roberthahn

12 ms·

91.
by roberthahn 12y ago
nice, thanks, wtsui!
92.
by roberthahn 12y ago
I wish I knew if this is a business or a project. If it's a business, I wish I could understand the business model. As it stands, because it's a free app, my concern is that if I use it, then I will probably end up being the prod
93.
by roberthahn 12y ago
What a fascinating idea. I hope this (or something like it) becomes bigger than Facebook. Social networking sites are all predicated on the assumption that people want to be social. And yet, we hear how people are actually becoming more s
94.
by roberthahn 12y ago
A few people in different threads here talk about self-replicating robots or probes. The way they write, it seems as though we already have the technology to make them - which comes as a surprise to me. So: for those of you who have talke
95.
by roberthahn 12y ago
One paragraph stands out for me: ”In his article Dobzhanksy turned Sagan’s argument on its head. Dobzhansky cited the fact that of the more than two million species living on Earth only one had evolved language, extragenetically transmitted
96.
Intelligent Life is Just Getting Started(praxtime.com)
1 points by roberthahn 12y ago|0 comments
97.
Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about ET(praxtime.com)
53 points by roberthahn 12y ago|58 comments
98.
by roberthahn 12y ago
It just occurred to me to wonder if onboarding new users is something better handled by a real person rather than a computer program. A person can better spot where a newcomer would have problems. They can also (on average) do a much bette
99.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Thank you, appreciate the consideration.
100.
Solar plant has generated “supercritical” steam(csironewsblog.com)
188 points by roberthahn 12y ago|74 comments
101.
by roberthahn 12y ago
I think you're right about using the web as an interop protocol. I want to see that future (or that present, more evenly distributed). But I believe the browser is NOT the ideal gatekeeper. The ideal gatekeeper for your contacts is, s
102.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Not at all. Each Apple-like company would create their own inter-op ecosystem for their own devices. In this hypothetical world, Todd would get exactly the choice he asked for - all of the good user experience without the Apple brand.
103.
by roberthahn 12y ago
"I don't know about others, but I don't want to live in a world where my only option to control my house, car, and life is to go to an Apple store." Me either. Even so, I still believe Apple got the model right. If only
104.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Not all tv programmes are captioned. Sometimes pushing the CC button won't work :-) Then something like this becomes incredibly useful. EDIT: Also, (and I'm not sure if tveeder supports this) but making this a web service means th
105.
by roberthahn 12y ago
That's pretty awesome. Thank you for stepping up to work on this.
106.
by roberthahn 12y ago
I wish I could upvote this a hundred times. This is exactly the kind of thing I like to see more of. Is this your project, sunpazed? Nicely done! EDIT: Wait, what? Did that guy really say: "Yes. It's edgy stuff, this. It will ru
107.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Precisely. What I'm asking for would benefit a lot more people than the 20% I'm calling out.
108.
by roberthahn 12y ago
With this one weird trick, you can make the web better for up to 20% of your visitors! Let me tell you for free! Please caption your videos, or make transcripts available. Did you get that? Please caption your videos, or mak
109.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Wow, the OP loves jumping to conclusions. I've seen on HN a couple of threads where people claim that Apple employees say they, at a minimum, need to clean up the codebase first before open sourcing the language. While I don't kn
110.
by roberthahn 12y ago
My first instinct was to be cautious about new languages from Apple - Dylan was supposed to be something awesome until Apple cancelled it. But I only learned of the existence of Dylan years after it was cancelled. Looked awesome, but it wa
111.
iOS UI Prototyping with Quartz Composer(pasanpremaratne.com)
1 points by roberthahn 12y ago|0 comments
112.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Your questions are reasonable. I'll add more: What if you're in Canada? England? France? I suppose my comment was inane, but I hope that any freelancer not working in the States, should they come across this, will stop and do the
113.
by roberthahn 12y ago
ah, thanks, that clarifies things a bit more for me. That said, I'm writing from a Canadian perspective. And it's likely that our laws are different in this regard. I'll be looking it up within the next day or so. EDIT: And
114.
by roberthahn 12y ago
As with anything legal, whether this applies to you depends on where you are. The article appears to be quoting from laws based on the State of California. If you're not under their jurisdiction, it probably doesn't apply to you.
115.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Yes, it's the node of the tree furthest away (at the far right) from the origin.
116.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Oh hey, mbostock - you did some good work! Thanks for sharing. Your idea sounds fantastic - the problem really was with how I perceived the maze (black paths, white walls)
117.
by roberthahn 12y ago
It's not clear to me whether the tree is mapping the paths of the maze or the walls - the transformation makes it appear as though the walls are being mapped but that doesn't make sense. I wonder if this works backwards - given a
118.
by roberthahn 12y ago
Interesting. I wonder if Epic is also looking at this as an opportunity to cultivate, then hire, fresh talent. To be blunt, if you always wanted to break into the game industry, this couldn't be a better opportunity for you to pick up
119.
by roberthahn 12y ago
A lot of commenters here saying the tone of the OP is bitter. I say the tone is human . This team has every good reason to succeed: they spent 2 years of their life working together building something that's now getting significant t
120.
by roberthahn 12y ago
…and for anyone wanting to try out more logic mazes, I suggest you check out one of the masters of creating them: Robert Abbott: http://logicmazes.com/

More ›