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Rangi42··on HTML Imports: #include for the web
> An import link doesn't mean "#include the content here". It means "parser, go off an fetch this document so I can use it later".

This is an important point. "#include for the web" would just be a client-side version of Server Side Includes. This is actually letting you link to snippets of HTML the same way you do with images, scripts, stylesheets, and so on -- meaning they can also be manipulated with Javascript.

Rangi42··on Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer
The original ended on line 35, column 28. By #defining return as u, it ends at line 35, column 19. Although I had to split the number 231184 across two lines (2311\84) to avoid a gap at the end of the line.

http://pastebin.com/6rM895SC

Rangi42··on New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates
I had hoped from the headline that they would be doing something subtle, like replacing some capital "A"s with Greek "Alpha"s, or replacing a single-character "ü" with separate "u" and "combining umlaut". But visible changes that mess with, not just the text formatting, but the actual words of the text, are unacceptable.
Rangi42··on This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like
If you can trade faster, the market can react to information faster. Stocks dropped almost as soon as the tweet was released, without needing to wait for a few major news channels -- and recovered in five minutes after people stopped panicking.[1]

[1] http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/04/24/white-house-attacked-o...

Rangi42··on Moving RSS forward
Until Firefox removed the location bar's RSS icon, that's exactly how I subscribed to feeds: click the icon and then click the "Subscribe in Google Reader" button that loaded. That might not have worked if I used a different client, though.
Rangi42··on Show HN: a conspiracy theory generator
I randomly got "The Truth About North Korea: North Korea has been planning a silent invasion of North Korea for quite some time." I'm not sure if this is a bug that should be fixed, or if that's just what North Korea wants you to think.

http://www.verifiedfacts.org/i/north-korea/MTcxNDc

Rangi42··on Show HN: idea for the future of document editing
Interesting idea. It could be improved by filtering out stop words; right now it recommends Oregon and Belgium for "or" and "be."
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