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looks like apple's force touch with negative numbers

Their subscription pop up at the bottom of the page with a close button that does nothing only makes me sure I don't want to work for them.

that government official in the story is murli manohar joshi. he does not know his elbow from his posterior.

Joshi is an entitled superstitious hindu fanatic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yND74tSqlBA If he endorses the product, it is probably a scam

This would have been great with free basics. But thanks to post colonial Indian white suspicion, that's not about to happen.

  n.forEach(console.log);

Works on firefox. Chrome treats console.log differently from other functions for reasons unknown.

but really, this library has no reason to exist

It surprises me how opinion can be written off as fact.

Emma Griffin speculates about how social customs come about and just states them as fact. I was looking for citations to references/studies. There are none. At best there are anecdotes.

I googled up Emma Griffin, and she seems to be a celebrated historian http://emmagriffin.info/ .

I do not know what to make of this otherwise interesting write up. Or is it just science that requires any rigor in what is said?

If OKCupid are so against Brendan for his stance on gay marriage, they need to stop using javascript, for Brendan Eich invented javascript.

If OKCupid are against Brendan for his stance on gay marriage, they need to stop using javascript. Brendan Eich invented javascript.

The article isn't very well thought through. mongodb is doing very well just selling support

This comes as a shock for me, he was young. I had no idea Atul had been battling cancer for an year.

Here are the ways Atul touched my life:

  In the days before the Internet was accessible in India, he ran a dial up BBS, and it was a small group of users who were members of all BBSes. It was interesting to read up opinions of informed people. Topics ranged from computing to women's rights.

  He would write interesting articles for PCQuest, a valuable resource before the internet made print magazines obsolete

  He ran a Linux user group

  A few years ago I rediscovered him on the internet. He was passionately exposing the scam MBA provider, Arindam Chaudhuri. This is commendable on its own, as a lot of ill informed people to this day pay large sums of money to Arindam to get a business degree worth nothing.

r ]sa`a

Apps are the flash widgets of this era.

Thank you Mr Jobs for making the internet proprietary again.

the code i use in production doesn't use eval, but a recursive function. i like the anonymous function passed to replace, but think the catch destroys code beauty :)

looks like something broke in copying and pasting. try: http://pastebin.com/txM6NZBS

  function render(tpl,data){
  	var matches = tpl.match(/{[^\}]+}/g);
  	for(var i in matches){
  		var rep =   eval("data."+matches[i].replace('{','').replace('}',''));
  		tpl = tpl.replace(matches[i],rep);
  	}                                     
  	return tpl;
  }
  alert(render("{a} is all that i've {b.a} {b.b} {b.c}", {a:"this", b:{a:"ever",b:"really",c:"needed"} }))

http://pastebin.com/txM6NZBS here, to copy and paste

have spent some time tweaking the algorithm for relevancy.

the thing that i find most annoying at this point is the slow speed

foxblot does use amazon affiliate links

A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball

  bat + ball = 1.1
  bat = ball + 1
  2bat + ball = ball +1.1 +1
  2bat = 2.1
  bat = 1.05
  ball =0.05

what works rather well is google reverse image search. While it doesn't seem to do face recognition, if the image is a resized version of one on facebook, as they often are, it'll straight to the user's facebook profile.

I did it because I was unsure and had no idea how to react. I am asking HN so I know better for the future.

i wish someone had explained this to me about 15 years ago. i had sought, and settled on the unsatisfying explanation that it is a conventional notation with useful ways to do coordinate geometry. non essential, but a way of doing it. though i have looked at euler's identity with awe, it's mostly been a mystical sort of awe.

I hate to admit it but i had started using a line of argument to certain theist friends, that if god helps you, as a concept, no need to be bothered, think no more of it than a concept such as the the mathematical concept of i, its a number that does not exist but has real consequences. now I feel stupid for doubting the existence of i.

I keep trying to relearn my fundamentals, and this article does that beautifully. i would otherwise have died a disbeliever.

i start off with enthusiasm and lose it at some point. For atleast one of the projects, I do think something worthwhile can come of it, that's twitterex.com. i am not sure how to go about doing AB testing on a simple site like that

Some of them are here http://twitterex.com http://reduce.li http://twitexplode.com

And am building a facebook application: http://namesucker.com

One pattern in all these, I lose interest and they fizzle out. So, if i could pose a question here, how do you keep yourself motivated?

Yak Shi Mash! Borat must be fuming now.

atrocious grammar and style of writing. wonder how this makes it to the front page. and it isn't even breaking new

I have worked for a few years with a company pretending to be many things at the same time. it was a mess of strategy and homepage. each department and each individual wants a piece of the homepage. that meant fecal widgets just showing up anywhere at random. The pathology wasnt restricted to design. It went deeper into the mess of css, html and javascript. And I felt very alone as amongst the very few who had a huge problem with the way it worked. I was kept out of meetings.

my first impulse was - let me rush out and buy an eggtimer. i had to tell myself to relax, experiment with this idea. i am now arguing that if i had that much self discipline in the first place, it would not be a problem in the first place! So tell me, how long have you done this? how effective has it been? do you cheat a lot?

i have tried that, but most days, HN or the very few sources just expand to occupy all my time. I agree with you about it being a very serious problem. In terms of health, two things already very evident are weight gain and eye lubricating drops.

How did you see this post with those host settings?

I am not a fanboy, but Microsoft started almost exactly 1 year before, and hasn't faced an existentialist crisis in it's lifespan. It is actually rare among companies to have gone from strength to strength almost year after year.

While some products like windows 95 inspired very long queues on launch day, the crowd I associated with never thought much of them. Infact some of them made expensive mistakes with os2.

Today I am a consumer of both apple products and steve folklore, and sometimes get confused as to where fantasy ends and reality sets in.