river_styx | 17 years ago | on: Scobleizer: Mike Arrington and I Disagree on the Future
Wow, the web's two most obnoxious swollen egos disagree on something. Stop the presses.
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river_styx | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | on: @TwitterHR For Future Reference, Use BCC When Rejecting Applicants
You must be new to TechCrunch.
river_styx | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | on: Sleeper CES hit: Emo's great-sounding "invisible loudspeakers" for TVs and laptops
Neat idea; unfortunate name.
river_styx | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | on: Tweet by Snail Mail
Cast Away
river_styx | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | on: Bright - a free collection of 148 icons
You should demand your money back.
river_styx | 17 years ago | on: Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper
American cows are fair game.
river_styx | 17 years ago | on: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.
river_styx | 17 years ago | 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 | 17 years ago | 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.
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