theycallmemorty

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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
It's a great book. I'm not a gamer and was only mildly familiar with the majority of the games mentioned in the book but I'd highly recommend it to anyone who finds HN interesting.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
> To be _fair_, the location of a person's birth should not determine the rights they are entitled to. So we've gone from discussing civil liberties to the abstract idea of a Nation State? Either way it's not always racis
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
To be fair, as a non-US citizen I think it's fair for the US government to ask you what exactly you plan to do in their country.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
Thanks > In some countries that's 10x cheaper than SMS or MMS. As a Canadian that's the real shocker to me, it's basically the opposite up here.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
I've heard a lot about Whatsapp and iMessage... Can someone explain why I would want to use either instead of text messaging? Is this basically just MSN/ICQ style messaging on your phone? Why would I need that when I can just us
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
"Get the e-book along with the physical book for a small fee"
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
The incredible take-away from that article is that the deal was struck 24 hours after a cold-call to Nestle's marketing switchboard.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
That awesome landing page literally had me salivating.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
Would it have been easier for Woz to find a different Jobs or Jobs to find a different Woz?
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
To be fair, most people who act like Steve Jobs are not Steve Jobs.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
> it will be difficult for you to answer the questions without delays, inconsistencies or other signs of prevarication. What if I'm a little absent minded and I already have a hard time answering without delays and inconsistencies?
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
Great post. I especially loved the screen shots of the signup and payment forms that very clearly had Wufoo branding all over them. It really goes to show that if you have a good idea you don't need to have all your I's dotted a
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
That Helios article is just terrifying
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
Unions exist for a reason. Consider another large scale transportation project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Panama_Canal
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
I loved the passive-agressive 'encouragement' at the end: Game Over You scored 19 out of 39 Here's a fun fact: If you just blindly clicked 'yes' for every answer, you'd have scored better. But don't beat y
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
The barriers involved in selling used cars are so high that people have established a billion dollar industry by simply taking the cars from people for free and promising them money later through tax receipts. Just let that sink in.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
I would love to see someone experiment with headshots of different people with varying degrees of attractiveness.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
It seems www.angelfire.com still exists in some sense... redirects to angelfire.lycos.com although it doesn't appear to be free.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
Out of curiousity what part of the world do you live in? I'm curious what time the sun sets and rises and how that affects you.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to write a bot that would search twitter for people mentioning they've been summoned for Jury Duty and send them a tweet about Jury Nullification?
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
I think you're in the clear.
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
The main problem I see is that IE9 does not work on windows XP. How long will we continue to see Windows XP machines in the wild?
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by theycallmemorty 13y ago
Not to mention the pages that display actual code.
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by theycallmemorty 14y ago
I agree that the user is largely at fault here, but would you consider this acceptable if the same thing happened on your bank website? I'm not familiar with Mt Gox but it's unacceptable if they don't have two factor authentication. EDIT: S
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by theycallmemorty 14y ago
In theory, would it be possible to take an ActiveX or NPAPI plugin and compile it down to asm.js-compatible javascript?
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by theycallmemorty 14y ago
Regardless of what side they're on, these guys are fighting a war using home made technology. In #20 the guy is operating a machine gun using a playstation controller! I think many in the community here would find that interesting.
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by theycallmemorty 14y ago
Funny, HackerNews is what came to my mind for that point. I assumed by 'you and I' he meant developers/entrepreneurs/hackers. If he was in fact referring to the mainstream, then Twitter would be another great example.
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by theycallmemorty 14y ago
Isn't it bad form to add 7 functions to the jQuery plugin 'namespace' in a single plugin?
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Revenue Canada worker fired over video game creation(cbc.ca)
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by theycallmemorty 14y ago
I'd love to hear the logistics of biking to work in Minnesota in the winter. I live in an area with a similar climate and have to give up biking from October through May.

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