thinkingisfun

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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Generally yeah, but in this case? If they 100% knew for a fact that the sky above his head was black, then adding some black padding is fine. Maybe not from a photography standpoint, but from a journalistic one? Come on..
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Oh bullshit. The flat lens eliminates optical aberrations such as the “fish-eye” effect that results from conventional wide-angle lenses. Surely you wouldn't claim that is referring to wide-angle thermal lenses? “In the future we can pot
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Lazyness? Hypocrisy? But does it really matter? If I had a grandma she wouldn't be using techcrunch, she'd be using facebook.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Funny, now it's obvious that they could have been that evil to start with. I wonder what's changed. Time passed. Like someone who first makes lewd remarks, doesn't encounter (enough) resistance, then tries for a grope.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I'm surprised that you see politeness and qualification of criticism as "sucking up". I don't, I see sucking up as sucking up. E.g. If someone says all black people should be killed, do I even have a right to assume they have great, super
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Sure, that's just being fair. And making it clear you're criticizing a thing, not the person who made or said the thing, helps a big deal. But all that assumes good intentions behind what you criticize. They're all happy feel-good "we're in
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Well, or downvote, the cowardly little brother of negative feedback ^^ But to pad everything with sucking up to a total stranger? Nah. At least not when talking about general or bigger stuff, as opposed to personal suggestions or projects.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I think you make it seem slightly more harmless than it is.. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_will_happen_to_a_person_witho... After about ten seconds a victim will experience loss of vision and impaired judgement, and the cooling effect o
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
When 30 minutes of additional breathing are enough time to bring a crew back to Earth or a space station. That is to say, in 340 years, give or take 5 years. By then they'll also bring condoms, because we will have realized that space isn't
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
It's pretty bad... this is the list of blocked stuff from Ghostery: AddThis Commission Junction Digg Widget etracker Facebook Connect Facebook Social Plugins Google +1 Google Adsense Google Analytics LinkedIn Widgets Pinterest Reddit Statco
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"violating monotonicity means you can’t assume you’ve seen everything once you’ve read to the top of your timeline." if that turns out to be such a problem, 1.) you can simply assume that everything fresher than 5 minutes is subject to ch
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Feel free. I wish it wasn't true, you know.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
How? By constantly downloading the entire database of every application to your local drive? Where it would not only take up space, but could be modified to allow anything in? Yes, and no. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427416 (be
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Too radical.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Here's the quote I was looking for. "A totalitarian state simply enunciates official doctrine -- clearly, explicitly. Internally, one can think what one likes, but one can only express opposition at one's peril. In a democratic system of p
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place." -- Noam Chomsky
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I think they mean participation in that you can choose the left or the right lane of the conveyor belt to the butcher house; it's not about addressing actual stuff . You just have to keep up with the newspeak and it all makes perfect sense
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
The fact that the parent didn't even raise an eyebrow just makes this butthurt reaction even more hilarious. Keep on trucking, and don't worry; there's an idiot born every day, never mind silly old me. Hahaha.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
It's such an outrage! Don't they know that some token glass pearls go a long way?
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"Choosing platforms to optimize developer experience enables you to get more features out the door faster" That is correct in theory, but falls on the face with facebook and others. Unless you literally just mean "more features", and not
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Well, it's a cop website -- same difference :P
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Well, one the one hand you get a lot of words in the URL nobody will ever search for, especially not concatenated as they are -- on the other hand that page looks to be 9 levels deep from the domain root. I doubt there is an actually good r
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Give it some time.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Yeah. War over iron or diamond I could get, but grassland? Share and enjoy!
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
But who is talking about "you shouldn't use [whatever]"? The crucial bit is owning and controlling your content - some people aren't thinking much about that. As you said, "The blog gets my best content.", so you're obviously aware of the p
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
A system like the one that GP proposes, while it could be pretty awesome, would be limited to a very small, extremely homogenous population How so? What makes "people who don't want to set up their own domain" homogenous compared to peopl
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I think this bit from an older article sums it up nicely: http://www.the-haystack.com/2010/12/17/death-to-web-services... What if we flipped this all on its head? What if we hosted our own data, and provided APIs for all these webapps so
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
1. Now? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2056629 Though I'll admit in a way it never gets old :) 2. That's javascript, I wish it was possible with only CSS.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
It is safe to assume when I tweet, all my followers will be able to see it immediately. Unless they do something else with their computer, or are doing some chores in room with the big blue skybox. And you can only assume this because you

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