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811.
by neilk 14y ago
The "pirate supply store" at 826 Valencia is a landmark. http://goo.gl/maps/1XBK4 http://826valencia.org/store/
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It's hard to troll the Haskell community(gist.github.com)
12 points by neilk 14y ago|2 comments
813.
by neilk 14y ago
Good. If you make it clear that the business plan is to sell it to PTs then it's a selling point for me. I admit I am in a very weird Hacker News type demographic though, maybe normal people are just like "free is good".
814.
by neilk 14y ago
Nice idea. I've been saying this forever - getting friends involved in matching was the way forward for dating sites. But all glory to the person who executes. This also removes the stigma of being on the site - you're not there for you, yo
815.
by neilk 14y ago
There's a definite need for this, but what's the business model? I'm wary of ad-supported services, because they tend not to last.
816.
by neilk 14y ago
Yeah, the Bay Area will do that to you, especially if you're on a visa. Your status, self-worth, and even your ability to stay in touch with your friends are all tied to giving some job 60-70 hours a week. I sympathize. I think you're aware
817.
by neilk 14y ago
I have this vision of you meeting the guy and it turns out to be your cofounder. Awkward. :)
818.
by neilk 14y ago
I kind of want to punch the guy who said "no programmer would do this" in the nose. I'm glad you didn't let that person tell you who you were, or what you could be. You wanted to do a thing. You made the computer do that thing. Programmer.
819.
by neilk 14y ago
SEO.
820.
by neilk 14y ago
In my opinion, it was a misjudgment, but think about what using Twitter is like. Something ticked her off. She snapped a picture of it, as she had done dozens of times per day probably. She probably had no idea of the consequences. Even if
821.
by neilk 14y ago
You could also play Quake over the internet in the 90s, which should show you that Quake is not IO-bound.
822.
by neilk 14y ago
MediaWiki uses lots of caching on the server, but the question is how hard it would be to move rendering to the client. For a sense of how hard this would be, try using the Special:Export page on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spe
823.
by neilk 14y ago
It would be impossible to move rendering to the client. Transforming wikitext into HTML is surprisingly IO-bound, since most Wikipedia pages transclude many other pages for templating and logic. It's very slow now, and you need to be close
824.
by neilk 14y ago
Obama campaigned on closing Guantanamo[1], restoring habeas corpus for "enemy combatants"[2], abolishing military commissions for detainees[3], etc. Moreover, as an Illinois state Senator, one of Obama's signature accomplishments was a refo
825.
by neilk 14y ago
I think there's a chance that the filmmakers' joke is on whoever commissioned it. Robotically saying 'code that matters' over and over, emphasized in absurd ways – sounds like they're making fun of the brief.
826.
by neilk 14y ago
s/can/want to/; When it comes to "going to war" for some cause, men are very programmable, especially when we're young.
827.
by neilk 14y ago
Put your own oxygen mask on before helping others.
828.
by neilk 14y ago
Strange. I re-invented that technique for some drop-down menus years ago. I'm not sure if I observed it elsewhere.
829.
by neilk 14y ago
If I understand it correctly, it has more modest goals. Freebase was trying to make the uber-map of all data entities. Wikidata is just trying to make data reuse easier on Wikipedia. For instance, imagine a table of all the populations of t
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Parsoid: Wikipedia's new Node.JS engine to roundtrip legacy data with HTML5(blog.wikimedia.org)
5 points by neilk 14y ago|0 comments
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Vi Hart on what you can learn from thoughtless negative comments(youtube.com)
3 points by neilk 14y ago|0 comments
832.
by neilk 14y ago
Woo, a TTL (time to libertarian) of 10 minutes! This is being done by the carriers themselves, not the government. And by the way, what makes you think the carriers don't understand their own business? Here's a Wikipedia page to review: ht
833.
by neilk 14y ago
The strange thing in this quote is that they think Yahoo has office managers. Yahoo is a giant faceless tech company and the things an office manager would do are split between a dozen other faceless contracting companies.
834.
by neilk 14y ago
You're right but it's not as benign as you suggest. Our genes are stupid. They don't care if you are happy or not, as long as you are potentially reproductively successful. They are so stupid they can't even tell the difference between drug
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Interactive essay/tool on proportions in web typography(lamb.cc)
2 points by neilk 14y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 14y ago
Blanket statements wouldn't be fair, but she's caveating it with "might" every paragraph. But I think these dysfunctional patterns are more the norm than the exception today.
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by neilk 14y ago
I hear you. It's very difficult. In this town, people have to squint at their schedules to find a free hour for their best friends. And yet, somehow, they always have the time to respond to you instantly on Twitter or Facebook. All my frien
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by neilk 14y ago
> Average people were a foot shorter, and were probably at an IQ level around 70-75. A foot shorter, yes (we know this from all sorts of physical evidence) but how do we know the average IQ? They also might have spent their mental proce
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by neilk 14y ago
When I worked on a student newspaper in Montreal, a photographer of ours was once detained by Metro (subway) cops and beaten in a back room. I did the followup and a cop read the police report to me over the phone. It detailed how the photo
840.
by neilk 14y ago
This isn't a JavaScript quiz. Mostly it tests if you know how numbers really work, operator precedence, and some obscure coercion rules. Boring. The only slightly relevant question, I thought, was what typeof NaN was. Not knowing that might

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