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by violentvinyl 11y ago
There is another video on his YouTube channel where he talks about design considerations to make the Slinky slink more reliably. Also, Hi Matthias! I'm a big fan of your YouTube videos, it's really great to see one make it to HN (
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Browsing the site was confusing. I'm in the market for a new Entertainment Center for my living room, and when I went to find them, there was a filter for "Entertainment Center" and "Entertainment Centers" and one f
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
If by "We", they're refferring to the 99% or non-business travellers, then the answer is no (not any time soon). I'm interested in the idea that eventually all transatlantic flights might be on these planes, but I'm
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
I think most savvy internet shoppers think this when they see things on store shelves, and in some retail stores, its a much larger markup than just a few pennies. I thought the same thing after reading this article, but then wondered how m
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
As an American, I prefer the extremely unsettling response of just taking a few moments to stare into their eyes, attempting to catch a glimpse of their soul and trying to determine if the asker is sincere in their enquiry or not... then sa
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Off to be the Wizard by Scott Meyer is a very funny fiction book that is based on the concept of reality being a computer program that hackers can manually manipulate to do cool stuff. It mostly occurs in King Arthur's Court, which hap
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
My own experience (sameple size of one) tells me that the greatest advantage to a classic double edged razor is in learning the technique. You WILL cut your face when you first start with it, but if you persist, you learn the right amount o
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
The problem I have with this logic, is that I suspect with legalization/regulation, supply increases to meet or exceed demand, and drives prices down. This isn't a tremendous economic problem with drugs, because it should be relat
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
It sounds like you've produced a solid, stable piece of software that's been actively used by 55,000 people. That's a comendable thing, and I don't think anyone can rightly fault you if you decide you'd like to be c
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
Coming from the other side, the reason the POC is so important is because the reality is that we need to get the tech into the hands of the engineers so they can implement it, break it, and then run it for 6 months and troubleshoot it befor
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
> I'm not trying to be overly negative, but I think these dreamy, sometimes delusional posts can lead people astray, thinking that they're missing out on some great riches that everyone else is claiming to be achieving. I'
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by violentvinyl 11y ago
> Interesting, yet somehow it diminishes the piece a little in my mind, as obviously they composited the final image, whereas I imagined standing over the piece as if it were on display. This. There is something akin to cheating, when ea
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by violentvinyl 12y ago
That would be really cool to play around with. Do you know if it does interiors as well? It doesn't look like it from the website.
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by violentvinyl 12y ago
A variation on this theme occurs in most major cities I've visited though, whether it's fake designer sunglasses, candy, demo CDs, or bootleg DVDs. I suspect this has less to do with decriminalization and more to do with earning s
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by violentvinyl 12y ago
WSJ will get a better Google ranking by allowing the Google spider to crawl the whole article. If they allow the spider to crawl the whole article, then they have to allow users coming in from the Google results to see the full article as w
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by violentvinyl 12y ago
I've had good experiences with HostGator since moving there from a smaller company that basically stopped responding to support requests. They seem to update software regularly, and it's cost effective. I've heard bad things
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by violentvinyl 12y ago
I genuinely hope this works out well. I purchased an iPhone 3G because it was among the first phones to support fast internet connectivity and there was nothing like the App Store at the time. I'm not sure I could afford or would even
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by violentvinyl 12y ago
I would have quite enjoyed the opportunity to try a recommended interview tactic here: "Mimicing the interviewers body language".