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by morrow 8y ago
I say it survives by providing the same benefit that Amazon does: a reduction in cognitive overhead. With Amazon, the reduction comes from the streamlined buying process - you provide your name, address, billing info, shipping info up front
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by morrow 9y ago
I have done a few flash to HTML5 conversions without source code, and the method I've gone with is just to use the flash as a guide and write the HTML5 app from scratch. You end up with cleaner, more maintainable code that way than if
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by morrow 9y ago
The exact same thing happened to Alex Blumberg in this episode of Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/91-the-russian-passenger/ . They investigate and try to find out how his account could have possibly been
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by morrow 13y ago
I'm in agreement with the parent comment - I was interested, but the examples were a little off-putting. I'd consider removing the baby one or posting a different angle.
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by morrow 15y ago
It's quite obviously fake -- given that we are 11 days from April Fools, it's probably either an April Fools joke discovered prematurely, or set-up for a bigger one. Maybe something similar to the tale of icarus.
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by morrow 15y ago
Disagree completely -- the world has plenty of office workers scared to try something so bold, we need better filtering tools and more people trying rather than believing that the current system works to capture, foster, and utilize talent
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by morrow 15y ago
I thought he did a good job too, but I think that lying at all, even about little details in order to have a more coherent, compelling story about an important topic poisons the whole thing, because it brings into question the author's cred
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by morrow 15y ago
Very nice design, the layout, with common areas below meeting areas, reminds me of Pixar's headquarters http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/39.html I remember hearing in the excellent pixar documentary that one of the intentions be
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by morrow 15y ago
I noticed that the bubbles had a unique-looking arrangement in the march 7 announcement photo, so I (crudely) compared it to an iPad 2 with that wallpaper in both landscape and portrait modes. Doing so seems to indicate that it is indeed o
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by morrow 15y ago
These (apparent) e-mails between an owner with the dead battery issue and Tesla seem to indicate that there is a a 'built-in notification system' for this, but it wasn't added for the first 500 cars : http://jalopnik.com/5887504/tesla-e
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by morrow 15y ago
I think the penalties associated with using plugins is simply the price DRM advocates should have to pay. I don't think it's the job of the W3C to make it easier on them to maintain this practice. The short-term gain of getting large medi
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by morrow 15y ago
Okal, I added that resource, though you may want to consider truncating the author listing like you are doing with the description on the index page (this book had ~40 authors). Great job on the site, and thanks for making it - I've already
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by morrow 15y ago
FYI - I just added 'On Lisp', but the registration button is at the top right, called 'Signup'.
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by morrow 15y ago
Google did this, but it wasn't recently -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505255
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by morrow 15y ago
I too made a canvas clock (though with a heavier dose of existentialism) a little while ago if you're interested. link: http://morrow.github.com/Life-Clock/ code: https://github.com/morrow/Life-Clock/
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by morrow 15y ago
I created a similar project (CSS docs only) after seeing the original version of this posted here and thinking of some improvements (instacss I think it was called). My version uses the HTML5 history API and runs off of static files (scrap
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by morrow 15y ago
I've used stripe and it's definitely a breath of fresh air, but as I understand it, most people won't bother switching away from paypal to something without international support. Stripe's working on that: https://stripe.com/global but o
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by morrow 15y ago
Not to get too analytical or philosophical, but I think it's because clocks normally represent time cyclically, as a repetitive process counting and displaying a sub-set of an ethereal infinite time set. Whereas this clock visualizes time
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by morrow 15y ago
You have to wait to post replies sometimes, depending how many levels down the conversation is. This is a safeguard against threads full of knee-jerk back-and-forth responses, I suppose.
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by morrow 15y ago
Here's a screencast I found that shows how transactions go down between dwolla users (you enter amount, dwolla account id). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbf24_PTyx8
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by morrow 15y ago
Good point. You could also realistically eliminate those who know they are infected from the potential false-negative category, which would give you an initial pool of 240,000[1] potential infected who don't know they're infected. Among t
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by morrow 15y ago
I'm also aware of the statistics - roughly split between gays and heterosexuals. I think the problem lies more with the epistemological side of things. As the marrow registry, how do you know whether or not someone is gay? How do you kno
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by morrow 15y ago
From wikipedia: "The vast majority of people (97%) have detectable antibodies by three months after HIV infection; a six-month window is extremely rare with modern antibody testing." So if the transfer can work with a 3 month delay (I'm not
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by morrow 15y ago
Well the STD test was only going to be able to rule-out donors who are positive at the time of sign-up anyhow. After submitting to the test and giving their sample, everyone becomes potentially infected until you test them again. I suppose
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by morrow 15y ago
I wonder if there is some political philosophy to describe my thoughts on this - but I never understood why government just didn't set up taxes on things it didn't like, and directly allocate the revenues from those taxes to the opposite si
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by morrow 15y ago
I'm not sure why they wouldn't allow some form of in-person registration accompanied by an STD screen at a clinic for people who they are eliminating now for being too "high-risk"? The marrow guys could even cover the cost of the STD screen
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by morrow 15y ago
http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as...
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by morrow 15y ago
Here's a start: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as... http://www.a3mhope.org/ http://www.a3mhope.org/index.php/donor/list-of-drives
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by morrow 15y ago
"What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little." Feeling guilty isn't solving the problem, however. Guilt is just a pre-cursor to either resolve or apathy. If you don't do anything about it, you either ge
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by morrow 15y ago
I think the new youtube design that's still being rolled out looks better than cosmic panda, and this extension works with it. If you want to try it, set the following cookie (and disable cosmic panda obviously): document.cookie="VISI

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