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by psawaya 14y ago
The iPhone 4 was announced at WWDC '10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone_4
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by psawaya 14y ago
I like this! I tried to bookmark it with Cmd+D, and noticed you trapped that keyboard event for the duplicate function. It might be better to use shift instead of meta to avoid colliding with copy, paste, etc.
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by psawaya 15y ago
That's a very ambitious goal for an introductory CS course. Still, I wonder if building a search engine is a motivating goal for new programmers these days. I'm sure it's been tried many times before, but a class that introduced programming
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by psawaya 15y ago
> It's kind of questionable that a one-paragraph throwaway rant like this has hit the front page of HN. I was hoping that it would provide a good starting point for a discussion about using Facebook. I think it did.
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by psawaya 15y ago
Here's a good counterargument, entitled "In Defense of Negativity": http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20110903-00
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by psawaya 15y ago
According to this (dated) study, Facebook has a fair share of Gen X'ers. http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/16/study-ages-of-social-net...
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by psawaya 15y ago
Not at all. I sympathize with what rms is saying, and hoped it would provoke discussion about the daily tradeoffs of using Facebook.
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Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."(lists.csail.mit.edu)
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Harvard CS171, Data Visualization(cs171.org)
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by psawaya 15y ago
This site feels like a classier version of Formspring. Nice job!
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Control MIT's music synthesizer over the web(synth.media.mit.edu)
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Social Scientist Sees Bias Within(nytimes.com)
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by psawaya 15y ago
What would the in-person interview focus on, if not an idea?
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Show HN: I built visual password hashing for Chrome and Firefox(connectioni.st)
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In Cambridge, MA, the ghosts of Facebook still roam(boston.com)
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Google: Don't Sponsor Bigotry(change.org)
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Megaupload planned to launch a product for musicians to monetize free downloads(forbes.com)
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by psawaya 15y ago
The Apple TV (if it's real) would definitely facilitate this. Imagine the opportunity to build apps that compete directly with television programming, on the same device.
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Wikileaks: The Guantánamo Files(wikileaks.org)
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by psawaya 15y ago
I admit that it's hard to measure this in an absolute way (and I agree pageviews is a flawed metric), but I submit that in two years, reddit will be as popular as Twitter is now.
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by psawaya 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, has anyone here applied the same refusal to work with/hire someone who was affiliated with building DRM? Or any other example of Big Content trying to cripple technology.
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Thought experiment: what would be the societal effects of instant teleportation?(reddit.com)
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by psawaya 15y ago
Some really good recommendations. Still, I wish I could change the maximum distance for shows away from me, or see how far away shows are on the main screen. I live in MA, and I'm seeing concerts in New Jersey.
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by psawaya 15y ago
Probably grandfathered in. Before 2001, anyone could register a .edu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu#Eligibility
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by psawaya 15y ago
Good call. I added issues, so file away. :)
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How do you discover what users _need_ and not what they _want_?(ux.stackexchange.com)
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by psawaya 15y ago
Maybe. I think the idea of "blocking" a program makes a lot less sense to the novice user compared to choosing if a program can e-mail you or post on your wall. I agree that they could easily become a nuisance and lead to the user reflexive
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by psawaya 15y ago
This is a fantastic idea. I have a really simple Firefox port running. You can see the code and download it (.xpi) here: https://github.com/psawaya/OOptOut-Extension-Firefox/tree/ma... I only tested it out on one website, so let me know h
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by psawaya 15y ago
There's a stream here: http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc
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by psawaya 15y ago
I've also noticed this. I don't know if there's a name for this tendency, but I've called it the "spiral staircase" of knowledge.

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