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by powrtoch 16y ago
I agree that the piece is educational in some important ways. There are several criticisms he makes that are still valid, and we really should be taking this as a sign that we need to address these problems. But the part where I think "what
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Of course, in a sense they are subject to this scrutiny. Humanities programs are very often the first ones proposed for the chopping block whenever budget cuts come around. At which time, I assume, they are forced to make appeals as to why
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by powrtoch 16y ago
In the eye candy department... Anyone notice the new effects on the tab rollover? Nice fading gradient and slick animation if you then hover over a different one. Not that WebM and Geolocation aren't cool too...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I was surprised to read this, but can't seem to reproduce the problem... submit a bug report?
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Microsoft to kill off Kin messaging phones(news.yahoo.com)
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Unlikely, according to this (posted to HN eariler today) http://mashable.com/2010/06/29/leaked-iphone-4-docs/
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I don't think Apple is planning on fixing it, as that would require a massive recall. Take it back and wait for iPhone 5.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I've also found great success tending towards minimalist. The advantage is that you're mistakes will be of the variety "this could have been a little more impactful" and not "Dear God why would anyone do a 3d rainbow extrude with 17 differe
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by powrtoch 16y ago
My intuition about slogans is that I shouldn't have to read over them several times to make sure I'm reading/parsing them correctly.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I was hoping "loophole" was a new programming language I could start learning.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I concede the point. Though upon looking it up, she did make a similarly bogus statement. I watched her first big address and thought that I remembered this statement from it, but it looks like in fact Tina Fey was really that convincing.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
As an Opera fan boy, this article hurts my soul a little. But good job for Microsoft (finally), perhaps it will motivate my boys in Norway to step it up. Now if they would just couple it with an aggressive upgrade program, we'd really be in
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Amen. Since when do we accept arguments just because they sound nice? Hasn't a whole lot of work gone into avoiding this black hole of rationality? Hey, maybe supposedly being able see Russia from her house really DOES give Ms. Palin foreig
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Talk about an article with potential for vandalism... people will believe anything you label a historical misconception. I would know, I do this to my friends all the time.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Perhaps Nigerian keyboards are CAPS only?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
What a misleading headline. "Internet Explorer 9 beats Chrome in hardware-accelerated canvas rendering, fails to beat several other browsers (video)". Much better. But hey, gets less clicks right?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Kind of funny really. Once you trust the encryption scheme, the only hope of breaking it would be some unbelievably terrible screw up in the application layer. So if no one claims the prize, they've proven nothing, but if someone does, they
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by powrtoch 16y ago
People play the lottery for the same reason. The point (don't waste your time) still stands.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sharing a color scheme with GoDaddy certainly doesn't help.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I haven't checked their research myself, but I feel like you're missing the point. It doesn't matter that you can argue about different pressures, or about their confidence level, or anything else. They ran the numbers. The tests came back
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by powrtoch 16y ago
One of my favorite little tweaks using opera is making Wikipedia the speed dial search engine. I've already got google up top, so having a wikipedia box every time I open a new tab pretty much accounts for 100% of my search needs. As for bi
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Talk about a difficult startup to pitch to investors.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It's not really rate of change... a better statement of this is that there exist some set ups in which a hotter sample of water will freeze faster than a cooler one, because more complex stuff goes on than simply "temperature--". It's not a
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Research suggests that 6-7 hours of sleep correlates most strongly with longer life. Not that your way doesn't sound great (it truly does), just a matter of priorities :)
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Big O. Sometimes it is nice to just bask in the way disagreements are carried out on HN as opposed to e.g. Yahoo news.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
You don't really get to "define a standard", the W3C does. Standards are about the way the web should be, not the way it is. The difference is between adopting open standards that others haven't gotten around to yet versus inventing your ow
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by powrtoch 16y ago
19? Anybody?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Stuck on level 10... feel stupid because it seems no one else has gotten stuck on level 10.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Feel like I've got a very reasonable looking answer for 8, but it won't accept it... some special trick on how to submit? Edit: Turns out you can make big errors by guessing small details... on to 9.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
One day, I would love to read an article that actually answers this question.

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