Could they be stored at a low temperature until there's an actual need to use the copter?
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I've always felt, since watching the movie after I finished the novels, that they would work much better with live actors; filming five movies over the course of five years could benefit from the natural aging of young actors. It strikes me as a shame that so much effort in Hollywood goes into creating shallow imitations of classic tales, rather than retelling the classics for a new generation.
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
My nomination: Dogecoin.
It frequently suffers from what I'll call "clipping", after the audio processing phenomenon: a situation wherein a given bike station is either full or empty, thus restricting the stations available to cyclists either returning or renting a bike.
Tel-o-Fun control clipping with a blue-collar fleet of trailer-towing pickup trucks, transporting dozens of bikes from the most frequented destinations to the most frequented departure points, working to reverse the effects of the its customers' routes.
I maintain that clipping could better be avoided through an incentive system, where customers receive a reward for avoiding actions which induce clipping. For their convenience, customers embarking on a journey could query the incentive database for rewards offered at the rental stations near their pedestrian starting point and end point, and thus maximize their reward.
My expectation is that a set multiplication would give me a new set consisting of all pairs consisting of a single element from each set.
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-...
That sounds like a recipe for trouble... what if it runs for more than a few milliseconds?
If you're using something other than than one of those two filesystems, you should probably know how to handle this yourself.
While that's not my personal view, it is an argument that gets raised at times...
My favorite picture is #15, the cathedral: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_c...
You can use a user-friendly interface to define conditions under which a Tweet is Snapped up. These Tweets are organized according to the conditions under which they were Snapped, and when you log in to the site, you can read through all the Tweets that SnapTwitter has Snapped up for you.
SnapTwitter is no old rhino; this young Snapper can learn new tricks. When you create a condition, you can customize your Snapper's response. It could send certain Tweets to your friends. It could SnapBack a new Twitter, using dynamically generated text, generated according to rules that you can define -- without writing a single line of code! You simply use the nice user-friendly interface to teach your Snapper how to twist around what is said in a Tweet into a response which can be automatically Twittered back.
Advanced users can write code for the conditions and the SnapBacks themselves, in a special language called STML (SnapTwitter Markup Language).
Some people might say that SnapTwitter is a cheap ripoff of a few good Internet ideas from the past, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people, and it's also the future of Twittering.
So quit sitting back and start SnappingBack!
I don't think that article is really about Ironman-type goals, though. By the time you are preparing for the Ironman, I'd imagine that you would be quite dedicated to your training. As I understood it, that article is about goals which you have to start from scratch -- for example, choosing to start running and train for your first 5K race.
I saw somebody blow a smoke ring for the first time today, and at first sight it was quite magical. The chances of some smoke from a ride forming a vague ring are much higher than the chances of UFOs (or even super-hi-tech military antigravity planes, one common explanation for these phenomena -- but I think that's unlikely in this case).
It's quite a fuzzily-defined feature, because people don't always quote entire messages, they can change messages, and the characters used to mark off quoted text vary between email clients. However, it would be a cool feature to implement, maybe as an optional thing.
That said, you bring up a valid point about reinventing the wheel -- GMail does this already with conversations. So this app would need something more.
One idea off the top of my head is to enable people to participate in a discussion using an account on the site, rather than through email. Maybe also allowing people to comment on public discussions, but giving their comments a lower priority (along the lines of HN's prioritizing of comments).
Another improvement you could make to the code display is to display the language in which the code is written.
Definitely consult with a doctor, preferably one who specializes in this type of medication. Keep in mind that everything has a side-effect, and that mixing various drugs (illegal or not) can have unexpected results. In other words, learn as much as you can about anything you might use, and decide whether to use it based on that.
I'm also about whether AD(H)D is a real condition in the sense that some people have it, and others don't. However, I definitely agree with the sentiment in one of the other replies below, of how it's like vision -- everybody has a different preciseness of vision. If your vision is bad enough, you get glasses. If you believe that your attention problems are bad enough (they seem to be, from your post), then consult with a doctor.
I hope you find a good treatment.
The email that I got was in plain text. Maybe there could be an option when creating the message to send the emails with formatting? That way, if you know that your friends can see formatted emails, you can send properly colored code.
Comment posting is very quick. When I sent in a comment through email, it took about half a minute for the comment to show up -- but I guess that's to be expected.
So, my general verdict:
I like the idea.
However, I think that for it to appeal to non-hackers, it should support formatting. It could even be something simple, like the italics supported by HN.