Pistos2

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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   I'm aware of their existence, but the "hands" in my brain never "reach" for those tools. I find that when you have dozens of shells open in or around the directories you're working in, you don't change directories as much. Like the differ
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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   I tried autojump (and/or something like it) for a short while, but essentially never found that I never remembered to use it/them. cd, cd -, tab completion, symlinks and screen/tmux are enough for me.
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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   Also useful: BEGIN;^M<potentially dangerous query>;^M<look at results>[COMMIT|ROLLBACK];^M
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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   Nice: also prompts when using the -rf options.
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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   I've learned that nobody and nothing should use /tmp, on account of it being 777. The idea is that Mallory can set up a symlink from an anticipated filename ("things" in your example) to an important file or dir. So writing to /tmp/things
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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   I gave duck duck go a chance for a while. While it was acceptable for most searches, on some searches, it just couldn't compare to Google. For example, try these queries on both: usb /dev/sda missing javascript determine font size
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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   Please elaborate on (support) your assertion that jazz songwriting and soloing is lazy.
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   by Pistos2 17y ago

   I think part of this is culture. I grew up in North America, and when I visited the Philippines later in life, and went to watch shows in concert or in clubs, I was shocked at first because the audience would, without fail, applaud or chee
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   Opera downloads double due to European browser choice screen(my.opera.com)

   2 points by Pistos2 17y ago|1 comments
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    Thank you for writing this, and thanks for open sourcing it.
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    Funny, I didn't even notice that link until several F5s later. Nevertheless, yours is a good suggestion.
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    [I'm not the OP.] I use Freckle for time tracking. http://letsfreckle.com/
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    Note to others: OfficeTime appears to be primarily an OSX app. They have a downloadable Windows beta, but no immediately-downloadable Linux beta. http://www.officetime.net/download.html
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    Devices have already been made and sold that accomplish this -- presumably because the idea is so obvious. http://www.google.com/search?q=electronic+sheet+music+reader My keyboardist/drummer friend has one such device.
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    But comment threads don't have any obvious RSS feeds. And I'm not looking for notification or a feed for articles, I already use a service for that. The Feedity+FeedMyInbox solution would only be practical if someone made a Greasemonkey s
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    Ask HN: HN Email Subscription?

    9 points by Pistos2 17y ago|3 comments
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    The suggestion to print [a lot] doesn't seem well-justified. Compared to reading on a portable device, consider all the paper usage (waste?) and ink cartridge expense. For folks like me with tight budgets, there's no way I would feel comf
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    This seems like too much work, to me. I'll stick with the "easy for you to remember, but difficult for others to guess" rule for making my passwords. I've never used password generators because I want to be able to log in away from home o
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    I sort of get what you mean, but your words taken literally are an amusing contradiction.
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    How to stop a story from appearing on Reddit(corte.si)

    94 points by Pistos2 17y ago|30 comments
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    A similar little project I undertook recently: http://purepistos.net/thankful-eyes Still needs polish, but I use it often instead of browser zooming or Readability. Feedback or patches welcome.
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    Congratulations. :)
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    If for some reason you need a theme song: http://blog.purepistos.net/index.php/2009/03/18/debussy-reve... :)
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    I upvoted this because I would love to see more linguistics-related posts come through HN.
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation_(linguistics)
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    "there's a lot more to vowels than relative pitch." I agree with everything else you said, but your own words seem to bring us to the conclusion that pitch has nothing at all to do with distinguishing vowels (in languages in which pitch alo
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    > Lenders have begun mining Facebook and similar graphs, and turning down credit for people whose graph ("friends") includes people who are deemed risky. Source(s)?
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    A list of the various HN lists (like /newest): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024293
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    Why not?
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    by Pistos2 17y ago

    Using another gmail account, I tried to discover what is being exposed via Buzz about my primary gmail account. Other than have one follow the other, I couldn't see anything that wasn't already exposed through my Google Profile. I don't u