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by meelash 13y ago
Really? This got voted up to number 1 on the front page, and so many awesome real projects are buried without ever getting anywhere? HN is really a joke now, I see. Haven't been around for a while. Sad.
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Show HN: npm for client-side javascript- for real, this time(github.com)
10 points by meelash 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: npm for client-side javascript. for real, this time(youtube.com)
1 points by meelash 13y ago|0 comments
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by meelash 15y ago
Only if looking in the mirror does the same, I suppose :)
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An Anti-College Backlash?(theatlantic.com)
7 points by meelash 15y ago|1 comments
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by meelash 16y ago
This article is claiming they've been trying to get rid of a worm for months? Why wouldn't they just format the computers and return to a previously backed up state? Secondly, if the government needed information on how to solve the problem
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by meelash 16y ago
The leaked letter is at the end of the article. The article is nothing exciting, but I found the letter an excellent and relevant read.
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Columbia Alumnus Protest against SIPA's Wikileaks warning(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by meelash 16y ago|1 comments
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by meelash 16y ago
I've been thinking about this consequence of government ineptness for a while now. The problem is that politicians think (rightly) that they have gamed the feedback loop that is public opinion successfully. What they haven't recognized is t
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by meelash 16y ago
Respectfully, I don't think you've given the issue enough consideration. You're saying that if they didn't search the pilots, someone would fake as a pilot to get through security? Then what would he do? Stand awkwardly with the rest of the
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by meelash 16y ago
Exactly. At least in Pakistan, a huge part of this problem is the insane emphasis of teaching everything in English, even though the people do not really understand English. Imagine going through 10-12 years of schooling in Spanish, where
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by meelash 16y ago
I've never had this happen to me if I recall. Do the people who have a problem with this not keep their hand in "typing position"? It seems really difficult to me, with my left hand in position (which can be assured with the F dot) to hit W
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by meelash 16y ago
I have an honest question to ask, since the number of comments hasn't exploded here, I hope some thoughtful people can see it and answer. Please don't attack me for anything I may be implicitly saying; this is honestly something I'm confuse
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by meelash 16y ago
Man, I wish those punks would do something like that in my neighborhood. 5 or 6 guys should get together with some nice, big sticks and go patrol the streets. Let some kid throw an egg at them and then go beat the crap out of him (meaning h
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by meelash 16y ago
I was thinking the believe it or not was on account of who invented the Yahoo store?
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by meelash 16y ago
hmmm.. yeah, I didn't think of the repeat letter advantage. In english, at least, that does seem likely to be a significant advantage.
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by meelash 16y ago
(a) I'm afraid you missed my point. I purposely stayed away from all matters of interpretation, and only replied to factually incorrect statements. None of the counter-arguments I presented were matters in which interpretation could be do
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by meelash 16y ago
If this is properly optimized, it should require much less finger movement than handwriting. And it can easily get even casual users to higher accuracies than even full size keyboards- the recognition is much more accurate because of the fo
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by meelash 16y ago
This is measurable- the minimum diameter of a circle passing through the four quadrants is the maximum distance the thumb can ever have to travel. Allowing for some safe radius from the central dot, you would end up with a shorter travelled
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by meelash 16y ago
I don't understand how it could be more tiring than tapping with the thumb? Unless your touchpad is rough or requires too much force. Many of us make similar motions all day long on game thumb-joysticks.
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by meelash 16y ago
It's hard for me to say intuitively regarding speed and the Swype, but I can see that Swype would probably increase accuracy by some statistically significant amount. This device, based on my intuition, would probably offer significant incr
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by meelash 16y ago
It doesn't really offer advantages on a computer that it does on a small device. Full size keyboards already allow no-look, potentially 100% accuracy typing, with multiple fingers at once. That spanks this system even worse than this system
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by meelash 16y ago
Not just a bit, but a lot, IMO! Some people are comparing this to the dvorak vs. qwerty keyboard layouts. A more apt comparison is to a keyboard laid out in alphabetical order vs. a qwerty keyboard. The adoption of qwerty keypads on touch s
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by meelash 16y ago
Compare relatively low error rates to zero error rate. And no matter how good you get, no one (very few people?) can use Swype accurately without looking. And intuitively speaking, it seems to me that if they've truly got some science behin
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by meelash 16y ago
Wow, this is genius! I don't understand why people are comparing it to Swype- just because both involving swiping instead of taps? In spite of this superficial similarity, don't you see they're solving radically different problems? This sys
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by meelash 16y ago
1. Okay, but this is not relevant to the story in question (see point 4). 2. Okay, but this is not relevant to the story in question (see point 4). 3. Okay, but this is not relevant to the story in question. (see point 4) 4. I'm willing to
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by meelash 16y ago
How does this work? Do you have multiple US passports? Or passports from multiple countries? Doesn't the US care and couldn't you get in trouble for having passports from other countries and not disclosing them?
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by meelash 16y ago
Yeah, turns out the cost is also more than an order of magnitude- an aircraft carrier is somewhere in the high single digit billions of dollars, where as your jumbo jet is in the hundreds of millions....
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by meelash 16y ago
That's catchy, but kind of a non-starter for people who area actually worried about their privacy..... It would be like PETA protesting by eating live animals or something.
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by meelash 16y ago
How far out to sea does one have to be for the TSA to not have jurisdiction? Has anyone thought of an airline that ferrys passengers out to a ship off the coast and the airplanes take off from there? How much does an aircraft carrier cost?

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