Mahn

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811.
by Mahn 14y ago
> if Facebook owned Vine, they would have the holy trinity of apps. Just for the record, Vine belongs to Twitter, so don't count on that happening any time soon :)
812.
by Mahn 14y ago
> "wouldn't be great if every kid with a spray can could paint all over the city". The thing is that, unlike in other places, people can upvote/downvote stuff on SO/SE sites, and just like crappy questions and answers are quickly buried
813.
by Mahn 14y ago
Perhaps it's a bit paranoid to say this, but note that we are dangerously close to April 1st.
814.
by Mahn 14y ago
This is not social media in action, this is HN in action :-) browsing comments here is more tolerable for authors and makers than practically anywhere else on the internet (basically because the discussion is better ), hence why getting fe
815.
by Mahn 14y ago
> I still think to some degree SE shoots themselves in the foot Do they? The reality is that SO and SE sites are optimized as a business , not so much as a community : short, common and quickly answerable questions generate much bigge
816.
by Mahn 14y ago
A bit offtopic, but: are all chromium & V8 team members Googlers? just wondering, chromium and V8 are both open source, but I've never head of any major contributors other than Google itself.
817.
by Mahn 14y ago
> It turns out to be easier and faster to iterate from an existing but wrong solution, than to deduce a correct solution from scratch. Indeed, many things in real life follow this pattern.
818.
by Mahn 14y ago
Out of curiosity: is there anything you miss from npp? Any critical feature that isn't there in Sublime Text?
819.
by Mahn 14y ago
I don't know, folks here tend to think you have no idea what you are doing if you don't use vim or emacs.
820.
by Mahn 14y ago
I wouldn't really call it PR, it seems to me they just genuinely enjoy writing about this stuff.
821.
by Mahn 14y ago
I'm not ashamed to admit I spend most of my coding time with Notepad++ — I suppose I'm not a "real" programmer. I think I'll most likely switch to Sublime Text eventually though, if nothing else because of its cross OS compatibility; I just
822.
by Mahn 14y ago
We all have written code only to come back to it a few weeks later and think "oh god, what in the world was I thinking". If only code refactored itself over the time; small projects aren't an issue, but there's a point in every devs life wh
823.
by Mahn 14y ago
Side note to the advice being given here: getting a job, any kind of job, is usually the best way to get to know people, and this should be your ultimate goal: having people you can turn to for a talk or a walk makes wonders to remove the s
824.
by Mahn 14y ago
It's not that bad. It's short, a real word and memorable. I've never seen a product with an .io domain catch on and become mainstream though, but I guess that's not really relevant.
825.
by Mahn 14y ago
If he could afford it, it would probably be best to either drop the fees altogether for prices of <= $1, so free games can honor their price, or otherwise set the minimum price to $1, so that the store at least doesn't collect more mo
826.
by Mahn 14y ago
Edited, sorry for that :)
827.
by Mahn 14y ago
> Reposted to bypass censorship There's (usually) no censorship in HN, you are just getting downvoted, most likely because folks think your comment is impolite, uncalled for, and brings nothing to the conversation.
828.
by Mahn 14y ago
Talking to several lawyers is indeed important; personally I had once a crappy lawyer telling me my case was hopeless, when it couldn't have been farther from the truth; it's best to have several opinions to understand where does one stan
829.
by Mahn 14y ago
Fascinating, thanks for posting the links.
830.
by Mahn 14y ago
Have you ever seen someone post "first!" on HN?
831.
by Mahn 14y ago
This is what I thought aswell. Unless you cripple the UI, there's no way you are gonna be able to reliably determine whether a comment has been read programmatically. You could try to guess through a number of things, but it'll never be acc
832.
by Mahn 14y ago
Yeah, it's actually pretty well implemented because you can select text aswell, it doesn't get in the way. I didn't think something like this could work, but it's in fact not that bad. Edit: https://github.com/debiki/utterscroll
833.
by Mahn 14y ago
Someone should buy w3schools just to be able to remove it completely from the web. I bet we could set up a successful kickstarter around this.
834.
by Mahn 14y ago
I kinda dislike how the pace is predefined, I think as an user I would prefer it to let me click to go to the next step.
835.
by Mahn 14y ago
Useless weekend project idea: a tool to automatically fork random repos on github and replace all variable/function/class names with one of the above much superior terms.
836.
by Mahn 14y ago
> 10. Take me to a Chinese buffet. No need for the rest, this will do. Actually, in all seriousness there is at least one start up here in Germany which hiring process consist in going for a beer with the founders and members of the tea
837.
by Mahn 14y ago
Somehow I can't help but suspect Apple will, again, be the first to get the UI of the smartwatch right, and I say this as a long time Android user. Another question is whether the average consumer wants it. I guess at very least it'll take
838.
by Mahn 14y ago
It doesn't necessarily have to turn into a jungle, we could limit it to 10 or 15 subcategories max. for the whole site and see how it goes.
839.
by Mahn 14y ago
I'd also be lying if I didn't mention that I truly believe the sort of project we are building in Discourse does represent most future software. You know, it's great to believe in what you build and all, but being modest sometimes would b
840.
by Mahn 14y ago
Makes me wonder when will HN consider creating subcategories ala reddit. Surely the site gets enough traffic to take it to the next level.

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