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In this light this article is obviously fabricated, but I don't understand what people are so worked up about even without this information. It makes a nice story and that's what media does, nice stories. At this day and age I think people should have enough mediareading-skills and sceptisism that colouring a story would be an assumption, not a shock.

For the video: better audio quality. I don't want to hear the sounds of your keyboard or anything else, just the soothing sound of your voice (level-editor part). Maybe record the video without audio, just talk to yourself for timing-purposes and then do the audio on top.

Slightly off-topic, but the topic of the story made me think about GPS navigation devices. Not a big deal, but slightly annoying.

The language isn't easy to learn, but easy to write and read once you've learned to talk with it. This is the distinction usually made regarding the language differences. Also most of the professional vocabulary is lent from other languages. I prefer to speak English when talking about programming or tech in general. Then again this starts to take affect, at the earliest, in high school.

But does the headgear find the glove through optical detection? I mean, is there another way?

On another note, Ghost In The Shell -series has retinal UIs that no one should take example of. So much clutter!

During the time I've read HN I haven't once seen posts get this poetic and sentimental. I wonder what's it like on the Apple side of things.

Top students get diminished returns for their abilities. Everything is based on your age, so students who learn faster just have it easier, but they can't advance any further than the slowest student in the class. As the teacher tells us, a lot of effort goes to helping the kids with more problems learning, keeping the lows as high as possible. Due to the "everyone needs to have equal education" setting, nothing is done to keep the brilliant brilliant.

This isn't a real _problem_ though, just something that could be better and I personally found annoying.

"will be available for pre-order on August 29th for October delivery"

Maybe the websites will come up by then.

I don't really know per se, because we don't even have Starbucks where I live, but:

I thought the image was pretty indistinguishable from the app when viewed in an image browser. Most of them don't show any borders, so if you walk on the desk with the image ready, you probably couldn't tell the difference?

This is slightly off-topic, but I have a feeling the answer will be a short one. How would a straight out of university -student fare becoming a freelancer? One would have little to no contacts or enterprise experience (part from the degree and/or open source). I don't have a good understanding of what a freelancer contractor/consultant does, but I've always liked the word freelancer. This would be, as I assume, practically impossible?

I had searched for hackerspaces but found none. Now there is one, searching for members. I will sign up shortly!

Would you mind dropping me an email about the study group? We could start working on one, make that its first project.

I have been the victim of sponge learning for many years now, HN being part of it for about a year. I can talk about a wide range of techy subjects but I've never really made or done anything to show for it. I learn bits from here and there without never going very deep. I've read through (and done most of the exercises from) K&R and Dive Into Python to name a couple, yet I haven't written a project over 500 LOC.

I've loved technology as long as I can remember, but when it comes to my local circles I've always been alone with it. Sponge learning is great and (as the writer mentioned) it deduces the amount of unknown unknowns, but without peer encouragement or -at least- approval it's very difficult to actually do something with it.

My sincere respect for everyone who has done something with their passions (that includes you alexmr!)

This particular site could alternatively offer a link to the freely available books (CC etc.) or at least notify about it. I don't know how the site works so I've no idea if it's possible without checking every license by hand, but it would be very, very awesome.