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by powrtoch 16y ago
Agreed: if you can watch it, you can save it. Also, as a point of interest: Last I checked, Netflix (Silverlight based streaming) serves up its videos in a series of tiny chunks (you can look at this with e.g. Safari's Activity window). I d
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I simply don't understand how Dawkins can give a real life example of a person very successfully keeping his beliefs totally separate from his related work and still say that we should care what that person believes. If being an "hone
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by powrtoch 16y ago
To be fair, they of course were right. There are unique aesthetic values in silent film, and adding dialogue does do away with them (otherwise they wouldn't be unique values). They simply discovered that people consider it a worthwhile trad
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Many of the cues you're referring to are already present in 3d and 2d movies. They're things like focus, texture, "what's covering what", how quickly something moves relative to the viewer, etc.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The top rated answer has a couple of interesting techniques to get around this problem. Also, not everyone has a Gmail account. I'm sure virtually everyone on HN does, but some of us also wind up making websites for people who are less savv
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Awesome, I look forward to that.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Am I the only one who was really hoping for some specifics about what they're doing and plan to do about content farm rankings? Without that, the article is virtually devoid of content other than "we're really not so bad!" Edit: By specific
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Agreed. It seems like it may just be a PR move... Larry doesn't have Eric's growing reputation for slight creepiness. People might like the idea (whether it's true or not) that he's the one making all the calls.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sounds pretty similar to the network "Up next" ads that run along the bottom everytime a show cuts back from commercial or is about to end. The difference would be that you are "already watching TV", in the same sense that Google had you "a
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by powrtoch 16y ago
As a side note, if you run the experiment with infinite monkeys , you get Hamlet almost instantly (that is, the shortest amount of time in which it possible to write Hamlet).
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Disappointed to see Twitter among the most popular apps. For mobile devices the native-app-front-end-for-existing-websites was arguably necessary and beneficial, but for desktop clients it really feels like a big step back to start moving b
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Not to take away from the brilliance of this, but is it actually a good idea to encourage people to pee as hard as possible each time they use the restroom?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I don't know that it's anything to worry about. When you throw a bunch of analytical people into a rating system, it's only natural that they'll be searching out its weak points. A lot of us have probably noticed various weaknesses in the k
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Here's what I would like to say about this issue of a font being for a purpose: Yes, most of the examples presented on this site are heinous and tremendously bad typeface choices. But that has nothing to do with the fact that comic sans was
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by powrtoch 16y ago
While I was able to follow the Aaronson article with no particular trouble, I can't seem to grok this. I'd be very grateful to anyone who could give a slightly lower level explanation.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I've not familiar with his writings prior to this, but you seem really, really certain that he unfairly despises the rich and is unthinkingly attached to this position without regard for the evidence or the greater good in general. Person
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Pain, yes. Fear, debatable. Fear plays a role in helping people to assess danger, and in making decisions related to your survival and well being. Neither of these things require a fear response though. The article mentions that the woman
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The list is basically identical to every "most common passwords" leak that's come out since the beginning of the web. Even "monkey", which the author seems to think is quirk of the Gawker community, is known to frequently be a top 20 passwo
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Thanks for the info. Perhaps I just got better about writing clean markup around the same time I started using XHTML, and confused the two. I suppose now's as good a time as any for me to embrace HTML5.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"But it's almost 2011, who’s still using XHTML anyway?" This caught me totally off guard. My experience has been that XHTML is much easier to manage across browsers than HTML 4. Can anyone chime in as to whether I'm crazy?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"You think of morality as being a really high-level behaviour. To be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing." Where do people think that high level behavior comes
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by powrtoch 16y ago
CSS letter-spacing is under-utilized on the web. Obviously I'm not suggesting it be used for body text, but elsewhere it's a very easy way to make your design stand out online and give the feeling that a print-design level of attention to d
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Great article. Lots of good, concrete points, which is unusual for the subject matter. This seems like an article for new designers, so I'll go ahead and chime in that I think the single most crucial thing you can do when choosing a typefac
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Well... it's possible to notice it's silly and unoriginal even if you do like it, and saying it's poor seems like another way of saying that one doesn't like it. If her goal is to get famous and have hit songs though, I suppose we do have
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The point of the article is to argue that all sites like this (HN, Reddit) will devolve into 4chan. The fact that it has a large user base does not make up for the fact that it's full of banal memes, porn, racism, and idiocy.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It's interesting how 3D, holographic interfaces have been in so many sci-fi movies etc., yet they all seem to get referred to as the "Minority Report" interface. Relevant: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HolographicTermin...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Requires extra hardware, and I have to imagine that the vast majority of people would prefer to listen to their 16 GB of mp3s. I think you're just in the minority on demand for this feature.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I see what you did there.
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New York professor installs camera in head(cnn.com)
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"The physics behind the Bose-Einstein condensation is the transition from a particle-like behavior at high temperatures to a wave-like behavior at cold temperatures" I'm no physicist, but isn't this backwards?

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