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Creating Shazam in Java(sites.google.com)
1 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
>That's not how it happened. Granted, you know better than me. >I like to think of myself as a grown up By "grown up" I just mean someone experienced with running the business side. I wouldn't call myself "a grown up" either in that
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by nir 16y ago
>(also pacifism is neither extreme nor wrong) You know, maybe the most militant thing most Redditors ever do is posting commenting online. If you're a pacifist (which is commendable imho) why write so aggressively?
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by nir 16y ago
To be blunt (we are talking Reddit..) Conde Nast were chumps when they allowed Chris Anderson, high on his own supply, convince them to buy Reddit for its supposed "Long Tail News" value. Now they're chumps for not putting a grown up in cha
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by nir 16y ago
>Is it for people with phones who can sms but aren't able to get on the internet? That's correct. There are millions, perhaps billions of these, especially in developing regions. They don't own computers or modern phones, but they do ha
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by nir 16y ago
An Android app that turns the phone into a simple SMS gateway, allowing you to deploy SMS apps anywhere in the world the phone works (without having to install complex hardware/software, deal with service providers etc) http://wiki.github.
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by nir 16y ago
> I think the internet has this culture going of generalizing (making rules) even with little experience. Well said, and probably the biggest issue with HN submission quality.
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by nir 16y ago
Seems to me Android is "Linux on the desktop". It's a user facing Linux-derived operating system, and seems well on track to become the most widely used OS in a few years. Pure desktop Linux never took off, for various reasons (at least s
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by nir 16y ago
On the other hand, when someone reads "echo LOOK_AHEAD" they immediately know it's a constant and thus (a) global and (b)(more importantly) defined once and never modified by the code. With "echo $look_ahead" there's no indication of that,
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Device Lets You ‘Harvest’ Electricity From Overhead Power Lines(ohgizmo.com)
1 points by nir 16y ago|1 comments
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by nir 16y ago
I'm far from Apple fan: my MacBook Pro is disappointing, telling devs which languages they can use is insane, the fanboys queuing overnight for a chance to overpay for the latest, designed-to-expire-in-two-years gadget are ridiculous - but
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by nir 16y ago
Seems to me the promise here isn't just "I'll build you a great app" but "I'll get your app in the Apple Store" (hence mentions of the author's positive record and connections with Apple) - in essence, it's a combination of a lobbyist/devel
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by nir 16y ago
Could non-blocking filesystem I/O (a la node.js: http://blog.kodekabuki.com/post/267934877/how-node-js-expose... ) improve that?
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by nir 16y ago
Once I saw an article on "How to Get a Rich Girl" one of these Maxim type magazines. I wonder if there were actually people reading it and thinking "yeah, I'm gonna read this and get me a rich chick!"
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by nir 16y ago
I always said these "expressions" are the devil's making!
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Pachube: connecting environments, patching the planet(pachube.com)
3 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
EDIT - I was wrong, corrected by studer. (Original comment wondered on the low score of this item compared the the Twitter #flotilla "censorship" rumor)
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by nir 16y ago
Is there a precedent of Twitter censoring "Big Deal" words before? IIRC @ev actually recommended Al Jazeera's Gaza Twitter feed during last year's escalation there. If anything, it's a case study in how conspiracy theories grow: Every Twitt
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by nir 16y ago
OP does have some point in that Wilson's experience is hardly a common one - first, buying an iPad just to see if he'd like it, second, having email/browsing so important to him that he's even considering a 2nd iPad just to make the experie
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by nir 16y ago
I understand RescueTime wanting the exposure, but it's too bad many people and publications will now take this number seriously, as if it has any meaning, just because they were given a number to hang on to.
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by nir 16y ago
1) hurts ageists, racists, etc (that's quite a lot of people, counting mild cases) 2) discourages ageists from starting businesses 3) discourages ageists from hiring anyone Well, they can not apply their ageist, racist views in the workp
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Jordan Mechner’s Multiplatform ‘Prince of Persia’(nytimes.com)
1 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
Consider consider all the various tournaments (Cup, FIFA, UEFA etc) soccer teams play. The NFL season feels like it's over before it began. I guess the nature of the game is such that very few players could last much longer anyway.
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by nir 16y ago
Pessimistic? I'm looking forward to it :)
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by nir 16y ago
Readers from non-soccer nations: every 4 years there's a soccer world cup. A few months before every soccer world cup, UK media is abuzz with predictions that, this time, England will really go all the way. In the world cup itself, the Engl
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by nir 16y ago
Sometimes it seems the quality of HN is deteriorating, and then a submission like this, which you'd think one has to be at least 35 to even understand, gets 149 points. Pretty amazing.
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by nir 16y ago
Actually Palestinians have the highest literacy rate of any Arab nationals: http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/me090425b.htm Good on them, in any case. We need more of that in the Middle East.
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by nir 16y ago
TRS80 comics (at least the ones I find online) aren't tutorials, more like a Radio Shack/DC comics marketing collaboration. Certainly a lot of people donate their time to open source projects. Many of them do it while being paid by a compan
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by nir 16y ago
I didn't complain about Django's docs. In fact I called them "great compared to many other projects". I did note they aren't perfect yet. (Basically I have the same opinion on Django as a whole) Looks like this discussion is becoming anothe
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by nir 16y ago
> A few million creative artists would probably disagree without you, some violently so There are a lot of creative people, for sure. Discussing whether X is more creative than Y is meaningless. Ultimately it's about how X or Y's work

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