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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.
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.
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.

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.
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
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: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.

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