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by nhooey 16y ago
I think there are too many stories, it's like a firehose. We should concentrate on killing more bad stores so the amount of stuff on Hacker News is a reasonable amount for someone to read. Quality, not quantity.
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by nhooey 16y ago
Well, at least when it all comes crashing down, we can call it "Disaspora" .
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by nhooey 16y ago
This thing needs to move pixels at a time, rather than words at a time. It's really hard to calibrate your eyes to the next word when the length of the next word is unknown. You lose the spatial cues of where each word's position is each ti
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by nhooey 16y ago
There is, however, a purpose to using baby-talk with infants. It just shouldn't be used with children as they get older and have already developed their language skills to a certain degree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_talk#Use_with_i
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by nhooey 16y ago
They don't have an offering on Verizon and some others because they don't have a CDMA version of the phone. With the networks soon moving to whatever 4G is, there's not much point in Apple making a CDMA phone now.
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by nhooey 16y ago
It has a lot more to do initially with how children are conditioned at a young age to think that drugs are bad, a message that is repeated throughout our lives. In the US there is a huge stigma associated with weed, but in Canada people don
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by nhooey 16y ago
I cut meat on my cutting board all the time, and for years I didn't even really use soap to wash it off. I would just scrub the meat juice off with a brush. Now I use just run-of-the-mill dish soap. The whole idea of having to sterilize eve
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by nhooey 16y ago
The Notion Ink ADAM is on the way. It looks like the best competitor to the iPad, and it runs Android.
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by nhooey 16y ago
He is stating the public school's intended goal, which is separate from "the end result". Both the goal, and the end result are separate from his judgement about what the public school's goals should be, which isn't really present in what
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by nhooey 16y ago
The image describing the group sarcastically says: "Vote for Obama, because socialism worked so well for the USSR." Obama's policies aren't socialist when you compare them to other countries. He ended up not implementing single-payer heal
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by nhooey 16y ago
I think that will just result in more articles hitting the front page, and also the RSS feed. It will certainly reduce the proportion of Apple articles on Hacker News, but the absolute number of Apple articles is the problem. Right now
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by nhooey 16y ago
Scientific Opinion on Climate Change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c... Looks like almost everyone's in agreement, there.
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by nhooey 16y ago
> But it's hardly clear cut that we're seeing anything more than a temporary heating phase. It's pretty clear that human activity has been significantly affecting the climate. I know this is Wikipedia, but this article is mostly citat
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by nhooey 17y ago
Oh look, they're making a hardware-keyboard-touchscreen-slider combo that just got leaked: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/03/device.follows...
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by nhooey 17y ago
RIM clearly has some problems with their OS and library of applications, they both suck. But one thing that's going to stick is their contracts with businesses. Almost every business that deploys devices to their employees issues blackberri
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by nhooey 17y ago
> In fact, there are some huge usability gains to be had with an on screen keyboard. For example, when typing into an email field, the keyboard changes to specialize for keys important for creating email addresses. On an iPhone, this
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by nhooey 17y ago
Maybe adding one of the most vital parts about the weather, humidity, would also help. How on earth are you supposed to know if 25 °C or 77 °F is going to be sweaty and uncomfortable, if you don't know what the humidity is?
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by nhooey 17y ago
From TFA: "The licensing agreement is another example of the important role IP plays in ensuring a healthy and vibrant IT ecosystem." I bet nobody's surprised by that statement from "Microsoft News"...