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by scelerat 12y ago
For starters, it's not Facebook or Google+. Many people are looking for ways to be less dependent on FB and Google+. If the Upcoming folk shape this the right way, both in product design and pitch, they will capture people who are ti
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by scelerat 12y ago
That's a pretty big advantage already, if it's just a drop-in for existing mounts.
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by scelerat 12y ago
> isn't mildly interesting that one of the most common cultural myths (vampires) may have some scientific validity? That's really all I was commenting on. I could have spelled it out like you did, but clearly my tone was not to
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by scelerat 12y ago
This has been well-known in the vampire community for centuries. [edit] More seriously, wow time to start talking about the ethics of immortality.
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by scelerat 12y ago
Since it's posted on Hacker News, this story immediately made me think of things that come up while building anything, but especially software... - choice of language for a project - the decision to use this library or that, or to &quo
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by scelerat 13y ago
After a handful of times of getting burned, I've come to interpret any official executive statement on values or culture as a sign that things are seriously screwed or about to become that way, and that it's time to bail out. To m
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by scelerat 13y ago
Got any evidence for this claim? That people are really opposed to her because ~"she's black and a woman" and not because she helped start a war that killed thousands, predicated on lies and misinformation?
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by scelerat 13y ago
Yes I was being serious. Big red warning: "by using in AirBnB in this zip code you are likely behaving as an illegal hotel and subject to eviction." To reiterate, the consequences for AirBnB if a host is caught is virtually nothin
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by scelerat 13y ago
Or two weeks, or whatever.
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by scelerat 13y ago
Particularly painful is the fact that losing one's apartment in San Francisco is also effectively a banishment from the city. If you're like many people currently living in SF, you can't afford to rent an apartment at current
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by scelerat 13y ago
I guess I'm surprised to learn that any such subletting is illegal in SF. Even prior to AirBnB it was really common to see offers on Craigslist or simply through traditional networks of friends and acquaintances, "Sublet my apartm
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by scelerat 13y ago
I've always valued a midday walk in fresh air, away from my desk. I'm happy to do it with co-workers. At the two places I've worked that offered the free lunch, there was a lot of pressure to stay in the office for the lunch,
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by scelerat 13y ago
I think there are many of examples out there; the simplistic answer to the OP question is "we do; you just haven't heard of them." My favorite is OmniGraffle... you can enter nodes in a text-entry outline style mode and the r
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by scelerat 13y ago
ASCII 0-31 are called "control" characters so it should come as no surprise that you could type them using the Control key. Unit Separator is Control-_ (underscore) and Record Separator is Control-^ (caret), for instance. Most mod
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by scelerat 13y ago
For some reason I'm able to focus a bit better on the task of building up blocks when it's just colors. At first I thought I wouldn't like it, then I got into a few games and it felt subtly better.
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by scelerat 13y ago
Apple already had a unix-based Mac OS for five years by the time Jurassic Park came out, A/UX. My first computer job was at a nascent ISP around this time and most of the servers (mail, www, accounting) were Quadras running A/UX.
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by scelerat 13y ago
In OP's conclusions: "the DOM is slow, so use a framework that batches updates to it." It would be nice to see a comparison of React/Om with some less naive approach to handling Backbone events. In my own apps, for insta
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by scelerat 13y ago
'HED', 'LEDE', 'GRAF', 'DEK' and a number of other specialized spellings are often used for placeholders because they (theoretically) stand out for copy editors and spell checkers.
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by scelerat 13y ago
I can't imagine a better followup to an xkcd strip. Bravo.
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by scelerat 13y ago
And so the precedent is set. This is the direction I see things going: For $70 a month from Comcast you can get Amazon, Google, and Facebook. For only $10 more a month you can add Netflix and Spotify. Want Pandora? Sorry, you'll have t
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by scelerat 13y ago
Most of my work is remote and yet I agree with this. It's part of the reason I visit the office at least once a week, despite a 2-hour commute. There is value in casual conversation. Work topics can be raised in informal ways. People s
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by scelerat 13y ago
I make sure to shave and put on a work shirt. Video conferencing happens, and this is part of the reason, but just going through the ritual puts me in the right frame of mind.
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by scelerat 13y ago
No, even then the songwriters get paid, again, via ASCAP, BMI, et al. Michael Jackson made billions off the Beatles catalog, for example. The songwriting copyrights, not the recordings.
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by scelerat 13y ago
Headphones still look dorky.
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by scelerat 13y ago
Only with a ROM and RAM upgrade (effectively making it a plus). It wasn't cheap, as these components were soldered to the motherboard.
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by scelerat 13y ago
I think the original 128k Mac stopped getting OS (then simply called "System," no "Mac OS" until System 7.5) support at version 4.0 in 1987. So, three years, not ten. The Mac Plus (released in January 1986) did have supp
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by scelerat 13y ago
This is one of the reasons traditional cab services are heavily regulated: to avoid these sorts of battles. It's in the interest of a municipality to have stable, predictable, reliable public transportation. Price wars, selective servi
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by scelerat 13y ago
Yah I recall that 10.2 seemed like first version of Mac OS X that had a lot of kinks worked out. Each release thereafter got better and faster. Apple had one solid release after another throughout the aughts.
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by scelerat 13y ago
> switch to Intel changed that The turnaround started with Mac OS X, in 2001. That's what really started turning heads. The intel macs five years later helped, but it really was the wow factor of having a great Mac- or Mac-like (con
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by scelerat 13y ago
Are there any other modal text editors in wide use? All others I can think of have you strongly in one mode (insertion, typing) and you only drop out of it if you hold down a command key (Control, or pull down a menu, etc.). Before GUIs it

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