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by msvan 13y ago
This must be the best argument ever put forward against using the metric system.
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by msvan 13y ago
I guess, about the salary, that there's a multiplying factor when your job involves high-clearance national secrets. If the threat of persecution is not enough to dissuade you from leaking, then maybe a sweet $200k job on Hawaii is.
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by msvan 13y ago
He's not gonna get the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu Xiaobo can get the prize because pissing off China is not controversial, but the Norwegians wouldn't do the same to the US.
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The Reason Why Nobody Likes Your Content(trendblog.net)
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Wyden Warns of Potential Public Backlash From Allowing Secret Law (2011)(youtube.com)
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Printer steganography(en.wikipedia.org)
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Life hacks from the dark side(lesswrong.com)
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Using Python to Code by Voice(youtube.com)
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Babbage Difference Engine in Motion(youtube.com)
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On Artificial Intelligence(aeonmagazine.com)
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by msvan 13y ago
Which is essentially dismissing the entire subject of history. How can arguing about things that happened seventy years ago not be speculation? History is not hard science. We speculate, we argue, but we never reach perfect certainty.
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by msvan 13y ago
Jaron Lanier looks and behaves like a total eccentric, and his ideas can seem pretty out there, but I found his latest book to be a really interesting read. This idea is not the same thing though, because the data ends up being more or less
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Jaron Lanier: Why Facebook Isn't Free(youtube.com)
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HyperText Design Issues: Topology(w3.org)
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by msvan 13y ago
There is a marginal cost to Amazon. They're paying the publishers a certain amount for every copy sold. And if they're selling a copy for less than they bought it for, they are selling it below the marginal cost.
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Ultimate Guide to SaaS Pricing(kiss.wistia.com)
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Aaron Swartz Documentary(kickstarter.com)
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Ask HN: If you weren't coding for a living, what would you like to be doing?
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Larry Page Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013(youtube.com)
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Speaking English is Betrayal(speaking-english-is-betrayal.pen.io)
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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good(learnyouahaskell.com)
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by msvan 13y ago
Stop whining about .io being a "hipster" TLD. Hipster is just a slanderous term for someone whose interests aren't exactly aligned with yours. Live with it. .io is great because it has not been polluted by squatters and excessive usage over
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by msvan 13y ago
Where I live, kids under 15 have to wear a helmet while biking. But I never see any kids wearing helmets. Because laws that cannot be enforced will be ignored freely. Piracy is supposedly illegal, but look at the attitudes towards it: it's
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Design for the New Normal (Revisited) | superflux(superflux.in)
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by msvan 13y ago
That's Xunzi, not Confucius. Good quote though. </chinese geek>
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by msvan 13y ago
Go to dribbble.com or some other site where designers hang out and study the snapshots people upload. Pay attention to details. What textures do they use? What about spacing? How do they mix fonts? What colors do they mix? How do they use p
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How to Fold a Julia Fractal (acko.net)
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Creating a Radial Menu in CSS(stackoverflow.com)
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Building a Rotating CSS Cube (Stack Overflow)(stackoverflow.com)
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How I sold 22 copies of my game in 3 weeks on Android(gamedevcoder.wordpress.com)
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