CharlieA

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by CharlieA 9y ago
This reminds me of a quote attributed to Van Gogh. No idea how accurate it is, but the sentiment is great. > "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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by CharlieA 13y ago
I agree with your premise that the spirit of a law shouldn't be violated to send a message but I don't see that it applies here. For me this doesn't pass the sense test: should a person be able to knowingly, intentionally fak
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Cool Canvas Visualization(codepen.io)
3 points by CharlieA 13y ago|0 comments
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Possibly there could be a meta tag describing which share buttons should be shown on the page--even what the particular share link should be when they're clicked.
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Just curious--how or where did you hear about Braintree coming to Australia? And do you know if it's available publicly? It's something I'd love to look at (even with the Westpac account requirement) I can't seem to find anything on it.
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Unless my math is off, or I'm misreading the article... that's about 1% of his total shareholding he's sold. How is this a scramble to offload shares? It seems more like a pretty minor (and sensible) liquidity transaction.
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Thankyou for the feedback, I'm really sorry about this--I'll go back and check everything. It may be that you were playing songs that are a bit uncommon and it was taking some time to load them, or plain just couldn't find them. I'll work o
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Sometimes, unfortunately it gets the music wrong--I think what may have happened with Hump De Bump is that it takes the MP3 from the official video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxEZVM84J28 ) which takes about 40 seconds for the music to
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Thanks! The images are from Last.fm, the music from YouTube :) Really wanted to focus on the interface so it seemed the logical approach.
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Show HN: Zune-Inspired Music Interface Concept(vyemusic.com)
9 points by CharlieA 14y ago|8 comments
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Cool concept... I think there's definitely a sweet spot for guys who have no idea what to buy their girlfriend or whatever... Couple of thoughts, though they're not specifically about the landing page, more general things that popped into m
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by CharlieA 14y ago
"Microsoft has positions in all the right places." This. Microsoft today is still one of the world's biggest companies, with a lot of talented people and considerable inlets into practically every home and office in the developed world. App
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by CharlieA 14y ago
One of the artists in the video was explaining how the bundle works / what it is and said basically that it was available to mac and pc users, then: "and linux...whatever that is..." and then there was something at the end (blooper?) of him
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by CharlieA 14y ago
To be fair, it looked (to me, anyway) to be out of genuine concern that the change to the title would reduce the interest of people on HN who could see the post and maybe help out Aaron.
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by CharlieA 14y ago
The video is 27 minutes long, with about 5 minutes of Q&A at the end and IMHO worth watching all the way through, but the '10 Golden Rules' he discusses are... 1. Speed - more than a feature, mainstream users tend to be least forgiving,
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Ask HN: Share Your Pain
15 points by CharlieA 14y ago|22 comments
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by CharlieA 14y ago
A bit more detail further in the report: "The UNODC estimates, conservatively, that between 155 and 270 million people worldwide, or 3.5% to 5.7% of 15-64-year¬olds, used illicit substances at least once in the last year. Global lifetime us
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by CharlieA 14y ago
The biggest barrier IMO to a legal drug economy, with regulation and legitimate corporate players, is reversing years and years of learned stigma that "drugs are evil". And the incredibly irony here of the "please think of the children" men
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by CharlieA 14y ago
I take your point, in part, and I don't necessarily disagree with you, because by and large the system does work. But (to use your analogy) when it comes to the law-making branch of government we have this massive sprawling "codebase" and i
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by CharlieA 14y ago
The 3-way division of the world into "super-continents" and the constant war keeping the populace in a perpetual state of starvation and poverty, with the entire world in disrepair is so incredibly reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 it's scary. I
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by CharlieA 14y ago
It's candy and it's japanese... that just conjures all sorts of images of a super high tech factory run by cats and magic. I'd love to see a candy envelope being stylised packing animation in the background or off to the side. It could look
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by CharlieA 14y ago
I don't know about the half kidding...it seems like you might legitimately be on to something there in the area of private deal "experiences" for you and close friends. But I'm thinking, more so than Pinterest it's closer to "Path" where yo
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by CharlieA 14y ago
This is brilliant. It's always seemed crazy to me that terms, laws, and especially contracts are written in legalese that only a trained lawyer could really understand, and yet all lay-people are expected to adhere to the nuances of these r
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by CharlieA 14y ago
Hilarious irony aside, what particularly is it that investors believe the company misrepresented about their financials? For people who didn't follow this too closely?
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by CharlieA 14y ago
I take issue with the premise that search implies loss. When you solve a maths problem you could be "searching for an answer" -- it doesn't mean you've lost it before now. For me, Google isn't really about searching for something you're mis
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by CharlieA 15y ago
Not for me either, likely intentional to prevent people from printing where they could otherwise sell posters or something? Shame though, it'd be great to see some full-size HQ versions.
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by CharlieA 15y ago
I suppose when you're strapping jet engines onto a metal tube, filling it with people and hurling it into the sky you have to accept that things are never quite going to be perfect. In the same manner, it seems like the take-away is: if you
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by CharlieA 15y ago
Purely speculation, but it seems like the only reason they'd do this is to free up the space for a future use case? While it will probably annoy/stump a few people for a second or two, ultimately people will just learn not to click on the l
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by CharlieA 15y ago
Search results not carrying over to Google News when you click the black header tab is something that drove me crazy for a good week until I trained myself to use the left-side menu for switching between result types. It doesn't make sense,
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by CharlieA 15y ago
I don't understand how he (or anyone) can get away with saying things like this--it's practically a straight up admission that they're buying votes. How is this not corruption?

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