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Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK
on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:08PM (#8227903)
I can only think of DuckDuckGo ("we won't track you").
Re:Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email
on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:32AM (#8131883)
In the spirit of HN; this post and your previous one could be shortened to just this one ;)
Re:The lessons of Bulletstorm and the problem with price-points
on Friday May 30, 2014 @02:03PM (#7823147)
Games these days are insignificant experiences for people who've already played plenty of them. Taking Secret of Mana, that was surely the first game at all of its kind that I'd played. But I'd barely part with any money to buy an RPG today. Games today have a much harder job being original, and tend to be shameless in their lack of originality anyhow.
Re:Careful with that Koolaid
on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:41AM (#7756051)
I think you misplaced the words "you thought".
How do you get into MIT without being smart enough?
Re:How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux
on Friday May 09, 2014 @12:31PM (#7721735)
It was a few years back that FF was so sluggish in linux. (fast in Debian now)
That was the time I tried Opera. The difference in bootup time was like night and day, and it was quicker rendering certain pages, but in the long run those pages were outnumbered by ones Opera was actually slower at.
Re:Apps combat phobias and anxiety
on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @08:02AM (#7666343)
For those who go straight-to-comments on HN (myself included):
Users first play a series of games with cartoon spiders, which start out as cute and harmless-looking but gradually become more realistic. One early task involves helping a spider hide in a slipper while someone is using a vacuum cleaner.
You're also missing a spider in a top hat.
Apps combat phobias and anxiety
Re:The worst year of my life
on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:46AM (#7647190)
This needs more votes, simply for reminding people that bullying isn't some generic situation. The least bad case of bullying is when you have a single bully, who can be made to start treating you as a human being without going as far as a fight. The worst case is a group, who chronically hate you for whatever reason. Not every situation in life has a solution, if you have enough enemies.
Re:The worst year of my life
on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:05AM (#7646946)
One day, pal. I believe it will become possibile too. There are various upsides and downsides to humans achieving self engineering, I realised a terrible one recently - people would truly have nothing that belongs to themselves.
Re:Please stop hashing passwords
on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:11AM (#7627401)
It is, insultingly so.
Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)
on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:04PM (#7623396)
>Memrise
Cheers, I'm using that right now. The real teaching power is in apps.
Re:I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
on Thursday April 17, 2014 @07:36AM (#7602968)
I don't see how that is feasible. Upvoting the analogy though.
Re:Show HN: Super Planet Crash
on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @09:30AM (#7597595)
Apparently these systems (dwarf-n-habitables) are hard to record correctly:
http://www.stefanom.org/2000000-systems-played
I just observed the same result (89m 336y).
Re:Show HN: Super Planet Crash
on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @09:55AM (#7591794)
What do you call exploiting?
Re:Show HN: Super Planet Crash
on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @09:51AM (#7591775)
165 million
Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better
on Sunday April 13, 2014 @10:58AM (#7581479)
It's hard not to have a crush on the japanese when you can relate to all this. I recently walked a man to his destination for 10-15 mins, because giving directions / pointing on his map "left too much room for error" as you concisely put it. All so I didn't fail as some anonymous directions-giver. It's just something you expect to get right.
But I don't desire 'perfection' in anything, I simply have standards that don't degrade. Think of TV talent shows, and the horrible people you get to see during the auditions. These people lost their standards somewhere along the line.
Re:Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSL
on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:49PM (#7568304)
When the ratio of comments to article-upvotes reaches a certain point, threads are punished as 'flamewars'.
Re:Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue
on Monday April 07, 2014 @08:09AM (#7545971)
"The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular."
It's half as honest. It's dilute Comic Sans. It's the diet coke of casual.
Re:Wesleyan bucks trend, lets students graduate in 3 years
on Sunday April 06, 2014 @11:59AM (#7541358)
The problem is, existing 3 year degrees in America are compressed 4 year degrees. America should ditch gen-ed at the same time (as switching to 3-year).
Re:-2000 lines of code
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:37PM (#7518820)
No. It's for effect.
Re:-2000 lines of code
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:18PM (#7518665)
An intern? Don't pat yourself on the back TOO hard... ;-)
Who's to say an anecdotal 'employee' is any better than his 'intern'?
Re:The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz
on Monday March 31, 2014 @05:40AM (#7500492)
When an explanation (as opposed to an opinion) gets downvotes, it warrants a reply...
Re:U.S. autism rate surges, CDC reports (1 in 68)
on Sunday March 30, 2014 @12:26PM (#7496659)
I understand the spectrum to be honest, but I think in trying to get the rest of the world to understand ASD, you can't start off too deep. In the article it seems autism is now interchangeable with ASD, so we're losing even a binary terminology.
Re:U.S. autism rate surges, CDC reports (1 in 68)
on Sunday March 30, 2014 @11:19AM (#7496388)
It's asperger's. You'll know if you meet someone with full-blown autism. They would never get into employment.
Re:The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz
on Sunday March 30, 2014 @07:51AM (#7495913)
> They caught the burglar, but he turned out to be the local kid that everyone kind of liked. He was punished as everyone agreed the law required, but nobody was happy about it.
Not one of the downvoters, but I want to add that criminals remain likeable when humans have no visceral reaction to the crime.
Re:The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz
on Sunday March 30, 2014 @07:45AM (#7495903)
Actually I got the same impression from the article. I'm not American, but I know MIT is one of the finest unis in the world, and if they allowed anonymous PC logins and the journal site itself just took email registrations, those are conscious choices.
Re:We lost a customer. This is how we found out
on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:59PM (#7490512)
There should be a W3C validator service for this.
Re:Steve Jobs's response after getting a Google employee fired.
on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:52AM (#7473776)
This reads like a UK tabloid article. (the internet should never feel that way)
As in, you're told what to think in advance of all info.
Re:Steve Jobs's response after getting a Google employee fired.
on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:25AM (#7473543)
>it shows how drunk on power on he is.
Read the article properly.