Do you have any recommendations for how to find good mp3 blogs? What you describe sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, but I haven't had much luck with blind searches.

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Create a Game Character with HTML5 and JavaScript 15 years ago

The cached version works perfectly: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...

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Google Launching Its Cloud Service Tomorrow, Without Big Music's Approval 15 years ago

    or Spotify outside Europe

It's frustrating to keep hearing this come up as someone living in Germany. Europe is a big place, and Spotify is available in only a handful of countries; namely France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, UK.

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Turn off ri and rdoc generation by default 15 years ago

...calling people who express a valid opinion on this "propellerheads" just seems unnecessarily insulting

When did "+1" become a valid opinion?

The few people who attempted to actually discuss the patch were more than drowned out by -- well -- a bunch of propellerheads.

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Philanthroper - donate $1 a day to awesome NPOs 16 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. We'll definitely be thinking about the best way to draw in new visitors and give them a clear understanding of what the site's about.

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Philanthroper - donate $1 a day to awesome NPOs 16 years ago

Hey! I'm the developer behind Philanthroper.com, and would love to see some discussion here and answer any questions you have.

We've gotten some good press so far [1], and we're completely thrilled to finally be live.

Today's featured NPO is particularly great; Computer Aid International refurbishes the computers you would have thrown out -- or, at least recycled -- and distributes them throughout Africa and Latin America (over 175,000 since they started in 1998).

Seems like just the sort of thing HN would be interested in!

[1] http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/philanthroper-hopes-...

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Ruby: shallow copy surprise! 16 years ago

This is a performance optimization for common (read: integer) numbers: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Fixnum.html

  >> ((1 << 30) - 1).class
  => Fixnum
  >> ((1 << 30)).class
  => Bignum

  >> ((1 << 30) - 1).object_id
  => 2147483647
  >> ((1 << 30) - 1).object_id
  => 2147483647

  >> (1<<30).object_id
  => 166070
  >> (1<<30).object_id
  => 161200

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Evolution of a Ruby Programmer 16 years ago

It seems to me that programmatic evolution is often like biological evolution -- namely, it moves from "simple but works," to "Wouldn't it be cool if..." :)

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