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The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird(bogost.com)
2 points by szx 13y ago|0 comments
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by szx 13y ago
NYS actually sent me a letter saying I missed this and that credit, refund check enclosed. Pretty crazy.
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Amazon Considering up to $40 Increase for ‘Prime’(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by szx 13y ago|0 comments
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by szx 13y ago
Your contacts' email addresses (or at least most of mine) wouldn't do you much good if everybody left gmail all of a sudden.
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by szx 13y ago
CPU-bound loads still block the event loop. Modules take care of this behind the scenes (sometimes?) but if you're rolling your own expensive operation threads can come in handy.
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by szx 13y ago
Will look into it. We haven't had time to test with ghostery/disconnect but the site definitely doesn't _need_ any of those things to work (except maybe it wouldn't look very nice without the fonts from typekit). It&#x27
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by szx 13y ago
We initially wanted it to be anonymous but ended up going with login for two main reasons: - Social login means sharing is only a click away, encouraging conversation and possibly more thoughtful contributions. - We wanted to give people eq
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by szx 13y ago
It was an incredible collaboration experience. We talk about this in the "making of" video that should be coming out soon (assuming we make the cut...)
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by szx 13y ago
Perhaps a WebGL issue? Email is in my profile if you're still having a difficulty.
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by szx 13y ago
Creative director (and developer). I doubt the artists have time to read HN :)
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Show HN: Moon by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson(moonmoonmoonmoon.com)
52 points by szx 13y ago|26 comments
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by szx 13y ago
What I found most worrisome about the NYT piece was the idea that "the payoff for a successful Phase 3 trial can be so enormous that drug makers will often roll the dice" . Now, IANAStatistician but from what I understand there&#
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Inequality is...(inequality.is)
2 points by szx 13y ago|0 comments
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Makerbot to be acquired by Stratasys(businessinsider.com)
2 points by szx 13y ago|0 comments
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by szx 13y ago
Next release (Maverick).
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by szx 13y ago
This: "I have little patience for critics who don’t see the value in a liberal arts education. We don’t mock people who have children -- and there’s no practical value to having children."
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by szx 13y ago
How about this? http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/raw/5023284/
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by szx 14y ago
Computers are programmable. Pianos, horses, fires are not. Some (lower level) tasks absolutely require the programmer to think like a machine. Most do not. We have the power to make it easier for ourselves, and lower the barrier of entry fo
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by szx 14y ago
Am I the only one who prefers the older (3GS) designs over the new ones (4+) in terms of ergonomics? Sure, my 4S is beautiful, but it just doesn't feel right in my hand. Something about the aluminum/glass seam bothers me, and so I got a sli
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by szx 15y ago
Am I the only one who feels like the game demo was so awesome that it overshadowed some of the other parts of the presentation, parts that were just as interesting yet probably more feasible? I would kill to have just the algorithm evaluato
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by szx 15y ago
This is exactly what better place (Shai Agassi et al.) is doing: http://www.betterplace.com/the-solution-switch-stations
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by szx 15y ago
Theoretically, the goal is simply to avoid the knee jerk reaction. Accept the reality as what it is, then figure out what you want to (and can) do about it - rather than succumb to your animal instincts. As for why these Buddhists put up wi
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An iOS app measures how small one can make one's face(tinyfaceapp.com)
1 points by szx 15y ago|0 comments
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by szx 15y ago
You could ask the same question about football fans (or any other sport for that matter).
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by szx 15y ago
That makes a lot of sense, knowing what (little) we know about how creativity and connectivity work in the brain. Memories interact with each other and with the outside world, and that just doesn't happen when stored externally. I can defin
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by szx 15y ago
link to previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2080963 one of the commenters claimed it would work (though they thought the whole thing was a joke at the time)
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Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks (with technical details)(hackaday.com)
75 points by szx 15y ago|10 comments
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by szx 16y ago
Oh, you misunderstood me - I used to be on just like you, for 10 years or so, before I quit. I must've written tens (hundreds?) of thousands of LOCs in C++, but I was gradually getting sick of it and eventually almost stopped completely. I
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by szx 16y ago
I, for one, got fed up with C++ long before I ever heard of Python or Ruby. I pretty much quit programming because I got frustrated with the amount of boilerplate code I had to write/the bending over I'd have to do in order to get the simpl