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by mquander 15y ago
This Engadget summary is at Engadget's usual level of quality. The previous submission links to a Chessvibes blog entry which is much more informative. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2709401
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by mquander 15y ago
On your profile, you can set it either so that they see people who you've added to a circle ('friended'), people who have added you, or both, or neither. The default setting is both.
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by mquander 15y ago
I'd love one, if you're offering; my username at gmail.com. EDIT: Thanks, I got yours -- and someone else's too! I'll pay it forward.
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by mquander 15y ago
Another game with moderately easy puzzles that might appeal to the HN demographic is Dan Schmidt - For A Change . The setting is an abstract, somewhat pastoral landscape full of things whose descriptions are alien but extremely evocative.
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by mquander 15y ago
If you like Anchorhead , you may enjoy Slouching Towards Bedlam , which has a similar atmosphere and similarly beautiful writing. http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78
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by mquander 15y ago
If you don't mind moderately difficult games (my personal preference) I strongly recommend taking a look at the blurbs for these few tremendously good games and seeing if they appeal to you: Adam Cadre - Varicella http://ifdb.tads.org/vi
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by mquander 15y ago
I didn't downvote you because I don't understand your point. Presumably you're not saying that nobody should flag posts, because someone might post them again; I don't think that makes sense. Are you saying that the dupe detection system
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by mquander 15y ago
There's a whole programming language, testing & documentation framework, and IDE. http://inform7.com/
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by mquander 15y ago
Good point.
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by mquander 15y ago
Yeah, I agree with that. It's a stupid problem, but the problem exists, and until we are allowed to forcefully seize the servers of people who implement shitty software and fix the problems, it won't go away, so it's worth trying to do the
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by mquander 15y ago
If you're using a computer, something usually "gets in your way" every ten minutes. If that wasn't the case, users might be less keen to get it out of their way, and try to figure it out or ask for help instead.
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by mquander 15y ago
Isn't it perfectly plausible that 80% of a site's users don't give a hoot about security, but 20% do? I don't see any reason not to give the minority SSL (hopefully compromised minimally by non-SSL resources) regardless of whether the majo
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by mquander 15y ago
Well, I'm not sure I agree. The correct answer is determined by how much they care about the risk that someone might be feeding them a malicious script. I think most users care more about the convenience of accessing their favorite site w
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by mquander 15y ago
To be fair to Android, I haven't personally found that to be the case. I went to connect to my workplace's Exchange server and got hit with a host of overkill permissions that I need to give to the Exchange admin. As a result, I went and
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by mquander 15y ago
Wait a minute, what the hell do you think got them in the habit of compulsively clicking "yes"? It's interfaces like this, which offer a question for which the correct answer 95% of the time is to click "yes". I'm not saying that I have a
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by mquander 15y ago
I can complain about C#. The type inference is artificially limited which forces you to write types everywhere. There is no way to define an interface on types which are not under your control. Generics are missing a number of features t
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by mquander 15y ago
I think that if there's an overriding principle behind it, you could say the principle is this: The world is full of crazy laws and arbitrary rules which are frequently both boring and harmful. The only reasonable laws are ones that are p
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by mquander 15y ago
I'm using it as a shorthand for: "Here is a perfectly reasonable explanation that fits the facts. The other given explanation requires the conjunction of multiple unlikely things and I see no evidence favoring it. I believe the other exp
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by mquander 15y ago
- 4channers have been sitting around DDOSing and defacing websites recreationally for years. The only difference here is that the websites are big organizations instead of some poor dude's message board or personal site, and that might see
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by mquander 15y ago
Give me a break. There are no ideals, and it's not a conspiracy. It's just a bunch of trolls on summer vacation. They are doing it because they don't really care to consider consequences when they choose to do something. Mystery solved
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by mquander 15y ago
Hey, check this out, Google already sort of does it. I didn't know that (probably because I have "web history" turned off, so I don't get customizations.) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2675292
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by mquander 15y ago
I know you said you're working on a blog post, but I'd be really interested in if you could elaborate on the challenges inherent to building tablet software -- I build big enterprise-y software that is on Windows Mobile phones and Windows t
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by mquander 15y ago
Look, that's because non-iPad tablets with a real (touchscreen, tablet-sized) OS didn't exist until 3 months ago. Give Android a year and a half to let the Android Market populate with some great tablet-sized software, and who among us dou
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by mquander 15y ago
The purpose of search engines is filtering content to give us what we asked for. Unless they developed mind-reading technology, Google doesn't really know what I want and attempts at guessing it will lead to substandard results. I think y
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by mquander 15y ago
I agree that it would be cool to expose the different criteria that Google (for instance) is using to help reorder your results, to the degree that those criteria can be discretely identified, but I'm not surprised that they don't; that's a
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by mquander 15y ago
The purpose of search engines is filtering content to give you what you want, which might be information, or it might be discussion, or polemics, or gossip. If you want to learn about some topic that has some element of subjectivity, famili
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by mquander 15y ago
Senate Panel Pushes Adoption Of P2P Video Streaming Software
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by mquander 15y ago
Well, the difference is that when someone fires nuclear ICBMs everyone typically knows unambiguously where the missiles came from and where they went. To me, drumbeating over hacker threats is just a preparation to give the government yet a
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by mquander 15y ago
OK, I agree.
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by mquander 15y ago
That's easy. A "computer scientist" is a tenured professor^W^Wsomeone who does research in computer science. A "programmer" is someone who writes code for a living. A "developer" or "software engineer" is a programmer who likes business-

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