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nopassrecover··on StackOverflow Man Remakes Net One Answer at a TIme
But why not achieve that filtering in app? After all I'm not interested in Android development or Cocoa questions but they still appear in the feed - I simply learn to ignore them or add filters. Could this not support these questions as well?

Clearly the question and answer was useful to someone, code related, interesting to others (upvotes), so excluding it only serves to discourage great contributors, with the proposed solution being division of the audience.

nopassrecover··on Steam Punk remakes Power Grid With Compressed Air
Seems pretty cool, but can someone explain the advantages over a battery? Also why is there so little light in the article photos?
nopassrecover··on Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
1) Automatically resurface popular old articles after x days (or some other metric). This will hopefully stop reposts and tie in previous discussion.

2) Order the comments feed by "most recent active" (so Max(childDatePosted) DESC THEN BY Max(posted) DESC".

Happy to dig into the Arc if you'd like a hand.

nopassrecover··on Don’t register your idea as a company
Registering a company here in Australia costs enough that you usually need some traction first (it tended to be at least $1k in government fees, and ballpark $3k if you used an accountant, although I see now there are services for ~$500).
nopassrecover··on GeoCities is not completely dead
They are indeed incredible. I can imagine a market selling these as decoys to third-world militaries.
nopassrecover··on GeoCities is not completely dead
Isn't Tumblr the modern Geocities?
nopassrecover··on The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012
I'm not sure low-carb is necessarily effective for people with serious insulin dysregulation. I'm pretty sure for Type 1 in particular, avoiding carbs is insufficient (you also require insulin injections). Personal bias: Dad has diabetes, caused by pancreatitis, and although minimising carbs led to some weight loss (not that he is/was overweight), it has no impact on his blood sugar.
nopassrecover··on How we gave colors names and it messed with our brains (part II)
That's an interesting thought and cheers for the link. I guess I tend to think of colours as only within the visual spectrum, and my understanding was that the chemical reactions were from UV and above, but I can see now that's kind of arbitrary thinking.
nopassrecover··on How we gave colors names and it messed with our brains (part II)
That's probably more Vitamin D differences than colour.
nopassrecover··on Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API
I wouldn't say there's a whole lot of idea in this ("bring Stripe to Australia please" is not new) but I'm hoping the implementation and pricing are both great.
nopassrecover··on The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs
Namedropping Pixar was probably sufficient
nopassrecover··on A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity
Yeah likewise. I almost never have a sugary drink (maybe a softdrink can once every 3 months) and it's made zero difference to weight. Stress on the other hand is highly correlated personally with weight (I've lost ~10kg in 3 months every time I've quit a job).
nopassrecover··on Who Wants To Buy Honduras?
Was about to say this sounds awfully like Unqualified Reservations until I read the username.
nopassrecover··on Microsoft has EARNED my distrust
The article acknowledges IE9 is fine, but questions whether it is too little too late.
nopassrecover··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
Ah that makes a lot of sense. I believe a couple were actually downvoted before (they weren't dead) but looks to be fixed.
nopassrecover··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
(OFF-TOPIC) - Why are so many jobs downvoted here? Are people downvoting other listings to make their own listings higher ranked? Are there some controversies surrounding the downvoted companies I'm unaware of? (if so please post a link below the job asking for the poster to give feedback on the issue)
nopassrecover··on What time is it?
It's using the same video bandwidth behind the scenes (which is why both are lagging). I'm not sure if that means it's a repost by the author on separate sites, or whether someone is leeching bandwidth for traffic here.
nopassrecover··on Adobe Officially Unveils CS6, $49/Month All-Inclusive Subscription Service
Photoshop generates HTML/CSS, but I would imagine it's even worse than Dreamweaver's generated code. It sounds like you're tidying up the generated markup anyway - after a few runs I imagine you'd be pretty close to giving it a go from scratch?
nopassrecover··on Adobe Officially Unveils CS6, $49/Month All-Inclusive Subscription Service
Dreamweaver is an industry standard? I don't know of anyone working web dev using dreamweaver (I've always thought of it as a teaching/hobbyist tool akin to, though obviously better than, FrontPage).
nopassrecover··on How to cope with the Gmail redesign
Outlook has conversation view as well, and Microsoft Lync (formerly Office Communicator) integrates the rest of the feature set (yes you're vendor-locked, but you are with GMail too). In my opinion GMail executes better on most of these features, but they're not the only ones to offer them.
nopassrecover··on How to cope with the Gmail redesign
This isn't a rebuttal, but Outlook 2010 has most (if not all) of those things.
nopassrecover··on Did Someone Order an Instant Bridge?
It actually sounds relatively low risk ("What are you doing!? Moving the bridge like this here paperwork says. We never approved that! Oh must have been a mixup..")
nopassrecover··on Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify
The Immediate window is cool, but you can write whole applications in LINQPad scripts if you want which I don't think you can do in the Immediate window (i.e. can you define classes in the Immediate window?). I find I often use LINQPad to mockup and run a bit of code that I would have traditionally made a full command line project for.
nopassrecover··on Can you build a startup on .Net?
Yeah I'd been looking at AppHarbor vs Amazon/RackSpace/Ninefold. I think this excessive value-less self promotion just ruled out one for me.
nopassrecover··on Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify
Interesting that it fails to mention LINQPad. I'm always surprised to find a .NET dev who doesn't use this on a daily basis (for the REPL rather than any LINQ abilities).
nopassrecover··on From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
Well (perhaps I misread) but it seemed that you were implying that he is getting more money than his value is worth here, and that they should instead form their own collective. My counter was that the cleaners don't need to work for this guy, they choose to, and therefore they have by definition decided that his value proposition is worthwhile.
nopassrecover··on From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
They don't have to take the surplus jobs he is finding them.
nopassrecover··on Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
"since on their part you need to be managed"

You have been very lucky to get reasonable officers. Most I have talked to (or seen in media / documentaries) have been trained to escalate with force if you are not submissive - get out of your car leads to "GET BACK IN THE CAR NOW HANDS ON THE WHEEL", answering back ("Why? I'm doing nothing wrong") leads to verbal escalation/shouting, shouting yourself leads to handcuffs, resistance (even passive) to physical force or (according to media accounts) tasering. Granted my sample size is potentially biased, but I thought this was the norm. On the other hand, when I've been relaxed, calm, and collected while remaining in the car I've had no issues and otherwise pleasant conversations with officers.

nopassrecover··on Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
Absolute worst idea. This counts as an act of escalation (it counts as a threat to police safety) and is likely to end up with a definite ticket and potentially a handcuffed trip to the station if you don't get back in your car fast when ordered.

Particularly if you're physically imposing you run the risk of a panicked officer pulling their weapon..

nopassrecover··on Assange 'to run for Australian senate'
China is currently run by engineers.
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