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Re:Scobleizer: Mike Arrington and I Disagree on the Future
on Friday April 10, 2009 @01:56PM (#556451)
Wow, the web's two most obnoxious swollen egos disagree on something. Stop the presses.
Re:Apple revamps the iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro with no fanfare
on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @10:27AM (#501489)
Am I missing something here? According to the article, the prices have fallen or remained the same, and Apple has upgraded all the hardware.
Re:Techcrunch "overrated" according to TIME
on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @08:45PM (#485255)
But in this case, they happen to be right. In the absence of big news items coming from the Valley of late, TechCrunch has become a web 2.0 tabloid.
Re:@TwitterHR For Future Reference, Use BCC When Rejecting Applicants
on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @08:38PM (#485250)
You must be new to TechCrunch.
Re:Has human evolution stopped?
on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @08:11PM (#485235)
every time a human being does not get offspring because his/her desired mate gets snagged by a more appealing specimen that's evolution in progress
Ouch. Succint and harsh.
Re:Magenta Ain't A Color
on Monday February 16, 2009 @10:50PM (#484059)
Basically any note played on an analog instrument has a set of overtones of various frequencies. If these tones were played a bit louder, you would hear a chord rather than a single note.
Re:An Interview with _why the Lucky Stiff
on Monday February 16, 2009 @02:21PM (#483436)
The best part about _why: if this guy completely loses his mind one day, no one will notice any difference.
Re:Why aren't developers interested in Ada?
on Monday February 09, 2009 @02:34PM (#474035)
good programmers are forced to program simply so that future generations of bad programmers can read their code.
Is this necessarily a bad thing? I generally try follow the "code such that nearly anyone can understand" mantra. Helps keep things simple and concise.
Re:Sleeper CES hit: Emo's great-sounding "invisible loudspeakers" for ...
on Monday January 26, 2009 @12:37PM (#450705)
Neat idea; unfortunate name.
Re:Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers
on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @03:08PM (#443724)
This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.
Re:Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
on Friday January 16, 2009 @05:54PM (#437420)
Dropbox stores your files locally and syncs them with the files on the cloud. Zumo stores them only in the cloud and streams them to you on demand.
Re:Our world may be a giant hologram
on Thursday January 15, 2009 @03:40PM (#435687)
And the contention is that we can observe this because certain high-precision experiments might be picking up anomalies on the scale of a Planck length, whereas we shouldn't theoretically be able to detect anything so small. Therefore, what we're detecting must be an enlarged projection of what's actually there.
Re:Tweet by Snail Mail
on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @11:27AM (#432197)
Cast Away
Re:Hack your brain: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
on Monday January 12, 2009 @01:33PM (#430865)
This happens to me as well. Sometimes I also hear random disconnected sounds: a bell, pots clanging, voices, etc. There have been many nights where I've actually struggled to sleep through all the cacophony.
Re:Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account
on Monday January 12, 2009 @12:55PM (#430795)
Here's a tip: if "retarded" is the best adjective you can come up with, you've already lost the argument.
Re:Bright - a free collection of 148 icons
on Sunday January 11, 2009 @06:25PM (#429812)
You should demand your money back.
Re:Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper
on Friday January 09, 2009 @01:38PM (#426942)
American cows are fair game.
Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing y...
on Friday January 09, 2009 @12:18PM (#426803)
Re:Engine Yard Cuts 15% Of Workforce
on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:17AM (#424483)
Well, this certainly flies in the face of the sensationalist tone of the linked article.
TechCrunch Layoff Tracker? Seriously?
Re:Making Highrise faster with memcached
on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:53PM (#422374)
One thing they're missing here is that optimization is also about optimizing resources, not just the speed of an individual request/response cycle. If each request takes 50% less time, the app has 100% more resources to handle other requests. So even though the individual users don't feel a difference, the app as a whole is much more efficient.
Re:Paul Buchheit: blog, v2
on Monday December 29, 2008 @11:27PM (#413909)
This just in: Paul Buchheit makes a bathroom visit. More details to come.
Re:Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office
on Monday December 29, 2008 @07:50PM (#413731)
Reddit is that way ---->
Re:Ask HN: New Years Resolution(s)?
on Monday December 29, 2008 @04:03PM (#413440)
Speaking from experience: any doubts you have in your mind are inconsequential. Go for it! :)
Re:Hindley-Milner type inference algorithim, explained
on Monday December 29, 2008 @04:01PM (#413436)
*algorithm
Re:The NYTimes.com loves GeoDjango
on Sunday December 28, 2008 @09:39PM (#412493)
Is anyone out there using a Pylons stack for GIS? I'm starting a new geo-related project, and GeoDjango looks awesome, but I'm having trouble getting over the fact that Pylons is just more my style.
Re:Every Mac I've owned has failed
on Sunday December 28, 2008 @09:33PM (#412487)
ThinkPad + Ubuntu FTW
Re:Scalable Datasets with Bloom Filters and Ruby
on Saturday December 27, 2008 @06:41PM (#411507)
Nice article, but Ruby wouldn't have been my language of choice for illustrating HPC concepts.
Re:Dear Reddit, Hacker News...
on Thursday December 25, 2008 @03:20PM (#409739)
Just out of curiosity... Based on your comments, there seems to be something going on between you and Zed. Was there some incident?
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas
on Thursday December 25, 2008 @12:06AM (#409428)
Bah, humbug! :)
Re:Zed Shaw: Ruby Is So Nice
on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @03:49PM (#409110)
And funny.