Hacker News: sheffield

SimplyNoise - The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet

sheffield — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:51:44 +0000

Article URL: http://www.simplynoise.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837088

Points: 3

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HAX.TOR: Hacking Challenges

sheffield — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:43:15 +0000

Article URL: http://hax.tor.hu/welcome/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831375

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sheffield in "What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard?"

sheffield — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:32:27 +0000

"How about ability to resize windows from all edges of the window. That alone is worth the 30 bucks."

That made me smile...

China’s Biggest Search Engine, Known for Illegal Downloads, Makes Music Deal

sheffield — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:33:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/technology/baidu-chinas-search-giant-announces-music-licensing-deal.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2779924

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sheffield in "Facial recognition false positives lead to license revocations in Massachusetts "

sheffield — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:54:52 +0000

Public transportation would be faster, more effective and comfortable then cars if more people used it.

New comment by sheffield in "[dead]"

sheffield — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:36:10 +0000

They list their sources at the bottom of the page.

New comment by sheffield in "Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of 2012?"

sheffield — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:05:08 +0000

Let's call it the Gathering of the New Herd!

New comment by sheffield in "Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of 2012?"

sheffield — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:02:17 +0000

Or we all can just stick with Windows XP. Wouldn't it be great?

New comment by sheffield in "Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of 2012?"

sheffield — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:18:48 +0000

Rivalry is always good, it's essential for evolution.

New comment by sheffield in "France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers"

sheffield — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:13:31 +0000

By Ayn Rand.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

New comment by sheffield in "Lesser known cool features of HTML5"

sheffield — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:07:30 +0000

The emphasis was in webkit.

New comment by sheffield in "Lesser known cool features of HTML5"

sheffield — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:28:32 +0000

"HTML 5" features like

surely won't work.

New comment by sheffield in "Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback""

sheffield — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:56:14 +0000

The problem of translation should not affect the writing of the original text.

New comment by sheffield in "Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback""

sheffield — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:32:37 +0000

But in English it is. It's acceptable to develop faster for certain (popular) languages.

New comment by sheffield in "A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects"

sheffield — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:48:23 +0000

I think the moral of this story is that it's not your business. She will decide what she want to do, and her parents should help, and not restrain her, or tell her what to do.

New comment by sheffield in "Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years"

sheffield — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:49:38 +0000

The time served might be much less then the sentence.

New comment by sheffield in "Google Open Source Manager Says "Android Is The Linux Dream Come True""

sheffield — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:02:45 +0000

Android is the name of a distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora.

New comment by sheffield in "Stanford's CS 101 course uses Javascript"

sheffield — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:46:01 +0000

I find the efficient version much clearer, too. It extracts one layer of abstraction: a beginner may wondering, how can a variable being less than a function (aTwo more lines worth it.

New comment by sheffield in "Samsung releases code of WebCL implementation for WebKit"

sheffield — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:57:48 +0000

Samsung is a Korean company.

New comment by sheffield in "Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice"

sheffield — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:23:30 +0000

Good news, but I don't understand why both? Why don't they choose one (preferably LibreOffice)?