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u124556··on Diaspora social network cannot stop IS posts
So it works.
u124556··on Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?
> timing of events in the story

Maybe because with the paper one you can associate how far you are along with the pages turned?

u124556··on Ask HN: Why hasn't Dart become mainstream?
Javascript is being replaced by newer (hopefully better) Javascript. That's they only thing browser vendors can get in agreement.

There's plenty of other javascript compilers for plenty of languages.

u124556··on Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
>the troll simply dropped its case against CarShield

Yet the startup and the judicial system already lost time on this. There should be a fee for withdrawing cases like this.

u124556··on Is Wine-Tasting Junk Science?
The answer is no. Not because it's not junk, but because it's not science.
u124556··on Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America
How about "either is arbitrary so fighting over which is better is pointless, just choose the one with higher acceptance."
u124556··on Show HN: Shortwhale – Get fewer, shorter, and better emails
These guidelines work pretty good for me: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/email.html.en, basically:

* Plain text only

* Proper subject

* No long signatures

* No nonsense

* UTF-8

u124556··on Show HN: Dumbphone – Turn your smartphone into a dumbphone
Well one could just set the price they want for others turning off their phone. If the other party thinks its worth it, then they do it.
u124556··on Parse for PHP: A Fractal of Rad Design
What's a good alternative then?
u124556··on S.&P. Says Argentina Has Defaulted
Then you just change the price in bitcoins: this was 0.005 bitcoins yesterday? well, today it will be 0.007.
u124556··on Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed
And half of that was probably twitch plays pokemon.
u124556··on Why Seven Hours of Sleep Might Be Better Than Eight
Depends on the book, sometimes I just keep reading and reading until the sun starts rising. I force myself to put down the book and try to sleep at least an hour or 2.
u124556··on Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components
It looks (and sounds) like the [Razor](http://www.asp.net/web-pages/tutorials/basics/2-introduction...) template engine for asp.net, so maybe somebody there liked it? (because there's no way they think their target market has experience with that engine...)
u124556··on Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?
Scrolling down is fun, but I like to scroll up once in a while too.
u124556··on Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?
Public discussion doesn't hurt anybody.
u124556··on Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?
> It's odd to have something attributed to me that I did not submit.

They could just change the submitter and add something like "Originally submitted by xxx" below it to let people know it's been changed.

u124556··on US Terrorist Database Growing at Rapid Rate
Don't you have some sort of unique id to identify one person from another even if they share the same name in the US?
u124556··on US Terrorist Database Growing at Rapid Rate
How many terrorist attacks have these things actually prevented? Won't it become worthless if it keeps growing?
u124556··on Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
That's what twitter does.
u124556··on Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find?
I'd say it's giving you a job rather than ruining your life.

If it was perfect, people probably would not need plugins for it.

u124556··on Anti-Patterns in Python Programming
> Consider using xrange in this case. Is xrange still a thing? doesn't range use a generator instead of creating a list nowadays?
u124556··on Qualcomm issues DMCA takedowns for 116 GitHub repositories, including their own
And then people got the point of gitchain?
u124556··on How you will not uncover Satoshi
How exactly could Satoshi prove that he isn't Dorian Nakamoto without disclosing his real identity?
u124556··on Dart 1.5
Does it have anything like AngularJS?
u124556··on Adblock Plus gives Facebook users a way to block its extended tracking efforts
I wonder if Google would get them banned if this happened.
u124556··on Paint.Net 4.0 is now available
What about the Gimp? It can do all Paint.Net does, plus more, also save to PDF and they where adding CMYK support last time I checked.
u124556··on But why can't I send people their passwords?
It would be better if the website allowed the user to set the new password first and then send an email to confirm the password change.
u124556··on A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
But who are the weapon makers going to sell to? Won't somebody think of the weapon makers!
u124556··on Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
Leaving aside the context of the name, how is this different from adding another name of any other color to the CSS specification?
u124556··on This app says 'yo' and has raised $1 million
From their twitter stream "My mom should get @YoAppStatus just so I can yo her and let her know I'm still alive."

That's a great use case. My family would love to know I'm still alive when I go mountain climbing and calling is too much of a hassle.

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