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Paperflyer
18y ago
I recently got a letter that was written in a really artful, beautiful handwriting. It was pure joy, reading this work of art. It would have been beautiful even if the words didn't make any sense. I wish I could write even remotely as beaut
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Paperflyer
18y ago
This really is fun: I installed SPORE on my Mac and there is no copy protection whatsoever. I don't even have to keep the disk in the drive to play it.
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Paperflyer
18y ago
It's strange: Although SPORE clearly has many flaws (somtimes strange control setup, lacking depth), I feel that it is really far more enjoyable than it should be. The sheer scale of things and the continuous development of your creature, y
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Paperflyer
18y ago
Congratulations, Jeff! (BTW Is Stallman really THAT... inhuman?)
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Paperflyer
18y ago
I'm sorry but those few numbers really do not convey any deeper meaning. First of all, there is not enough data to prove that the shown variations are greater than the standard variation of browser usage. Then, Chrome usage has not settled
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Paperflyer
18y ago
If you work much, you want a high display resolution. However, the laptop still has to be small, so there will be a compromise. Personally, I would go for something like 1280*768 on 13", which is both small and possible to work with. The ot
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18y ago
Seriously, I think this is a bright idea: After all, I could use a less daunting word processor than MS Word that is still fully *.doc-compatible. The problem is rather: If they sell it at a 30$-price point, how are they going to compete ag
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Paperflyer
18y ago
I used Emacs for about three months and I could see the reason people deemed it great. Still, it somehow didn't work for me. Felt too clunky and ugly somehow. Also, I tried Vim for even a longer time, but couldn't get to love it. Also, neit
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18y ago
Here is an interesting thing: Search google.com/trends for Emacs and Vim: It suggests that in the last few years, both editors have lost users, but Emacs lost them faster than Vim. While Emacs started out with twice the popularity of Vim, V
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18y ago
I am a native German speaker. While trying to translate an article I wrote in English to German, I noticed that many things did translate very poorly unless I significantly differed in style. This is especially prominent in scientific paper