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by zephjc 15y ago
Thanks for the invite!
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by zephjc 15y ago
me too (my HN userid) @gmail.com
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by zephjc 15y ago
beck5 pointed out that it's a demo limitation, so that is good to know
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by zephjc 15y ago
That seems reasonable, but how do you do anything useful with the faces if you can only see a subset? This is why I am a sorted lists man :)
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by zephjc 15y ago
Thing's I noticed trying out the demo: - You can only have add a person to one "circle". If I wanted to add someone to two or more, I'm SOL. Maybe they will change this. - A "circle" can only contain a certain number of users before it runs
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by zephjc 15y ago
Why is the form asking for gender as a required field?
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by zephjc 15y ago
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/daemon Pronounces it DEE-mon which is how I've always said it. (The Golden Compass audiobooks and movie also pronounce their spirit animals, called Daemons, as DEE-mon). I always thought the UNIX te
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by zephjc 15y ago
There are these days. Tools like jQuery and CSS Reset help normalize some issues, but some persist. See: IE haslayout bug
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by zephjc 15y ago
Two words: Internet. Explorer. The number of man-hours wasted on working around IE bugs probably counts in the billions.
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by zephjc 15y ago
Surely there is another copy of this video including the whole talk. It would also be nice to see the slides.
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by zephjc 15y ago
You can find hours of lectures by Alan Watts about this sort of thing. I find his work to be a very approachable explanation of Buddhism, Zen, Hinduism and Taoism.
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by zephjc 15y ago
With all the effort they put into cloning the iPhone case and UI, you think they would try to create something new and innovative.
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by zephjc 15y ago
In the UK, yes. In the US, the word is Costumer.
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by zephjc 15y ago
Perhaps they wanted to service people who make/sell costumes. A very niche market indeed :)
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by zephjc 15y ago
If Microsoft had any vision, maybe they could, but they are pretty much reactionary these days.
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by zephjc 15y ago
I think this was ample, feature-wise, for a 1-day Google homepage logo :)
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by zephjc 15y ago
Telephone by Lagy Gaga http://goo.gl/doodle/yXZK
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by zephjc 15y ago
"The Daystar!" hisssss
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by zephjc 15y ago
You prefer solitude and you moved to a bustling metropolis? That sounds like the ideal city for immersing yourself in the culture and the energy of it all.
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by zephjc 15y ago
Hold onto the grass so you don't fall off! :)
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by zephjc 15y ago
As a guess, it's probably the same reasons medical conferences are in places like Hawaii.
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by zephjc 15y ago
As th said, it's a House reference. I think this project is great, and I admire the effort put in, but not everything on HN needs to be Señor Seriousface.
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by zephjc 15y ago
So it's slightly crippled, sometimes difficult, but always correct?
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by zephjc 15y ago
I hope they pick a new name before launch. Not just because 1) it is a cliché -ly suffixed name, but because 2) "Alt" doesn't tell the user what it does and 3) automatically puts its existence in opposition to something (facebook in this ca
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by zephjc 15y ago
found another loop, on my first try nonetheless: Genghis_Khan -> Mongolian_language -> Mongolia -> Mongolian_language
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by zephjc 15y ago
Gnome 3 sounds yucky. Here's a much more meat and potatoes review which is more precise in what they like and don't: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-revie...
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by zephjc 15y ago
A book by Scott Adams, it is also available as an audiobook, which is supposed to be more conducive to its consumption: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/hypnotized_by_an_audio_boo...
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by zephjc 15y ago
I've heard about that about people from South America before, but it doesn't make much sense to me - the USA is the only country with "America" in its name. Every other use is for the names of continents, which have no actual political mean
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by zephjc 15y ago
Even AT&T can't stop inevitability, as much as they will stomp and pout.
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by zephjc 16y ago
"IE 9: It will go all Exorcist on your brain, then make you hallucinate."

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