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Re:Startup lessons on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @06:52AM (#6210778)
I don't see what you're hinting at. I'm not their target audience.
Re:Startup lessons on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @06:04AM (#6210669)
That's what these list things do regularly. They're just linkbait with either bullshit or obvious advice.
And that would be better, the world could do without a trillion photo apps and dazed kids trying to be businessmen.
"Decentralized", so it centralizes the functionality of many services. Okay then.

You've bitten off more than you can chew by going against Flickr/Youtube/Soundcloud. You don't really offer anything they don't, just a promise of ethics like "it's free".

Re:Ask HN: HN Political News Overload? on Monday July 29, 2013 @09:09AM (#6120798)
All of those are, obviously. Don't try to avert the issue by redefining words.
Re:Why Good Programmers are Lazy and Dumb (2005) on Sunday July 28, 2013 @12:22PM (#6117084)
- A paradoxical claim of "bad is good" in the title. Off to a good start.

- The content is some neverheard's blog post with no substance to back up the claim. Getting there.

- Analogies, personal stories, vaguely "motivational" Powerpoint lingo, rambling, self-contradictions... Bingo!

Yes, I'm sure this will be quite successful on the HN front page.

Re:Practical Typography on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @12:18PM (#6097058)
Yeah, what's up with the trend of maximum black-on-white contrast with a huge font? Do people out there think it looks good, or is it just a default layout they haven't bothered to change?

It hurts my eyes, especially at night, and gives a sort of condescending vibe - "what I'm saying is really important so I'll spell this out like you were reading an alphabet book".

Re:Ubuntu Edge on Monday July 22, 2013 @04:47PM (#6086364)
That's no excuse for an $800 price tag. It just means they're charging customers for their bad decisions (as in not using others' hardware).
Re:Ubuntu Edge on Monday July 22, 2013 @04:43PM (#6086345)
Except it's not "new and bold", it's literally Ubuntu on a smartphone for far above the market price. Add some marketing buzzwords about how it will revolutionize computing and people start seeing clothes on the emperor.
Re:Ubuntu Edge on Monday July 22, 2013 @11:32AM (#6084337)
Haha oh wow. They're charging hundreds of dollars to add a free OS into a smartphone. And they expect to get 32 million just for the promise. Someone lock these people up before they do some real damage.
Re:The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science on Friday July 19, 2013 @03:23PM (#6072335)
You're setting me up for a trap with the list thing - if I linked somewhere you'd simply say it was racist data and question the validity of the sources.

Instead I'll go for the route of scientific analogy. If dogs have races, why wouldn't humans? After all, humans are not biologically above or separate from animals. Why would basic evolution stop applying with humans?

Mind you, the existence of races doesn't have to imply inferiority or superiority between them. People seem to be afraid that would happen, so they throw the baby out with the bathwater by denying the whole concept of race altogether. Much like the article says.

Re:The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:38PM (#6072026)
Human races are not a matter of belief. Look at the people around you, look at different cultures and their trends across centuries. You're one of those people who could take a lesson from this article.
Remember when a "bootstrapped startup" was simply called a "company"?
Re:Valve Pipeline on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:40AM (#6037322)
Even after watching it, I don't get what it is.

Like, yeah it's supposed to help high school students familiarize themselves with commercial game development, but how? Do they visit your high school and hold a presentation? If it's just information on a website, why do you need to register? If it wasn't by Valve it'd sound like a scam.

Re:Reasons to avoid code comments on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:33AM (#6037310)
These sort of articles are definitely the worst part of HN. Take some common practice, invent dumb rules against it just to be contrarian, publish and get people fighting against each other.
Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) on Sunday June 30, 2013 @07:03PM (#5967648)
This is such a dumb argument. People say "drug" isn't a meaningful classification because it mixes different categories of substances, and in the next sentence they're equating coffee with LSD, apparently to defend the use of the latter.
Re:Anatomy of a Compiler Bug on Saturday June 29, 2013 @11:08AM (#5962582)
Or because they don't see immediate value in it, as typical programming isn't done in ASM nowadays. I think it's worthwhile just to "demystify" computers, but since embedded programming, demos and retro gaming are part of my interests, I get practical benefits out of it as well.
Re:Editor wars. Ugh. on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:17AM (#5961941)
What a shitty article. This is the level of discussion it deserves.
Re:Anatomy of a Compiler Bug on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:35AM (#5961855)
Haha, it's almost like some detective short story.

Surprisingly it wasn't as hard to follow as I thought. Maybe I'm starting to get good at this Computer Science thing.

Suddenly the front page is Snowden Snowden Snowden. Hacker News is even worse than Reddit at latching to news-of-the-minute.
Re:Five Years of Stackoverflow.com on Friday June 21, 2013 @09:05AM (#5917818)
Yeah, the moderation gets on my nerves. They might just lock the question before you have time to explain yourself better. And by then, they've already edited your question to what they falsely believed it was asking, even if there was nothing ambiguous about it. I've quietly decided to never use the site again because of things like that.
I don't see what's insightful or "brilliant" about this. Quite common sense about working with technology, really, just packed in metaphors.
Re:Seriously.js on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @04:51PM (#5828518)
Whoa, this caused the second BSOD I've seen since Windows 98. When I started messing with the options, the windows just flashed wildly for a while, some popup about ATI Radeon driver errors was struggling to spring to existence, and then everything froze.
Re:Double Fine launched a new game on Kickstarter on Thursday May 30, 2013 @05:09PM (#5795251)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (for GBA) is the spiritual successor. It has a similar job system and gameplay to an extent, but you might consider it easier or even toned down.

Regardless, I think it has a bunch of unique touches for a tactical RPG, and the whole atmosphere of it is really captivating. It's one of those games that come across as an experience beyond a stream of bits, which is something the genre benefits from. It does seem like Massive Chalice would be a similar breath of fresh air, if it ever gets finished.

Re:The Shortest Crashing C Program on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:23PM (#5765019)
The way he just keeps pushing further and further pleases the hacker inside me. A recommended read for sure.
Re:How do GameShark/GameGenie codes work? on Saturday May 18, 2013 @11:29AM (#5729235)
I'm intrigued by ROM hacking (and low-level computing in general). So far I've been limited to reading memory dumps on emulators while only making little sense of it, but I'll have to give it a better shot. Using Gameshark and checking your links is probably a good start, thanks for those.
What's this about?

    print ("Click", "Bam!")[input()%6==4]
Tee hee.
Why was the title changed? It was much more descriptive of the appeal of the link (the developer's response). Now it looks like the bug report itself is the focus.
Re:Daily happiness averages using Twitter on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @06:55AM (#5667414)
He was talking about the chart in question, obviously.

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