CmdrKrool

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Meeting strangers in the street(blog.lauramichet.com)
149 points by CmdrKrool 12y ago|78 comments
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
I did something quite similar once, though with canvas instead of tables: http://www.dl.unospace.net/mondrian/ . I think part of the fun after making a simulation like this is to get silly with the parameters, so crank
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Writers, too, and folks with social anxiety. Two classes of people who think very carefully to every little word they use and the subtle tonal effects and interactions of the tiniest details. I suppose this article is more about listening&#
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
> I don't know it filter/map are available as methods of a list. They're not. Which is a shame in my opinion, because as you've written it you can clearly read the operations in the order they happen, ie. filter follo
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Agreed. Especially if you program in more than one language, trying to remember the subtleties of each one's collection of rules for "truthiness" is a fraught exercise. And isn't it Python people who like to say, "e
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Adding top padding would push the beginning of the content down nice and clear of the fixed header, but that's not enough to avoid the page down problem because for paging purposes it's normally the height of the box from border t
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
I use Greasemonkey scripts on both HN and Mefi to help keep track of ongoing conversations. HN: hn_unread by Jens Wille http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/124778 (also a Chrome extension, if you search for h
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Firefox 28 on Windows XP. My usual browser, loaded up with all kinds of extensions and stuff, so I also tried: Chrome 35.0.1912.2 (from portableapps.com) on Windows XP. So as to make sure it's not my fault for using XP, I went and upda
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
I can't turn off the infinite scroll. I've set "Auto-load" in the settings to Off. But when I scroll to the end of the page new links still get appended automatically. This also happens on the current version DDG as well
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
You're right, and having read some other posts in this thread (CompuHacker) and taken another look, I see that the new "Customize" is more diminished in the new version than I previously made out. They're going more towa
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
I open everything in a new window, and juggle windows at the desktop level with the help of a nifty Alt+Tab enhancer. I know there's a use case for using seperate windows to group tabs by topic, but I don't like having that organi
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
The Customize mode seems fairly flexible, for shuffling things between the three fixed-position bars, ie. the menu, navigation and bookmarks bars (probably the tab bar as well though I don't use tabs myself). I wonder why you can'
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by CmdrKrool 12y ago
Fabricate might be interesting to you if you haven't seen it already. https://code.google.com/p/fabricate/
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
I've come to think that build systems are a very personal utility. Everyone has their favourite. Mine's fabricate.py, for example. Over time I've built up a library of script snippets and shortcuts and so on which I'm fa
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
Margins let you position an element relative to its immediate parent. This alternative scheme lets you position an element relative to any other element on the page.
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
524 pages! With chapters on assembly language towards the end. That's what I call getting your money's worth. I had a Spectrum myself. The pack-in manual for that wasn't quite as hefty at about half the number of pages but it
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
Yeah, that statement suffers from an unquestioned assumption that dollars are the definitive, correct measure of value. It takes two to make a currency pair and if you were to look through the lens the other way it would seem like the dolla
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
You've been contradicted a number of times now so sorry to pile on but here's a nice webpage about a classic videogame (in the UK in the 80s, at least) with an example halfway down the page of (literally) hand-written/assembl
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
Mmm. Or rather, it's all fun to them being as they make the rules and can never ultimately lose the game. They seem to forget that for the rest of us it's not quite so discretionary.
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
My journey: See this well trafficked "CSS sucks"-type article, Ctrl-F the comments for John Nagle, be tantalized at the hints of how it could be so much better: http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/2006/09/2
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
Yep. Now I naturally have to e-mail all my friends and work contacts (from my throwaway Gmail address), not to mention the person I know who opened a personal Lavabit account on my recommendation, announcing to all that my e-mail address is
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
Nasty surprise for me: 'Remove the ability to not "Always show the tab bar"' https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855370 'browser.tabs.autoHide' config also removed, tab bar now always
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
> Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Incidentally this is the same law that is also being used to legally justify GCHQ's Tempora operation (the UK's PRISM), according to this Guardian article[1] and discussed on HN pre
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
- Its user interface is inconsistent and poorly designed. As I worked through this website (which is great by the way) it struck me that by focusing so clearly and completely on the underlying object graph that's supposed to lead to ni
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
Ooh, and a nice little summary has just popped up on a forum I read: http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2013/6/16/2013616140...
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by CmdrKrool 13y ago
Here's an article: http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporati...
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by CmdrKrool 14y ago
Cool. Unfortunately though, on my regular setup of Firefox on Windows, the background image abruptly 'runs out' shortly after the "You're currently travelling at 70000 pixels/second" message appears, leaving me with a blank white screen. I
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by CmdrKrool 14y ago
Another vote for Fabricate; here's a comment of mine from a while back explaining in detail why I prefer it (or Tup) to Make. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4190804 I use it on Windows too with an strace replacement I wrote which isn
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by CmdrKrool 14y ago
Yeah, limitations like these are often just a red rag to hackers that naturally love the challenge of overcoming apparent limitations with ornate workarounds. See the gmsl library mentioned in the current top post for example, which I read
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by CmdrKrool 14y ago
Don't forget the 'inline' keyword for functions, it saved my bacon in some audio-processing code that was starting to choke, repeating stuff for every sample in a tight loop - copy-pasting away the function calls wasn't really feasible - ty

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