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by po 15y ago
I guess he really borked it. His name is mudd. edit: I guess people understandably think I'm trying to start a reddit pun thread or something. My point is that there is a long history of this happening. Google delisting this isn't going to
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by po 15y ago
A service like foursquare can be useful to different people in different ways. Some people use it as a personal record, some people use it for discovery, some as a social app, some like the game, etc… Many people might initially come for th
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by po 15y ago
This service is run by a long time hacker news user and security researcher cperciva. Read his stuff: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva http://www.daemonology.net/blog/
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by po 15y ago
He's clearly upset about the wasted effort on a cause he cares about, not losing access to a park.
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by po 15y ago
I actually trust tarsnap more than setting up a host and having to maintain it: http://www.tarsnap.com/
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by po 15y ago
An interesting font I use from time to time when I need to do multilingual work: http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html While quite ugly, (it's bitmap based) it contains 43,149 glyphs and weighs in at 10MB. You won't see any square boxes in t
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by po 15y ago
How can Techcrunch say "the group stole four cars totaling $400,000" and then immediately print a letter from the company saying "The total value of these cars was around $300,000"? Even though in this case it's ok if you read the letter, i
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by po 15y ago
I was going to say exactly this. Who you take the money from is the most important part of this. Even if the site ends up looking exactly the same, it aligns your interests with the reader's.
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by po 15y ago
Ha, yes that's the one. I live near yoyogihachiman eki. Hi neighbor!
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by po 15y ago
The idea reminds me of electric sheep: http://electricsheep.org/
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by po 15y ago
You're right if by correctly you mean not like this. The 'correct' way to do it would be to indicate that the field is editable. Once the user has clicked you can enable/reveal the save button if you really want it hidden. Twitter's tweet b
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by po 15y ago
I have always called these interfaces 'scrubbing interfaces' and I believe it's a well known anti-pattern. It used to be popular with flash programming and design-heavy sites that didn't want all of those 'ugly controls'. Here is my rule of
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by po 15y ago
We do our meetups in Tokyo, usually nakameguro. If you want, sign up to the mailing list or subscribe to our blog RSS where we announce them. We submit the blog article to Hacker News but sometimes it doesn't make the front page so it's mor
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by po 15y ago
I live in Tokyo and my business partner Jason and I organize Hacker News meetups every month or so. Usually patio11 takes the time to jump on a shinkansen and make the trip to join us. I myself have been coming to Japan to visit relatives f
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by po 15y ago
Everyone always says that but I've had nothing but trouble with gandi.net.. not their registration system but their payment system. Two separate times, I've had them recommended to me and both times I gave up on the transfer. Last time my p
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by po 15y ago
They are superconducting magnets kept that way through cryogenic helium. They can lose their magnetism through a process called quenching. If you search on youtube for "MRI quench" there are several videos of people messing around with MRI'
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by po 15y ago
See also, the awesome Amasci site discussion of this: http://amasci.com/wing/airfoil.html http://amasci.com/wing/rotbal.html http://amasci.com/wing/whyhard.html edit: Another interesting fact is that the flawed description of how ai
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by po 15y ago
They didn't try to use it to board the plane, he just wanted to show that you don't actually have to buy a plane ticket to be waved into the 'secure' area of the airport.
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by po 15y ago
Interestingly, this kit you can buy has a slit cut into it for a window and it still seems to drop slowly in the video: http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Lenz_s_Law_Demo.html
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by po 15y ago
What is the "special green paper" that shows the magnetic field they are using?
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by po 15y ago
See also: The gallery of flying objects sent in by people who work with MRI machines: http://www.simplyphysics.com/flying_objects.html I worked with an NMR machine in college and would always have to empty my pockets before entering the r
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by po 15y ago
In case you missed it, this article is part of the 'Poul-Hennings random outbursts' section which is a nice collection of thoughts from a very talented programmer. I have always enjoyed reading these: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/tru
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by po 15y ago
I think you're taking a lot out of context to make a point that I'm not sure I understand. First, the democratic constitution allows an amending process so naturally it makes sense that you can repeal it. Transitioning from a democracy with
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by po 15y ago
People often think that academic journals are providing the service of 'publishing' but they are in fact providing a reputation management and curating system. Not a great one, mind you. The fact that the end product is a journal is just an
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by po 15y ago
I'm really shocked about the differing opinions on this. I have always thought that the "my X" label triggers selfishness and suspicion in users, putting their guard up. I prefer "Your X" so that people feel like a team has been formed. The
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by po 15y ago
Make things as vague as possible while still patentable, and no clearer.
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by po 15y ago
I read through this article the other day and it does a great job of showing the position Lego has worked themselves into and how they're trying to right the ship. I think it is commendable that they are trying to go after the girl market w
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by po 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I was expecting them to analyze the diffs and keep a cache of code blocks that are changing in each bugfix. Keeping track of bugs at the class/function/method level would seem to be more powerful.
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by po 15y ago
I think by releasing the sales figures he actually runs the risk of decreasing sales. I think there is probably a segment of the population that would feel bad about not paying for the video but now that he announced how much money he made
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Construction of Language and Identity in LOLspeak(vimeo.com)
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