ElongatedTowel

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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
While signing up is mentioned several times on their page it doesn't seem to be required in any way to run your own version. I hope the broken download is just a bug. Signing up just so you can download the package would be pretty anno
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Well, I tried taking a look at it, but the setup is kind of funky. * [edit] Download link seems to have been fixed. * Cloned the repo instead and set everything up. Cloning the submodule for the theme didn't work due to some rights iss
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Even if they are, they are bound to use it in ways, or during times that allow them to pass checks. If everything was flat out allowed they would use stuff that would never pass those tests in far higher concentrations. While the deaths due
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I think he didn't mean the actually word "man", but its translation "Mann" which isn't gender-neutral at all.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
It is my understanding (never smoked myself nor owned any ficus that lived for more than a week) that growing quality plants is actually a very complicated process which takes up a lot of space, requires adequate lighting which in itself is
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I find the way I use software to be very different from the way most people I know do. And then there is the Apple crowd which seems to be huge especially in the world of webdesign and development, but is absolutely foreign to me. I have on
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Ask HN: Where to bounce off ideas?
2 points by ElongatedTowel 13y ago|5 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
How do you choose a name for anything anyway? From company names to personal blogs, naming them is a fruitless exercise. In the end you're trying to be clever but instead you end up with something that means wang in vietnamese or is in
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
0. I have everything in a text file because I still haven't found a solution that is easy to use, fast to use, allows tagging and a navigation that makes sense. I don't care much about synchronisation, but most bookmarking service
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Ask HN: Is preparing for the slashdot effect even necessary?
1 points by ElongatedTowel 13y ago|2 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I'd say that syntax/completion scripts are an exception as they are pretty much mandatory if you're writing code in a language that hasn't made it's way into the official release (and to be frank, there are a lot of
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Far too many. Some I'm using maybe every twentieth time I start vim, but whenever I throw them out I suddenly need them... vim-easymotion - Jump to positions easily (I still use the mouse too often) vim-powerline - Prettier and more cu
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Ask HN: What is the right way to advertise side projects on HN?
9 points by ElongatedTowel 13y ago|3 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Thanks. That's an acceptable price for a mailbox.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I'd like to get away from Google. And since they don't offer any more free accounts they offer nothing special, except the large amount of apps like calendars and stuff, which I don't need at all.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
My home IP isn't static which would make that a bit more complicated and add the cost of a dyndns account or something similar.
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Ask HN: I'm having trouble finding the right mail hoster
9 points by ElongatedTowel 13y ago|14 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Moment.js is pretty useful if you do it client side.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I know this happens with every animal bred for food production, but I was taken aback when I've read that those roaches can live up to two years. If I had a choice I would want the animals I keep to live at least a greater part of thei
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
[edit] Nevermind, found it. Seems to have been removed and brought back a few versions ago. Neither as useful nor as visually impressive as the Windows version though. No I meant Xfce. I can't find that function. Are you refering to so
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I'ts weird to say this, but I actually quite like the interface of Windows Vista and up. Xfce and the likes always were enough for me. But there is one tiny little feature I miss. Sortable windows on the taskbar. I guess one day I have
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
If only there wasn't a minimum of five mailboxes.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
The amount of weight one gains due to medical problems seems to be overestimated. I mean, there are medications out there that will hammer your metabolism. But then again, your average guy with Hypothyroidism, high blood pressure and below
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
What do you suggest one should keep an eye on to stay relevant in the future?
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Wouldn't that be an interesting business opportunity? While both Github and Bitbucket offer privat repositories both free and paid, non of them can be shared or viewed without additional accounts and management. If one could host or up
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Agreed, I misread. I usually play games where the giveaway is both the name and the character, which I guess most people try to match. Surely there where a few people who thought I was female and surely they were behaving differently. But I
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Oh, I misread. Well, my point still stands in other games were the sex is only given away by the character.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Nonsense, a lot of male players play with female characters. No one who played such games for longer than a week would even assume you're female based on your character.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
No, apart from alcohol I've never taken anything.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
As far as I know they do. See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon But I see it everywhere and probably far more pronounced than what is described in the article.

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