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by collypops 5y ago
Somebody’s not impressed. Thanks for your contribution to the conversation.
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What a board game taught me about the pandemic(sunilsuri.com)
1 points by collypops 5y ago|0 comments
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by collypops 5y ago
I (someone who knew nothing about cryptocurrency trading) followed these instructions and ended up with $3650 AUD in my bank account after all was said and done. Of course, some of you are more likely to put it to better use on the market,
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by collypops 7y ago
Thanks for posting this! Our team produced the story, and I also developed the story format and scroll-based visuals. This required more code for gathering/processing than for the presentational aspects, but I enjoyed learning heaps ab
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The Amazon Race: A news game about what it’s like to work in an Amazon warehouse(abc.net.au)
1 points by collypops 8y ago|0 comments
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by collypops 11y ago
Randi isn't _that_ surprising
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Every Star Wars movie as XKCD-inspired interactive charts(abc.net.au)
1 points by collypops 11y ago|0 comments
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by collypops 11y ago
I'm trying to furiously cram as much into my head as possible, as I've run out of time to marathon the movies ahead of tomorrow's cinema trip!
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by collypops 11y ago
I'd love to get some feedback on this, particularly what you found obvious/intuitive about the experience, and what confused/discouraged you. Thanks! For those unfamiliar with the term 'tweetstorm', it's the na
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Show HN: Ramble on – A simple tweetstorm composer with instant formatting(ramble-on.surge.sh)
2 points by collypops 11y ago|1 comments
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by collypops 11y ago
We don't write software in a vaccum. When we come up against barriers of language understanding (and this is something EVERYONE will face), we seek help from the community to break through and eventually wield that language more effect
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The Verge's Apple Watch Review [video](youtube.com)
4 points by collypops 11y ago|0 comments
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by collypops 11y ago
Where's the cancer comparison... scrolls ...where is it... scrolls some more ...ah, there it is.
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by collypops 12y ago
It wouldn't be a Hacker News thread without the top comment being an "Am I the only one...?"
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by collypops 12y ago
I don't see selfie sticks anywhere in that list.
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by collypops 12y ago
That just gave you up as someone who didn't follow the link.
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by collypops 12y ago
"for useless chatter" You'll fit right in, then.
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by collypops 12y ago
I can tell this thread is gonna be a gold mine for Shit HN Says
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by collypops 12y ago
Here's another visualisation I put together, based on the same data collected on Wikipedia. It tries to mix a narrative with the growing number of cases/deaths. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-31/ebola
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by collypops 12y ago
There's a curse that comes with watching a movie adaptation of a book before reading it, in that you can't not picture the faces of the actors that portray the characters. I'd attempted to read The Fellowship of the Ring a f
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by collypops 12y ago
That's $29,999,995 more than it needed.
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by collypops 12y ago
It's more like Zed Shaw leaving Ruby for Python. That happened. So did lots of other stuff. Same as it always was.
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by collypops 12y ago
> young and single, or at least no kids. I'd say that was exactly who he was picturing...as people who use Uber & Lyft. I think the point he is making isn't that cities can get rid of cars. It's that the majority of pe
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by collypops 12y ago
HomeKit, for the authentic "lock-in" experience
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by collypops 13y ago
I love the difference in rhetoric when things are written about Ive compared to Jobs. It's subtle, but shows how much we throw around credit: "Ive helped transform computing" vs "Jobs transformed computing"
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by collypops 13y ago
Thank god you're here. This topic is saddening enough without people making grammar errors too.
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by collypops 13y ago
I could see this being put to good use in interface tutorials, to subtly hint at what new users should be interacting with to progress, without resorting to lightboxes, tooltips and buttons.
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by collypops 13y ago
Isn't that just news.ycombinator.com?
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by collypops 13y ago
Actually, it gave up on performing _everything_ client-side, and now renders the first page server-side, and then handles subsequent rendering client-side. It found a performant happy medium, which is something I hope React will enable a lo
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by collypops 13y ago
They forgot "everything will be teal".

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