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by yan 17y ago
eInk keeps state without power. The Kindle displays famous authors and book covers when it's off. The side-effect of this, you can measure battery life in mostly 'page-turns' as it uses power to update the display, but not while you're read
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by yan 17y ago
I have been using the multi-touch gestures on my macbook for years and believe that they are a usability improvement. I am excited to see them implemented on a mouse, but what I'm even more excited is a surface that's extremely easy to clea
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by yan 17y ago
I really can't wait to see what the new generation of large-screen eInk readers will look like. I bought the Kindle DX specifically to be able to read PDFs, books, and papers I already had. The smaller format readers (nook, kindle 2, etc) a
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by yan 17y ago
No amount of evidence will convince people. The vast majority are married to what they believe is their origin and trying to convince them otherwise, in my opinion, is a fool's errand. Majority of these conversations aren't based on not hav
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by yan 17y ago
Because, at the time of this writing, 13 people appreciated it.
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by yan 17y ago
Two(?) years ago I read about Y Combinator since I knew about pg from his essays. Browsing yc's site, I came across news. After a few months of lurking, I registered.
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How blocks are implemented (in Clang/LLVM)(cocoawithlove.com)
17 points by yan 17y ago|1 comments
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by yan 17y ago
Whatever you end up getting, make sure to maximize your RAM and your display real estate.
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Reading, E-Books and the Brain(scienceblogs.com)
6 points by yan 17y ago|2 comments
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by yan 17y ago
Wow, Jagger was 26 when he wrote this. Writing one of America's top artists with such informality and confidence is amazing
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Virtual Crowdsurfing(blog.amandapalmer.net)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
This actually looked like something the HN community might appreciate, applying 'hacking' to everything from cooking to making friends. Posing a donation drive as a zombie fund is societal hacking if I've ever seen it. I can definitely see
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by yan 17y ago
My favorite feature: Forget daily charging, two standard AAA batteries (included) will power WikiReader for about 12 months of normal usage. Or put in those unused rechargeable batteries lying around in the house. Those will wo
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CNN's 50 Best Places to Launch a Business 2009(money.cnn.com)
4 points by yan 17y ago|2 comments
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by yan 17y ago
<MARQUEE><BLINK><FRAMESET>THESE ARE AWESOME!
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by yan 17y ago
That post has absolutely nothing in it specific to ObjC. Everything mentioned is part of regular old ANSI c.
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by yan 17y ago
I agree with this, and along the same thought, OpenBSD (or any BSDs really, but OpenBSD tends to favor simpler implementations) source is very clear and concise.
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The value of time off(kottke.org)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
effective use of twitter: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays edit: i'm serious.
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by yan 17y ago
It's deprecated for a reason -- hardly anyone's been using it.
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by yan 17y ago
> Because Apple makes it tough not to use it That's not very accurate. Apple has gone out of their way more so than other companies in giving you options. Apple has always provided the Java bridge for their entire Cocoa API which expose
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by yan 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator
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by yan 17y ago
That's what we call "speaking in hyperbole"
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by yan 17y ago
I think I noticed mine fluctuating, so it might be only tallying recent (for some definition of recent) posts.
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by yan 17y ago
From experience, any features requested to facilitate or hamper existing behaviors usually fail and get reverted or go unimplemented. Some examples from the past are marking high-karma users and removing visible karma. I'd say, just let HN
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by yan 17y ago
> Then again $60 is only about 1200 messages. You must not be in the US..
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by yan 17y ago
I realize that. The example he used was a collection of c files, leading me to believe he was showing a personal collection of source as an example, wrongly or rightly. And I realize you aren't going to be creating files with newlines in
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by yan 17y ago
1) Just the system call overhead is not much compared to what the system call actually does, so it depends on what you're calling. Two system calls versus one with identically-cached information, sure it's slower. I'm just saying perl will
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by yan 17y ago
Wait. What? 1) Is he implying that launching a perl interpreter is somehow a more lightweight operation than launching ls and having it stat() half a dozen files? Having ls check if a file exists 99% of the time won't even touch the disk. I
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by yan 17y ago
FYI, Jim Simons is a math PhD who runs one of the world's most successful hedge funds, that trades mostly algorithmically and as far as I know, mostly hires CS, math, and physics grads and not so much finance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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