper, Regexp, url escaping. Says beta and I haven't tried i
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> build a graphical HTML5 game as a finale sounds great, I'm interested. My favorite programming class was an intro course in python where we generated fractals, programmed maze solvers, built conway's game of life, and had an option o
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Salary is the most obvious constraint for optimization during job hunting. So, it is probably also statistically likely to be the most frequently overweighted. Constraints that I think are under-weighted by many engineers: Do I believe in w
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typo: "Thanks for registering! Please ake the time" Landing page: make the logo bigger upper left. make the logo subtitle a phrase that is formatted as a direct answer to the question "Why are you here?" make the logo aligned with the body
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Slicing proteins with Occam's Razor(physorg.com)
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by metamemetics 16y ago
The human body: metabolism -> cell damage -> pathology -> death. Medical Science intervenes in between pathology and death. It's kind of unreasonable to have high expectations for medical science given it's so late in the chain.
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LuaJIT is a nigh untouchable work of art, we might never see a faster dynamic language JIT. PyPy is significant because of the nature of Python itself: the language specification is much more complex than Lua and there are currently many mo
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Is this going to be using Lisp bindings for cross-platform graphics libraries like SDL? ( http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/LispbuilderSDL ) Here's to hoping you get to build 2D/3D games and not 1970s style terminal games you will
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Zed rants on a Zed blog IS his marketing. When the product is server code and the consumer is other programmers, Zed posting effort-rants to HN for programmers to read is GREAT marketing. If your startup's target audience isn't other web de
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One supporting example for the article's position is Mint.com http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791278 (How Mint beat Wesabe from Mint's point of view) > We spent a ton of time holding online chats, went to events (like twiistup l
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Assuming you decided to ditch the tabbar as well, I like to mentally model it like this: CTRL-N: new globally scoped window. Cycle with ALT-TAB. CTRL-T: new locally scoped window. Cycle with CTRL-TAB.
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Yes! [to first question. can't comment on 2nd because I don't have a delicious account and am not sure how well pre-existing widgets work for it] [ http://widgets.opera.com/search/?order=name&q=del.icio.u... http://widgets.opera.com/
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Why you should care about Opera: 1. More minimal interface than Chrome. New-tab Speed-dial can be a solid background [or image] with no extra cruft. Unlike Chrome which adds bookmarks, recently closed, help links etc. 2. Equivalent performa
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> Once an open protocol is established and popularized "popularized" is the most important and hardest part, you can't risk using it in an assumption. The problem domain you are working in is the exemplar of the chicken-and-egg user g
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by metamemetics 16y ago
that's pretty delusional. Users don't care about protocols, they care about interface usability. And the ONLY thing that makes a social network valuable is its users. There will always be more room for more niche social networks with well d
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by metamemetics 16y ago
I've never used the default panel configuration. I use a single, skinny, left-aligned panel. I replace the default icon+text 3 section menu with the single icon GNOME menu. I replace the window list with Talika. It makes it similar to windo
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Micrsoft deepens Facebook search ties(ft.com)
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So 3 factors shape this market: batterycell tech, charging station tech, vehicle tech. The outcome depends on the rate these 3 develop relative to one another. Perhaps we could graph and predict if we had enough data? Perhaps charging stati
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> the formula to overtaking Google is blindingly simple: change the game to make everything as unrelated to search as possible Search is the act of finding info on which to verb. Facebook and Google Search are not strongly substitutabl
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by metamemetics 16y ago
The future of electric cars involves battery swap stations, not generating the electricity themselves. For example, you go to a gas station, and a fully charged battery is mechanically swapped for your drained battery. Would take 30 seconds
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no, that's for making $350,000 in a single day. http://texyt.com/minecraft+persson+notch+indie+game+success+...
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For linux just avoid anything with an ATI graphics card and go with nvidia. ESPECIALLY if you want to attempt triple booting MacOSX\iATKOS on it. I've gotten good mileage out of a Dell XPS Studio 16 w/ubuntu but can't recommend it due to dr
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by metamemetics 16y ago
I don't think the underlying problem has to do with specific companies and applies to older versions of Firefox as well. The underlying problem is: (Demand\Rate of requests for specification changes) >> (rate of widespread implement
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Yes, but IE9 will also be the new IE8 eventually. Perhaps automatic embedding of unicorns becomes the new css-gradient and textshadow in 10 years. Designing for the minority isn't a very good solution. A better solution: embedded SVG render
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My impression was it used to be a haven for large business. But due to rising costs they are moving nearby to Malaysia and Indonesia and just keeping management offices in Singapore (ex. memc.com). I haven't heard of it attracting young int
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by metamemetics 16y ago
While the majority of Saudi's economy is not private sector, they have recently been trying to rapidly grow it with pro-business incentives. Basically the government realized oil is 55% of their GDP and needed to diversify their portfolio.
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Blizzard already has built in cheats in single player. You just press enter and type a few phrases. However the built-in cheats disable achievements when activated.

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