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by user24 13y ago
This can be really fun. I once did this for a facebook competition; An estate agent would post pictures and you had to guess the location. After checking the landscape, scenery, road sign styles etc I managed to reverse engineer the exact s
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by user24 13y ago
The 'listen first' approach is a good general rule for socialising too. Most people like talking about themselves and what they do, and they'll like you more if you ask them about themselves, even if you're not actually that interested.
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by user24 13y ago
That is your opinion.
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by user24 13y ago
To keep the noise down. You can upvote, or comment "I agree". The latter is not scalable. It encourages good content from people.
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by user24 13y ago
HN is not a competition or a game. Be glad that the story you thought was interesting has made it on to HN.
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by user24 13y ago
I'd rather that than not be in the place where my users are looking.
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by user24 13y ago
elephant in the corner: app store exposure and the lack thereof for web based apps.
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by user24 13y ago
> Flying the aircraft requires a lot of energy. Gore says, “If we’re going all out, I’m pretty much drained by the end of a minute and a half Seems like this isn't a helicopter, more a human-powered-helicopter-challenge-winning-machine.
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by user24 13y ago
I don't understand
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by user24 13y ago
> "i like salt": 18 years > "i like pepper": 9 hours Well that's clearly because salted passwords are more secure.
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by user24 13y ago
Yes, lets teach users to type their passwords into "checking" tools. Great. edit: on the plus side, "CONGRATULATIONS! It would take about 2546476408336 years to crack your password." (I typed in a password that was roughly equivalent to a v
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by user24 13y ago
Finally. I've been saying this should be done for ages[1] [1] Here's a 2010 blog post I made saying "do matlab in JS, make money". http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/ten-ideas/
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by user24 13y ago
That assumes TDD, but yes that would be a nice way of doing it.
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by user24 13y ago
Better way: /** testCode(); testCode(); /**/ (...) /**/ productionCode(); productionCode(); /**/ I think this is better because it's much easier to see what you're supposed to do in order to switch the bloc
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by user24 13y ago
This is the second time I've seen "low adoption rates" cited as a reason to cut off Rackspace support, the other being xeround[1]. I don't see that as a valid excuse for shutting it down. Market it more! [1] https://twitter.com/xeround/sta
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by user24 13y ago
seems to be getting the mobile version of our site ( http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4170 ). It's done on viewport width, not UA sniffing.
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by user24 13y ago
> I believe he went missing and was almost certainly dead before the bombings. I haven't been following the story that closely, but I'm amazed that this is the first time I'd heard that reddit likely had nothing to do with his disappear
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by user24 14y ago
Almost anything is offensive to some group or other. Who decides, a benevolent dictator?
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by user24 14y ago
I wonder how this differs from the existing products celox[1] and quikclot[2], which AFAIK are coagulants? [1] http://www.celoxmedical.com/tech_howitworks.htm [2] http://www.z-medica.com/healthcare/How-QuikClot-Works/How-Qu... edit: fro
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by user24 14y ago
> She's drawn to alternative medicine because it's open source. > conventional "industrial" medicine [is] closed source Absolutely false. Conventional medicine was "open source" before "open source" was a thing. It has peer reviewed
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by user24 14y ago
What does that even mean? Clouds don't need bridges.
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by user24 14y ago
didn't even realise I was on linkedin.
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by user24 14y ago
OT: Damn that's a nice blog UI.
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by user24 14y ago
> I thought it referred more to the logistics of getting hundreds of producers coordinated and hundreds of thousands of chickens vaccinated in so short a time. I don't think that interpretation is plausible really. The author mentioned
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by user24 14y ago
Oh get over it, it comes from a hen's bum.
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by user24 14y ago
> When addressing a public who largely still links vaccines and autism, they would indeed find it amazing. If forbes really are addressing those people, it's hardly helpful to describe the fact that vaccines work as "amazing". It's lend
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by user24 14y ago
> Since the late 1990’s British farmers have been vaccinating hens against salmonella [...] Amazingly, this measure has virtually wiped out the health threat in Britain. "Amazingly"? No not really! Vaccination stops disease. It's comple
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by user24 14y ago
> Why would anyone ship eggs across the pond Complete conjecture, but I know we (Britain) had a food crisis after the war. We were on rationing for years after the end of the war. Maybe we imported eggs too.
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by user24 14y ago
If think if the label was "button or message?" your point (which I agree with) would be a lot clearer.
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by user24 14y ago
Can you stick that in a gist[1] so as to not mess up the HN comments? [1] https://gist.github.com/

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