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by morganpyne 15y ago
I thought it was Groucho Marx? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Although apparently the sentiment even predates his usage of it by about 60 years.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I feel like such an oldie reading things like this :-) Watching the younger generations rediscover things that I have lived through is making me gravely aware of my own mortality today. I'm expecting somebody to point out an article on Kerm
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by morganpyne 15y ago
And funnily enough, the reverse scenario played out at least once also. In 2009 in New Zealand a very controversial 1st prize of $15,000 was awarded to artist Dane Mitchell in the Waikato National Contemporary Art competition. Dane did not
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by morganpyne 15y ago
These two are regularly confused due to their unfortunately similar spelling. SymPHony is the CMS, SymFony is the completely unrelated framework (capitalisations for emphasis only).
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Never heard of a Kaossilator before; it looks like great fun, and more to the point it lends itself completely to being an iDevice app. Hope somebody ports it asap!
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I came here to point out that the title must surely be misleading since cancer is not one but many different diseases and therefore any vaccine would only be targeting certain cancer types, however the article states that 'VaxHit' could be
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by morganpyne 15y ago
We had a lot of fun with this in University 20 years ago. Our computer lab had a handful of shiny new Sun Sparcstations. The freshmen would regularly end up hogging them (no timelimit) and we needed them for project work, so we'd just remot
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by morganpyne 15y ago
It's been ages since I read it, but I think that Jared Diamond's book 'Collapse' explains a bit about the island and the statues construction (his main focus is on the self-destructive cycles of behavior of the population however). Also, I
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New Quicksilver.app released(qsapp.com)
3 points by morganpyne 15y ago|0 comments
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by morganpyne 15y ago
It seems that the real breakthough here is the cost of production? Seeing through walls is certainly nothing new and I thought that the latest and most promising technology for doing this was using Terahertz radiation: http://www.wired.co
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Agreed. Several people (myself included) had already submitted the direct link to the youtube video. This blog adds absolutely nothing to the video.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Unfortunately, this scenario is being played out all over the world. We had similar revelations in New Zealand a while ago. http://www.nzcs.org.nz/newsletter/article/119 It's disgusting, but not surprising. US has been desperately attempt
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I'm an Irishman who lives in New Zealand, but I'm currently visiting the inlaws in Italy. Just flew in to Venezia (Marco Polo) this morning, and have spent some time in Bassano del Grappa in the past. It's a fantastic place and a great Mecc
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I had no idea Disney did things like this. This is great! I'm already curious about Reposado (Software Update Server) and Munki (manage OSX software installs). I may have a use for these. Nice to see tools in there for topics other than ani
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I have a vague memory of a HNer announcing a project similar to (or perhaps it actually was) the referenced Padrucci app a while ago here. Anyone remember what it is I'm referring to and can they confirm if it's the same app? I love the ide
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Thanks for the information. I did a little googling also after posting my question and it seems that it would be foolish to look at using either of them for any sort of production code at the moment. I think the PNaCl approach looks more in
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. If it's limited to what JS can do it certainly won't do what I need. Also just noticed I wrote "DirectX" instead of "ActiveX" in my previous post, oops.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Could you explain this a little more? I have no real knowledge of either and would be curious to hear your opinion as to which one may have a future and why.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Funnily enough, my friend's startup is doing a web-based POS system and they have adopted the tagline "POS... Finally it means Point Of Sale again" :-) And yes, you are right, there are several players out there now who are planning to be h
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Does anybody here have experience using this? It looks like it could potentially solve an issue for me bridging access to USB and TCP-accessible devices from a cross-platform browser-based app, while giving a relatively easy way to get the
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Color 3D printer(youtube.com)
8 points by morganpyne 15y ago|0 comments
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I love the internet for little things like this. The author proposes a way to achieve the page turn-effect in the Square app, and the one of the actual Square devs sees it and responds directly to explain how it was _really_ done :-) The in
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by morganpyne 15y ago
It's not quite exactly what you asked for, but have you seen the StackScripts from Linode? http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/ I have personally found that even distro-specific scripts require some tweaking across various hosting provider
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Actually, this came up recently here on HN, referring to a rather old article entitled "Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea". Discussion and link to original article here: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409090 Bottom line; use UDP for yo
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I agree with you in principle. It seems the majority of attempts at making an ipad theme take from the experience I have on my ipad rather than add to it. However, there are certain things that a site needs to do (differently) to function o
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by morganpyne 15y ago
The O.P. was asking for a little more details than builtwith.com seems to provide (how it is constructed rather than what face it presents to the public), however I had never heard of builtwith.com and quite liked it so thanks for the recom
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Ah yep, thanks for that; just Googled it in a hurry and pasted in the first link that came up. Can't agree enough on the Maatkit tools, and I'm also in the process of moving a production database from MySQL to Percona after hearing such goo
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I lived in Germany a while ago. I was astonished when I first found out that you get 6 weeks paid holidays a year, and if you are sick during this time and manage to get a doctors cert to prove it you will get those holidays again . That t
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by morganpyne 15y ago
You're probably better off with innotop http://sourceforge.net/projects/innotop/files/
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I have often seen this mantra repeated, but I can't believe that this is enough to dissuade every single hacker . With Macs approaching 10% of the market this has got to be worth somebodies time to have a go. And yet, I know a lot of folks

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