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anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong

>the submission detection script does not think that "www.domain.com" is the same as "domain.com", and treats them as different links.

Those two are not the same. Just like mail.google.com isn't the same as google.com.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Enzyme behind cancer spread found

If pg doesn't delete your comment, isn't he guilty of the same thing as The Pirate Bay are being charged with? (actually I guess he is protected in the US unless he gets a DMCA notice?)

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Dolphins blowing bubble rings, and playing with them [video]

I'd be so freaked out about great whites if I was swimming around with an oblivious seal like that..

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Ruby-style Blocks in Python

Python already has a solution for callbacks:

    @reg_callback(button.onclick)
    def callback():
        do_stuff()

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: There really are people planning to reduce their income to get below Obama's $250k bracket

>Maybe this isn't "rational", but it is empirical

Actually it is perfectly rational; it just doesn't have as much to do with with a progressive tax as you might think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: There really are people planning to reduce their income to get below Obama's $250k bracket

BS. Money's marginal value goes down the more you have--your 1st house is worth more to you than your Nth super car. After around 500k net worth, money is more about status and ranking than anything else--something that happens to be preserved under a graduated tax. The only other thing it is good for is perhaps real estate closer to a waterfront, a fancy downtown, etc.; under a graduated income tax that stays pretty much the same because there isn't as much money to be spent on it. Most of the value is in the land, not the construction.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Sentdiff: Diff for Writing

Maybe he didn't design this for phonologists? I doubt anyone else has too much use for intra-word diffs.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: This is the Microsoft I want to see: A Glimpse Ahead

There are two ways to enable everything to talk in a slick manner like this: brutal monopoly, or open standards. As evidenced by this video the "new" Microsoft has all sorts of cool ideas, but I'm willing to bet they see the enabler the same way as the "old" microsoft. Brutal monopoly.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Papers Every Programmer Should Read

Knuth: Selected Papers on Computer Science

http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Computer-Science-Language-Inf...

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Quickest way to $30,000 profit after taxes?

Why would anyone want to do this? It is completely zero sum. You aren't creating any wealth, even if you are making money.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Quickest way to $30,000 profit after taxes?

Bankruptcy is by far the fastest way for this special case where you are using the profit to eliminate a debt. Warning: won't work for student loans from the government.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Why XMPP Will Be Huge Very Soon

So you liked the prodigy solution better than email? Sure there was less spam.. but you couldn't talk to people

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Why We're Not Socialists

So if I get the gist of his argument, when an aspiring tyrant-king decides to take over a democracy "due to the unsual structure of [congress]," the new structure "is not [a fascist dictatorship] because of the mechanism through which [it] occurred."

(By the way, I support taking over the banks due to their unusual structure, the systemic risks they represent but do not properly account for due to a tragedy of the commons problem--where the commons is the system they are a part of--and for other reasons. I just don't think its not socialism.)

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: 3D on 2D HTML Canvas

If V8 gets threading support and auto-vectorization, then if processors-graphics cards ala Intel's Larrabee take off, it may be a non-issue. Developers can just do a 3d engine in pure javascript and get roughly the same order of magnitude of performance as a GPU.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: "Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica?"

The real goal of it is to have mathemeticians available to translate journal articles into english for the curriculum-setting elder mathemeticians =P.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Zuck's Official Comment: On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information

So when I click reply to an email, and preserves your entire text at the bottom of my reply, I'm guilty of copyright infringement? How about when I forward the school newsletter to the person the school meant to send it to?

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Justin.tv Is Turning Porn Queries Into Cash

I'm pretty sure we only get to hear the ones that complain.

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Magenta Ain't A Color

Irrelevant. "So in colour [...]" not "so in sound [...]"

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: iReddit: The official Reddit iPhone app arrives

'LOLs' (and related cats) are fine on reddit, but not on here =).

anewaccountname | 17 years ago | on: Experimental New York Times Interface

Manages to break alt left-arrow "back" shortcut.