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by unalone 15y ago
I take it you haven't been on Hacker News for very long. I am a designer; one of my pet projects went viral after hitting the top of Hacker News. I've also closed a few blogs after my rants there hit the front page; it seemed to me that gar
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by unalone 15y ago
I'll take this one step further, and say that one of the reasons people attempt to be kind and pleasant and, you know, not a prick, is that people respect and like you and want to help and support you. I bet this thread wouldn't have happ
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by unalone 15y ago
There's actually quite an open market for imitations of great art. They're not nearly as valuable as the originals, though, because painters like van Gogh created astonishing works of art and part of the value is being able to gaze upon ori
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by unalone 15y ago
Seriously? It's a two-column interface with extra heaps of whitespace and thick borders. Yeah, Obtvse imitates Svtble – that's the point. It's not like it was imitating anything especially unique or difficult to conceive.
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by unalone 15y ago
No, it would be like if a restaurant passed out flyers advertising its great food, decor, and excellent ties, with a footnote at the bottom saying "PS: only beautiful, successful, wealthy people are allowed in, and that doesn't include you.
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by unalone 15y ago
You know, this is a really interesting point to make. I always loved Facebook because it cut back on the bullshit and emphasized data over everything. I wanted to use these services keep in touch with people, not to see them try and expre
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by unalone 15y ago
John Gruber is a well-read author. Many of his readers frequent Hacker News. There's a reason he's so well-read, too. His comments are frequently insightful and quickly make sense out of complicated issues. He's been my favorite online writ
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by unalone 15y ago
Isn't The Economist an English magazine, not an American one? I'm not saying the sentiment isn't irritatingly self-congratulatory, but it's weird that this view is coming from a European mag rather than an American one.
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by unalone 15y ago
Where you see a personality crisis, I see an impressive commitment to growth on Google's part. While their social efforts have been largely failures in past years, it's been clear for a long time that Google is now committed to a unified so
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by unalone 15y ago
"Hack" as in "Hacker" rather than in "that writer is such a hack". Sorry for the ambiguity. :-) Although speaking as a poet, poetry is absolutely a hack genre, and so's magical realism and travel writing. Poetry: uses line breaks to create
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by unalone 15y ago
Heh, I was hoping Hacker News would get it. Didn't want to add a cluttery disclaimer.
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by unalone 15y ago
I've always loved fantasy literature. I've grown to see it as a kind of hack genre – it can discuss social issues which readers might find boring or even repellent by creating a world so fantastic that the story's tempting anyway. Lazier re
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“Greater Choice”(parislemon.com)
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by unalone 15y ago
Good arguments. I'm extremely fortunate and have been able to attend a costly 4-year college without debt; I have a tendency to take my time here for granted, which I absolutely shouldn't. I feel that it would be wrong of a college that pro
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by unalone 15y ago
I never pursued a comp sci degree in college, and it's possible that you're right, their subject matter is so basic you don't need to actually take classes to learn the content. I guess you could further argue that sites like Hacker News ar
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by unalone 15y ago
Haha, no offense taken! Writing angry things is fun. I really didn't want to come across as pedantic, which is why I tried to keep it light and say I thought his mimicry was cute. And I love stuff like this! We need more 6th graders like th
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by unalone 15y ago
If somebody hypothetically knows nothing of Feynman or physicals, would this be a good starting point? Or would you suggest this book as a follow-up to something simpler and more immediately engaging?
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by unalone 15y ago
Rules of Ascension by David B Coe. A book I picked out of a library shelf one day because it sounded intriguing, and it is – it's the first volume in an epic about political machinations across several fantasy continents, and about a race
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by unalone 15y ago
He sounds like a kid who's seen a lot of Apple keynotes. A lot of his tactics he takes right from Jobs, but for some reason his diction reminds me more of Scott Forstall, who's always a little more eager and a little more rehearsed than Job
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by unalone 15y ago
Thanks a lot for the jqfundamentals link! I'm a front-end developer who knows nothing about JavaScript and hasn't ever found a good place to start. This looks like it might be really useful.
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by unalone 15y ago
How did testing end up costing a million dollars? Forgive my naiveté.
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by unalone 15y ago
I wouldn't call him great, but I think it's really adorable how he takes his cadences/writing style from popular tech presenters. He's an excellent mimic.
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by unalone 15y ago
I think this is an example of limited perspective. I spent two recent summers working with kids ages 9-17 and was delighted at their curiosity, brightness, and willingness to get involved in elaborate conversations. Granted, the older kids
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by unalone 15y ago
Good to know. Best of luck with this if you decide to keep developing it; I really like the concept behind it.
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by unalone 15y ago
I like this a lot! Not a fan of how you handle clicking on the pin icons, though; Google Maps uses those pins to open information in a bubble within the window, and having my click open a Facebook page bothered me. It's a shame that your ma
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by unalone 15y ago
I'm concerned less about lawsuits and more about in-grown group messaging technology. iOS 5 just brought about half my friends/my entire family over to iMessages, which duplicate IM features like seeing the other person typing. It's so nift
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by unalone 15y ago
> Of course, there's also the fact that people email/IM/FB others simply because they can, whether they have anything of import to say or not. You'd think twice if you had to walk over to somebody's cube to show them a picture of a cat,
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by unalone 15y ago
> If you want to compare it to something, compare it to regular (snail) mail. It's exactly the same thing. No it's not. Email occupies the space right in between IM and snail mail. It is way more convenient for me to send email than it
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by unalone 15y ago
The great thing, and also the terrible thing, about web apps is that they're universal. Make an app somewhere and anybody with a computer can get at it, usually without paying very much. It's a great opportunity for people to make things. I
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by unalone 15y ago
He could have. Those were character flaws that he may have been better without. Perhaps if he'd lived another 20 years he'd have outgrown his petulance. Then again, maybe not. Petulance isn't the worst thing a person can be. If that's the c

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