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by redler 13y ago
Maybe this one? I got it when I was a kid, and it's still right there on my shelf: http://www.amazon.com/Spacecraft-2000-2100-A-D-Authority-Han...
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by redler 13y ago
An unfortunate but common sequence of events, where this: We never signed any contracts or work-for-hire agreements ...leads to these: The agency told me that I could publish the work as my own for the "exposure" I never even
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by redler 13y ago
Are "phone calls" between Android users with sufficiently up-to-date versions of the OS routed entirely over the internet as G+ voice chats? iOS bypasses carrier SMS with iMessage, and, I think, Facetime audio-only calls between c
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by redler 13y ago
To be fair, Apple expects the devices sent to reviewers to be returned. I'm pretty sure Gruber has mentioned this more than once on his site or podcast.
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by redler 13y ago
It sounds something like those "design contests" -- with an entry fee -- sponsored by companies who would otherwise select and hire a designer or design firm. The company is actually buying a vast pool of ideas, only one of which
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by redler 13y ago
For something one might imagine as a coda to Dying of the Light -- and even more depressing -- try the 2011 Lars von Trier movie Melancholia . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/
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by redler 13y ago
It's a bit of a workaround, but one approach is to split the problem into two pieces: display and transmission. For display, you can avoid the cursor problems by using: text-transform: uppercase; It's simple, the user exper
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by redler 13y ago
One key difference is how low you'd be willing to let your remaining range drop. You probably wouldn't feel much fear driving around with 40 estimated miles left in the Accord. But I imagine 40 miles left in a Tesla might cause a
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by redler 13y ago
It's easy to be reductive and pick apart other people's work. Time may prove this to be an iconic choice. But it does look a bit like the logos designed in the early 2000s using the Optima font and a Fireworks bevel filter, high v
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by redler 13y ago
I think the overall idea of 30 logos, one per day, is terrible. It cheapens the brand, and the seriousness of the process of creating the focal point of a multi-billion dollar company's branding for the next decade and beyond. I unders
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by redler 13y ago
It's difficult -- maybe impossible -- to write with no consideration for one's audience, present or eventual. The writer's equivalent of a Zen practitioner's pursuit of "mind like water". "The only way yo
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by redler 13y ago
Seniority, power, ability to control the agenda (theoretically to the benefit of the district she represents), potential to be speaker. These are strong selling points against a primary challenger who would start at the back of a very long
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by redler 13y ago
Qq
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by redler 13y ago
It's also important to consider that Lasik and cosmetic surgeries are elective procedures characterized by elastic demand. Having a trauma surgeon remove a ruptured spleen, or being treated for a heart attack, are situations where dema
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by redler 13y ago
Here's a quote from James' Pragmatism and Common Sense lectures that expresses the idea: Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as mu
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by redler 13y ago
The "nearly powerless regular citizens" in question are, for the most part, political groups looking to use a tax loophole to gather and funnel institutional money to their causes. Not only weren't they "in many cases pr
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by redler 13y ago
The design is obviously polarizing and leaves many questions unanswered. But one surprising and promising development is that Cook said this would be a platform for "the next ten years." In the face of fears that Apple would aband
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by redler 13y ago
To see why it's not worded that way in the Wikipedia article, imagine each sentence in the article implicitly preceded by "According to source x,..." -- source x of course being the relevant citation. If the cited source stat
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by redler 13y ago
For those who stick with these kinds of projects, it would be much more interesting to hear about what happens next, in retrospect. The discovery of the next 90 percent of the work, then the next 90 percent after that, and after that. Movin
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by redler 13y ago
It may be counterintuitive, but sometimes it's better to bill nothing at all for something like this than to get involved in the minutiae of billing in small increments for specific tasks. This enables you to remain psychologically anchored
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by redler 13y ago
As an acquisition, Hulu is essentially a bag of content contracts with expiration dates. The infrastructure has value, but it's probably incidental to an acquirer like Yahoo. The challenge is to turn that bag into a property with lasting va
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by redler 13y ago
Maybe they'll call it "Bang!"
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by redler 13y ago
While a public medium like a blog may not always be appropriate, writing about your struggle can often help you formalize the problem, reason about it in new ways, and suss out solutions. While grappling with the problem, quietly thinking,
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by redler 13y ago
My IP has been banned on occasion because I tend to read HN by opening a bunch of tabs. When my browser inevitably becomes unresponsive and has to be restarted, that rush of a couple of dozen new requests as the tabs all come back online tr
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by redler 13y ago
Trolling, I assume? Just in case not: your own oh-shit moments (forgot that WHERE clause?), coding errors and oversights, bad luck, adversary SQL injection because the contractor who wrote some obscure admin page two years ago didn't know w
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by redler 14y ago
You can't spell "autonomy" without "money". Well, yes you can. But the point stands -- replace autonomy with money in that sentence. There are organizational pathologies that lead to big companies not hiring the most talented and independen
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by redler 14y ago
This should be the name of the pigment that imbues those cheap bunches of flowers at the local deli with their artificially bright neon petals.
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by redler 14y ago
The downvotes are likely because they're reading your MySQL-to-Postgres anecdote as the firing of a shot in an unrelated battle many love to hate, if not a mild troll.
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Amazon on the other hand. Amazon is killing it. In every single field they enter. Nobody can compete with them in any field they decide to enter. Nobody can compete with them because they are choosing, through their pricing strategy, to m
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by redler 14y ago
You cover a lot of ground here -- socialized medicine, Obama, government regulation, "initiation of force", the fall of the Soviet Union. But just to select one: "...as someone who can pay for my own healthcare..." What should be done abo

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