ElongatedTowel

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Ask HN: Open-source code with no license in portfolio?
1 points by ElongatedTowel 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Portfolios. How little is enough? Does the type of content matter?
1 points by ElongatedTowel 11y ago|1 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 11y ago
I haven't seen many people mentioning this problem before. I've seen it come up in discussions on the current AMD GPU lines. Hard to say who is to blame, but it's rarely obvious just how many problems there are before buying
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
Should msvc be the go-to compiler on Windows for C++? I was getting back into the language and was quickly reminded of all the compiler and dependency hazzle, especially when coding for several operating systems. On top of that some older s
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Ask HN: Should I code in the path of least resistance?
2 points by ElongatedTowel 12y ago|2 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
They removed browser.tabs.closeButtons. It's now impossible to hide the close buttons without css fiddling. I don't get it. What benefit is there to removing that feature? Same with clearing the download list. They removed that fe
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
I wish one of these services would allow signing up without a sim and allow chatting over a desktop client.
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
Probably not how it was done, but is it possible to craft a bottle in such a way that the refraction index makes the content appear larger than it actually is?
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
Unless the actual god really hates horseshoes.
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
I just played with the graph search and that thing is creepy and powerful. It pains me that I'm drawn to such tools and I definitely need to stay away from that one.
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
Xavier? Logan? Guess someone wants to have his son grow up as the Wolverine.
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
That doesn't hide the blocked elements though.
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by ElongatedTowel 12y ago
Those tools are great and all, but my setup usually involves more than just installing applications. I have a huge pile of registry files which change a lot of windows behaviour. I have configuration files which need to be copied to the rig
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
To add another perspective to this. If we assume that after a period of adaption eating less is just as much of a joy as eating a bit too much from time to time, there are still other factors. Most of them are a product of vanity, but they
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Border-box is great, but whenever I have to use 3rd party code all hell breaks lose. You can mix both, but only applying border-box to your own code is tricky and the mental overhead is quite annoying. Even then some minor glitches can occu
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
It's pretty simple. Give everyone who's still using Windows XP a stick of 4 GB DDR2 memory. They will then proceed to pirate Windows 7.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
This is clearly manipulating the bitcoin market.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
The cycle of messanging. "We need a way to communicate over the internet". Email was born. "We need a way to communicate with groups". Messaging boards and mailing lists are born. "We need a way to communicate quick
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I love how people send over $1000 to this site. Why not play poker if you have that much money to spend on gambling? Or, you know, buy an instrument and learn something beautiful?
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Moral of the story is, if you spend the time you're watching porn on programming instead you would be a master of all these technologies.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I have a similar problem. I'm working on a static site generator. It improves on some ideas other people had, but it isn't exactly unique. With several hundred similar projects out there thats almost impossible anyway. It serves m
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Do you mean that it's easier to do something bad because we are surrounded by bad things happening? Or that it's easier to get rotten thoughts because we know so much
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
An often repeated thought. Yet at some point (usually when children or rape is involved) people tend to suddenly forget about tolerance or sympathy and throw around death sentences, castration or torture. There are certain mistakes one can
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Similar. In my case not violence and not necessarily targeted at other people, but I surprised myself how twisted my morals can get. I even contemplated suicide about it. Of course people come rushing and tell you that you have a mental ill
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Excuse my lack of knowledge in terms of mail encryption, but wouldn't the knowledge of communication be enough to warrant further investigation, even if the text itself is encrypted?
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
How does something like this make so much money? If a friend send me the link I would demand reparations.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Then you start replacing the Django ORM with SQLAlchemy and the templating system with Jinja2 and the circle is complete.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Is there a way to check compatibility with less known packages? I use Flask quite often and it has been Python 3 compatible for a while, but there are a lot of extensions for it which of course can't be found in such a list. Some only
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Ghost is nice, but it doesn't quite fill the same niche. Its ease of use comes from its dynamic parts like the editor. Certainly can't use those if I only want static output without some steps inbetween and especially not if the s
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Finding good stuff is so damn hard. I'm listening to that stuff whenever I do anything that doesn't require too much focus. Time that adds up. Three I can recommend: http://shoptalkshow.com/ - Webdesign and develo

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