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by borismus 5y ago
Surprised the article has no mention of verbal oaths as a precursor to signatures before widespread literacy. Ivan Illich writes about this in “ABC”
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by borismus 5y ago
Agree with sentiment but want to nitpick a bit. It’s unclear that the Roman Empire collapsed at all. Many Roman institutions lived on well past the 5th century and were assimilated into gothic Frankish Visigoth etc societies.
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by borismus 5y ago
if you liked this short story, consider vogon poetry
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by borismus 6y ago
It’s not necessarily your ears. Could also be the frequency response of your speakers
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by borismus 6y ago
Not for long
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by borismus 6y ago
Here I was expecting deep truths: spend time with those you love, don’t squander your time on meaningless drivel that neither enhances the mind nor expands the heart. But all I got were software engineering life hacks!
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Show HN: Debaters – Friendly conversations with people that think differently(alpha.debate.rs)
2 points by borismus 10y ago|0 comments
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by borismus 11y ago
Maybe by the time you switch to npm, github will come back up?
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by borismus 13y ago
Still too thick.
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by borismus 13y ago
Yes, Apple is really good at creating usable, beautiful user interfaces and vertically integrated solutions. Yes, it's very difficult to quantify this, and yes consumers get it. However, Apple isn't the only company focused on get
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Really Simple Social Syndication (RSSS)(smus.com)
3 points by borismus 14y ago|0 comments
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Interactive touch laptop experiments(smus.com)
2 points by borismus 14y ago|0 comments
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by borismus 14y ago
Please run the linked JSPerf tests in a later version of Firefox. The charts will automatically update.
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Let's get physical (units)(smus.com)
1 points by borismus 14y ago|0 comments
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by borismus 15y ago
(reposted from blog): I don't see how the claim that "Backbone by itself is not sufficient for building complex web apps" is controversial. There is a clear need to go beyond the functionality provided by Backbone, as evidenced by the popul
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Backbone vs Ember(smus.com)
147 points by borismus 15y ago|40 comments
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by borismus 15y ago
To get a feel for USB web debugging, check out this remote debugging video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4zpL4VBbuU
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by borismus 15y ago
Great post however many things don't fit the pattern. For example, lacking precognition, your search app can't know what people will search for. There are many similar UI examples, where you can't do stuff until you get input from the user,
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by borismus 15y ago
Yup, I mention that explicitly. Future work :)
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by borismus 15y ago
Just moved to socket.io-0.8.2, which fixes the issue.
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by borismus 15y ago
Try in Chrome 13 and below (due to breaking Web Socket changes).
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Soundsourcing: The Sound of the Crowd(borismus.com)
1 points by borismus 16y ago|0 comments
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NounProject - an icon for every noun(thenounproject.com)
14 points by borismus 16y ago|2 comments
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by borismus 16y ago
I think he's trying to say that learning is good. Hard to refute that one :) But... "Would you be comfortable going to a physician if you learned they hadn’t read any new findings in years?" When's the last time you went to a family doc
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MIDI controller using Kinect - Freenect(freenect.com)
1 points by borismus 16y ago|0 comments
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Tracking on arbitrary planes with Kinect [video](youtube.com)
2 points by borismus 16y ago|0 comments
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JQuery Mobile Hacker News Client(borismus.com)
2 points by borismus 16y ago|0 comments
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Wearable LEGO Master Chief Helmet(geekologie.com)
1 points by borismus 16y ago|0 comments
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Editing your Google Docs on the go - Official Google Mobile Blog(googlemobile.blogspot.com)
10 points by borismus 16y ago|1 comments
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Python 3.2 alpha 4 released(python.org)
2 points by borismus 16y ago|0 comments

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