thebigshane

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by thebigshane 14y ago
So give it me straight: not satire? You wrote a post to HN about how those who are complaining about Google Reader (a group you admit is not all programmers) should stop complaining about Google Reader's shutdown because these people could
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by thebigshane 14y ago
The author appears to be playing along as if this is not satire, but I am pretty sure it is. Here is my case for calling it satire: It starts off with caricatures... every single one of these people do indeed have Twitter profiles, an
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by thebigshane 14y ago
The post says that that Facebook Sharing is opt-in: By default, sharing will only happen on Netflix. And the rest seems easily disabled as well: You are in control of what gets shared. You can choose not to share a specific ti
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by thebigshane 14y ago
That makes this even sillier... The popup stays open claiming to be authenticating, while the main page has already returned with the error message "Your sign on was unsuccessful. Please try again..."
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I worked with the dev who wrote this at Wells Fargo You can't say that and not provide more details.... You are obligated now.
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I think he was referring to the whole JavaScript community. For comparison: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript (27,041)
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Donald Duck? http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/08/10/inception.donald.duck...
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by thebigshane 14y ago
For those that actually want to try this... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6465624/how-to-pipe-dev-u...
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Fascinating... 10/GUI is a proposed new user interface paradigm. Created in 2009 by R. Clayton Miller, it combines multi-touch input with a new windowing manager. It splits the touch surface away from the screen, so that u
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Given raganwald's recent "Tell HN", is it possible to keep the discussion on this thread civil? I would assume it is still impossible to needlessly argue politics here, but please prove me wrong.
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by thebigshane 14y ago
How does it work for a minor using Facebook? Are their accounts public by default? Can they friend and be friend-requested by anybody? Are they linked to their parent accounts somehow so that parents can monitor or approve requests? Whe
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Has anyone here tried it out yet? (I'll install it and try it when I get home)
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by thebigshane 14y ago
(Never heard that term before...) Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application [...] LOIC performs a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (or when used by multiple ind
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I'm not sure if I agree with your finger pointing. Because it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Lack of graphics card drivers, printer drivers, etc were always the fault of the vendors, but users don't care about that. They just don't us
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by thebigshane 14y ago
My list so far: No official Google Drive[0] support (but we do have Dropbox) No official Garmin Connect[1] support All in all, that's not bad. All monitors, ebook readers, mp3 players, cameras, printers, wifi, mice/keyboards have
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by thebigshane 14y ago
The "spaced repetition" theory is similar to something I read in Wired[0] long ago, of a guy and his note-taking "SuperMemo"[1] app. The article drifts aimlessly about the guy, but the theory behind the app is very interesting. And the cha
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I would like to see a solution that addresses this issue too. Perhaps something like http://news.ycombinator.com/classic but instead of users who have been on HN for a year, you pick the users. Some AI programmers might suggest that HN
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by thebigshane 14y ago
That is not a fact.
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Who here cringes every time they hear "personal brands"?
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by thebigshane 14y ago
What exactly is the argument here? Were people (non-techies) using the web/internet before Facebook/MySpace? Of course. Are considerably more people (non-techies) using it now after Facebook/MySpace? Of course.
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Related: ITA Software's Carl de Marcken discussing their use of Common Lisp for Orbitz from 2001 with a 2002 update. http://paulgraham.com/carl.html Snippet: ITA Software is slowly replacing the industry's hardware and software wi
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Sigh. Thanks. This is the second time I've been caught with an eggcorn[0]. First "windshield factor"[1], now "for prosperity sake". Looks like I might have the privilege of adding to their database myself this time... We'll just keep th
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Your question could be better phrased: Why do you think most people prefer to read it "inline"? Far less snark, don't you think? My answer would be: because some of my highest voted comments have been snippets copied from a larger wo
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I think most people prefer reading it "inline" and not linked. Tokenadult, please continue reposting.
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by thebigshane 14y ago
context: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Spice_blow
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by thebigshane 14y ago
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Sta...
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Link to the full comic image: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/images/Amusin...
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Do we need a "consensus opinion"? Does it need to happen here? My point is that discussing controversial social issues is generally unproductive. Worth thinking about, but unless PG devotes his next essay to this topic, I don't think anyo
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Is your motivation to discredit him? If so, why? If not, why is your criticism relevant?
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Ok, now I wait until someone writes another extension/bookmarklet that automatically inserts the tl;drs (if any) into the HN front page.

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