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by tintin 15y ago
"Why in the hell is this nonsense being posted to HN?" I think it's a very interesting business model. One way to kill the movie and music industry is to give artists a better place to sell there art.
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by tintin 15y ago
"1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964." gave me a big smile...
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by tintin 15y ago
You are right. Money is the worst motivation for a job. Money is just a small part of salary.
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by tintin 15y ago
I always use white text on a black background for presentations. I thought that would give the best contrast. Does anyone know why black on white would be better?
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by tintin 15y ago
As a webdeveloper I hope this won't be the future: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1"> This might be the edge of HTML5, but is regression of the internet. Remember the "This site should be viewed in IE5 or
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by tintin 15y ago
Someone mentioned 3D printers in another post and got downvoted for it. But think about it. You invested a lot of time into creating an object everybody likes. People can get it in a online shop and it will be send to there address. Now a c
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by tintin 15y ago
No it is not. His point is: get to the root of the problem. And he notices that it has to get worse before people understand this. I totally agree with him. It's like the bugs get fixed, shitty lasts forever. Most of the time fixing a bug m
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by tintin 15y ago
From the article: "An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days." When these transitions only took 60 days, why not take another look at the 'severa
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by tintin 15y ago
I was comparing the laws of theft. It's just the law that a copyright owner can ask whatever for it. When you obtain a copy without flowing this rule it is called theft. So I think the discussion should be about the copyright law. Not about
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by tintin 15y ago
If it was so simple to do in 60 days I wonder why they don't question the several billion years.
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by tintin 15y ago
When I started making enough money to buy a car I put an end to my car stealing habit for some time. See how silly this sounds? The problem with digital media is that it's very easy to copy. You can't just copy a car. There are tons of webs
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by tintin 15y ago
I think it's the complete marketing package. The website is just the result of a complete new marketing strategy. But still.. that's some serious money thrown away.
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by tintin 15y ago
Very true. What if it was a screenshot of a secret CATalog? Or a scan of some secret Company Anonymous Transfer or whatever. So I hope they never took a look at the "cat.jpg" file because you just cannot tell what's inside.
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by tintin 15y ago
Same for blogspot.com
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by tintin 15y ago
Why not ask PG to change it?
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by tintin 15y ago
Blacking out a relatively unknown website as HN is not going to work. But what about not using the internet on SOPA day? That would make a statement. If all tech companies just stopped using the internet for one day, people might get a litt
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by tintin 15y ago
Each sleep cycle takes 90-110 minutes. Each cycle has 5 steps. So each step takes about 20 minutes. But if your cycle takes 90 minutes your first step will take about 18 minutes. So if you wake up after 20 minutes you will be in the first 2
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by tintin 15y ago
I very much agree with you. Although this week all the Google+ stuff first unavailable in Opera is now visible. Maybe Google is just playing safe and only launches when they are 100% sure the browser supports the app.
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by tintin 15y ago
They could also just block all SOPA voters from access to there services. Most of the pro-SOPA companies have knows IP-ranges.
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by tintin 15y ago
This is why I think Apple is more or less behaving the same as the movie institutions. I think it's strange because Apple can be innovative. But lately they try to sue everyone to preserve there dominant position. Maybe large companies do t
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by tintin 15y ago
The 'book' Wreck this journal can be a nice start for people who are having difficulties doing something different, by destroying the book for instance: http://www.wreckthisjournal.com/
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by tintin 15y ago
Don't think so. Don't forget how many 'normal' phones there still are being sold.
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by tintin 15y ago
Why not create a Wifi network? There are plenty of router upgrades making this available.
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by tintin 15y ago
Sometimes it is confusing because a lot of animations and tricks are in fact related to a browser version. When a browser vendor releases access to a Javascript API that can control your CPU fan speed it has nothing to do with HTML, CSS or
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by tintin 15y ago
I think the author is expressing that if you (only) let external sources be the inpiration of who you are, you will lose yourself. That's why it is important to create (also).
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by tintin 15y ago
Maybe it's much cheaper to create your own 3D model of a nuke and let it print in 3D (or print it yourself if you happen to own a 3D printer). Or print your own brain as lamp: http://www.lervik.se/index.asp?func=show&cat=Collection&...
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by tintin 15y ago
Blackberry is very popular because they offer a free IM service. And teens say they can type much faster on a keyboard than on a touchscreen. Those are the motivations of the teens here. After there big service-down-time a lot of people swi
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by tintin 15y ago
This is exactly the reason why I keep my mobile as long as possible (years). It is a shame to see all the waste we ship to counties like Ghana and Nigeria and call it recycling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste
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by tintin 15y ago
When you think this is a joke you should read Peopleware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects...
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by tintin 15y ago
There was once a documentary about the mass games. It was very strange to see that a lot of people were very honored to play for the big leader. They had little to eat, had to work hard, but they were doing it all for the big leader. If you

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