tomjen

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by tomjen 18y ago
The <table> tag may have been designed to be used for table, but this is not what it is used for in practice. Hence screen readers should adapt.
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by tomjen 18y ago
It is pretty pointless to care about blind users, since they can't use most AJAX based sites anyway.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Because you are up before the sun (at least in the winter).
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by tomjen 18y ago
Rail. Ships with sails. Humans can take a lot more shit than they are given credit for.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Second. This is a great book.
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by tomjen 18y ago
I had to look at the url to check if it was the onion.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Part of me wonders what would happen if you just faked some school on the paper. It worked wonders for the dean at MIT, so if you are smart enough give it a try.
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by tomjen 18y ago
You could have the work computer get a filtered internet connection through the "internet computer" similar to the way some companies filter the internet.
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by tomjen 18y ago
An interesting point. But copyright according to the US constitution is something Congress _can_ grant for a limited time "to promote arts...". So this _is_ a case of situational ethics.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Thats because such rates typically assume that the loans run for a long time. If the loan is only for 14 days the interest (given as %apy) quickly skyrocket.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Most likely - anything else would be too stupid.
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by tomjen 18y ago
In another post they had an interview with one of the researchers - apparently each of the test persons who comes in should have a goal (one of them was learning a new language). So this might not be so bad an idea after all.
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by tomjen 18y ago
That is why I am not updating (that and I haven't booted windows up for quite some time)
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by tomjen 18y ago
True, but if you are know to fall only occasionally then you have a definite advantage.
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by tomjen 18y ago
The problem is that they all decided to compete with CNN, so now they are all trying to get the news out as soon as possible. While there is some market for that I also believe that there is a market for well researched, interesting and uni
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by tomjen 18y ago
Not so - the best way to survive a war is to let somebody else fight it.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Studying 15 hours a day is not cheating - it is insane.
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by tomjen 18y ago
How many of those 40 domains is ad networks? Second when are you guys going to make a linux version? It would be cool knowing what I spend my time doing.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Just write a cobol to java compiler and be done with it.
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by tomjen 18y ago
A useful Jakob Nielsen link - thank you.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Because they can skip a _ton_ of angry complainers by treating people a little decently.
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by tomjen 18y ago
This need not be the case - most newspapers suck because they all try to out compete CNN, which only leave time for a small part of the story with 70% of the facts wrong anyway.
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by tomjen 18y ago
Granted, but then at least they are going after companies that can defend themself - had they gone after a startup it would have been all over. Thing is, it doesn't matter where google is located so it push comes to show they could more to
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by tomjen 18y ago
People have a need to belong - well yes, but why is that news let alone research worthy?
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by tomjen 18y ago
Properly because scribd is a YC company and HN does some form of automatic submit of pdf files. I which case the problem should be solved relatively fast because somebody here likely knows the guys at scribd.
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by tomjen 19y ago
You want to double check the tax code. Otherwise you might get charged twice.
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by tomjen 19y ago
Strong Crypto from the ground up. Binary standards instead of HTML, so if anything is broken even the least it cannot be displayed. JS goes out the window and is replaced by a scheme like language that can process HBML as if it was native l
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by tomjen 19y ago
For the rest of you startup guys out there: Don't do this google is _very_ difficult to read and a strain on the eyes. Anything but black text and you will lose users.
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by tomjen 19y ago
Definition of creative (ditionary.com): >1. having the quality or power of creating. >2. resulting from originality of thought, expression, etc.; imaginative: creative writing. >3. originative; productive (usually fol. by o
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by tomjen 19y ago
What happens? Change. And as always those who are too slow to change are the ones who suffer. This time it seems that America is too slow to change, so it might be America who suffers.

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