Someone's about to 'beat' runescapeabout 21,000 hours of game play from what I understand... CRAZY
The 1947 Kurtis-Omohundro Comet rediscovered, part one: A look back at America's first postwar sports carIt's hard to believe that you can find something without even knowing you're looking for it, but that's precisely how Geoffrey Hacker describes his discovery of the 1947 Kurtis-Omohundro Comet. Hacker ...
Softchoice About To Put More Money In Your PocketOn 11/28/12, Softchoice Corp. (Toronto: SO) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.07, payable on 12/14/12. As a percentage of SO's recent stock price of $11.63, this dividend works ...
Ask HN: What makes the perfect office? I'm building one.I run a web development agency with 18 people. The building we're looking at moving to will need extensive refurbishment, so we have a chance to spec out our office 'wish list' and then build that!So: If you could completely design your office space (aesthetics, layout, furniture, lighting, flooring), how would you want it to be?(We're a Rails agency, working in scrum teams of 2 or 4, doing some pairing but not full-time, based in London).
Has minimalism gone too far?I am a minimalist at heart, but practicality & utility override any and all desire for a minimal UI.To a degree minimalism increases usability, cuts down on distractions with other links to other articles,media,etc and lets the user focus on the article or whatever work they're doing if its a desktop app.To be quite frank I'm sick of websites with three miles of whitespace on both sides of an 80 character wide column article text and no navbar or links to get to the website's homepage.examples (from HN's top articles about 30 mins ago) http://mkronline.com/2012/10/30/you-arent-imagining-it-the-web-is-a-mess/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-most-advanced-voice-search-has.html http://joel.is/ I'll admit, to a degree, some of it is bad coding/design using fixed sizes in pixels instead of relative sizes for things (em) so the page renders the same independent of screen resolution.The same sort of thing is going on with desktop applications, menus and options are getting gank
New iPhone App encourages Classroom Activity for Stats/MathThe Aakkozzll app is a substitute for throwing dice. Players can see the probability distribution on each throw (unlike dice which have a similar pattern, but you just can't see it).The app is great for high-school to college level stats and data-management classes, and simple enough to serve as a primer for elementary-aged students. It gives them a physical / visual way to appreciate the normal curve. Can be used in a classroom activity of Craps or even monopoly, using the Aakkozzll instead of dice. Games like Craps will take on a whole new meaning when students can actually see the chances of getting a 7.Will give students an intuition for the binomial distribution, frequency graphs, and the normal curve. As the balls fall down, they randomly go left or right (its about 50/50) depending on how they land. Its like having a series of 50/50 coin tosses which determines the final position of the balls. Only the red ball actually determines your "roll" (it blinks red).The original inspira
Fareed Zakaria Plagiarized Because He Is Old-Fashioned and a New BreedSave this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Briefly suspended Time columnist/CNN host/Washington Post writer Fareed Zakaria completed the media ...
Ask HN: Anyone with experience with local incentives to relocate?I'm in a rental startup & am currently located where there is no market for my offerings. I intend to move somewhere that can support even the off-season- such as NY, LA, Miami, Vegas, Ibiza.I've seen that some cities offer tax breaks & other incentives to lure companies to their tax jurisdiction. I'd like to know if any startups who read HN have taken advantage of similar incentives to relocate to a certain place, & if so, what kind of deal did you get?
How to hide and unhide apps from your iPhone’s purchased listIf you use the Purchased list on your iDevice to reinstall previously purchased-but-deleted apps, you can trim the list by hiding apps. (And don't worry, there is a way to unhide hidden apps.) Update: ...
Build Loyalty One Tee At A TimeSimple automated t-shirt loyalty program. A company can set "loyalty targets" within their site or app (50 logins, 25 tweets/likes, answer 3 surveys, invite 5 friends) and when a user hits a target they are sent an email with a link to get a free branded shirt.