of | 7 years ago | on: Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland Map
The wikipedia page has a nice hi-res version of the Vinland map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_map
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of | 8 years ago | on: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119
I don't have Prime and most packages still take only like 2 days to arrive, even though Amazon estimates that free shipping time at 7-10 days. Maybe it helps that I live in New York? Either way... lol, no way that I'd even pay for the student version of Prime.
of | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
This is freaking perfect. Thank you
of | 8 years ago | on: Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities
weird, backpage.com is still up for me.
of | 8 years ago | on: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
I maintain multiple troll accounts on Twitter and Facebook. That's all I use these services for. I take pride in my active part in the downfall of these services, while at the same time producing intriguing and low-brow troll content.
Once Mark Zuckerberg accepts the fact that not everyone uses the Internet according to his sheltered brain's arbitrary rules (I've even had to send a picture of my driver's license to Facebook to get them to unban one of my accounts. It's just a website! Get over yourselves), then the bubble will pop - with small communities scattered throughout the multiverse of the net just like Web 1.0.
And that's basically it. The web is a multiverse where each of us are simultaneously able to have multiple identities, living multiple realities. It's never been suited to the rules that Facebook is trying to force people into. I feel like Facebook would be better off making their own Internet if they want people to adhere to their bullshit.
of | 8 years ago | on: Haiku Project
I remember installing this in a VirtualBox around 2008 - cool to see it's still going! I had a friend in my CS program who was really into BeOS.
of | 8 years ago | on: I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality
> Fast lanes DO exist in other countries right now.
Which countries?
of | 8 years ago | on: The rise and fall of Ext JS
ExtJS - I have good memories of working with its well-documented, excellent API. For me, it was a precursor to learning iOS development. Only to denounce Apple shortly after, once I realized that Apple will insist that I continue to upgrade my hardware to their latest piece of shit perpetually, throughout my entire life. So yeah. I'm still a web developer. ^_^
of | 8 years ago | on: Essential Phone, available now
Whatever, you know what I meant. But yeah, I do hate branding :P
of | 8 years ago | on: Essential Phone, available now
Ugh, I hate the branding. Smartphones are NOT essential. Fuckers.
of | 8 years ago | on: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
ohh i thought exa was a replacement for the word 'is'. i was like damn.... that's fucking cool.
of | 9 years ago | on: Search Internet History
I tried to edit it to something like that, but the form didn't work. And now I don't even see an edit button.
of | 9 years ago | on: How No Man's Sky Is Like Reading
Not to mention one of my favorite games, Noctis: http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/doors/local/frameset_no... Which, as far as I know about No Man's Sky, sounds like a very similar game, but made many years before, without combat and inventory.
of | 10 years ago | on: GNU LibreJS
The "Complain" feature is my favorite feature of LibreJS! In fact, I think everything should have a complaint box. :P
of | 10 years ago | on: Gogs – Go Git Service
Yeah, there's https://notabug.org/
of | 10 years ago | on: Debian 6.0 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life
Yeah, same here. I have a thinkpenguin laptop. Trisquel is based on Ubuntu (Trisquel 7.0 == Ubuntu 14.04) - I use it and it works well.
of | 10 years ago | on: Pee-wee’s Big Comeback
I also take issue with random startup management drama being on here like the "Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions" story.
I find "anything that good hackers would find interesting" kind of problematic. Good hackers according to who? Paul Graham? Silicon Valley capitalist culture? Please be more specific.
Also from HN's guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
So these are open for interpretation.
of | 10 years ago | on: Pee-wee’s Big Comeback
Don't get me wrong. I am Pee-Wee Herman's biggest fan. But why is this on hacker news?
of | 10 years ago | on: The Rails Doctrine
Push up a big tent? David Oscarmeyer Heineken is gross! :P
of | 10 years ago | on: The Rails Doctrine
s/so its only fitting/so it's only fitting/
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