Nilzor

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by Nilzor 13y ago
Can someone with more ZIP-algorithm knowledge than me explain why a difference in word length of 5 characters can result in a difference of compressed result length of 50 characters? I mean, a reference to a 1000-character word takes as muc
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by Nilzor 13y ago
This merely sounds like they're adhering to the buzzword of the year 2008 - SOA. I'm I wrong? (Not that there's anything wrong in that, just nothing new)
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by Nilzor 13y ago
I'm not familiar with Emacs+CEDET+magit, but if it has these features, then basically yes - its Intellisense is as good as Visual Studio's: -Method and property completion on framework and own methods -Parameter hints on all
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Food for thought in the second paragraph there...
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Just signed up with Bitstamp to try it out, but why don't they accept VISA deposits?
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Yes it will because you have separated layout from content
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by Nilzor 13y ago
tl;dr: we don't know shit about the human body.
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by Nilzor 13y ago
What does he mean with "When we’re alone, we’ve been conditioned by society to believe that we should stay alone."? I waiting for an explanation in the article but it never came
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Or was it?
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Exactly what am I looking at here? I think if you want attention to your HN-posts you should put a bit more effort into it than simply linking to a git repo.
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Is this example really relevant today? Who cares if you write while(dest++ = src++) or for (int i = 0; i < src.length; i++) { dest[i] = src[i] }; Was he just worried that the number of keywords and programming concepts were to many and m
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Because PNG-rendering REST services wouldn't make it to the front page of HN
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by Nilzor 13y ago
A combination, I suppose. First optimize the code so that the number of instructions are kept to a minimum and then use a minifier tool to shorten variable names and such. http://compressorrater.thruhere.net/
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by Nilzor 13y ago
Why?
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by Nilzor 14y ago
Wow. So simple. So effective. No login. No save button. Just works. I love it :)
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by Nilzor 14y ago
...what value has this information?
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by Nilzor 14y ago
I don't understand that sentence. What is a pivot?
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by Nilzor 14y ago
Is that what you took from this article?
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by Nilzor 14y ago
Not only OP. Chocolatey.net uses that analogy themselves on the front page. Which brings me to question why this is news, as the homepage (and the analogy) has been there for quite some while.
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by Nilzor 14y ago
Apps should write data files to %APPDATA%, not Program Files where the executables shall reside. The only excuse for installing to c:\chocolatey is lazyness
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by Nilzor 14y ago
Chocolatey is not old software
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by Nilzor 14y ago
But... Why? I know he tried to justify it in his post, but to me, having a save option FAR outweighs the "benefit" of having your notes in a browser.
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by Nilzor 14y ago
...so this whole thing is just a thinly veiled marketing scheme then?
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by Nilzor 14y ago
>On Modern there are guidelines, horizontal swipe and pagination is key. You're used to high information density, utilization of screen real estate to show as much as possible on one screen to avoid a user needing to navigate away? Forg
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by Nilzor 14y ago
"(...) but for now it’s a little underwhelming for those of us who use the outstanding Sublime Text 2 every day". Wait what? I've used Sublime Text 2 for a little while... but I have the impression that it's a fancy Notepad with a cumbersom