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by tomkin 13y ago
In my observation the blue states are less racist, so I agree with you. I guess shitting on SF is the trendy thing to do, so I expect that from a few. OP must have met a girl in Calgary that wouldn't go all the way with him.
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by tomkin 13y ago
Downvoted for your blanket statements about an entire populace. Calgary might be more racist? Based on? Most major Canadian cities are close to the US border, for three very important reasons: geography, temperature & economy. Geograp
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by tomkin 13y ago
This tech bubble is different. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
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by tomkin 13y ago
One crazy person with a great idea really has a chance to make it in today's world. This entire video and app could be made by 1 person to demonstrate the power of their ideas. I love that we live in a generation where we have the tool
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by tomkin 13y ago
I think in hast, my wording wasn't as specific as it should have been. My point is: I don't value the opinion that it is not important. Not when you see what happens without it. It's pure fallacy to suggest that web fonts are
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by tomkin 13y ago
You know what's annoying? Having to wait for JavaScript to download before I can click on a menu. You know what's annoying? Having to wait. Waiting is annoying. But at the end of the day, a web without typography freedom is not a
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by tomkin 13y ago
Secret...hmmm, oh right. That app that only has people from the San Francisco/Bay Area using it. I like Secret...sorry, is this a puff piece? Because it feels like it. It feels like Secret needs a push, and gee, here they come!
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Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone(wired.com)
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by tomkin 13y ago
No, you are not, sir. In fact, I have to assume that the people who are hyping the UI don't actually use Facebook a whole lot. This is the 10 year anniversary video on steroids. When you scroll through the 90% shit on traditional Faceb
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by tomkin 13y ago
I'm always the guy who stands up for Facebook UI updates, so why do I hate Paper so much? I think it's the fact that I am forced to touch, and swipe through stories I don't give a shit about. At all. Does anyone who is fellat
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Why Canada is where smart VC money is going in 2014(venturebeat.com)
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Ask HN: Has anyone ever clicked on a tag cloud?
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The Guardian – NSA: files decoded(theguardian.com)
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by tomkin 13y ago
This is OK, so long as the social consensus is aware of this fact. When average people hear "This comes with Windows 8", there is an inherit understanding as to what that means, and I don't think the bloatware is assumed, or
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Make. Publish. Share. 3 Minute Screencasts.(quickcast.io)
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by tomkin 13y ago
This is a high-brow flame war. The last post bothered me, and this one bothers me all the same. Let's cut the shit for a minute and examine the lay of the land. "PSD to HTML is dead" panders well to developers. But it doesn&#
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Very strange shadow phenomenon(physics.stackexchange.com)
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by tomkin 13y ago
AOL springs to mind as well. Facebook Pages are very similar to AOL Forums, Keywords and all.
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by tomkin 13y ago
I don't know what the author at Treehouse is doing, but I use the PSD as a visual representation of what I will end up creating as CSS/HTML/JS. Who was still seriously drawing grids and cutting out PNGs/JPGs? The take aw
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by tomkin 13y ago
If your argument is "byte size", images matter. There's no getting away from that. This Marco Polo, Columbus-esc view of "rediscovering the basics" is on ego, not efficiency. You're not discovering new territor
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by tomkin 13y ago
This a strange reaction. I agree that perhaps "this is different", but I am hoping I can assume that the next time I see an article on HN, about another website going down, or losing their data, that the HN community shows as much
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Quantum physics proves that death is an illusion(csglobe.com)
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by tomkin 13y ago
Other than the font in "Jazz Age", you've got something pretty useful here.
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by tomkin 13y ago
I think you're not considering the human condition. I'm not against robots, in fact, I am a huge fan of automation, but I think it's hard to ignore the fact that "astronaut" regularly appears on the top of "whe
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by tomkin 13y ago
When you omit the humans, you omit the humanity of spaceflight. Neil deGrasse Tyson sums it up best: Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, agreed with his interviewer in saying that "t
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by tomkin 13y ago
I think you should take a look at some of the top HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/best The WordPress and Hacker News audiences are different, too, yet here we are comparing WordPress to a static site generator.
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by tomkin 13y ago
But how is this easier than WordPress?
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by tomkin 13y ago
I feel like my response to this article would have been different if it read: "Ditch WordPress. X combines Pelican, and a kick-ass control panel that installs on any computer in 30 seconds." I'm not against Pelican, I'm
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by tomkin 13y ago
This only works if you are the only author/contributor. The technical expertise required to update a simple page is not within the wheelhouse of the average user. The article proposes dropping WordPress in favour of Pelican. WordPress
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by tomkin 13y ago
> You know that you could ssh to the server directly, right? -- and have it set up to rebuild after you change a text file. All of the replies to my comment are coming from someone with higher than average technical expertise. Say what y

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