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by wzdd 15y ago
I don't understand why providing a relevant set of ads in the shortest possible time is unrelated to encouraging people to click on ads. It seems clearly to be quite closely related to me -- provide a better ad experience, and people are mo
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by wzdd 15y ago
Normally I think your posts are very thoughful, but this time you are attacking a straw man. The OP clearly indicates near the bottom of the post that it's not about working for the betterment of humanity, but about work he personally finds
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by wzdd 15y ago
Love the idea, but the word definitions are lacking. From the top 100 list, churlish is defined as having the qualities of a serf or peasant. This is correct, but in common usage it generally means 'surly'. Knowing the latter definition mak
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by wzdd 15y ago
I can't vouch for the Manchester hackspace but I can say that the London hackspace has been one of the most friendly and welcoming groups I've ever visited. Admittedly I did go with a friend the first time, but everybody there was happy to
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by wzdd 15y ago
Here are some reasons why self-hosted email is a better bet than Gmail: 1. Your self-hosted system will be unique, which means it won't be attractive to phishers (by definition). 2. Because your system isn't a major email service like Gmail
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by wzdd 15y ago
The anti-human-equivalent AI argument was really strange. When you cut out the irrelevant evolutionary stuff and avoid the segue into ethics, he is arguing that we won't have human-level AI in machines because humans don't want to design ma
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by wzdd 15y ago
48 hours writing a game in Lua (which indexes from 1) drives this home: in tile-based games, converting screen co-ordinates into tile co-ordinates results in zero-based indices. My graphics routines were full of +1s and -1s as a result. Gen
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by wzdd 15y ago
This is a bit strange. I migrated my blog from Tumblr about a year ago, and at the time there was an easy-to-use XML API to retrieve posts -- presumably the one that powers the many "hacky third party tools that purport to do it". I suppose
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by wzdd 15y ago
"Grey" is the usual British English (and Australian English) spelling. "Gray" is the usual American English spelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey
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by wzdd 15y ago
I'd suggest two things are of value in this app: firstly, the the "format" of these particular editions, and, secondly, their curation as an app. If you want to read "Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo", by T. Edward Bowdich, Esq. (one o
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by wzdd 15y ago
> I'd rather have a thousand text files Then you are certainly not the target audience. "The books have been scanned in high resolution and color so you can see the engraved illustrations, the beauty of the embossed covers, along with m
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by wzdd 15y ago
I don't mind a blinking cursor at all, but a blinking cursor in a non-focused window drives me insane. Fortunately, I don't run any programs which do such a thing nowadays.
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by wzdd 15y ago
> [on iOS] what happens when I get sent to a different app and then want to go back to the original app? The answer is that this (switching apps) happens far less frequently on iOS compared with Android. In Android, the intent system (a
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by wzdd 15y ago
Method 6: return to 16-bit mode, call interrupt 0x19 (not if you're on efi). Method 7: return to 16-bit mode, set cs to 0xf000 and jump to 0xfff0. Linux used to use method 6, but it wasn't reliable either. Something tells me returning to 16
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by wzdd 15y ago
Here are some of the iOS features that Apple has "shoehorned into Mac OS X" Lion which I am quite sure will appear in Linux free desktops in future: auto-save (system-integrated save versioning, integrated with backup); resume; airdrop (loc
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by wzdd 15y ago
I remember that interaction. It seems like a feature that will work really well 95% of the time and give confusing errors the other 5% of the time -- a good trade-off for techies, but would result in many confused users if it were a core OS
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by wzdd 15y ago
I'm not a JavaScript expert, and so I didn't understand this bit: > create a circular reference and thus, a memory leak It was confusing because JavaScript uses mark-and-sweep collection, which can handle circular references just fine.
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by wzdd 15y ago
TXL, its apparently predecessor, is very well documented ( http://www.txl.ca/ ). TXL is a very interesting approach to parsing and worth reading up on if you're interested in the area (or are waiting for documentation for Colm :)
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by wzdd 15y ago
The levels look like a straight translation of the Lua level data into JSON, which is kind of cool.
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by wzdd 15y ago
No, the gp has a good point. These articles seem to come up every week on HN. The point is that it's super easy to write something that syncs a folder. You can start with rsync and a cronjob, and just go up from there. Dropbox is fantastic
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by wzdd 16y ago
On a programming topic, on HN, maybe 20% of the comments are interesting, or at least informative. On a programming topic, on Reddit, maybe 2% of the comments are interesting or informative, but there are 10 times as many comments, the inte
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by wzdd 16y ago
These clones demonstrate why Dropbox is such a good idea imo. Good ideas are ones that make people think "that's easy, I could do that in a weekend!" Dropbox is great because it isn't just a really good idea, it's also a fantastic impleme
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by wzdd 16y ago
I used to live in Australia, at a time when most .au ISPs did not censor the Internet. However, transparent proxying was fairly common among ISPs anyway, because it saved them money. I suspect that might be what's happening here (though I g
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by wzdd 16y ago
Discussion on Minecraft's use of Perlin noise: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733157
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by wzdd 16y ago
This is super paranoid and somewhat disappointing. Occam's razor says that it's just an opinionated blogger. Apple has a huge marketing budget and no known history of astroturfing (unlike, for example, Sony). They don't need to do it, it's
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by wzdd 16y ago
Right. I looked at the store map last time I went to Ikea and it looked quite similar to a space-filling curve. It doesn't seem that tricksy to imagine that Ikea a) wants to maximise its use of space and b) wants to ensure people look at al
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by wzdd 16y ago
There is something very Google about the branding. It's a little bit nerdy, very simple, and cool. I like it a lot more than "Like".
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by wzdd 16y ago
Whenever I see these sorts of things I try to psych them out. In this case I deliberately thought of a number, discarded it, and repeated this process several times (rather than putting down 7, which was my first thought). So, unless you're
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by wzdd 16y ago
This is true and happened with 1.5 and with the Nexus One: new version dev in private, then a big open sourcing effort (by specific team members) after the version is released. I guess the difference here is that for 3.0 they indicated that
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by wzdd 16y ago
It looks like you can only install Android apps which their developers have uploaded to Blackberry App World (their own store) -- i.e., no Market, and no side loading. I wonder how much this will matter? Android developers have two app stor

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