Pistos2

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by Pistos2 17y ago
Can you provide example code written in another language that accomplishes the same (element mapping) which you find easier to read or looks better? I'm not sure Java, PHP, Perl, C# or Python could offer an improvement, besides catering to
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by Pistos2 17y ago
FWIW, I've been coding Ruby going on 7 years now (well over 100,000 lines of Ruby across all projects, I'd wager), and my memory estimates fewer than 5 instances of "undetectable typo". Generally, the typos I made and tried to run produced
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by Pistos2 17y ago
Exactly. Low level knowledge is nice to have in some situations, but is for the most part not required to accomplish a lot because high level knowledge and tools are often sufficient.
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Labour Contraction Timer (bash script)(boards.ie)
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To be clear, I thought it went without saying that marking agreement or disagreement would not count towards the worth-reading score, and that the two arrow pairs would not be accumulated into a single score. Two scores would have to be di
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It would be good if "cancelled" downvotes were deleted or hidden. I think there is a risk of downvote explanations cluttering things.
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I think a good system would be to have just two voting axes: 1) "worth reading" / "not worth reading" 2) agree / disagree Then add a system of whatever flags you think are necessary, like "spam". I treat the current voting arrows as if they
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by Pistos2 17y ago
My point of view, being mostly a lurker for 1.15 years: I'm a programmer, musician, comp sci graduate, neither a Windows user nor a Mac user, and generally an all around geek. I don't remember how I came across Hacker News, but it didn't t
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Polygraph replacement incoming?
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by Pistos2 17y ago
Opera has had ad blocking built in since at least 9.x, if not earlier. It does the job for me; I don't find it wanting. You can point and shoot to block anything that happens to get through the default filters, and the filtering takes wil
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by Pistos2 17y ago
I've had zero issues with Google Reader and GMail with all prior 9.x and 10.x releases. So maybe your experience is particular to this alpha release.
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In my case, it's never part of the publicly-served tree. public/ is a subdir within the repo.
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by Pistos2 17y ago
I deploy everything with git. With branches and tags, that also lets me deploy different states of a given project to different servers (development, staging, production). Rolling back or switching between tags is easy (migrations aside).
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by Pistos2 17y ago
"Runs in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari." Indeed, totally fails in Opera. Just a blank browser window. http://www.coderun.com/ide/
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by Pistos2 17y ago
I use WebbyNode as my main VPS provider, but over the years I've made enough friends on the Net as to be able to get shell accounts on several servers, as well. Add to that a machine at home which is used for less important stuff.
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by Pistos2 17y ago
Is your assessment about the subjectivity of good and evil objective? "There is no such thing as right or wrong." [ ] Right [ ] Wrong
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by Pistos2 17y ago
Chrome just doesn't do it for me [yet]. I'm sticking with Opera for the foreseeable future. For me, "great speed + few features" doesn't beat "adequate speed + great features".
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I guess the days are gone when top posting is considered bad.
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Also didn't load for me, Opera 10.10, Linux.
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by Pistos2 17y ago
Confirmed; the platform tutorial is unplayable in Opera 10.10, Linux. This has been an issue for years, where web devs develop for all other browsers, which have extremely sparing keyboard controls. So web devs think they can just hook on
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by Pistos2 17y ago
Indeed, Wikipedia and the CIA do not have data that corroborate that statement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Angola#Ethnic_g... https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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by Pistos2 17y ago
Before I switched to ack, I used glark. http://www.incava.org/projects/glark/
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A couple* facts to bear in mind: (1) The $99 fee is paid up-front, not when (if!) hired. (2) There is a limited-time price reduction (to $29) for 2009. (3) They advertise a 90-day, no-questions-asked money back guarantee. http://careers.
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by Pistos2 17y ago
> it tells me it's a Google maps link. Which the shortened version doesn't See http://twi.bz/ . "twi.bz shortens web addresses without completely obscuring where the link ends up. By keeping part of the domain name in the twi.bz link
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by Pistos2 17y ago
FriendFeed FTW. You can attach photos [separately], and each FriendFeed post can have a comment thread.
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I think this is one strategy. Start with a high price for something, then iterate lower to find the sweet spot -- particularly if your product is new or beta, and you deliberately want to limit your initial user base.
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Works fine for me in Opera (10.10), whether clicking or typing.
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I was against shorteners for a long while, but you can't argue against the fact that it lets you fit more in your message when you have a character limit to deal with, such as with Twitter, identica, FriendFeed, etc. I try to restrict my u
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by Pistos2 17y ago
I'm somewhat bewildered why you require users to provide their real names. I also notice "thou shalt not block our ads" in your TOS. It's understandable from your perspective, but surely a negative from the user's perspective. Note that
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[Some] religion[s] and science are not at odds. I'm not atheist, yet I have no problems with the facts and findings of science. I believe in evolution (and that is not incompatible with my faith, even on an official level). Religion versu

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