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by sequoia 15y ago
I don't have a problem with polls, per se, but the ones coming up lately seem totally pointless. "What kind of OS do you use" is most often the opener for the Eternal Argument. Plus we're talking about a fraction of a fraction of an alrea
902.
by sequoia 15y ago
What's up with all these polls? I don't understand the significance of this poll, besides being an icebreaker/conversation starter. HN seems to be stuck in naval gazing* mode. *navel gazing.
903.
by sequoia 15y ago
The hackerati clearly doesn't like this because of facebook connect. Remember that the average consumer has a totally different relationship to the 'net & facebook (if they use it) than the HN set. I saw your app requires access to
904.
by sequoia 15y ago
A: Tunnels under the US/Mexican border are to be shut down because they are used to transport drugs. B: Well the US Postal service is used to transport drugs as well, are you going to shut it down too??? ahem Do you really not see any dif
905.
by sequoia 15y ago
I never used megaupload so I apologize if I'm way off, but I'm really confused: After this "bust" it seems the received wisdom is that MegaUpload was not some shady illegal file sharing site; whereas beforehand (if memory serves), it was co
906.
by sequoia 15y ago
First of all let me say kudos on the launch; I'm giving this feedback because it was my reaction and others might have the same: The two claims in your site header made me curious: "Dealing in only the finest jobs for the finest people in t
907.
by sequoia 15y ago
When I got to this thread the top comment (by ellyagg) 100% missed the point. He seemed to think people were upset by the idea of sexuality, or offended that a man might be attracted to a woman. Sexuality or sexual orientation is not the i
908.
by sequoia 15y ago
The point is that the argument is totally specious. It's built upon the premise that only journalists are held to any standard of honesty or factual integrity. Can you cheat on your wife and say "well to be fair, I'm not a journalist!"? T
909.
by sequoia 15y ago
While reading Daisey's response[1], something jumped out at me: as a defense for "embellishing the truth" he says: "What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism." Why does that defense (f
910.
by sequoia 15y ago
Perhaps there is a market here: Inexpensive boarding houses for young people trying to get a start in high-cost-of-living job centers. If there were a place for young folks to live where you could get a room w/space for a bed and a desk, s
911.
by sequoia 15y ago
You want to see fewer people in prison?? I'm a prison guard. [...] than feeding my children!?
912.
by sequoia 15y ago
> For others who have not seen commandlinefu.com, it's a collection of interesting commandline commands. ooohh thank you. Without that context I was wondering what the heck this tool was supposed to do.
913.
by sequoia 15y ago
The problem with these "I made this X in 5 minutes" announcements is that frequently, it looks like you made it in five minutes (and I don't mean that in a good way). This phrasing " I did X in Y time" is obviously meant to highlight one
914.
by sequoia 15y ago
https://twitter.com/#!/_sequoia I'm just a guy named Sequoia. :)
915.
by sequoia 15y ago
It would be much more positive and educational (and therefor more useful) if you pointed out some specific errors and their fixes, so people could learn something. What you're doing here is fair warning to people working off this code, but
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Insurgent Games Makes All Games Free, Releases Everything as Open Source(insurgentgames.com)
179 points by sequoia 15y ago|56 comments
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by sequoia 15y ago
Holy crap... That's really quite shocking and makes me seriously question whether I'd want to do business with LG. If you had a 14 year old daughter, would you appreciate LG or whoever paying her to wear a very low cut shirt and make eyes
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by sequoia 15y ago
EDIT: OP didn't pick the picture of the girls, those are actually LG "booth babes." Sorry OP! Metacomment (about the article): The author created a fake photo for the article based on the dialer and app screens and photo of two young gir
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by sequoia 15y ago
I think this diagram is useful not as a user reference manual, but as a discovery tool. I look at it and say "I know that, I know that, I know that- oh! I didn't know that one." I think it should say "Prerequisite: complete vimtutor" at t
920.
by sequoia 15y ago
Take a look at the current comment #3 on this page "As someone who is thinking about learning Vim, this diagram is severely daunting." Can you better understand the challenge now to making such a diagram & choosing what to include or l
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by sequoia 15y ago
function jpgto(){ local jptkeyword=$1; local jptpath=$2; curl -silent -F keyword=$jptkeyword -F file="@$jptpath" jpg.to/finish.php >> /dev/null; echo "http://jpg.to/$jptkeyword"; } [you@home]
922.
by sequoia 15y ago
...and you would be correct.
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by sequoia 15y ago
I apologize for the last word of my reply. I'm not sure why it was truncated, it just said "Leave".
924.
by sequoia 15y ago
>You said in another thread that English isn't your first language. I'd suggest you temper your accusations in light of that knowledge. As a native English speaker, I would like to point out that alecco is _correct_ when he interprets t
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Hacking America's Future [Radio show discussion on OnPoint](onpoint.wbur.org)
1 points by sequoia 15y ago|0 comments
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by sequoia 15y ago
I'm very confused... why aren't the scripts in the footer? Because of inline javascript? What problem is this solving? What does this have to do with jQuery in particular? I'm very confused...
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by sequoia 15y ago
http://screencast.com/t/yZIkmNkMV8wp ^ Fresh Opera install. Opera ships with DDG but not as the default. Frankly I would guess that the impact this has is insignificant: Opera has a small user base in the first place, and ddg is just
928.
by sequoia 15y ago
I may have missed some of the context here, but it looks like SA was able to force a significant policy change at Reddit in less than a single day . I know there was a lot of lead up, but still, wow. They obviously take the "goons" quite
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by sequoia 15y ago
I'm as tinfoily as the next guy, but I don't think buying a mask on amazon is going to land you in a reeducation camp. Wearing a mask hardly makes one a Ted Kaczynski.
930.
by sequoia 15y ago
>Congress also controls the funding though they have been slack to use that power. I think that brings us full circle: "...and denounce the pacifists [or legislators who might defund unpopular military actions] for lack of patriotism [

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