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river_styx··on [dead]
Wow, the web's two most obnoxious swollen egos disagree on something. Stop the presses.
river_styx··on Apple revamps the iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro with no fanfare
Am I missing something here? According to the article, the prices have fallen or remained the same, and Apple has upgraded all the hardware.
river_styx··on Techcrunch "overrated" according to TIME
But in this case, they happen to be right. In the absence of big news items coming from the Valley of late, TechCrunch has become a web 2.0 tabloid.
river_styx··on @TwitterHR For Future Reference, Use BCC When Rejecting Applicants
You must be new to TechCrunch.
river_styx··on Has human evolution stopped?
every time a human being does not get offspring because his/her desired mate gets snagged by a more appealing specimen that's evolution in progress

Ouch. Succint and harsh.

river_styx··on Magenta Ain't A Color
Basically any note played on an analog instrument has a set of overtones of various frequencies. If these tones were played a bit louder, you would hear a chord rather than a single note.
river_styx··on An Interview with _why the Lucky Stiff
The best part about _why: if this guy completely loses his mind one day, no one will notice any difference.
river_styx··on Why aren't developers interested in Ada?
good programmers are forced to program simply so that future generations of bad programmers can read their code.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? I generally try follow the "code such that nearly anyone can understand" mantra. Helps keep things simple and concise.

river_styx··on Sleeper CES hit: Emo's great-sounding "invisible loudspeakers" for TVs and laptops
Neat idea; unfortunate name.
river_styx··on Clever screenshot app turns your desktop into Photoshop layers
This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.
river_styx··on Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
Dropbox stores your files locally and syncs them with the files on the cloud. Zumo stores them only in the cloud and streams them to you on demand.
river_styx··on Our world may be a giant hologram
And the contention is that we can observe this because certain high-precision experiments might be picking up anomalies on the scale of a Planck length, whereas we shouldn't theoretically be able to detect anything so small. Therefore, what we're detecting must be an enlarged projection of what's actually there.
river_styx··on Tweet by Snail Mail
Cast Away
river_styx··on Hack your brain: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
This happens to me as well. Sometimes I also hear random disconnected sounds: a bell, pots clanging, voices, etc. There have been many nights where I've actually struggled to sleep through all the cacophony.
river_styx··on Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account
Here's a tip: if "retarded" is the best adjective you can come up with, you've already lost the argument.
river_styx··on Bright - a free collection of 148 icons
You should demand your money back.
river_styx··on Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper
American cows are fair game.
river_styx··on Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.
http://www.routesy.com/
river_styx··on Engine Yard Cuts 15% Of Workforce
Well, this certainly flies in the face of the sensationalist tone of the linked article.

TechCrunch Layoff Tracker? Seriously?

river_styx··on Making Highrise faster with memcached
One thing they're missing here is that optimization is also about optimizing resources, not just the speed of an individual request/response cycle. If each request takes 50% less time, the app has 100% more resources to handle other requests. So even though the individual users don't feel a difference, the app as a whole is much more efficient.
river_styx··on Paul Buchheit: blog, v2
This just in: Paul Buchheit makes a bathroom visit. More details to come.
river_styx··on Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office
Reddit is that way ---->
river_styx··on Ask HN: New Years Resolution(s)?
Speaking from experience: any doubts you have in your mind are inconsequential. Go for it! :)
river_styx··on Hindley-Milner type inference algorithim, explained
*algorithm
river_styx··on The NYTimes.com loves GeoDjango
Is anyone out there using a Pylons stack for GIS? I'm starting a new geo-related project, and GeoDjango looks awesome, but I'm having trouble getting over the fact that Pylons is just more my style.
river_styx··on Every Mac I've owned has failed
ThinkPad + Ubuntu FTW
river_styx··on Scalable Datasets with Bloom Filters and Ruby
Nice article, but Ruby wouldn't have been my language of choice for illustrating HPC concepts.
river_styx··on Dear Reddit, Hacker News...
Just out of curiosity... Based on your comments, there seems to be something going on between you and Zed. Was there some incident?
river_styx··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Bah, humbug! :)
river_styx··on Zed Shaw: Ruby Is So Nice
And funny.
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