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H4CK3RM4N··on Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
I feel like that phrase would've been perfectly applicable to their time as PM/opposition leader though.
H4CK3RM4N··on SoundCloud's Collapse
I think it's more that they have a few good contributors in with the nonsense. For example, their Australian political coverage has consistently been surprisingly good.
H4CK3RM4N··on The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)
I'm pretty sure muscle relaxant is synonymous with laxative.
H4CK3RM4N··on Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
I really like this idea of switching over to servo bit by bit. It makes me happy that there might be a real WebKit alternative again.
H4CK3RM4N··on Google to add 'news feed' to website and app
Trump would probably be a better candidate than either of them, at least he’s actually run a business and would have four years of presidential experience.
H4CK3RM4N··on Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit
Refusing to do something isn't the same as being bad at doing something.
H4CK3RM4N··on Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit
It's an established fact that Apple has traditionally refused to just use all of their user recordings as training data, and is willing to accept worse voice recognition as a result.
H4CK3RM4N··on Quirks of the arXiv
Accessibility is almost certainly a large part of the reason that the greeks tended to write in dialogues. The greek dialogues tend to be very approachable, due to the way they have to step through issues.
H4CK3RM4N··on Bored of the Rings
There’s also The Last Ringbearer, a Russian novel which attempts to fill in most of the gaps in Tolkien’s worldbuilding.

http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/280578.html

H4CK3RM4N··on A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits?
And it had practically no marketing, an terrible on boarding experience. Pokémon Go was Ingress for the masses.
H4CK3RM4N··on Why Some Men Don't Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good
It is entirely possible that they're Hikkomori.
H4CK3RM4N··on Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
I use a screensaver on my Mac, and it seems like it refuses to recognise the image in ~/Library/Application Support/Artpip/images as an inmate without the .jpg extension. Is there any chance of you changing the images to use a .jpg extension, so I can set my screensaver to use your folder automatically.
H4CK3RM4N··on Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
But it's not an UWP.
H4CK3RM4N··on Can AI Write Pop Songs?
Maybe this is where Apple's AI efforts have been directed all along. Who needs a good assistant when you can piss of music execs even more?
H4CK3RM4N··on Should Have Bought – Hindsight to see what you should have bought
Beyond that, it seems that it's actually been set up by someone called Jason van den Berg(@jayvdb1 on twitter) to bait people into using their referral link.
H4CK3RM4N··on The .feedback scam
Im pretty sure they're all from here though(including the one I quoted), and the ones before today are somewhat civil.
H4CK3RM4N··on The .feedback scam
I think "Stack Overflow Admin"'s response to Dan Manny should speak for itself:

> You fucking moron!!! You lost money because you were so stupid and not being able to differentiate bad code from good code. StackOverflow is not you free personal assistant. You should kill yourself for being so stupid.

H4CK3RM4N··on The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets
Presumably that's the same one that's described in the article as "an “ancient” safe that functioned so poorly, it opened only if Serber kicked it at a particular point while typing in the lock combination."

That's also sourced back to a book about the Manhattan Project: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ys0N4rFgt6UC&pg=PA160&l...

H4CK3RM4N··on Area 120 – A workshop for Google's experimental products
But neither of those companies have as thoroughly destroyed a standard as Google did with RSS. Apple in particular has almost always continued with a device to fill the hole left by a product(excluding the Newton).
H4CK3RM4N··on Area 120 – A workshop for Google's experimental products
He also has his right hand in his lap, and nobody opposite him. No idea what he's supposed to be doing.

https://area120.google.com/static/images/home/hi/Home_3_imag...

H4CK3RM4N··on Goodbye Mozilla
I just use chrome as my primary Flash program now, as it seems to bundle it's own version regardless of what I have installed.
H4CK3RM4N··on Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering
The whole point of the blockchain is that you can't forge currency without controlling 50%+ of the computing power in the network.
H4CK3RM4N··on Apple removes Facebook and Twitter integration from iOS 11
I'm pretty sure iOS has the website issue a request to open X app w/an argument, so in this case it's Twitter making a request to open their app if installed.
H4CK3RM4N··on Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?
I haven't seen anyone mention Exponent yet. It's basically Stratechery, the podcast.
H4CK3RM4N··on The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn (2015)
> Just as a pixel is the smallest unit of an image on your screen and a photon is the smallest unit of light, he argues, so there might be an unbreakable smallest unit of distance: a quantum of space.

I thought that that role was fuffiled with the Planck Length. I've seen it used in conjunction with the speed of light to calculate a theoretical "refresh rate" of the universe, was that based on a flawed assumption?

H4CK3RM4N··on Apple Announces macOS High Sierra
You mean the diagnostic info which has a yes/no dialog box on every install? Or the iCloud syncing which is specifically opt-in?
H4CK3RM4N··on WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results
Are you really going to argue that Bloomberg, the one which is able to make Bloomberg Terminal[1] a good value proposition, is worse in terms of quality of information than the Washington Post?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/bloomberg-te...

H4CK3RM4N··on Ask HN: What code samples should programmers read?
Wasn't Quake the one where they did a really good approximation of he inverse square root because they needed it?
H4CK3RM4N··on The Shining light of Wikipedia and other disappointments
The site was having trouble loading for me. Here is an archive: http://archive.is/mOynr

I think blocking wikipediawehaveaproblem.com as a source is ok, but banning it from Jimmy's talk page is an entirely different kettle of fish.

H4CK3RM4N··on Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Blocker Coming Next Year
They're sadly moving towards interoperability/feature-parity with WebExtensions, but I don't think they'll change entirely at any point.
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