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shadowpwner

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    Comment #2697637

    Reddit has an interesting comment on Ticketmaster: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gmyhv/over_ten_d...

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    Comment #2697208

    He (original poster) dropped the class before attending any of the lectures.

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    Comment #2691686

    Why bother signing up for the class in the beginning? A quick Google search would result in good textbook recommendations.

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    Comment #2682390

    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 sel…

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    Comment #2681671

    Apologies if I wasn't clear, I was referring to the above poster's comment about this technology being patented.

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    Comment #2681667

    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/pa…

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    Comment #2681652

    This technology has been around in research articles for at least 15 years. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=light+field+ph...

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    Comment #2673058

    404. Edit: Nvm, back up.

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    Comment #2668186

    Plain ol' Helvetica is also a good choice.

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    Comment #2659359

    Great advice. However, it seems like a (false) generalization to say that all Asians cheat.

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    Comment #2647575

    Google Summer of Code is only offered to college students.

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    Comment #2645711

    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.

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    Comment #2616938

    Anyone know the pros and cons of using Readability over Instapaper?

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    Comment #2601899

    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 conv…

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    Comment #2587697

    Its supposed to stop at philosophy..

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    Comment #2540294

    I hope he had permission for all those photos.

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    Comment #2531575

    I'm not familiar with the industry, but is 50/50 split considered good?

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    Comment #2531539

    Off topic, but that was the one with Stephen Colbert singing Friday, correct?

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    Comment #2514843

    The linked example, http://maxvoltar.com , works fine for me for the spacebar and pagedown. I'm using Chrome beta build.

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    Comment #2502619

    > 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?

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    Comment #2502316

    success != academics.

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    Comment #2478005

    Scribd links automatically generated for PDFs. I wonder if they check for mimetype, or they just assume it from the extension..

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    Comment #2476117

    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…

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    Comment #2465142

    Actually, you can run it through an article scraper, then hash it.