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by nollidge 13y ago
I was with you until the last part. Pretty stupid to smear an entire group of people based on the views of a smaller chunk of its members.
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by nollidge 13y ago
I think this cuts out the pain more on the lab side. Note that this is a SNP array, not a sequencer. Current-gen SNP array output is already relatively painless to work with (depending on manufacturer, I assume - Affymetrix 6.0 arrays were
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by nollidge 13y ago
The comic describes allowing popups, but confining them to within the tab, then allowing you to drag them out to their own window.
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by nollidge 13y ago
There's plenty of Americans that are annoyed by it, too. Also please go learn what "ad hominem" actually means. It does not simply mean "insult".
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by nollidge 13y ago
Cite it, then. I went through the slide deck. It talks about aggregating and selling "retargeting personas" based on check-in markers (e.g. "checked in once at a resort in the last year"), but nothing about selling your personal check-in
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by nollidge 13y ago
> They're selling your personal check-in data to retargeters There's no evidence that that's happening.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Of course people get harmed. The harm just has vastly less depth and vastly more breadth.
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by nollidge 13y ago
I don't really get why they call them "spheres". Maybe there's some analysis they did to figure out that they used to actually be spherical, but why doesn't the article mention that?
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by nollidge 13y ago
> Aren't we supposed to be a community of rational, thoughtful people that use facts and evidence to backup opinions? HA! You must be new here.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Since when is "you're doing it differently than the designers intended" a valid defense of anything? edit: not to mention that the countries/territories in question very often market their domains that way themselves .
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by nollidge 14y ago
> You've managed to prove my point in four words and a URL. I'm sure the proof is obvious to you, but how about explaining it for the rest of us?
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by nollidge 14y ago
This has me nostalgic for Klik and Play, though, even factoring in advancements in graphics, this looks to be a lot more powerful.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I think the highest goal should be "learn a framework for how to learn".
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by nollidge 14y ago
> that type of thing would never be allowed in the US for multitude of reasons I'm American and we had that in my high school.
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by nollidge 14y ago
And yet again, here's 25 comments from the Hacker News Pedant Squad to remind you that it's not REALLY cheating if the teacher lets you, in case you only recently disembarked from an 18-wheeler full of turnips.
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by nollidge 14y ago
tongue- in -cheek
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by nollidge 14y ago
Ah, yes, IIRC, most comics are drawn with simple outlines and then numbers are written over the blank spaces to indicate what colors they should be, a la paint-by-numbers. Whereas Watterson wanted license to color things himself using whate
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by nollidge 14y ago
It's kind of rare for our heroes to refrain from disappointing us, isn't it?
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by nollidge 14y ago
Not color, but format. Some newspapers will format a comic with two rows of panels, whereas another newspaper will format it with three narrower rows, etc. So the syndicates wanted comics with panel divisions that allowed that reformatting,
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by nollidge 14y ago
Helvetica's great, but it's pretty awful for body text, and particularly awful on a monitor.
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by nollidge 14y ago
A) Weekends are slow news days B) It's one of those ideas that combines a very common problem with a very simple solution.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Whimsical and heartfelt? I say arbitrary and jejune. Weird, since taste is entirely objective and everyone almost always agrees about art.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Thank you for offering your thoughtful and constructive feedback. Your unbiased assessment of our content is valuable to the Hacker News community.
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by nollidge 14y ago
According to Wikipedia, that style of game goes back to at least 1976: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
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by nollidge 14y ago
That's pretty awesome. I wrote a SCREEN 13 graphical version from scratch. IIRC, the snake sprites were gradient blocks that were procedurally generated, and then used GET and PUT to pick and place them. Wish I still had a copy of that stuf
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by nollidge 14y ago
QB64 appears to compile to various platforms, while VB does not. Also, VB is pretty GUI and event-centric. QBasic is a pretty good local maximum of being quite expressive while still being a strictly procedural language.
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by nollidge 14y ago
The IDE forced those formatting conventions on you, but QBasic doesn't actually have any indentation rules at all, and IIRC that stuff was also configurable.
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by nollidge 14y ago
This was my very first programming book: http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Beginners-Guide-Qbasic-Perry/... Amazon doesn't have the cover art, but it was very similar to this one: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VswbyvRHL._SL500_SS5
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by nollidge 14y ago
No, QBasic is also a language variant. QBasic has functions, user-defined types, no line numbers, and a pretty big standard library that plain BASIC did not have.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> There clearly is a correct way to develop software. That is not at all "clear" to me. I've come across lots of wrong ways, to be sure, but that doesn't point to a singular correct path.

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