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by yzzxy 12y ago
I wonder if Apple will follow jailbreaker UI when if and when they introduce a true multitasking/windowing system on iOS. They did so with multitasking and mission control UI designs. I doubt Apple would introduce true windowing howeve
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Better cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20130601110834/http://www.rdrop.... (Includes images)
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Maybe using Luminosity or similar software, and charting your progress against others with similar entry conditions (IQ, spatial reasoning, whatever their metrics are)
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by yzzxy 12y ago
The implications of this concept have been discussed in Stephen Baxter's Manifold novels[0], particularly Manifold: Time[1]. Well worth a read if you're interested in things like this principle and the dark sky paradox. I'm a
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I had a chance to play this game at California Extreme last year. There were about 16 controllers hooked up, and most were full at any given time. Very fun, and extremely chaotic. It's probably one of the most interesting of the couch
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This article worried me - because I'm ~19 and hadn't even considered not going to college. This is despite being directly in the discussed demographic. I have pretty conclusive evidence that I'm hiring material to some of the
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I believe you may be thinking of the The Mongoliad[0], which was a communal narrative effort he founded/was in involved in. I'm not totally sure of the original format of the storybuilding process, but I do know they are now avail
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Worldbuilding as a game mechanic could be amazing. I have this totally evidenced belief that there are tons of people who are master worldbuilders and are poor at writing fiction/narrative or dislike doing so. I'd love to find a w
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by yzzxy 12y ago
My point is that despite the fact Japan has a more mature mobile phone market, the surrounding society doesn't have the same age demographics as, say, the United States. This difference will affect marketing, product and service design
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by yzzxy 12y ago
While I'm not necessarily disputing your conclusion, I can't agree with the validity of Japanese trends as evidence in this context. Curtis' argument was largely focused on behaviors of differing age demographics, and Japan&#
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by yzzxy 13y ago
A hacking competition for high schoolers... right before most finals weeks. I think this is a great idea, but the timing is nonideal.
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by yzzxy 13y ago
As someone who has implemented an semi-extensive set of interactive demos in the new 2D editor and toolkit, I have to say that it arrived half-baked. I'm really looking forward to the upcoming updates, but doing anything like a real ga
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Ask HN: What do you use to save and read articles and content?
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by yzzxy 13y ago
I wonder how much of their consumer business does come from students/consumers, however. Autodesk is a little more niche but they give away their software to basically anyone who's not a professional (You can get almost all of the
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by yzzxy 13y ago
I felt beyond the specific area, it was extremely good at capturing the weird zeitgeist of millennial culture - not the living-with-parents-unemployed-loser stereotype, but the confused generation of people who grew up along with the intern
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by yzzxy 13y ago
I've been building a small-scope SRS app for my high school's mandarin curriculum as a side project in Node. Building a simple Leitner system is amazingly simple, and while I don't support the same level of analytics as Anki
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by yzzxy 13y ago
This may be a little early to consider but there are several websites that will allow you to get a PCB printed (multilayered and silk screened) at small sizes and in small runs (~3 copies) economically by filling a larger order with a numbe
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by yzzxy 13y ago
This may sound crazy, but Blogger has all of the above. You'll have to theme it a bit to make it stand out and should host it on your own site without the blogger bar, but I think it could be a good way to get what you want.
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Why Facebook’s Oculus aquisition makes sense: The future of ingame advertising(blog.williamgoldie.com)
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WebSockets was used for the recent Unumbered Sparks installation at TED in Vancouver. People below the sculpture could connect to a local access point on their phones and control lighting and color from a phone web view in their browser (ht
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by yzzxy 13y ago
Thanks for the offer... thankfully some of my friends are french-fluent as well as the bulk of my family, so I can get help if I need something specific translated. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. If you're personally inte
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by yzzxy 13y ago
I wonder what the viability of a similar OS would be on the nSpire platform, which is fully ARM-based IIRC. nSpires have some very nice options for mathematical programming (the CAS being a standout feature) but as far as I know lack anythi
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Ask HN: Is a distributed computing cryptocurrency possible?
1 points by yzzxy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yzzxy 13y ago
Neal Stephenson described a very similar (fictional) paper in Cryptonomicon. "Unshavenness as Signifier in World War II Movies." http://www.euskalnet.net/larraorma/crypto/slide8.html
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Ask HN: What college programs would you recommend for a design/coding combo?
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Related story: Blender uses a low-poly monkey for a placeholder, called Suzanne. Producer Tommy Trash released a single called "Monkey in Love" with this cover art: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000053576235-yu7a6g
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by yzzxy 13y ago
I believe it is related to the browser handling of local(fontname) tags in the @font-face. This would explain why Chrome uses the incorrect local version and firefox uses the correct remote version
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Why you shouldn’t trust Google Fonts stylesheets(blog.williamgoldie.com)
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This seems to draw a lot of influence from Snow Crash, judging by the quick look, which is exciting for me. We don't see nearly enough absurdist narrative.
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Is that just net profit, or does it account for growth? Net profit is not always a good metric for a large company's performance, as there are a lot of incentives to keep that number down and invest money back into the business (such a

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