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by ugh 15y ago
T-shirts for 3.5k people. Stickers and CDs for 4.5k people. I’m estimating $15k for the T-Shirts, $1.5k for the stickers and $3.5k for the CDs. Maybe I underestimated one or several of those. $26k certainly doesn’t seem unrealistic for the
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by ugh 15y ago
I wasn’t really aware that computer science went into research directions like that. It seems either like classic social science (in this case communication studies) territory or like business economics territory. What approach are you taki
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by ugh 15y ago
I submit this not because of the story it tells (which, while breaking my heart, is clearly off-topic for Hacker News) but for the presentation. The New York Times does a terrific job when it comes to presenting information. They could have
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The 9/11 Tapes (Great Presentation of Audio Material)(nytimes.com)
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by ugh 15y ago
Hm, right. It’s probably best to say that Google’s tablet OS is not open source. It might be open source again when Google unifies its phone and tablet OS.
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by ugh 15y ago
Ok, so the current version of Android is not open source.
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by ugh 15y ago
Is Android still open source, though? As far as I know Honeycomb’s source is still not available.
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by ugh 15y ago
There is no extra window to manage. (I’m using Safari which already has a similar download window and it’s absolutely awesome for me. I hate managing windows.) The new UI also gives a better and clearer indication about running downloads, t
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by ugh 15y ago
I don’t think this has anything to do with the side of the Atlantic you are living on. People grow up in different surroundings. Leaving your car unlocked, with keys and valuable stuff, is obviously no problem at all if you are from a reall
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by ugh 15y ago
Launchpad could be pretty nice but it’s half-baked. One big problem is that it ignores OS X conventions. Organizing it is a pain. One example: It makes sense that iOS only allows you to drag one app at a time. Making it possible to select m
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by ugh 15y ago
I really wouldn’t worry about “dirty energy”. There is likely no effect at all, any effects you might perceive are probably psychosomatic. Here is a study looking into health effects of electromagnetic fields: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.ph
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by ugh 15y ago
There is a middle you conveniently excluded. It's possible to care about efficiency but not quite so much as to want green light. As far as I know it is possible to make LED lights with red light which are more efficient than light bulbs. A
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by ugh 15y ago
Why are you talking about efficiency? I don't understand. The preference for warm light has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with what people like. Its like you saying "but we can produce this green fabric much more cheapl
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by ugh 15y ago
Oh wise prophet, tell me more about what you are seeing!
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by ugh 15y ago
Keep up, not catch. That’s doable.
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by ugh 15y ago
In the tablet market Android is still pretty invisible. Saying that it won is just wrong, at least for the tablet market. It might win in the future but it certainly hasn’t yet.
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by ugh 15y ago
It's a joke (you seem to have noticed that). You are not supposedto use this.
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by ugh 15y ago
It’s unrelated. Color choice is not color choice and color choice for good readability has nothing to do with color choice in movies. It’s a bullshit argument.
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by ugh 15y ago
Readability and typography is not something someone who color grades deals with. It’s unrelated. It’s a non-sequitur. Inverted text is fine for any application in movies since there is so little of it. Inverted text becomes only a problem i
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by ugh 15y ago
Are you talking about color grading or web design? If you are talking about web design you are making no sense whatsoever. No sense.
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by ugh 15y ago
And? Was I suggesting the author isn’t or what? Criticizing the author’s web design skills just makes no sense whatsoever. It just doesn’t. There is no connection. I was also trying to make a larger point: Even if you think the author’s wor
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by ugh 15y ago
Can we please stop this? You are not making a valid argument, not in any way, shape or form. It’s pure, irrelevant bullshit. It’s possible to be completely unable to color grade yet still notice trends and write that you think they are horr
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by ugh 15y ago
Not everyone shares your taste.
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by ugh 15y ago
Sure, but considering the scales involved the need for buildings is relatively recent.
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by ugh 15y ago
Are there no buildings older than 6102 years because every building inevitably crumbles or because the buildings that existed 6102 years ago inevitable crumbled? Agriculture isn’t that old and there just wan’t any need for permanent buildin
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m really not sure what point you are trying to make. What do you want to tell me? What do you want to convince me of? I don’t feel very strongly about the points I was making and I’m certainly willing to be convinced, I just don’t know of
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by ugh 15y ago
I think you didn't quite understand me or else you are bringing up a point that has nothing to do with the discussion. I was talking about the viability of market mechanisms, not the difference between being disabled and not being disabled.
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by ugh 15y ago
A website that is accessible for (most) old people is not automatically also accessible for, say, the blind. I fear, however, that you might be overlooking the point and get lost in small details: If something is a lot of work and only brin
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by ugh 15y ago
Sure. PR fallout or DDoSing support offers additional leverage to mere and minimal lost business. Especially really large companies don’t want to have an attack surface called “They don’t care about disabled people!” (There are also other r
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by ugh 15y ago
The restaurant owners of my example usually don’t even know what HTML is. They have to hire someone to do it for them (that’s the costly part) and they also have to find out who to hire (that’s the complicated part, given that they have no

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