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by shib71 15y ago
It's already an acceptable approach with other money substitutes (gift cards, pre-paid phone cards, etc), where you have to scrape off a film to get a code.
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by shib71 15y ago
Awesome quote: "It was a shock to realize that my teacher and even the library books could be wrong. And it was a revelation that I could trust my own thinking in the face of such concerted opposition."
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by shib71 16y ago
This approach may work with very complex content structures, ones that aren't easy to represent in a form. The AI equivalent to a knowledgeable employee at a call centre. On the other hand, call centres can be very irritating and filling ou
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by shib71 16y ago
How is remembering the pass-sentences different from remembering passwords?
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by shib71 16y ago
There was something about "for SCIENCE!" that was irresistible.
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by shib71 16y ago
What about: How hard design is, and how you're hiring because you don't personally have time to be good at it.
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by shib71 16y ago
For others having trouble getting a timely response: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z6x04wg...
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by shib71 16y ago
I find it interesting that it isn't one of the featured reviews. More people find it helpful than the next most popular, by what is approaching an order of magnitude.
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Fukishima Nuclear Accident - A Simple and Accurate Explanation(theenergycollective.com)
2 points by shib71 16y ago|0 comments
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by shib71 16y ago
If anyone wants to contribute to a FOSS project but aren't confident about their coding chops: fleshing out bug reports and clearly defining their scope will make a HUGE difference.
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by shib71 16y ago
HNs best feature is the HN community, and that seems to have been grown out of 1) the seed users and 2) the guidelines. None of these things are technical features. What the website has contributed is simplicity - the site provides just e
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by shib71 16y ago
Not only is this solution is just as arbitrary as any other filter, it would have a profound impact on company culture.
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by shib71 16y ago
Dropbox sync would be enough for me.
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by shib71 16y ago
If this is true, then the Android app structure is potentially becoming a defacto standard. Not sure if I believe it, but it would be cool.
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by shib71 16y ago
Nicely modular functionality. Would be even better if the events were implemented as actual jQuery events.
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by shib71 16y ago
That isn't a smart-people thing - it's a all-people thing.
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by shib71 16y ago
Not very impressive. No real explanation of the "Facebook solution" claim beyond a list of generic education portal features. And the bad spelling _really_ didn't help.
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by shib71 16y ago
The size of the columns already indicates that. I think varying the colors as well would be confusing.
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by shib71 16y ago
If the basic description of the item (title, picture, etc) are cached in the application, then 2/3/4 can probably be partly solved by drawing mothers into using the "extra notes" area more. Perhaps by turning it into a conversation, with co
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by shib71 16y ago
It does, just very slowly - later levels have words that fire other words at you. It's surprisingly fun. There's a lot of potential here for game mechanics like achievements, challenges, leveling up.
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by shib71 16y ago
Twitter is a good example of what can happen when "meta" accounts get out of hand. I think HNers find them fascinating in theory, but feel that they dilute the community in practice.
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by shib71 16y ago
Why would you use a shortener when there is no need? Especially when the URL is useful as it is here.
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by shib71 16y ago
My original thought was shot down when I read this: The Pipeline API is not a data or stream processing engine.
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by shib71 16y ago
People have been managing their intimate/public time like this for decades. I feel like this guy dug up an article out of an old newspaper (or magazine) and replaced some words with "social network".
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by shib71 16y ago
This video is embedded on the home page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZ9-_EgisE . "gr1d.org is a persistent multiplayer online programming game. Its inspired by games such as Robocode, Planetarion, various persistent online worlds and
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by shib71 16y ago
If the conclusion is to not write a web crawler, the next step is a service like http://www.80legs.com/ .
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by shib71 16y ago
I accidentally downvoted, but I have to agree.
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by shib71 16y ago
Various studies (and my own experience) suggest that there is an ideal number of words per line that improves readability. Blogs are rarely well served by full-width designs, except as a way of adding ads or navigation elements. I do think
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by shib71 16y ago
Granted. But they're a lot more substantial than the crowd-sourced judgement of the ignorant masses.
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by shib71 16y ago
There is a vast difference in "knowing" who was doing it, and having proof.

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