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Zeccon Nintendo parodies Kickstarter

Wow, really nice game - and yes, wonderful music. I wish there was a version in a language I could understand though.

Zeccon Bright Explosion on the Moon

Are we even sure of the type of ton used in the explosion measurement?

Zeccon Intel’s “Iris” wants to change how you feel about integrated graphics

Someone needs to start selling "Sclera" computer cases.

Zeccon Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

Asterix characters: asterix, obelix, panoramix, ...

Planets/Roman deities: venus, ceres, apollo, jupiter, ...

Greek letters: alpha, gamma, zheta, ...

First names of famous scientists: albert, marie, alexander, ...

Zeccon Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling

[Disclaimer: I don't know B&W 2, I'm basing myself only on the first B&W]

Black and White was a good game which unfortunately was far behind what its originating concept promised to deliver.

Zeccon What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video]

When I read "It is important that crew accommodations be well ventilated; otherwise, astronauts can wake up ..." my mind completed with "asphyxiating in a vacuum".

Zeccon Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine

You drag it slightly off the web and she will hold on for dear life. Verly funny!

Zeccon Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

It won't even by necessary to completely remove them. They could just turn down the cursors' opacity proportional to how off they are.

Zeccon JavaScript Scope Context Coloring

Make the background color become less contrasting with the foreground color the more you nest. The larger the number of nested scopes, the harder it's going to be to read it anyway!

I'm actually serious by the way.

Zeccon MathBox: Cross-eyed 3D

^This. I'd rather not have to flip my screen upside-down, thank you very much. Fortunately the transitions between slides allow you to get a good sense of the 3D. But I don't see any instructions whatsoever.

Zeccon Earth Hour is a colossal waste of time — and energy

If you usually avoid the first unheated water coming out of the pipes before your morning shower, collect it in a bucket. You can then use it for flushing the toilet, or whatever.

Zeccon Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js

Just give them a less "active" default color and you're halfway there. As they are now, they seem to be asking for action. I'd also write "Step n of N" or simply "n/N" to help clear the meaning.

Congratulations on your good work, by the way. I don't usually vote TFAs up, but you totally deserve it.

Zeccon Google Reader shutting down

That they would make such an oversight makes me even more uneasy with giving them access to my data.

Zeccon Why I created Comic Sans

Verdana is the font I'm reading these comments in.

Zeccon HelloFlo Launches a Tampon Subscription Service

Thank you for sharing...

Zeccon Laconic History of the World

The author has stated[1] that the names of the countries were excluded for consideration in the choice of most frequent word.

@atsaloti "New" really should have been excluded as the most frequent word. It appears a lot in the names of New Guinea, New South Wales, New Holland... It would be interesting to know what word came afterwards in frequency.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/omnitarian/8288065763/sizes/o/i...

Zeccon Lorem Pixel

I think you missed the part where they said "rectangular".

Zeccon Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

Actually, I'd say the beginning of The Simpsons' theme is the most famous example of an augmented fourth nowadays.

Zeccon Show HN: JavaScript-less iOS Folder Animation

Well to me they make the back button work perfectly. I can press 'back' to return the previous view, as intended.

Zeccon Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT

Am I the only one who always reads WinRT as "winner tea" ?

Zeccon 0x10c (Notch's new game)

The viruses/trojans will be an interesting thing, I believe notch said that it will be up to players to protect themselves from these.

Indeed: https://twitter.com/notch/status/187474819980328962

And I won't stop viruses, the players will have to do that themselves.

And https://twitter.com/notch/status/187451555384004610 :

@Kyle_Baran: Is it possible for players to give malicious code that negatively affects their ship? This should be encouraged in multi.

@notch: yes. It's a fully functioning computer.

Zeccon Am I the only one who hates the new youtube.com/Google+ layout?

I hate to be that guy, but it looks like you drew a penis over your username.

Anyway, I nearly never ever visit YouTube's home page. I almost always reach it from elsewhere, through direct links or by clicking the YouTube icon on embedded videos.

What I hate about YouTube is how it is connected to your Google account. Why can't I have a browser tab open with Gmail without being signed into YouTube? Or what if I want to be signed in with another account?

Zeccon Ask HN: Just bought my first Mac. What should I know?

Don't press Cmd+I when you have a bunch of files selected and you want to check how much space they take. Do press Cmt+Alt+I

Zeccon Why does TypeScript have be the answer to anything?

This guy agrees with you (and so do I btw): http://blog.blakebarrett.net/2012/10/typescript-vs-actionscr...

And yes, they're all variants of ECMAScript. It's a mess!

Zeccon Please stop with the video tutorials

Visual learners, like myself, can look at pictures. It's still more convenient than watching a video IMO.

Zeccon Please stop with the video tutorials

> In general: totally agree. > > Exception: when what's being taught is essntially visual.

"Visual" does not imply "video".

- I scan through a bunch of pictures quicker than I can watch a video.

Zeccon Apple accidentally leaks new iPhone name and tech.

It's going to be called 'iPhone 5'!

Genius!

Zeccon It's time for a native EventEmitter

Yes, I've thought this for quite some time.

Heh, I just wrote a "me too" post. :J

Zeccon JavaScript proposal: destructuring assignment

This is something that's been in Firefox's JS way back since FF 2.0.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7

Zeccon &q=helvetica

So... for those who missed it, what happened?