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by Splines 14y ago
It would be interesting to use a command line interface that acted like a text adventure game. > get file.txt YOU PICK UP THE FILE > inventory YOU ARE HOLDING: file.txt > gzip file.txt FILE.TXT HAS BEEN COMPRESSE
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by Splines 14y ago
I see "bicycle work" and "real-time work" as basically the same thing. In other words, you do "bicycle work" so that you can do "real-time work" successfully later. In programming terms, this would be like taking the time to learn your lan
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by Splines 14y ago
Chrome supports profiles through the UI now, check out the settings page (under the "Users" category). It makes switching between them (and knowing who you're using) easier by adding a user icon/switcher to the top-left of the window.
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by Splines 14y ago
Is that the workaround? After viewing google on https, close the tab and start a new one for searching? Or should I always avoid http://google.com while logged into a google property on untrusted networks?
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by Splines 14y ago
It also handles diacritics too, which is handy.
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by Splines 14y ago
I think the only viable way to do this would be for Apple to make Macs obsolete. Like boiling a frog, if they upscaled the ipad to a desktop-lite device over the next few years, and eventually replaced their fully featured cousins with the
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by Splines 14y ago
Gamers are (I think) attracted to Steam because of it's convenience and price. Many gamers will pass up games on alternative dd platforms because they can't get the game to register on steam. If Microsoft provides competitive pricing, fast
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by Splines 14y ago
Steam is already competing with very strong entrants (Amazon, Gamestop/Impulse, Gamersgate), and seems to be doing well. Microsoft hasn't exactly hit the ball out of the park with Xbox Games-on-Demand, I'm not sure how much they really hav
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by Splines 14y ago
I've done this too, scraping a doctor's site with flu shot information back when we had a flu scare a few years ago - my wife was worried about missing the notification for our daughter, so I whipped up something to ping me when more shots
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by Splines 14y ago
I read Flatland a long time ago as a student and found it enlightening when thinking about 4d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
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by Splines 14y ago
I'm not very savvy on what goes on with large scale networks and whatever market Nicira is in, but this blog post tells me extremely little beyond giving everybody high-fives. What problem is Nicira solving, exactly? (It's certainly possib
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The Magic Cauldron: Analyzing the evolving economics of open-source (ESR)(catb.org)
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by Splines 14y ago
Yes, I always keep it facing inward to protect it should I do something like walk into table corner. It's a bit of an annoyance, but thankfully is pretty temporary. I've gotten close to missing calls before, but haven't actually missed one
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by Splines 14y ago
Interesting - I have an iPhone 4S, and I've noticed that if it's in my pocket, the touchscreen is really unresponsive. I get a call, pull my phone out, and it takes several tries for the "swipe to answer" gesture to succeed (usually the iP
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by Splines 14y ago
Experienced well-rounded employees can mostly take care of themselves (and know when to say "no"). It's the new-hires and rough-around-the-edges people that require more hand holding and can benefit more greatly from a manager.
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by Splines 14y ago
Nice to see a sync solution that lets me sync arbitrary folders. I was thinking of building a layer on top of dropbox for myself, but this works great. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by Splines 14y ago
It's not a priority compared to WYSIWYG results between composing/reading mails. The flip side of the coin is fixing HTML rendering in Word such that we can pass Acid tests, but considering the sort of mail people send, what sort of tasks W
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by Splines 14y ago
Making Outlook use Word as the default rendering engine was a pretty huge effort back in Office 2007. There was some underlying work that happened in this time frame that also led to Word Services in Office 2010. The reason why Office made
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by Splines 14y ago
I use Outlook every day too, but don't really bother with the task tools that are built into it (even if it might (might!) integrate better with my email). It's too general-purpose. It's like giving me a full toolbox, and the only limit is
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by Splines 14y ago
Oddly enough, there's another story on the front page that address this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208454
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by Splines 14y ago
It also shows problems with SMS in general: - How can a 3rd party send a message that appears to be from the user that ran the program? - Why can't someone have the same control over SMS as they can over email? (Filter based on trust, spam
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by Splines 14y ago
Maybe, but a well run team should have a "this is what you need to do if I get hit by a bus" document that is actually the "this is what you need to do when I get a better job" document.
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by Splines 14y ago
I wonder if there's a way to have your cake and eat it too. Publish your app as a dynamically linked binary to an app publisher, the publisher takes your dll and mashes it with its dependencies into a single dll that they deliver to the cus
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by Splines 14y ago
It's not so simple. I have several "interactive book" applications on my iPhone. These have book-like elements (there is a story that can be read), but there are many other application-like elements to it also (you can touch things to hea
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by Splines 14y ago
Alternatively, it makes outages that much more painful. Also, for stuff like "external mails go to the other folder", usability issues wouldn't go unnoticed.
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by Splines 14y ago
What's even more heartbreaking is that he's quite active on HN even though he's banned. If you read his comments there's something definitely wrong with him (I hesitate using that phrase, but I don't know how else to say it). He's a talent
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by Splines 14y ago
Facebook needs to dogfood their own stuff. I remember reading about how they use IRC internally. Very cool, but it makes you wonder why they don't use facebook messages for everything.
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by Splines 14y ago
So the obvious question is: How does one change this from the inside? Does the plan of attack differ if you were a line worker versus a VP?
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by Splines 14y ago
> I have several friends within facebook whom I like and respect, and they produce a lot of great technology. I find this idea interesting. Can an entity like a corporation have a life beyond that which is given to it by its employee
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by Splines 14y ago
It depends; more than once I remember reading something on here from some time ago and I do a site:news.ycombinator.com search. It's sort of interesting to see discussions about technology that has long since moved on.

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