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by nir 18y ago
>If that's the standard, let's get Robin Williams, or Brando, reading the phone book Ultimately it's vote-based site, so it has as much chance as anything. Standard-wise, in a week where the top stories were about Arrington getting spat
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by nir 18y ago
Cities seem more natural in that they are allowed to grow as an autonomous system, rather than being designed. Not all cities, of course, but most of the good ones. There have been attempts to design a whole city and they mostly failed. It
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by nir 18y ago
Yeah, I might have been a little excited when posting this, and a bit frustrated at the type of material we've been seeing here recently. To your question, 3 things: 1. Even if you completely disagree with the message, Kunstler's delivery a
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by nir 18y ago
Actually I just realized it's pretty easy to do with delicious right now... #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'open-uri' require 'digest/md5' url = ' http://love2d.org/' del_url = " http://delicious.com/url/" + Digest::MD5.hexdigest(url) html =
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by nir 18y ago
BTW no one gets spat on and he doesn't say how Twitter will make loads of cash or why <some big company> will die, but it's really really a great talk. Really. Please watch it. I promise it's a good use of your next 20 minutes. You
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by nir 18y ago
Would be cool to have an API for this (just send it a URL and get back a list of tags)
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by nir 18y ago
Architecture and urban planning are very close to software IMHO, being about form and function and complex systems. This one is a brilliant talk on that subject.
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TED 2004, Kunstler Dissects Suburbia(ted.com)
18 points by nir 18y ago|35 comments
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by nir 18y ago
This is cool. I'd love to see more stories like this, a coder talks about what he does, instead the linkbait submissions that are taking over HN recently.
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by nir 18y ago
(Off topic :)) Do you find you're truly productive working so many hours a day? (I assume it's coding work?)
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by nir 18y ago
Cool idea. There's already a similar site for PHP->Rails - http://railsforphp.com/ - would be great to have something that works for multiple languages. My $0.02: Allow user annotation (ie, comments). Back when PHP was new, user comme
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by nir 18y ago
Architecture For Humanity are doing very interesting work in the area of applying alt (and mainstream) design solutions for people in need, worldwide: http://architectureforhumanity.org/
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Bubbles(alphaville.ftdata.co.uk)
1 points by nir 18y ago|0 comments
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by nir 18y ago
Sorry, I'm taking that back... I was thinking of Obama's campaign site where you could actually access stuff like /includes/footer.php (at least for a while, seems to be fixed now)
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by nir 18y ago
Having /includes/ under document root - and trying to fix this via a robots.txt entry (??) - wouldn't reflect well on Obama, if they actually had any meaning :)
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by nir 18y ago
I think it was mostly multi-protocol clients, which are not limited to one network, and products that one-upped IM like Skype or gTalk. Other than that, is ICQ more dead than MSN messenger or Yahoo's IM or AIM?
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by nir 18y ago
Maybe there's some HN value here - I've been thinking for some time the next great establishment to lose most of its influence due to the Web will be academia. Universities seem like record companies ca. 1996, or media companies ca 2000 -
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Milky Way Transit Authority(arbesman.net)
1 points by nir 18y ago|0 comments
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by nir 18y ago
BBC is not anti semite (though it is anti Israeli, according to its own report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Balen_Report ) Anyway, I second "no politics" and flagging this. Take it to Reddit.
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by nir 18y ago
Thanks :) The avatars are in the Atom feed, so theoretically yes, but I currently don't have a tag that accesses this particular item. I guess I should some generic 'parse XML' tag..
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by nir 18y ago
Shameless plug: I thought it was a neat idea so I built a similar app in with FeedVolley: http://feedvolley.com/oops - no code required :) If anyone's interested, you can clone this with the "Create a page like this" link on the top right
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by nir 18y ago
Same here... But from the story's votes I guess we're in minority in YC :)
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"The real story is the endless echo chamber of Silicon Valley"(kara.allthingsd.com)
6 points by nir 18y ago|2 comments
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by nir 18y ago
These lists are always meaningless, whether from Business Week or TechCrunch.
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by nir 18y ago
> that doesn't mean that programmers should be eternally complacent and unquestioning minions of code Yes, but it would do many of us good to consider the options from time to time. It's not just digging ditches - you rarely get anythin
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by nir 18y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking... Since it's all GET, a properly implemented RSS/Atom feed could go a long way towards a newspaper API, and might even be a better solution in some ways - no extra code to develop/maintain, no API key req
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Hackerspaces(hackerspaces.org)
69 points by nir 18y ago|46 comments
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by nir 18y ago
Personally I'm not sure, overall, Mongrel was a good thing. The Ruby web community should have focused on working well with existing web servers (mainly Apache) instead of building their own. Phusion Passenger is, in my opinion, the best th
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by nir 18y ago
Zed did poke a hole in the Rails hype with his "Rails Ghetto" rant, and I think it did Rails nothing but good in the long run - this merger, for example, would probably never happened otherwise. Funny how Rails' actual value grew in contras
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by nir 18y ago
I didn't think about #4 - good point. All in all, I think the amazing gap (%50) between Israel and the next nation probably also stems from the high proportion of technology companies in Israel. All these companies that go through laptops a

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