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by ojiikun 14y ago
I would love to see someone set up an all-new Usenet network that is proactively disconnected from the old one and disallows any binaries. Especially if it were well-run and seeded by users from, say, HN, I imagine it could be a fabulous p
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by ojiikun 14y ago
I can't speak for Harvard in particular, but back in the '30s, grade inflation hadn't yet taken hold, so it was quite normal for there to be many students with Cs, rather than 90% As like today. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/14
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Perused the patent. As far as I can tell, this guy is a patent troll, plain and simple. The patent basically describes every DVR that geeks were building 10 years before it was filed. True, it's fancied up in exactly the sort of language
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by ojiikun 14y ago
You know those 45% of HN readers that use a Mac? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4422121 Time to start voting with your $$ against AAPL. They are part of the problem, not part of the innovation.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
It is truly annoying that you have to totally whitelist their domain even after step D in order to see the site. Some of us want to selectively enable each flash applet, dangit. #KidsGetOffMyLawn
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by ojiikun 14y ago
If you click on the whiz-bang new button, it just takes you to yet another sad plea to sign up for G+: http://agoogleaday.com/#date=2012-04-13
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by ojiikun 14y ago
We spend our lives devising novel, elegant optimizations to complex systems and we call this hacking. Most people partake in novel, powerful biological augmentation and we call this medicine. Interestingly, in the realm of competitive, ph
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by ojiikun 14y ago
I am floored that so many supposedly top-notch hackers would use GoDaddy. Iff the data are correct, this certainly colours my perception of YC-generation folk.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
No matter what the truth, I can sure as hell imagine anyone would get sick of literally being bled dry by bureaucrats and the media for well over a decade (not to mention, after losing a ball). At the end of it all, at least we got what was
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by ojiikun 14y ago
A 10-second sample misses the point of HQ v. LQ: a very few sections of most albums will sound better at HQ. The vast, vast majority of songs will sound the same. The point isn't that HQ is a little better most the time, it's that some of
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Despite going downhill continuously for half a decade, slashdot still gets the job done for about 50% of the big stories that come thru HN. For more startup-ish news, TechCrunch and GeekWire.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Not formal research, but an interesting read on how specious a lot of the "math in nature" observations can be: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm I personally suspect that confirmation bias plays a huge rôle in this busine
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by ojiikun 14y ago
I can't claim that I was the first to have this thought, but I will post it to provide a possible positive counterpoint: If these adverts are for legitimate, legal torrents, their addition to the client could greatly increase the fraction o
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by ojiikun 14y ago
When you consider how far and over how low-bandwidth a link each bit of data must travel, a geek's first question should really be why it uses so many pixels, not so few. Another salient point is that pixel density/sensitivity aren't just
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Interesting project, but is anyone else put out by whatever frame-destroying script-fu their webpage does? Your site shouldn't forcibly rip me out of my reader app, please.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Slightly off-putting that I have to enter my email before I can even see what this is/does. All I see is "social network"; how does that translate into collaboration tools? Perhaps some pre-signup screenshots, videos, or even an FAQ. I do
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Valve Updates Steam Subscriber Agreement, Removes Right to File Class Action(ausgamers.com)
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Bezos said it pretty well: the key to innovation is the willingness to be misunderstood.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
String together the 4 octets of the IP addy as if they were one binary number. Or for the procedurally-minded: take the first number of the dotted-quad times 256^3 plus second times 256^2 etc etc etc.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Am I the only one deeply annoyed that the article never even once mentions what the hell it is that ShopLocket does, how they make money, or to what ends they want to grow?
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Can't resist re-sharing this for those who haven't seen it: http://youtu.be/hMM_T_PJ0Rs
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Newsblur is going thru some interesting times. It started off as a one-man side project and gave users an excellent alternative to Google Reader when GOOG stripped it of many good features several months back. NB even has a couple truly n
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by ojiikun 14y ago
If you are concerned about stability of a release with regards to compatibility, why weren't you using the ESR? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ Unlike 3.6, it gets security-only updates for a well-defined period o
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Spoiler: a YT eng^H^H^Hmouthpiece handwaves for quite some time about how they fail at distributed systems and can't accurately count views from cached content.