2010-04-17 front | Hacker News

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Where Have All the Hackers Gone? (strydehax.blogspot.com)

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A world without planes (bbc.co.uk)

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So, you need a typeface... (inspirationlab.wordpress.com)

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FreeBSD built with clang now selfhosting - testers wanted (gmane.org)

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When to use Excel, when to use R? (michaelmilton.net)

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Processing.js Mini-IDE for iPad, iPhone, Android, Chrome (jepstone.net)

staunch on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | on: Steve Jobs Admits Apple Made a Mistake

Steve Jobs needs a Twitter account. His email responses are the perfect size.

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The Unix Haters Handbook (washington.edu)

apphacker on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | on: Steve Jobs Admits Apple Made a Mistake

The only thing I learned from this is that if you won a pulitzer prize for your satire you can resubmit your satire app. Just like if you're Sports Illustrated you can have an app with girls in bikinis.

It's just ugly to watch this hypocrisy. I don't plan on using iPhones anymore, or getting an iPad and maybe that means I miss out on really great phone and what looks like an amazing tablet, but at least I'm not a part of this long haul of an trip down Steve Job's ego. The thing is, I don't think Jobs thinks that he's doing anything but the right thing, protecting his app store from junk, and that's admirable in weird sort of way. It's just such a pain to hear about this ordeal day in and day out, for what like a year or two now, and just the parade of bad Apple news doesn't stop. I don't blame the tech blogs for reporting on it, I don't blame users for buying Apple's incredibly amazing devices. You know who I blame? Apple's competition for a complete inability to make decent shit that is at least in some alternate universe comparable in quality to what Apple produces, minus a crazy genius' ego. But I guess I don't live in that world. I guess in this world there's only one company capable of making good computers, and it just happens to come with a shit load of baggage.

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HW Hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang on The Setup (usesthis.com)

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Steve Jobs Admits Apple Made a Mistake (nytimes.com)

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Things HR Won't Tell You (wsj.com)

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RethinkDB: Why Start a New Database Company in 2010? (MySQLConf) (blip.tv)

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VP8: The Savior Codec (multimedia.cx)

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The Jakarta Incident, or Rebooting 747 Engines In Flight (wikipedia.org)

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The closest thing we'll ever get to an official Apple blog (stevemail.tumblr.com)

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SEC wants python code for simulations of financial instruments. See; Accelerando (jrvarma.wordpress.com)

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Out of the loop in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)

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Programming books I have read and somewhat liked (mostlymaths.net)

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Video Games Can Never Be Art (suntimes.com)

ehasanov on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | on: Steve Jobs Admits Apple Made a Mistake

Reading the title, I was hoping to see he decided to change 3.3.1

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The Lenna story (cmu.edu)

mgcross on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | on: HTML5 presentation

FF is hardly obsolete. The presentation used vendor-specific extensions (-webkit-) that are not part of the CSS3 spec, much less HTML5. Many of the features could have been implemented in FF had the author used -moz- alongside -webkit-.

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Biotime Reverses the Aging of Human Cells (nextbigfuture.com)

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HTML5 Readiness : A visualisation of HTML5/CSS3 browser support (html5readiness.com)

jjs on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | on: Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets

Use the machine on yourself first.

Then you're guaranteed to make the moral decision.

Hypharse on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | on: Google's unorthodox press release raises questions

"However, some worry that this trend may harm individual and less-sophisticated investors who cannot access the blogs and websites as quickly as professionals. Others worry that not everyone will get the information."

Putting the stuff on a public website with a simple url makes it HARDER for non-professionals to access? Someone clue me in to their reasoning as to why.

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Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets (web.mit.edu)

Qz on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | on: HTML5 presentation

I realize that HN is a bastion of keyboard-worshippers, but it bugs the hell out of me that I can't click that arrow to progress.

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K-Sketch: The Kinetic Sketch Pad (k-sketch.org)