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by Pistos2 16y ago
SQL.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I've worked with someone who looked at the keyboard when he typed, and overall wasn't a very fast typist (I'd estimate < 50 WPM). He made frequent use of tab completion and mouse-based copy-pasting. [Although he didn't use them] there
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I've been using Opera since version 4, on Windows. I now use 10.63 under Linux. Years ago, Firefox enticed a little, and nowadays Chrome, but I haven't see anything convincing enough to make me switch away from Opera. It's a solid, polis
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by Pistos2 16y ago
According to them, these new extensions will also have [more?] control over tabs and windows, which plain JS (like their existing Widgets) cannot do. http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getting-started-with-oper...
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Personally, I've never found the built in ad blocking lacking. Where it missed anything (which is rare), blocking a specific ad is two clicks or so away. In what ways would you like things improved?
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by Pistos2 16y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=57395520000000%20miles%20per%... ((57 395 520 000 000 (miles per year)) * (21 years)) / (35 000 miles per hour) = 3 928 593.15 years
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I'd like to add that I strongly recommend that kids read only with sufficient lighting. I'm no opthalmologist, but I do believe the primary (sole?) reason my eyeglass prescription is as strong as it is is because, as a youth, I read with p
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Perhaps: autoscroll the pages (of the "new" pages), a-la duckduckgo.com ?
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I would want things to happen more or less only when I take some action with my hands (gaze AND click/keypress). Things opening, closing, raising, lowering, or otherwise flying around purely on the basis of my gaze would pr
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Thank you. I asked for this in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1194757
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Just tried this in Opera. Having never visited the site before, I opened it in a "New Private Tab". Set Opera to reject all [normal] cookies from that domain. Saw an ID number on the page; recorded it. Opened another private tab. Saw a
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Or perhaps: kill -s HUP <pid>
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Diaspora Inc. Contributor Agreement(spreadsheets.google.com)
1 points by Pistos2 16y ago|0 comments
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Here are a few reasons why traditional musical notation is far superior to timed falling bars (such as this Synthesia thing, or Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc). These are elements which provide important and useful information and detail to t
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Can anyone provide examples or references that discuss the importance (or unimportance) of site speed for sites that aren't search engines?
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by Pistos2 16y ago
More involved HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1696396
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I've found multiple instances of text in more or less official places containing general English problems (spelling, grammar). I'm assuming for the time being it isn't due to outright lack of fluency in English, and so that leads me to thi
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by Pistos2 16y ago
This appears to be heavily geared towards guitar music. I'd like to be able to write out piano music (or perhaps just any music in general).
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Music notation in HTML5/SVG(vexflow.com)
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by Pistos2 16y ago
This doesn't work at all for me in Opera. Has anyone else had success in Opera? edit: Apparently Opera is not among the browsers listed here: http://www.google.com/instant/
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Perhaps: "click-averse audience"?
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I love git, and I love github, but I honestly have not found any of the "mangle your repos through our website" features of github compelling. Perhaps it's because I don't have projects with hundreds of watchers, a couple dozen forks, and
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I've tried (and continue to try) several programming fonts, but always stick with Terminus. In my opinion, it is the most readable font at 8px, and I like being able to fit as much as possible in a screenful without losing readability. Mo
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Chopin is my absolutely favourite composer. I hope I am not out of place in wishing for more such submissions (links) from HN (music-related ones, that is).
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In my opinion, excellence in the arts* is among the highest goals toward which humanity can strive. In music, a composer (and performer) can deliver to the listener great beauty and wonder. Through music, a window into the very fabric of
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by Pistos2 16y ago
How about Chopin's Mazurkas? For me, many of them have tear-inducingly beautiful melodies.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I use RVM for all Ruby installations now. I can't think of a distro or UNIX flavour whose Ruby packages are so good that I would use them instead of RVM. That includes Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, BSD, OSX. For those developing Ruby li
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by Pistos2 16y ago
It's easier to adjust than to create from scratch. Find an open source project you admire or use a lot, and try to tackle some minor task. Or, search a source code site (e.g. github) for a project with a relatively small codebase, and jus
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I recommend Ramaze. As simple as possible, and no simpler. Clean, clear, concise, straightforward. Modular and flexible. Pair with your choice of database and ORM (if any).
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by Pistos2 16y ago
A while back I increased my MUA's mail download interval to one hour. The decrease in focus disturbance was immediately tangible, and very refreshing. Coworkers would ask "don't people complain that you don't respond quickly?" to which I

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