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by sarreph 10y ago
> And Gates is probably closest to a scientist, although I'm not aware of any research by him. Gates' only research paper[0] is one on the Pancake Sorting algorithm[1] — which he wrote in his second year at Harvard. [0] - http
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by sarreph 10y ago
Saddens me how plutocratic the patent system is...
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by sarreph 10y ago
Oops! You're correct. Apple is indeed the 'great artist' here. I am aware Steve Jobs popularised the quote; hence why it was relevant. Thanks for pointing out the flaw in my metaphor. Perhaps a better analogy would've be
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by sarreph 10y ago
Your edit commit message ("Added specificity") is really quite vague, which — ironically — is the opposite of the definition of specificity. ;) I mean no harm with my comment; it's made in jest. Hope you don't mind...
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by sarreph 10y ago
To be honest, I'm not going to hold a "butthurt" brag here-and-there against them. They've offered a revolutionary — one that can improve people's HEALTH° — software product at no cost to the consumer . The moment
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UnBox the Chomsky Archive – MIT Libraries(libraries.mit.edu)
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by sarreph 10y ago
Seems like Tony Stark isn't a character necessarily bound to a fictional world, after all.
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by sarreph 10y ago
This. Thankfully, the only thing 'foundational' about the web is the pure languages that it is built upon, and not its frameworks. The reason I had a 'web-development epiphany' is that I moved away from for months fleeti
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by sarreph 10y ago
> "By then, 16K might exist, back at the $5000 price point. Maybe." I appreciate the author saying 'maybe' because I can't, off the top of my head, understand why 16K would add any benefit over 8K... Aren't
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by sarreph 10y ago
Good point — but why would they do that, when they're so set on the UX benefits of retina assets? They seem to manage it everywhere else on their site... Couldn't they lazily-load a 2x gif, or use CSS transitions?
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by sarreph 10y ago
I must say, as the inventors of the Retina Display, they're doing goof by serving waiting message assets at 1x. Hopefully, it's just me — but I'm running it on Safari on OS X...
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by sarreph 10y ago
As smt88 says in the comments: > You can't. If you value the relationship, don't do this. While I agree that there is never a water-tight way to protect personal relationships, it is possible to retain them in a business scenar
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Ask HN: Is the Web the future of indie games?
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Ask HN: Is there anything like NewGrounds these days?
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by sarreph 10y ago
If you continue to give a misinformed, divided public chances at irreversible, macro decisions, then they will eventually vote in favour. This is why these kinds of decisions are not plebiscites!
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by sarreph 10y ago
I do not personally understand how healthcare — the fundamental preservation of human life — allows for this kind of risk exposure. Many programmers in the tech community know that half of the listed time (12 hours) of solid work is enough
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by sarreph 10y ago
> I’m good at bullshitting. Writing. I applaud the author's honesty, but perhaps it's not the best idea to proclaim your flair for bending the truth in an article that promises an elusive answer.
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by sarreph 10y ago
I assume he/she wants our emails?
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by sarreph 10y ago
To their credit, it was a nonetheless subtle mistake. :)
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by sarreph 10y ago
What a shame that you had to expose everyone's mistakes like this in such a blanket fashion. You could've taken the moral high ground and created a reverse-search such as HaveIBeenPwned[0], whereby you check repos you own. I hope
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by sarreph 10y ago
> "Use By: (date)", or "Best if Used By: (date)" Since one contains the other, seems like this could be open to packaging errors. Much better to use an alternative verb for 'best if used by', i.e. 'disp
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by sarreph 10y ago
Epic! I take it back in that case. Perhaps making it more clear that you're the creators in that case? Unless I'm being my ignorant self again :)
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by sarreph 10y ago
Irks me slightly that they use a 3rd-party°° FrontDoor[0] (chat via Slack) integration to talk to potential customers, instead of a proprietary implementation of their own platform. Yes, it's technically a different thing (user->com
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by sarreph 10y ago
Better still - Copyright (c) range(2001, 2018) ;)
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by sarreph 10y ago
Forgive me, nmat, but 'Snapshat' sounds like a niche spin-off app and a missed opportunity for those wanting to share something else of a private nature. :)
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by sarreph 10y ago
I agree, and I can't imagine how much Chomsky is cringing about it right now[0]. But the sad truth is that psychological phenomena only become identifiable by the general public once they've entered our lexicon under catchy names,
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by sarreph 10y ago
The closing arguments of this documentary, where the author brings the timeframe to the present , that talk about the reinforcement of content across groups in social networks, are incredibly poignant and relevant to the 'fake news&#x
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by sarreph 10y ago
Insanity is when you wake up screaming that your build failed, and then realise you weren't dreaming.
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by sarreph 10y ago
> Particularly for webpages with complicated structures, we have to nest dozens of components from the inside-out, where those callback functions are passed through from parent to child components across layers and layers. Does anyone ha
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by sarreph 10y ago
> If you are all like 'lol JS has no types, look at my fancy Scala code' then I'll smack you with my Haskell ADTs. Gave me a good chuckle... But on a serious note, at least the author is providing a programmatic solution t

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