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by mherdeg 13y ago
And there was a great discussion about whether or not it was a good idea to let people vote twice.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Yes, having Champions in silos does seem a little bit "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", doesn't it.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Hmm. If you really wanted to "stop feeding the troll", you could make it more expensive for people to give companies like Lodsys money. That is, you could apply those "refuse to ship or sell there" tactics to deny busine
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by mherdeg 13y ago
According to the source article ( http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/bottled-water-purchase-lea... ), the prosecutor said that Ms. Daly's account was "factually consistent"; dropped the three felony charg
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by mherdeg 13y ago
From the content side, having worked for a student newspaper and having been bitten by accidentally running a bunch of pictures headlined with "Inspiring 'Red Sox Win' Photo Spread Head", something we learned was to make
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Yeah, as you guessed, the current speculation is something like SVO-HAV-CCS.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Is this medium.com post ( https://medium.com/design-thinking-1/bad7c34842a2 ) plagiarized from this good.is post ( http://www.good.is/posts/secret-to-creativity-learning-how-t... )? I see substant
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Ah. Whoosh. Yep. Thanks.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
There was a confusing bit in the "P.S." section in this letter which read like some kind of veiled threat to expose the city for tax fraud, or for some kind of tax-related misdeeds. What was that all about? Is it generally a good
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I didn't understand your reference. Is the story here that (1) Shay Pierce wrote a column for Gamasutra about why he decided not to work for Zynga after they acquired OMGPOP? And then (I had to dig in the comments) (2) as that column was ci
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by mherdeg 13y ago
If I remember right, another successful company which pivoted away from building wireless networks in developing countries was Meraki. Poor developing countries. I hope they get their ubiquitous wireless soon. (Alternately, I wonder what th
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Perhaps this person's opinion is "I expected this article's content to be about a button you can press to have some effect on traffic patterns, and instead the article was about a neat tactile feedback device used for accessibility. This ar
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by mherdeg 13y ago
An unrelated bug that seems to have shipped today: you can reliably deny an iOS user access to the Gmail mobile Web application in Safari and also the iOS Gmail application if you send them an e-mail which (1) ends up in their inbox and (2)
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by mherdeg 13y ago
The hard part of this challenge is not necessarily just the titanium but also communicating the rules of the game. Even if the game board is intact, how will a future civilization know what to do with it? One of my favorite "designed to las
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by mherdeg 13y ago
It's a little bit like Tesla and Edison, isn't it? Or at least the late-90's-technology-community mythology about them. The world has smart people who invent new things and have interesting life stories and cool products (Tesla). The world
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by mherdeg 13y ago
How did you manage to sync 150GB+ of photos into Flickr?
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by mherdeg 13y ago
In case anyone else is confused, the previous URL was http://kickstarterrewards.com/ .
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by mherdeg 13y ago
This claim is not well-sourced (i.e. I exaggerated way beyond what we can prove is true.). Michael Balfour's 1979 book "Propaganda in War 1939–1945: Organizations, Policies and Public in Britain and Germany" discusses the slogan briefly in
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I live and work in central London. Having seen the poster everywhere for a while now, it has been hard to avoid learning a bit about the image's history, including the recent hilarity with the EU trademark ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Marissa Mayer's blog post about Yahoo! having acquired Tumblr leads with the "Keep Calm and Carry On" propaganda image that the British government generated during the war but never used because it was only meant to be rolled out as a very
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Hmm. I don't see any mention of whether this design complies with the COCOM Limits, an agreement that GPS devices should disable themselves when at an altitude above 60,000 feet and a speed faster than 1,000 knots.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Huh. I don't remember seeing any other blog posts from anyone dissatisfied with Etsy previously — is this their first negative publicity? It'll be interesting to see how they respond. I am reminded of the smashed antique Paypal violin sto
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Perhaps they need more cowbells: http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-bus-crashed...
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by mherdeg 13y ago
In case anyone is curious, the title was "" Gnome 3.7 removes terminal transparency; closing bug with simply "No." ""
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See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15265562/what-are-all-of-... for more information.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Heh. Imagining this UX patch 25 years ago: "I highly recommend turning on the 'Undo Irradiate' feature on the Therac-25. It lets you undo irradiation settings for a patient for ~5 seconds after you press irradiate. It has saved my patients
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Are we reading the same policy? I'm looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html and I see a fax number of "Fax: 650.360.3189" and "please send a written notice (by fax or regular mail) to the Designated Agent at the address below".
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by mherdeg 14y ago
See also https://www.elance.com/j/website-like-amazon/37294947/ ("I want a website like Amazon for $1000"), submitted to news.ycombinator on 14 Feb.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
For the specific case of air travel, your description of the system you want almost perfectly describes the system that actually exists today, the United States Department of Transportation consumer complaint database & process. In this
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I knew about the Great Smog of 1952 from, uh, science fiction (Neil Gaiman's novelization of _Neverwhere_) but it had not occurred to me to wonder why my recently built flat does not have a fireplace. Apparentl

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