thetrendycyborg

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by thetrendycyborg 14y ago
The big content is for the people who jump into the site and want to read just a few articles. It's the "most important". It gets clicks. The people who sit on the site all day are going to appreciate the left column, but it doesn't have
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by thetrendycyborg 14y ago
Why was this changed from "Show HN"? gisikw worked pretty hard on this.
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by thetrendycyborg 14y ago
The reason that the big content is on the right is that it is the most popular content, likely already read. The new stuff is on the left, and we want the eye to move across the page in the natural way to help promote newer and rising cont
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by thetrendycyborg 14y ago
There's a write up of it here: http://mashable.com/2012/11/14/introducing-the-new-mashable/
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by thetrendycyborg 14y ago
The patent in question, as mentioned in the linked story, is patent 5,946,647: http://www.google.com/patents?id=aFEWAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a... It patents a way to process addresses and phone numbers on webpages and produce actions or link
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HTC phones blocked at customs to be inspected due to Apple patent(theverge.com)
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
What led to the demise of games like this? More time-intensive, slow, thinking games; simulations like these have always held interest for a lot of people. I certainly didn't become less willing to buy them. Combat flight simulators are a
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
Anyone else seeing a 500?
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
SimCity Societies doesn't count. That's like saying "The Sims: Urbz" was a part of the Sims series. Different developers just using the brand, it played more like a really dumbed down version of Civ crossed with Spore.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
I'm really looking forward to this. Simcity was my one of my first introductions to a computer, actually. (Yes, I'm young.)
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
Node isn't an application framework, it's an event-driven javascript-based server. This is totally an acceptable way to handle it, so long as it takes advantages of Node's event-based system.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
The best part about this in my opinion is that the controller system works on both the client and server. I've been waiting for this, was planning on building it myself if no one figured that out. I hope this grows. I'd love to contribute
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
You can. Many people do. At least with the 7" Kindle.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
They have actually managed to make adult stem cells pluripotent (research at the UW Madison did this), and furthermore have managed to make them from a person's own skin (again, UW Madison ftw). And adult stem cells are less likely to be r
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
There's not really an advantage to embryonic stem cells anyways.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
Probably for the low taxes, I'd guess.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
I'm not taking personal offense, I'm just saying 1. It's not perfectly reasonable. 2. It's not rational 3. It is valid, but it is not sound. It's not an advantageous approach. It is annoying to other coders.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
The question is, why should I care to not end a statement in a semicolon? I gain no advantage. Any speed in coding advantage comes from my editor, not omitting semicolons. Most people commenting here understand ASI. Simply understandi
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
I understand JS just fine, and I know where semicolons are needed and where they aren't. But minimalism is not a reason to avoid using them. Feeling you're more clever because you leave them off doesn't make you so. JS interpreters use s
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
Yes, it's specified, but you can avoid any confusion and make easier to read code by just using semicolons. It's what's called a "best practice".
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
This is utterly stupid. And the example he cites for why he prefers an odd function syntax doesn't cause errors..... if you use semicolons . JavaScript interpreters insert semicolons. If you abuse this, you'll end up with unpredictable r
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
It has canvas hardware acceleration. Hardware acceleration is a new feature in Android 4. Hence, it is only available on ICS.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
That is far from their only weakness. They have really weak ad-clicks-per-users numbers. They rate at which they add new users has been slowing drastically.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
The white noise idea is fascinating.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
But Twitter is too.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
Wouldn't happen. You can't just make huge purchases on the stock market. They'd have to iceberg that over such a long time I could never imagine it, and even then it would definitely get noticed. They'd have to do a heck of a lot of pape
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
The reason people commute is generally because living in a city is very expensive, and living outside the city means a nice house and maybe even a back yard.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
Soon, everyone can smoke without worry.
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
"1000s of jobs"? "1000s". The tech sector employs way more than thousands! Really, if this is about jobs, let's do some simple math. I'm willing to lose thousands of jobs for many more jobs in a different industry with a much brighter f
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by thetrendycyborg 15y ago
They can charge for the software. What he's talking about is if you produce a thing, no matter how you produce it, you have the right to determine what you want to do with that product. No one can say this tool must be used in this way so

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