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How to blind yourself temporarily(bbc.com)
3 points by verve 14y ago|6 comments
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by verve 14y ago
"Discretely?" Really?
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Twitter Hits Back at Court, Prosecutors Over ‘Occupy’ Order(wired.com)
1 points by verve 14y ago|0 comments
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How Coöperation Can Slow Emergency Evacuations(technologyreview.com)
1 points by verve 15y ago|0 comments
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by verve 15y ago
Why tau, BTW? Why not winnie, after the Wonder Years character portrayed by the eminent mathematician Danica McKellar?
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by verve 15y ago
Yeah, yeah, and degrees are wrong for expressing angles, and steering wheels are wrong for driving cars. Incidentally, there's already a symbol for \tau: 2\pi. Same number of syllables and characters as 14, so what's the problem?
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Huff Your Way to a Healthier You(themorningnews.org)
1 points by verve 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: burn.fm, a simple alternative to grooveshark(burn.fm)
1 points by verve 15y ago|0 comments
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by verve 15y ago
Yeah, a couple of other people have said the same. The fonts seem thinner in Windows than on my Mac across browsers. I'll look for more readable fonts that are still appealing.
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by verve 15y ago
No mobile version yet. Planning to experiment with jQuery Mobile for that....
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by verve 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I'll add repeat functionality soon. Intended use case for "preview": you get a burn link from someone, you don't know any of the songs, and you want to sample many in a short time. It's not selected by default
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Show HN: burn.fm, a prototype of a website for creating and sharing playlists
6 points by verve 15y ago|9 comments
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by verve 15y ago
I suspect a large fraction of fans have watched Chuck online. Surely Nielsen ratings are a poor measure of the show's popularity given the its target demographic. . . .
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Goodbye, Chuck: Improbable Business Lessons from NBC's Departing Show(portfolio.com)
1 points by verve 15y ago|1 comments
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Does Visual Studio rot the mind?(charlespetzold.com)
4 points by verve 15y ago|2 comments
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by verve 15y ago
We're debating the relative importance of connotations of entrepreneurship; there's, say, a discrete (maybe multivariate) probability distribution of connotations, dictionary definitions are supposed to capture its peaks, and the debate is