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by zephjc 12y ago
It's interesting that a second article from this site has made it to the HN front page. I've been digging into this concept a lot since the first article was linked from here. I think traditional, walkable cities are a great idea
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by zephjc 12y ago
The term "over-engineering" comes to mind when arguing self-driving cars vs walking. Also, cars keep us lazy and fat.
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by zephjc 12y ago
It works fine in a bunch of the rest of the world.
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by zephjc 12y ago
we'll call them "tah-oons"
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by zephjc 12y ago
Unless you sleepwalk, or are a 'flailer' there's little risk to sleeping with an infant in bed with you. Idea for testing it out: get a cabbage patch doll, hard boil an egg and shell it, put the egg in a clear ziplock bag, an
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by zephjc 12y ago
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but after having acquired a lot of that stuff, I can tell you it's highly overrated (maybe not the vacations)
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by zephjc 12y ago
I actually found the earlier chapters interesting, but the whole Battle Magic arc rather tedious
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by zephjc 12y ago
I don't think that's a fair analysis of the characters as the story progresses (except maybe for Ron, but who likes Ron anyway?) How far into HPMOR did you get?
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by zephjc 12y ago
Hook it up to a chat bot and BAM, hundreds of thousands of dates lined up in less than 24 hours. Efficiency!
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by zephjc 12y ago
Everyone knows the early 90s was part of the 80s! Older UIs like the Amiga OS one suffered from an even more limited pallet, and even worse typography. I used BeOS as my main OS for a while and really liked it - it was very snappy and felt
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by zephjc 12y ago
It's not a jump back to the 80s exactly. For example, here is an old NT screenshot: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Windows_NT_3.1... A lot of it is flat, but they use simple bevels f
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by zephjc 12y ago
Since the Aqua look came out in OS X, there have been a lot of imitations used on webpages, knock-off UIs, etc. which tended to look terrible, in part because it's hard to do them tastefully. At least flat UIs are harder to mess up. P
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by zephjc 12y ago
The people for whom this is a real problem typically can't afford $200 cups
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by zephjc 12y ago
A la The Simpsons when Tanzania was renamed "New Zanzibar" and then later renamed "Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar".
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by zephjc 12y ago
Tablets and smartphones? This isn't Candy Crush or Angry Birds here
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by zephjc 12y ago
Like others said in this thread, copper up to 70m to a switch box, then fiber from there on out.
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by zephjc 12y ago
Are you registered as a non-profit organization in the USA? > If any of you guys would be willing to show your parents the link if they're interested in donating Note that most (though certainly not all!) users on this site are adu
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by zephjc 12y ago
I've liked to saw 'wa' (pronounced like わ/ワ) since the '90s but I've never used it in serious conversation.
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by zephjc 12y ago
This. For better or worse, Second Life is a 3D chat/world-building program, not a game, so there is no actual need for much of the Maslow Need Hierarchy.
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by zephjc 12y ago
Belligerent, law-breaking drivers will foil most traffic flow schemes.
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by zephjc 12y ago
I think the Dutch example the video cites is more a roundabout like this: http://thisoldcity.com/sites/default/files/images/netherland... which also incorporates the typical roundabout center island, and
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by zephjc 12y ago
YOU try a controlled peeing after drinking a 40oz soda. I'm pretty sure it will... 'overflow'
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by zephjc 12y ago
You still have to build and maintain power plants for extracting energy from other sources (coal, hydro, etc), which have huge additional costs.
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by zephjc 13y ago
Lag caused it to not get beyond pipe 3 the first two times; got to around pipe 25 before it failed again.
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by zephjc 13y ago
That's the sort of high school experience and college experience I had, where the college experience was much more conducive to really understanding the material. My sister-in-law is in high school, at a school that has fewer courses p
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by zephjc 13y ago
Then if they blow out their crappy speakers, maybe that will leave them with no recourse but to plug their headphones in
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by zephjc 13y ago
What kind of person uses crappy laptop speakers for media consumption?
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by zephjc 13y ago
slow clap
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by zephjc 13y ago
There's http://www.gimpshop.com/ which is gimp with a Photoshop-like UI
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by zephjc 13y ago
I don't know - the look is new and sleek compared to their current live look, but the functionality seems approximately the same.

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