ElongatedTowel

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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I've became aware of it about 15 years ago, so it would probably have already killed me if it was anything like that.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I wonder how that is connected to phenomena like visual snow. Many people including me see similar effects not only in dark environments but troughout the day. Some resembling swarms of color, some seeing snow or something that resembles te
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I'm still a rails newbie so I might be mistaken, but it seems there is no template inheritance in rails. I absolutely love the way of thinking template inheritance is driving me to. Rails seems to take a similar approach as JavaScript
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
> where there exists a mixed system in which you are not allowed to have no health insurance True. If you don't have one you have to pay a fine. Which is troubling if you couldn't pay for it in the first place. I have that prob
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
But health care is linked to employment in most parts of Europe as well. Unemployment benefits allow you to pay for it but if you those run out or you don't take benefit of them for some reason (say you live on the street) you're
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
The themes selling well are constantly updated though.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Didn't know he switched. That's disheartening. The Firefox developer tools sadly aren't anywhere close to what I like to use. Although it's been quite some time since I checked. I always miss the ability to do xpath quer
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Ask HN: Is Chrome now the standard for web developers?
7 points by ElongatedTowel 13y ago|13 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Impressive. Sad to know that many promising projects fly under the radar. The Changelog featured Stringer and that probably helped putting it over 1000 Favorites, but this project easily comes out on top, yet isn't well known.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
If anything a plugin tutorial would be what Jekyll seems to need the most. The small example on the wiki wasn't exactly helpful to me. I guess if what Jekyll or Octopress provides out of the box they are the best choice at the moment. At le
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Beeing featured by The Changelog probably helped a lot too.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Absolutely. I actually use a Firefox Addon to rebind some of the keys so I can zoom by pressing +, - and reset it with *. Text is usually not the problem, but images and thumbnails are. I rather zoom in to see the thumbnail up close instead
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
My problems: * Payment. Indirectly related to coding. Credit cards aren't common in my country and debit cards often are not visa or mastercard compatible. Fortunately prepaid credit cards are available at nearly every bank. With PayPal and
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I'll better split this into two posts. My solutions: First problem: Use ssh-agent to store the key. Second problem: I have several scripts that start tmux sessions with every necessary program running. There are tools like tmuxinator to mak
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I wonder how romantic relationships fit in. I don't have that many friends, but I have someone to talk to every day and I can be around my family. But not having been in a relationship for many years, or rather, not ever having been in one
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Ask HN: Is it possible to compare JavaScript frameworks to e.g. Django or RoR?
7 points by ElongatedTowel 13y ago|1 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Just an idea I haven't seen implemented yet: Tabs have the advantage of beeing of variable width while spaces don't. But two or more consecutive spaces are rarely used for more than just aligning code. In theory the editor could render doub
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
With the development beeing rather slow as it is, wouldn't Vim benefit more from improving the whole community aspect as well as connectivity? I still use Vim, but it is a bit annoying to see well done solutions I've been using for years fa
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Took it just for fun as I'm not even American. Scoring a 93% match with The Inland North. They call it "Standard English straight out of the dictionary". I guess that's good as a non-native speaker... Should probably polish my marry and mer
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
If you publish anything that might concern anyone outside of your family you are already required to add an imprint. A complete address is required information. A blog, a portfolio, bookmarks, dotfiles or even a simple memorial (if it's for
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Ask HN: What podcasts actually teach me something?
1 points by ElongatedTowel 13y ago|0 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Classes: camelCase CONSTANTS: UPPERCASE variables_and_methods: lowercase_underscore I think that's fine with PEP8. I'm not 100% on how to name things that can be abbreviated. I dislike using img, pwd, tmp or similar in my code, but js or id
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by ElongatedTowel 14y ago
Quite. But how much effort they put in their website and documentation is somehow important to me. Then again, Ruby projects always look glamorous while Haskell projects (just an example for an exotic language) look like some HTML document
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by ElongatedTowel 14y ago
Am I the only one who dismissed AngularJS by the fact that they use a nearly unmodified bootstrap design?
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Ask HN: How do I choose the right domain registrar?
5 points by ElongatedTowel 14y ago|4 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 14y ago
Regarding the last statistic mentioned I found myself in a bit of a pickle myself. Maybe the question "Would you keep trying to have sex if your date says no?" is a rather complicated one. It seems to me that the default answer is no. So if
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Ask HN: How do you manage JavaScript dependencies when using Python, Ruby, e.g.?
2 points by ElongatedTowel 14y ago|0 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 14y ago
I didn't go to college either, I just had the chance to and didn't use it. With a degree everything would have been easier. I'll write you soon.
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Ask HN: Freelancing, where, how and should I?
20 points by ElongatedTowel 14y ago|11 comments
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by ElongatedTowel 14y ago
Indeed I have, but subclinical which is why I never got any medication.

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