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by whimsy 16y ago
Aaand less than seven days later, they allow bulk downloads of your pictures, amongst your other data. Huh.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Say I want to create a fictional map for use with OpenLayers - what's the best way to go about this?
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by whimsy 16y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1765111 =)
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by whimsy 16y ago
Can I export my photos yet? No? Still not a photo competitor, much less a Flickr competitor.
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by whimsy 16y ago
>One thing that really works for me is meditation. FTFY
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by whimsy 16y ago
Agreed; this sounded very post-hoc to me. The point about golf throwing back to projectile-hunting seems off to me, too. If anything, I would think we're wired for exhaustion-hunting... that is, running after prey until they collapse from e
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by whimsy 16y ago
That was a great slide deck. Thanks for the link.
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by whimsy 16y ago
I might recommend shaving sideways for your second pass. Maybe your third, too. (That is, perpendicular to the grain.)
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by whimsy 16y ago
Yes, but it's rare seeing it used in the media as we use it outside the media.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Sounds like a Fight Club reference. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17 Pretty ble
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by whimsy 16y ago
Is this significantly different from bash scripting?
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by whimsy 16y ago
The surf north of Point Conception doesn't resemble the surf south of there.
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by whimsy 16y ago
That's fine. Regardless of who's to blame, it's still misleading.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628534
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by whimsy 16y ago
Check out Joe's Goals. http://www.joesgoals.com/ What's your edge?
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by whimsy 16y ago
It's a bit weird that you stopped reading because of that, yes.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Solitary confinement is every bit as horrific as waterboarding.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Dude, your loss. I was frankly wondering - it's already a trend on HN. We've had lots of "who's hiring?" threads and "I'm looking to be hired" threads. Heck, we have a link on the top bar to facilitate it for YC companies: http://news.ycom
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by whimsy 16y ago
They also bleach them for color and tumble them to round the edges.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Carrots are roots. Even if the plant has been sprayed, you're not eating the part of the plant that got sprayed.
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by whimsy 16y ago
Were the first two words in the title not "Hire HN" when you posted this comment?
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by whimsy 16y ago
Snow Crash also has a startup - Hiro helped write the metaverse... as a startup, if I recall correctly, but I might not. He is also, as his business card says, "Last of the freelance hackers."
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by whimsy 16y ago
OhLife is there, but 750words.com is not?
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by whimsy 16y ago
I doubt you're seeing it here, either - I would peg this as some POSIX shell before I pegged it as a DOS shell.
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by whimsy 16y ago
This is so common that it's been named the Ultimate Attribution Error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error
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by whimsy 16y ago
>Correction, Aug. 18, 2010: This article originally misidentified Raymond Towler as Raymond Fowler. I don't usually post things like this, but this is hilariously ironic.
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by whimsy 16y ago
"Theories should pay rent in anticipated experimental data."
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by whimsy 16y ago
Python, Java, intro to C/UNIX aren't computer science in my opinion. Dijkstra said, "Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes." I'm in Dijkstra's camp when it comes to defining what computer science is. C
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by whimsy 16y ago
Wow, super cool! I don't know much about entropy, etc. This is opening my eyes all over again. Thanks!
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by whimsy 16y ago
I still see the post and the site referenced.

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