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mccracken··on Why 'Cool' is still cool
Doesn't mean HN has to be serious 100% of the time.
mccracken··on Why 'Cool' is still cool
Well it was my favourite movie as a kid, so it was just a knee-jerk reaction
mccracken··on Why 'Cool' is still cool
Doc
mccracken··on What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
I'm a grad getting in to webdev, and I find this fascinating - is it really that bad? Every company I've interviewed at so far has been lenient as long as you know how to solve a problem in a somewhat relevant lang/tech.
mccracken··on Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first
same reason gun control is a good idea?
mccracken··on Show HN: Vertexshaderart.com
weird, worked with 0 lag on Ubuntu/Chrome
mccracken··on Why I Still Get Shunned by Taxi Drivers
Unfortunately a band-aid solution for a deep-rooted problem (not saying that one shouldn't do it).
mccracken··on Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory
I even did it on this thread, then realised the irony immediately
mccracken··on There's No DRM in JPEG – Let's Keep It That Way
Snail mail prints to my friends. I'm joking of course, but what a horrible future - imagine if a 1984-like government used this tech to completely censor anything deemed against the "Party"?
mccracken··on There's No DRM in JPEG – Let's Keep It That Way
Film cameras to the rescue. DRM that, buddy!
mccracken··on Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots
If you go just far enough back, the hours we work would sound ridiculous (but I do agree about the effort).
mccracken··on Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name
Absolute champion
mccracken··on Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name
I get:

   youtube-dl: error: no such option: --youtube-skip-dash-manifest
As an error, am I missing something?
mccracken··on AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers
Pragmatic!
mccracken··on AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers
I'm interested, how did you figure out that's what was happening (just the first example)?
mccracken··on Show HN: Neural network that impersonates writers
What you say is true - although I'm not sure it matters. There are heaps of art forms which are out of copyright, why should people critique/parody new films? Because they're relevant and people understand the content
mccracken··on Show HN: Neural network that impersonates writers
fair use - education
mccracken··on Chip
Uncaught TypeError: Failed to construct 'ImageData': Illegal constructor does not work