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by sorbus 15y ago
Do you have any proof of that? A quick search doesn't turn up any other assertions of it being fake, much less a good refutation of the claim that dogs in Moscow have learned to ride the subway. EDIT: According to an article on FT.com, 20 d
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Free Textbooks For Students Will Break Monopoly(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
Looks great! Sort of in the same vein as the service that sends you Japanese candy once a month (I'm blanking on the name). However, your website has a few problems (mostly related to lack of information): - What's the difference between th
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by sorbus 15y ago
The current title of this article is "Amazon Kindle's new logo (looks like a rifle sight picture?)". That is ridiculous editorializing. There is absolutely no evidence that this is going to be the Kindle's new logo; in fact, even suggesting
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by sorbus 15y ago
> And I'm not sure selling 10 million would even be enough of an inroad. Elsewhere in this thread, earl claims that around 25 million iPads (both generations) have been sold. So selling 10 million tablets would be a pretty huge inroad
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by sorbus 15y ago
I may be hugely misreading the article, but when it says "The mouse will be anchored to that position and the mousemove events are going to set a virtual position" and "Everytime the user moves the mouse ... the cursor is moved to the cente
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by sorbus 15y ago
So you go to a malicious website and it's able to move your mouse around or lock it in place. That would not be a good situation to be in, especially for the segment of the population that doesn't understand keyboard shortcuts (which would,
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by sorbus 15y ago
Posted somewhat earlier, with a bit of discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906473
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How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter(skeptools.wordpress.com)
2 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
I used it as my first introduction to Ruby, and it was perfectly suited for that. Easy to read, whimsical, and it actually managed to communicate the joy of programming. I've been recommending it to friends who don't know any programming la
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by sorbus 15y ago
While I may be wrong, reading through the comments on Reddit it seems like 5) happened after 6), not before, and was followed by 7), deletion of all backups.
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by sorbus 15y ago
That actually seems reasonable to me. There's no easy way to swap a car out of the train in-station, and it would be next to impossible to keep everyone out of one of the cars in the train. Would probably be better if they had some way of q
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Hey, as for the lightboxes, I'm using a service to run the store, and everything's been working fine on my end as with a few friends. The lightboxes close buttons and #lightbox-contact link don't work on Firefox 5.0, Safari 5.1, Chrom
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by sorbus 15y ago
After clicking on either of the images, there's no way to get out of the lightbox, as the X in the top right does nothing. So you might want to fix that. Similarly, the "send me your site link/description" link doesn't do anything. You also
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by sorbus 15y ago
Your website is pretty but not usable. On load, there is no call to action but a cryptic "Choose a direction". The wheel doesn't turn when dragged, but after clicking on the side of it the entire page moves around before a call to action ap
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by sorbus 15y ago
A lot of people believe in it - and it's the basis for a lot of woo. The hypothesis is generally referred to as the Quantum Mind, if you want to read more about it. Its supporters generally don't think that that the entanglement effects are
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by sorbus 15y ago
Note that this article is from 2009. A pretty important thing to say, with a headline like this - my first thought was "wait, I know that I've heard about evidence for this before."
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by sorbus 15y ago
It also seems like they may have replaced some of the questions and answers in their FAQ - either that or the person who originally wrote the questions was amazingly snarky, especially with the ones near the bottom of the list (the last ite
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by sorbus 15y ago
Thank you for clarifying; however, as I was quoting directly from the linked article, in paragraph six (the ellipses I added did not change the meaning of the sentence noticeably), not from the actual policy, I think that you might be bette
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by sorbus 15y ago
"Among the non-criminal behaviors "which shall be reported on a SAR" are ... asking about an establishment's hours of operation ... and taking notes." So if I see an interesting business which is closed, ask someone if they know when it's o
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by sorbus 15y ago
There's a difference between making an honest mistake and going into something that is obviously a mistake to a lot of the community while possibly lying about it[1]. Sort of like how if I intentionally drove a car off a cliff I wouldn't ge
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by sorbus 15y ago
A bit of googling turns up Truphone - it has fairly cheap calling to landlines and mobile phones (says that it starts at 2.1c/min), and free calling to other people using their app. No video chat, though it does have an Android client (in f
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's not exactly the same. Ignorance can be corrected. Willful ignorance cannot be, except by making the thing that is being ignored too obvious to be, possibly by painting it in neon pink and yellow stripes - of course, that works as a way
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by sorbus 15y ago
Very true. However, they're also a very useful way to make sure that we're all using the same definitions. Since, as you can see, when we have our own definitions we get into long arguments about which one is correct or not, and we try to u
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by sorbus 15y ago
> "ignorant" and "ignoring" are different forms of the same word ("ignore"). One describes a person that regularly ignores something ("ignorant") and the other describes the act of ignore ("ignoring"). So, to say that people aren't igno
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by sorbus 15y ago
Probably. One of the statuses on the facebook page begins "All we can hope for in life is a strong moral compass that helps guide us in doing the right thing and when something happens that might seem unfair we need to realize that those in
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by sorbus 15y ago
That's one of the worst headlines I've seen recently. It says absolutely nothing about the content of the article, as well as raising many questions - how else would you sign into a website, if not through your browser? That said, BrowserID
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's really not that hard. You go to the Sharing Settings, you choose which lists of people you want to see the items you share (admittedly, making a list does require going to Google Contacts, which that page links to), and then when you s
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by sorbus 15y ago
There's an HNSearch API (you know, the thing that powers the search bar at the bottom of each page). See http://www.hnsearch.com/api
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by sorbus 15y ago
That looks pretty great. I love the look of your front page - the only thing that doesn't fit is the line of social network buttons, but those are easily forgiven. Your privacy policy is very much to-the-point, which is nice, but (as a geek

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