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by unalone 17y ago
Except for the thrill of seeing a movie in a large crowd. A good crowd is worth more than most of the inconveniences of the theater. Inglourious Basterds has to be seen on the silver screen to be really appreciated.
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by unalone 17y ago
He lived till he was 49. That's not "way too young." It's young, but it's not an enormous tragedy, either. He wrote five-and-a-half books in the Hitchhiker series, wrote for Doctor Who and Monty Python, wrote an additional two novels, two
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by unalone 17y ago
Oh, please. If we're calling that a hack then it's a hack when I put butter on waffles, because it's using one thing to modify another. Furthermore: It is not incredibly fucking tied to Adams's writing (note that his name is AdamS and not
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by unalone 17y ago
Yes. The fourth and the fifth were both quite funny. Eoin can't pull it off.
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by unalone 17y ago
That's why it's something like a ten-year school. The idea is that given a decade of freedom, kids will more readily find what they really want.
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by unalone 17y ago
Churchill had a lopsided schedule. He would wake up, work from his bed for a few hours, then sleep through lunch and wake again in the afternoon. He was criticized for not working a proper workday, but he insisted that taking a break in bet
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't think so. There was a popular article from somebody else at the time that was a counterpoint, but it was entirely external.
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by unalone 17y ago
Don't knock it if it works. I don't see what makes Photoshop better than scribbling on a page.
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by unalone 17y ago
Interesting to see which names were there from the beginning. A few unexpected ones I still see today.
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by unalone 17y ago
In that case I misinterpreted you.
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by unalone 17y ago
http://blog.dustincurtis.com/
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by unalone 17y ago
I have a problem with this phrase have to . I don't have to do anything. There is no proven formula that works for anything. Winston Churchill was a lazy, lazy man who succeeded because he was capable of brilliance for the short bursts of
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by unalone 17y ago
That's the educational theory behind the Summerhill School: http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/ Some kids that go there spend periods of years doing no work, going to no classes, and aren't punished. The idea is that when the kid is read
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by unalone 17y ago
Countercounterpoint: "There are two ways to wash the dishes. You can wash the dishes so the dishes or clean. You can also wash the dishes to watch the dishes." The moral I got from your koan when I first read it is what the difference is no
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by unalone 17y ago
That's why the idea is to get your life to a place where other people don't control you.
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by unalone 17y ago
That's brilliant. It would make converting much easier. Now if only it had Tumblr's social features...
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by unalone 17y ago
But of course. Google's raised controversy among its designers for focusing on hits over aesthetic. We've had that talk before. I've actually always been against that mindset myself, and I've argued against it before here. I don't necessari
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by unalone 17y ago
Perhaps the users who are in that 8% are bookmarking this page right now to use for their searches. You don't need to go to google.com to start up a search.
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by unalone 17y ago
Aren't we allowed to redesign things just for the joy of showing people what we think things should look like? I mean, Jesus Christ, when people post Google or Craigslist redesigns here we get so bitchy about it. I've always seen these rede
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by unalone 17y ago
I like having good arguments on both sides. I'm not saying that pro-motivation or pro-conservation is bad, because it's not. At the same time, I've got a lot of friends on both extremes of the economic argument, both anarchosocialist and Ob
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by unalone 17y ago
It takes about one session of five minutes to block all those applications permanently. I haven't seen a single non-Facebook app in half a year, and before then I saw a handful at most. The one thing Facebook doesn't do is regulate itself.
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by unalone 17y ago
Frotz is incredible. If you're into Interactive Fiction, give it a go. I note that their Tetris isn't the original Tetris, it's a "modernized" version.
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by unalone 17y ago
Posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=826060
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by unalone 17y ago
HN has a lot of biases. We're more economically conservative than average, much more pro-motivation, and there's a lot of contempt for the arts here. It's a shame, since otherwise this is a terrific community.
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by unalone 17y ago
Education ought to be about more than academic performance. I see what you're saying, but having teachers that can't work with students is just as much a problem as having teachers that don't know their subject. Then, of course, there are t
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by unalone 17y ago
Me. The HTML page is directly taken from the original Facebook note. I added an author cred to clear up confusion.
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by unalone 17y ago
Of course.
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by unalone 17y ago
Facebook is profitable.
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by unalone 17y ago
Somebody else commented a week ago saying that they thought it would be brilliant for Facebook to lease their ads the way Google does adsense. I know that I've clicked more Facebook ads than I've clicked any other advertisements I've seen.

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