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by sah 18y ago
I had to stop reading when I got to this part, I was laughing too hard: Austin Shoemaker, technology chief at Cooliris, says Internet users are "subconsciously frustrated" with clicking "next, next, next" to view content.
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New solar dish from MIT concentrates sunlight intensely enough to melt steel(dailytech.com)
10 points by sah 18y ago|8 comments
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Political Segregation - The Big Sort(economist.com)
2 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuits(blog.wired.com)
3 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -- "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that grat
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by sah 18y ago
Good call. Done.
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by sah 18y ago
Consulting or contracting
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Poll: What are you doing full-time?
65 points by sah 18y ago|52 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Founding a startup
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by sah 18y ago
Working at a startup
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by sah 18y ago
Working at an established company
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by sah 18y ago
Going to school
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by sah 18y ago
Other
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JSqueak - Smalltalk interpreter written in Java(news.squeak.org)
2 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Why Oil Prices Skyrocketed(livescience.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Mysterious Brain Cells (Astrocytes) Linked to Blood Flow(sciam.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Numbers on Sustainable Energy(withouthotair.com)
2 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Ion Microprobe Technology Reveals Earth was Habitable 4.3 Billion Years Ago(dailygalaxy.com)
3 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Google Docs Now Works Offline(google.com)
5 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Using genetic relatedness to predict future population declines(scienceblogs.com)
2 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes rule(technology.timesonline.co.uk)
15 points by sah 18y ago|13 comments
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by sah 18y ago
To make [case] work as a pure function, you would have to roll your own thunks by passing anonymous functions in for each case to be evaluated and each outcome. That works, but all that boilerplate becomes tedious. I like Ruby's block syn
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Web Browsers and Memory Fragmentation(hackerdashery.com)
5 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
This is a summary of this longer article from the Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/ The author is complaining that the internet is teaching us to skim more, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I don't do le
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by sah 18y ago
Did you really mean to suggest that web browsers aren't taken seriously? I agree that one-process-per-web-page is at least a good metaphor, but I'm not sure those necessarily have to be real OS processes. If the OS can keep processes from
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by sah 18y ago
The reason to prefer simplicity is that fewer bits of information are required to store a simple theory. This makes simple theories easier to use correctly (since there are fewer bits which can be subject to transcription errors, for examp
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Bad guys really do get the most girls(newscientist.com)
2 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Gordon Mohr Takes Us Inside the Internet Archives(news.oreilly.com)
5 points by sah 18y ago|1 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Gmail does look cramped and unpleasant in Safari. The difference between Safari's rendering and Firefox's on Windows is almost as significant as the changes the author of this article made.
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Power User's Guide to Firefox 3(lifehacker.com)
4 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments

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