Curmudgel

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by Curmudgel 12y ago
> Chrome has a "star" button right in the address bar, FF and IE have Ctrl+B to create a bookmark. The Classic Theme Restorer add-on for FF allows you restore the star button to the address bar. On FF, Ctrl-D bookmarks the curr
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
The less tech savvy users that are unhappy about the Australis UI changes don't know who they can complain to or where they can complain. I think that the backlash from power users has been lessened because addons (Classic Theme Restor
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
When Dropbox posted what is now usually called a "Show HN", someone did post a comment like that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Although to be fair, it was a good comment and it elicited a good respon
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
"Don't document anything, but if you must, do it poorly" is also sometimes called the "Unix Philosophy".
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by Curmudgel 12y ago
I agree. I can't stand the low contrast gray typefaces, the new zoom buttons that replace the slider, the obnoxious, hyperactive search bar and the inability to rotate the map view (which should be trivial).
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
> ideological purity is now a litmus test for who can serve on a board of directors in the startup world. Most of the negative comments on this thread are about her actions , not her ideological purity. The criticisms focus on her role
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
New Coke was a disaster because Coca-Cola did not let its consumers choose between the two products and instead planned to stop making Coke Classic entirely. There is some similarity to Microsoft's decision to have Windows 8 boot into
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
>Reading is, and has always been, an individual activity. That's not true. Novels written in the 19th and 18th century, which featured long and complex passages, were often read aloud. Poems with meter are usually read aloud as well
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
If you have omnibox predictions turned on, every keystroke is logged. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/180655?hl=en
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
> Many newer or more fashionable languages enable some very elegant programming styles, but this comes with a concern about the elegance of one's code, which can easily result in the programmer spending more time thinking about eleg
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
"Poaching" is offensive because it suggests that the employees are chattel and powerless to resist another company's offer. The irony is that while "poaching" traditionally referred to illegal activities, the opposi
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
> I honestly can't imagine the morality of someone who would just abandon their project, their baby, so to speak, and go work somewhere else at the first call from another company offering more money. Employees (most of the time) do
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
>Presumably the shortage of labor was still real, and if they needed to hire people, but couldn't poach, then they hired them from the rest of the talent pool. If that's the case, then removing the "cold calls" from t
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
>If you were around during the last dot-com boom, you may remember the ridiculous poaching that went on... >I'm somewhat sympathetic to the notion that companies want to avoid aggressive and invasive poaching on each other's
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
The rendering error appears to have been fixed. Thank you. Just out of curiosity, why is the default for search "story" instead of "all"? I believe that hnsearch.com's default was "all".
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
Please switch the default option from "story" to "all". The legacy style screen has a minor rendering error in Firefox 31: http://imgur.com/tkqCRGh My comment from a previous story is still relevant: The
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
Oops. Sorry about that.
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
> Its going to be interesting to see what happens when either the US economy takes a dump, or interest rates rise and VC funding dries up... We just had a financial crisis 6 years ago in which the U.S economy "took a dump" and
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
> Living in an European country and having some experience with unions by hearing stories and watching the news - first of all, unions are highly political and aren't really meant for the protection of the employees. That's a b
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
Well, because trademarks are limited to separate classes. http://trademarkbureau.com/trademark_classes.php
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
Bill Gates is not a good example of a college dropout. In his own words: "I didn’t leave college because it wasn’t suited to me. I left college because I thought I had to move quickly on the Microsoft opportunity. I had already finishe
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
>The problem is so many programmers don't take the time (or care to take the time) to learn to use the well thought out design of Unix tools opting instead to see every problem as a nail corresponding to the latest trend in hammers
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by Curmudgel 13y ago
The search results for stories show both the long (and useless) news.ycombinator URL and a link to the comments. Both links lead to the same location. The news.ycombinator URL displayed is redundant and adds visual noise. I've highligh