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Show HN: A chrome extension that blocks “Share/Like/Tweet this page” widgets(davidkarn.github.io)
6 points by david 11y ago|3 comments
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by david 12y ago
I don't think I've heard anyone at all call it an "Integrated Develop er Environment", instead of "Integrated Develop ment Environment".
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by david 12y ago
I think he meant in San Francisco rent control began as a response to prop 13, not that rent control itself began in san francisco.
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by david 12y ago
Amazon is best place to buy used electronics IMO. I used to sell smartphones on Amazon and eBay. Amazon typically has better condition products and guarantees everything themselves at least 30 days, regardless of who you buy it from. They d
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by david 12y ago
Here's why: SFJulie1's comment came off as rambling and somewhat incoherent, if not a little childish and rude. In the past few hours one other account has popped up here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=R
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by david 12y ago
I think the point isn't that companies should decide what you can buy, that makes no sense... I think the point is more that just because people seem to prefer a product at first glance/first use doesn't mean that that's
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Show HN: GPS Tycoon, Android game where you compete to own land on Google maps(webdever.net)
7 points by david 12y ago|1 comments
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by david 12y ago
Uh, right, the "Ashtar Command Community" says stonehenge was built from the ground up in 1954, totally credible. Stonehenge is not fascinating anymore at all. 10 seconds on google shows photos and pictures of stonehenge long befo
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by david 12y ago
He didn't say a watch is "just a watch", he said a watch "is still a watch".
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by david 12y ago
...and completely miss the point.
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Apple & Google attacked for game urging operating on girl to make more beautiful(theguardian.com)
1 points by david 13y ago|0 comments
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by david 13y ago
Right, there's only like a million of these already in existence in every language and I have yet to find one that is comprehensive enough that I don't just fall back to regular sql queries sooner or later. And if you think about it, any li
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by david 16y ago
>> I cannot spell words which are spelled differently than the way they are pronounced like resteraunt Sure can't ;)
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by david 16y ago
That's pretty ridiculous. The body sizes and visual similarities between students are not as close as you make it sound, I could easily see this set of drawings coming from one of my classes in seventh grade. Why not go with the much simple
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by david 16y ago
Is that 90% of browsers or 90% of users? I think this kind of thing is like a light on the horizon for web designers. It lets us know that some of the things we wish we could do now are at least going to be feasible someday...
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by david 16y ago
>> This project will only display correctly on a webkit browser and has only been tested in Google Chrome. Honestly, if you know it will display in a webkit browser, is it that difficult to at least test in Safari before you put the
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by david 16y ago
>> The reason they pushed for it? Basically, private banks were printing too many banknotes and causing bouts of inflation. Good to know we don't have to worry about that anymore... IANAEconomist, but I think what the banks were doi
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by david 16y ago
>> If I showed up to your store with a lump of gold for trade, we would have to go find someone we both trusted to figure out how pure it was. That takes time and money. That inhibits commerce from taking place. It's the same with p
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by david 16y ago
It's probably good for the AV-software manufacturers though.
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by david 16y ago
Am I missing something or is this just bad grammer?
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by david 16y ago
People would come to a deeper and more complete understanding of a subject by reading a document whose actual intent is to bring them to a more complete and deep understanding of that subject. Fascinating.
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by david 16y ago
I dunno... When I was in junior high school I wrote a fully functioning perl on the TI-80 graphing calculator. It was about 200 lines of code, and it (almost) worked right the first time.
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by david 16y ago
Actually, they are known for making it pretty hard on advertisers. They're rules for what ads are acceptable are pretty strict, to the point where showing almost anything other than just a plain description of your product/service can be in
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by david 16y ago
yeah, it's pretty hard to google anything nowadays without resorting to plus signs everywhere.
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by david 16y ago
Well, any multple choice question is going to be unanswerable if none of the choices given are a correct answer. Since I think most would define a multiple choice question as one with a list of answers from which you pick the correct one, I
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by david 16y ago
A. Point 1 1. Topic Sentence 2. Concrete Detail 3. Commentary 4. Concrete Detail 5. Commentary 6. Commentary 7. Transition Sentence
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by david 17y ago
It's expanded on the first occurrence in the body text... No point in making the title unnecessarily long. Besides, that's what gets you to read the article.
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by david 17y ago
>> The vast majority of people will never have the opportunity to be down the hall from that guy and for the vast majority of people a large helpful community will be infinitely more valuable. Which means what to Fog Creek?
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by david 17y ago
What does "sane" mean in this thread? I can't figure it out other than "something that makes sense to the poster". >> Need to find a PHP developer? No problem. Not being able to hire just anyone to code for you is a good thing just
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by david 17y ago
I would be more worried in the absence of any "streams of negativity".

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