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shadowpwner··on Ticketmaster: Rocking The Most Hated Brand In America
Reddit has an interesting comment on Ticketmaster: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gmyhv/over_ten_d...
shadowpwner··on Ask HN: How did you get avg 95% in University?
He (original poster) dropped the class before attending any of the lectures.
shadowpwner··on Ask HN: How did you get avg 95% in University?
Why bother signing up for the class in the beginning? A quick Google search would result in good textbook recommendations.
shadowpwner··on Show HN: SnapConfig Open Sourced
Nice! I'd eliminate the reflection, I was rather confused when I saw a reversed screen. At least add a transparency gradient to it (let me know if you need help). Also, are you selling it while giving away the source code for free, or just haven't updated the site yet?
shadowpwner··on Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later
Apologies if I wasn't clear, I was referring to the above poster's comment about this technology being patented.
shadowpwner··on Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later
The ability to focus afterwards is at the tradeoff of image size and quality, assuming they use a microlens array similar to the study located here: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/. However, this is cleverly marketed towards the social media crowd, which has little use for high resolution photos.
shadowpwner··on Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later
This technology has been around in research articles for at least 15 years. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=light+field+ph...
shadowpwner··on Show HN: HN GeoIP Search: Find who and what on HN is near you
404.

Edit: Nvm, back up.

shadowpwner··on Ask HN: Favorite fonts/layouts for customer communications?
Plain ol' Helvetica is also a good choice.
shadowpwner··on A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
Great advice. However, it seems like a (false) generalization to say that all Asians cheat.
shadowpwner··on Ask HN: Advice for a young, self-taught programmer
Google Summer of Code is only offered to college students.
shadowpwner··on Cloud Save
Works fine for me. Just uploaded the Quantum Entanglement PDF from the front page of HN onto my Google docs. I can see this being big.
shadowpwner··on Introducing Kindle Support for Readability
Anyone know the pros and cons of using Readability over Instapaper?
shadowpwner··on Javascript to CoffeeScript converter
There's probably great uses for this, such as learning and adding on to other CoffeeScript scripts. I think it's hilarious that Javascript converts to Coffeescript, which then converts to Javascript.
shadowpwner··on Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
Its supposed to stop at philosophy..
shadowpwner··on History of everything
I hope he had permission for all those photos.
shadowpwner··on Google Launching Its Cloud Service Tomorrow, Without Big Music's Approval
I'm not familiar with the industry, but is 50/50 split considered good?
shadowpwner··on Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
Off topic, but that was the one with Stephen Colbert singing Friday, correct?
shadowpwner··on Custom Scrollbars in WebKit
The linked example, http://maxvoltar.com, works fine for me for the spacebar and pagedown. I'm using Chrome beta build.
shadowpwner··on Ask HN: How can companies charge a CC with only card number and expiry?
> The recommendation I've seen from some gateways is to add multiples of 3 years until the date is in the future.

Did you read the rest of the post?

shadowpwner··on Working memory at 5 is a better predictor of academic outcome than IQ [abstract]
success != academics.
shadowpwner··on Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
Was it?
shadowpwner··on Challenge HN: Can you decrypt these messages? [pdf]
Scribd links automatically generated for PDFs. I wonder if they check for mimetype, or they just assume it from the extension..
shadowpwner··on There Is No Magic
I don't have a source for this, but I remember reading about how the "autistic" brain dedicates more of its capacity for more intellectual, rather than using it for social purposes.
shadowpwner··on Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
Actually, you can run it through an article scraper, then hash it.
shadowpwner··on AllTheWeb closed by Yahoo early April, no-one notices (1999-2011) RIP
Yeah, just reminiscing about the past. ;)
shadowpwner··on Nokia Nenya - control your cellphone by a ring on your finger
That's either a really sensitive watch or the ring produces a large magnetic field.
shadowpwner··on Thoughts on Clojure Hacking
Should we be drawing more or less attention to newcomers? The green is more obvious than the default gray.
shadowpwner··on AllTheWeb closed by Yahoo early April, no-one notices (1999-2011) RIP
AskJeeves and Dogpile are still going strong. I could have sworn Dogpile didn't look so spammy before..
shadowpwner··on The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins
:first-of-type is valid CSS3, though.
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