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811.
by zach 17y ago
Much cheaper and more entertaining than the giant floor piano from "Big." I don't want to say the word "crowdsourced," and yet, I just did.
812.
by zach 17y ago
Touché.
813.
by zach 17y ago
Nerdfury, as awesome as it is to behold, does not necessarily indicate there is all that much hate out there. It just seems that way because it's so intense.
814.
by zach 17y ago
You are correct. There are game developers who innovate and there are ones who get the job done. These guys fall into the latter category. They are the pulp novelists of the game industry. There is a place for them and they know their r
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by zach 17y ago
Presumably the poster's faith in naturalism was too strong to be questioned by a few brain-hiccups.
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by zach 17y ago
My college friend worked on an electric skateboard that looked cool like that: http://frankschmitt.org/projects/powerboard It has strain gauges that let you control it by shifting your weight. Looks cool yet there is no visible effort so
817.
by zach 17y ago
Since cable was mentioned, it got me thinking. Is there no service in the US that will provide you cable TV channels over the internet? ...Okay, after searching, there seems to be backspace.tv which is sketchy as anything. Anyone heard o
818.
by zach 17y ago
Or, "English Majors: When Needed, Indispensible."
819.
by zach 17y ago
The opening of a frontier means that the adventurous idealists go there first. Once the possibilities are clear, those who seek fortune over adventure follow suit. And after the tide has turned, only the most emotionally attached, deeply-ro
820.
by zach 17y ago
Also, because newspapers compete head-to-head with television news organizations in the online world. I think this was one of the major original reasons why the newspapers felt they had to go online for free in the late 90's. TV news organ
821.
by zach 17y ago
Thank you for a heartfelt story from real life that does not segue into the opening rap of The Fresh Price of Bel-Air. I have been reading too much Reddit and am ashamed to say I got suspicious halfway through.
822.
by zach 17y ago
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!
823.
by zach 17y ago
That's weird, I didn't see it either this afternoon, but now I do.
824.
by zach 17y ago
To be fair: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=southernmost+us+capital
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New iPhone patents from Apple: Object recognition and, um, voice changing?(unwiredview.com)
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by zach 17y ago
Here's a slightly lengthier walkthrough that shows a Frogger-type game being created: http://vimeo.com/2443941
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by zach 17y ago
Indeed, we have gotten tremendously more efficient at metering things, even things that aren't being charged for. The idea that something would be more expensive to meter than to provide is clearly not of the digital age.
828.
by zach 17y ago
FTFY: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/31/106-facebook/
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by zach 17y ago
This is the material he presented at GDC. I miss the classic Abrash where he begins with some personal anecdote out of nowhere: http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap68.shtml Hey, I was going to post a link to the PDF chapters of his Black
830.
by zach 17y ago
Of course not, that's why I send a complimentary desk calendar. It has color pictures of me in various worldwide locales (thank you, Photoshop) and notes important days, like my birthday and when HR should schedule an interview with me. The
831.
by zach 17y ago
And yet for some reason we treat pre-existing advantages differently than advantage of opportunity. Why? Entrepreneurs with good fortune shrug their shoulders and accept it while those who inherit money so often feel guilty and are embarra
832.
by zach 17y ago
I should point out that capitalize(), of course, returns a new capitalized string, just as it does in Ruby. But in Ruby you also have String#capitalize! And as for indentation, I think Guido should have followed through with making tabs a
833.
by zach 17y ago
Ruby has clever syntax. Python has pure syntax. Ruby has method aliases. Python does not allow a string to capitalize itself. Ruby uses Ruby methods within Ruby classes to extend Ruby. Python has decorators so you can write functions tha
834.
by zach 17y ago
Good catch. Here it is now, as I'm sure you've noticed: http://blog.everyblock.com/2009/jun/30/source/ => http://www.everyblock.com/code/
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by zach 17y ago
FWIW, I think the YC consensus is that he's no "peeler guy," a real market hacker: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463746
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by zach 17y ago
Sure, if you look at it strictly as a logical proposition, but is "TechCrunch has Belgians writing stories for them" just the way you'd expect a Belgian would put it? Even you put it in terms of your achievement, not the newspaper's hiring
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by zach 17y ago
The e-ink displays are lovely. Still, dual-mode screens like the OLPC are bound to pop up more often in laptops and mobile devices. Then again, it hasn't kept Japanese phone users from reading on their phones. http://www.theinquirer.net/
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by zach 17y ago
The Kindle just looks more and more like an intermediate form, like MP3-enabled CD players (remember those?) Once you get people comfy with reading books on a screen, I'm not sure it's as big a step to the iPhone or a laptop, even if the (
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by zach 17y ago
I just noticed this comment and clicked on my Readability bookmark, which formatted it spectacularly. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Also, in LA, Ripple is better known as the startup that puts infotainment on LCD screens a
840.
by zach 17y ago
This is great. I was hoping this would happen since so much microdocumentation is only ever shared between team members on large projects and is not easily available to new members. On the other hand, I guess the idea they mooted early on

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