revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: Scientists mine YouTube to study effects of Salvia divinorum
I share some concerns with the commenters on the article. Having used salvia a few times, I can confirm that the way in which it is smoked has a drastic effect on the outcome. I can't imagine that the variables (method of combustion and inhalation, temperature, quantity) can be reasonably controlled for by observing home videos.
revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: LastWordsLeft: Unregistered One-Word Domains
I was going to grab eurocentrist.com, but all the cool ones on the top 500 list are actually taken. Even buckminsterfullerene.net. Yeesh.
revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: My First BillG Review
I can validate this. I was an intern in '06 and routinely spelunked the org chart. I recall seeing up to 11 or 12 layers from bottom to top. I was 8 or 9 from Ballmer myself, if you regard my mentor as my immediate superior.
revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
ADBE isn't going down because the market closed before the implications of this situation became obvious. For that matter, they're still not entirely obvious. But you can bet they're going to open down tomorrow.
revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: Appcelerator comments on iPhone 4.0 ToS Sec. 3.3.1
revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: Amazing 3d iPhone app
It's nothing like the Johnny Chung Lee videos, but it's about as compelling and well-executed as the technique allows. I was at least 99 cents-worth amused.
revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: Windows 7: Bogus ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT error
No. The complaint is that the error code is inaccurate and indistinguishable from correctly reported corruption. Moreover, it has an unnecessary disk check as a side-effect. This is more than a slight annoyance.
revolvingcur
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16 years ago
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on: Private Methods are a Code Smell
I feel that the connotation of "code smell" is a little stronger than what you state, but mostly I take umbrage to this statement:
"Moving these methods to collaborators and making them public creates opportunities for future reuse without reducing the clarity of the original code."
This is the crux of the argument. After all, if you aren't planning for reuse, there's very little motivation to create a collaborating class unless the main class really is getting excessively large. But if you're guessing at future refactorings, especially when dealing with the types of specialized methods being discussed, you're probably optimizing prematurely.
I do strongly agree that private methods often have unnecessary dependencies. But this is a different design issue.
revolvingcur
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now?
My team was a YC reject in April '08. My partner and I split and we've each spun out a few ideas independently. I now work as a web programmer at a Windows shop and moonlight in a variety of areas.
The reason for choosing this route was the pressure to be cash-flow positive as an individual through whatever means necessary.
revolvingcur
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17 years ago
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on: Forrest M. Mims: Early days at MITS INC
I spent much of my fourth grade year with my nose buried in a copy of Getting Started in Electronics from Radio Shack. This definitely brought back a lot of memories.
revolvingcur
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17 years ago
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on: Serial Port Communication in C#
Before you criticize this article as simplistic or unnecessary (arguments about interest to this audience aside), consider that .NET 1.1 didn't have built-in serial port communication. Having spent many hours hacking serial comm in C#, I can say that this would have been a welcome resource, even given its brevity.
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: GitHub now open to everyone. Here is the pricing.
Doesn't the pricing seem a bit too granular, though? I suspect the pricing categories will collapse into 3, maybe 4, levels eventually.
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: Windows Vista source code
"2. Windows users are generally less clueful, and therefore require more time-consuming hand-holding."
And you earnestly believe that forcing them to use BSD would make them somehow better able to grok computing?
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: Your YC App - 10pm EST just passed, how do you feel?
Thrilled to be in the pool, and even happier to be working on something I believe strongly in.
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: How do you read YC?
Google Reader - click nteresting items, Ctrl+click to put them in their own tabs, branch from there.
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: Don't worry about people stealing an idea.
Unless they happen to be that special blend of better and faster, in which case they will out-innovate and overtake you. However, that probably would have been inevitable anyway.
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: Ask news.YC: what are you listening to right now?
Kaskade, Steppin' Out
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: The people behind OkCupid launch Crazy Blind Date
I absolutely love this idea and can't wait for it to expand. One lil' bug, though: when I finish the "add location" process, I get this message: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function drawError() in [...]date_wizard.php on line 655"
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: .NET framework source code to be released
This is actually tremendously useful despite the fact that it isn't Open Source. Being able to view method implementations in the debugger will be a boon to performance, and will definitely remove a lot of guesswork.
revolvingcur
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18 years ago
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on: Web 2.0 Startup Simulator
Real hackers use Atbash.
