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by rotw 14y ago
> I've been trying to work through Marx recently too, but I find reading him to be a lot like reading Ayn Rand. > Insufferable and they expect you to swallow the bitter pill of their ridiculous foundations they use to prop up the ph
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by rotw 14y ago
Why've you got one of Thilo Sarrazin's books featured in your screenshots?
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by rotw 14y ago
From the article: > Jobs has become a Rorschach test, a screen onto which entrepreneurs and executives can project a justification of their own lives: choices they would have made anyway, difficult traits they already possess. “Everyone
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by rotw 14y ago
To put it bluntly, Google is happy-clappy hippie wonderland in comparison to Apple, yet there are no stories of the top echelon being absolute cunts to each other. Success is not reliant on dictatorship. You don't have to be a horrible pers
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by rotw 14y ago
>The women are better than in the UK,but far from the best looking in the world. Woo, casual misogyny \o/ >The internet in Germany is borderline third world quality Germany, the completely authentic sub-Saharan information drought e
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by rotw 14y ago
> And I have nothing bad to say about this project in particular, but they are a YC company, and the state of the prototype shows that they already have all they need to make it happen. This project doesn't need money. The campaign seem
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by rotw 14y ago
They do, subtly. It's only major overhauls that are rare. However, I think they'll be working on mobile apps a fair bit and the subtleties of interaction, since Google+ has grown in leaps and bounds through major design overhauls (both the
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by rotw 15y ago
Ouch. These guys are idiots. > 1000+ UN Emails, Usernames & Passwords leaked Most of these from undp.org. The United Nations Development Programme. They are harming aid to Third World Countries. > A Senate for Global Corruptio
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by rotw 16y ago
I agree though, the writing is sub-par. It somehow sounds far too american to quite fit into the Harry Potter canon, in my opinion.
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by rotw 16y ago
"Nowhere near as bad as Rowling, who is an awful writer, but still pretty bad. To be fair to Rowling her first book actually introduced some good ideas, the rest were pretty much universally crap." What? Excuse me, are you serious? Rowling
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by rotw 17y ago
I don't use any of the three services, but the landing page of FriendBinder made me more curious then FriendFeed's. However, it just looks a tad unprofessional, with faded looking colours, unsubtle shadows & gradients, and heavy use of
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Any Hacker News readers @ 26C3 in Berlin?(events.ccc.de)
1 points by rotw 17y ago|0 comments
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by rotw 17y ago
Another teenage perspective. Readability: Read real round figures, not aliased fonts. Convenience: Ebooks win, hands down. But going to a good bookstore is a nice experience. Annotation: Nothing beats proper writing for notes (quick diagram
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by rotw 17y ago
True. The guy who brought his kids up with a proper understanding of rhetoric definitely did a better educational job. The kids of Dr. No, however, will grow up being people who can't express themselves, and inevitably provoke conflict by b
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by rotw 17y ago
The Ian Curtis effect.
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by rotw 17y ago
My favourite subject in school is history. I love it in (almost) all its facets, the military, the diplomacy, the politics, the study of what people did. You can say that my interest began at a young age, reading lots of children's books on
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Improve HN: Home link on error pages
5 points by rotw 18y ago|1 comments
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by rotw 18y ago
Those XML configuration files and bloated criteria actions make Propel look pretty ugly and inelegant. Several Python-based ORM systems such as SQLAlchemy do a much better job.
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by rotw 18y ago
Try the tab feature of Fluxbox (www.fluxbox.org).