Supraperplex

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by Supraperplex 10y ago
> There's a good argument to be made that certain social goods are actually better when there is no profit motive for the people providing it. Can you elaborate on that? I honestly can't see it.
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by Supraperplex 10y ago
Definitely needed. Nice clean layout, the cleaner the better.
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by Supraperplex 10y ago
Steve Jobs also said: "If you see a stylus, they blew it." The Newton had a stylus. I think to terminate the Newton was just Jobs acting according to Jobs' design philosophy. It was his honest opinion.
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
Give me a billion dollars and I write you a mobile OS. Shoot me an email if you are interested.
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
>>How much content is actually worth paying for?<< This is the real question in the pot.
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
Moore's Law will ensure the cycle will come back. When a smartphonesque device can robustly house your private cloud. At that stage the brick and mortar warehouses will have to offer other solutions than just enabling cloud services.
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
In the past you piad the printer and mailman for distribution. Now you pay the networks for a "channel." Guns could seize a warheouse and burn books. Guns can storm a server room and delete files.
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
Joomla and Drupal think of it like Python and Ruby, in the sense of: the same thing but fundamentally absolutely different. I would say Drupal is better. But it doesn't really matter, either is fine and will get the job done. If the si
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
> and only noticed by the third that has a feel for it. Everybody feels something. It's just that most people don't realize what it is what they are feeling. But subconsciously they feel a difference. And that diference may (or
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
PHP in terms of the language syntax and at least a broad familiarity with the most used libs etc? That's not a career choice, that's just something you can do as a web developer, like HTML and basic CSS. Question is where you go f
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
The difference? YouTube didn't loose anything. Facebook looses it's iconic brand: the white on blue 'like', that is just positive and teints the whole FB brand positively. Oh, and people would use those things 'corr
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
I think that one founder had an array of reasons to leave China. This was not the only result of said array of reasons, which infuriated another founder. Regulations were met. Now one founder wants to undo unwelcomed results. It is his doin
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
How is your "nature usage" going? What I mean is how often are you outside? I mean in the woods, not the city. At the beach, you know, nature. The stimulation our brains get by beeing in nature is very important for us. When you a
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
The workers were bullshitted by CBM and didn't get it: "When I asked WeWork for more money, they told me to talk to CBM, he said. When I asked CBM for more money, CBM said WeWork had to approve the raise. It was frustrating."
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
"Each page is self contained." Allright, I guess it's an Emacs site then.
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
On DOS TP did support a texmode based "GUI".
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by Supraperplex 11y ago
Desperation of GW-Basic?! Be glad you had that one. The other BASICs of those times where much more limited! GW was a little bit of awesome in it's own way. Oh, and POKE and PEEK.
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
A good (content) marketer would produce content that he thinks his target audience would like. There is no difference as to why a submitter does submit: the variable we ar talking here is the ability to estimate what is liked by the HN comm
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
Good copy takes into account who it addresses. Obviously someone who nows how to estimate what "firewall" means in an IT context will have a rough idea as to what a Dropbox is.
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
I don't see any problem with that. We shall downvote uninteresting submissions and upvote good ones. It is irreleveant why they were submitted.
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
By the standards of the linked article I would say the greatest program is the original Elite game. A whole universe complete with star systems and 3D models for spaceships plus some other content like missions... I think the name says it:
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
I want to use it for a (very) small business website. How safe is this? What headaches should I do prepare for?
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Foreign language fluency is not purely linguistic(babbel.com)
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
Animations help a lot of people to better understand what is going on in the machine.
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
You are talking about (philosophical) values. This is a value judgement: > them feed their shit to the public A solution to this would be to work for an agency whose leadership and positioning is compatible with your values. For instance
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
> As a business owner... Yeah, but what if your contact at the client is not a stake holder in the company but an employe?
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
There is another aspect I would like to add to what your wrote. The minimum effort required to win new business and the resources required to do business. I give you a specific example, I think it makes the point: a graphic designer who wen
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by Supraperplex 12y ago
What I have read somewhere a long time ago, is that the chronotypes are actually functions of the inner clock in so much as that you either have an inner clock of a 23 hours day or a 25 hours day. (Compare also to leap year etc) So this the