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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
The fact that through an unfortunate twist of history you even need to consider arming your teachers is simply incredible. There are a lot of great things about the US, but sadly the gun ownership fiasco is not one of them.
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Thanks for the correction. I'm clearly showing my ignorance when it comes to some of these issues. I based my M16 bought at Walmart caricature on the little I've learned from news media and documentaries like Bowling for Columbine. You can
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
As I mentioned, I'm from Australia, so if I misrepresented anything about the US then I'm happy to be corrected. In my original post I described an exaggerated caricature of gun ownership. The point still stands though: that any private cit
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
I have no problem with the military and police having access to weapons. They are (or should be) highly trained, Psych tested and they work within a regulated, highly structured, hierarchical organisation. All of this serves to keep the wan
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
My perspective is different since I come from a country with a different culture. Here in Australia there is essentially zero gun ownership by private citizens. We also had a gun buyback (1996) and changes in legislation after the Port Arth
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
From my own experience I can tell you that running your own mail server is a massive PITA. There's a good chance that even if you jump through all the required hoops to improve trust for your domain you will still have trouble delivering ma
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
As my original post said this all applies to web applications . If you're building a consumer facing brochure site then you neither want nor need most of these new web features. Have you actually used or tried to deploy ChromeFrame? Its ple
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
the article has way too much hyperbole to take any of it seriously. This statement is itself hyperbolic. A lot of these advances are going to impact web applications. Sure if you're building a brochure site then you should probably stick
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
In reality for the vast majority of apps you'll never notice the limit. By far the most effective thing to use for (hardware accelerated) smooth animation are CSS transitions which run at normal speed like safari. The only circumstance wh
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
"why does it hurt when the brain is wired in a specific way?" Because organisms that evolved to avoid that thing we call pain survived long enough to pass on their genes, whereas those that didn't got burned up, crushed or in other ways e
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
I agree with you that an more abstract understanding would be more useful than a naive copy, however I think calling it "pointless" is a bit of an exaggeration. Imagine being able to make an indistinguishable 1:1 copy of your own brain at t
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Your explanation doesn't make sense. We know that there are people who a) don't exhibit emotional pain or very little compared to "normal" (sociopaths/psychopaths) b) are autistic and have "...difficulty with “subtle emotions like shame, p
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
That's not really the point I was making. My point is that you don't have to understand the workings of a clock (or its subcomponents) to be able to build one given the subcomponents and an example from which to work. Simply mimicking exact
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
You make a great argument, and I agree with you that it is very unlikely that a model which can only ever be an approximation of a human brain will ever exhibit intelligence. My gut tells me that we'll have more success building an exact
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Feeling pain can't be explained as an interaction of physical particles Do you mean physical or emotional pain? I imagine that physical pain is very well understood and can be explained in (maybe) all of its entirety as a purely material
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Thanks for your answer, its given me something to think about. A few things immediately come to mind though: A sentence is just letters, but that doesn't mean that thorough examination of each letter provides you with the knowledge necessa
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Sorry, not sure if I'm understanding you correctly. Are you arguing that there is more to consciousness than just the atoms in our brains? If so what is your reason for thinking this?
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Congratulations for shipping! It's a huge milestone to reach and I'm sure it is nerve wracking to press that submit button on a 'Show HN' Here are some of my observations after using the app for about 45 mins. - First impressions are very s
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Every project/team is different. Sometimes a designer wants to communicate with another designer, sometimes with a developer and sometimes with a client. Each of these stakeholders will react differently to: '...this screen looks like.. wel
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
It's a lot harder to email paper? there aren't many good paper VCS? Paper is great for quick sketches and has its place. Digital is good for lots of other use cases. Maybe use what suits on a case by case basis?
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
hmm not sure what you mean by internal structure that seemed obscure . GDrive works just like you describe: a simple, normal folder. That's it. I put stuff in, it got synced
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
I was simply pointing out the obvious difference between SO and 99D. I'm neither for nor against the 99D way of doing things. I'm sure there are many secondary benefits to be had from participating in these kinds of competitions, not least
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
There's a huge difference. 99 Designs works on the premise that only the best should/will survive, a brutal winner takes all system. None of the participants in 99 designs are contributing their efforts as charity... they hope to get paid.
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
I find virtual desktops to be most useful on small screens. So on my laptop which has limited screen real estate I have a text editor on one desktop and by moving my mouse to the top left I switch to my browser desktop - v.useful Only probl
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
I use dexpot for virtual desktops. Very customizable. You can bind hotkeys, or screen hotspots (mine is top left pixel) for switching between desktops. I use it on an underpowered laptop with no performance issues.
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
I agree that the current suite of Metro apps is crap, but that hardly makes the OS a mess. I've been using it as my primary OS for about 6 months and my usage hasn't really changed from Win7. All my work is done from the desktop, with the n
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Interesting concept, well done for shipping. Just a couple of points: - You id="mask" element has a higher z-order than your formatting popup making it impossible to select styles in the demo. - The blink from the original to the edited con
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Absolutely agree. The hundreds of websites devoted to explaining how to achieve a X-column fluid layout are testament to CSS's failings in this regard - seriously, layout as a problem has been solved for 15+ years [1]. We're finally gettin
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Maybe the source is not special or unique, but not everyone wants to give away their work. Eg you just spent 6 months developing a product feature and by coincidence your competitor also launches the same feature 2 weeks later :| Of cours
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by skyhook_mockups 14y ago
Everyone is different. Speaking for myself, I never found books or tutorials useful. My mind simply balks at the prospect of doing exercises for the sake of it. Instead what worked really well for me is to find a practical problem that I wa

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