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by mishmash 15y ago
Oh, yeah I was talking about the millions of primarily vertical scrolling mousewheels Microsoft helped put out there.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Saw that too, surely they'll make a toggle or something to switch x/y-axis, maybe it's already in Windows?
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by mishmash 15y ago
The western Ruby community is well observed phenomenon and opinions abound, but does anyone know if it's been formally studied? Anyone on HN with a strong psychology background have any insights?
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by mishmash 15y ago
Why is it part of the OS then?
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by mishmash 15y ago
The law hinges entirely on the term "expectation of privacy" so what you do you mean by "somewhere private"? You mention a sofa so if your friend invited you in somewhere like the living room (ie. no bathrooms, weren't filming his naked kid
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by mishmash 15y ago
Ah my misunderstanding. I'll just add then that I'm personally excited to see where iCloud will land on the speculation spectrum from a full AWS cloud infrastructure to a simple online iTunes media player. ;)
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by mishmash 15y ago
So the current facts are that: a) the guy owns a laptop b) he took pictures using it Sounds like he's in the clear to post them anywhere he likes then?
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by mishmash 15y ago
>For instance, maybe he bought it from the thief off craigslist. Could be but one could also speculate the other direction. What if the robbery occurred in a very short time span, and the photo of him driving away was taken (assuming it
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by mishmash 15y ago
Ignoring the rumor community, right now TechCrunch, CNET, CNN, and Fox News all have front pages stories about Apple/iCloud/WWDC. The BBC doesn't mention Apple specifically, but does have an article asking: Is cloud computing ready for prim
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by mishmash 15y ago
The major point is WHY should anyone have to see something they don't want to? And minor point is, seriously, this is like an hour fix if they wanted to.
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by mishmash 15y ago
You're missing the point - what if someone created a project called "rawsyntax-is-a-bitch" and continually added you to it?
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by mishmash 15y ago
You call out sstephenson for being an asshole to tomdale, here: > sstephenson: unless your goal is to publicly embarrass And then immediately in the next sentence, suggest that tomdale is some kind of dog? > He's clearly not very co
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by mishmash 15y ago
Not exciting, but 07 Chrysler Pacifica V6. It hauls the kids around nicely, ~18mpg, looks better than a minivan, less than $300 in repairs, and best of all... the back seats fold flat so we actually hauled a boxed 52" HD set home with it.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Oh wow 3 years and I've never noticed. Haha tells you've I've never tried to then. ;)
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by mishmash 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
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by mishmash 15y ago
> Also, I think we should switch it up so that comments are dimmed at more like -1 or -2. Otherwise, if the first vote is a downvote, people might overlook an otherwise decent (or controversial) comment. This is needed. I'm constantly u
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by mishmash 15y ago
I didn't mean the code would be complicated, but the additional mental load of all users evaluating every comment for it's trappiness (USERS * COMMENTS * SPLIT_SECOND). If someone's being a jerk why not just use the current moderation/ban s
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by mishmash 15y ago
Seems complicated, just add meta-moderation.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Paypal has a long documented history of freezing accounts for ambiguous reasons, often with little or no recourse for the account holders. One quick/recent example: http://www.theindiestone.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=20&#3...
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by mishmash 15y ago
> people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa. That's kind of cool, so you have a group of "friends" on facebook or whatever that you use for new music discovery? edit: the poorly implied question would be what does using a
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by mishmash 15y ago
> I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting. Unless all your friends have shitty taste. note: I do find it a technically interesting feature
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by mishmash 15y ago
> spelling and punctuation mistakes > excellent written English Erlang's syntax, naming, and abbreviation conventions are straight schizophrenic. Keywords, directives, method/module names, variables, and arguments are randomly spell
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by mishmash 15y ago
Mine is second to newest, officially the MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4132
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by mishmash 15y ago
It's cool. I really don't care either way - didn't flag it. timsco was first post, the submission was still on /newest, had few points. It would have been silly not to point to the previous discussion. Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by mishmash 15y ago
~200 points, on the front page for at least a day.
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by mishmash 15y ago
The matte screen also comes with a grey bezel and not the sweet looking black one, FYI. Not a huge deal but it was a shock when I pulled it out of the box. edit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/3184631310/
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by mishmash 15y ago
There was a discussion on it yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568464
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by mishmash 15y ago
>Mac market share will reach a tipping point and writing viruses for OS X will be lucrative Playing with the $59.99 "price" of Mac Defender it's probably only taken a dozen or so purchases to get a return on the design/HTML/CSS, the Coc
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by mishmash 15y ago
Wait there's two!?
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by mishmash 15y ago
Why not combine them into a single list? All three sites use point systems; HN and Digg's range are almost identical, just need to equalize them to Reddit's.

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