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1. 4141.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   > It's so easy to get a decent quality olive oil once you know what to look for and it doesn't at all have to be from Italy. California Olive Ranch makes good stuff that is highly price competitive with the imported Italian stu
2. 4142.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   What do I see when I get to this page? An olive skull and crossbones with EXTRA VIRGIN SUICIDE. Let me scroll down so I can see more! I hit the down arrow. Nothing happens. I try the Page Down key. Nothing happens. Ah, yes, I know, the keyb
3. 4143.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   Really? You call another HN commenter "some castrating, sky-god"? You tell them "in reality, you're the enemy of purity." You ask, "Feel castrated?" I don't care what your point is, this isn't th
4. 4144.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   Fair enough, I have strong feelings against Windows and a personal bias against it too, and I use it every day! I think what triggered my hot button there was the feeling that other tech people have looked down on me because I use Windows.
5. 4145.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   > I see you're using Windows, so would you mind also listing your tech experience? WTF? Please explain your comment. If I take it literally it sounds like sheer unadulterated bigotry. I am hoping that I completely misunderstood you.
6. 4146.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   Thank you for sharing that. It's now my favorite legal quote. Never argue with Hacker Judge. http://www.hvjmphotography.com/p954955302
7. 4147.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   > Hertzfeld Atkinson
8. 4148.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   I particularly recommend Bunnie's Made in China series of posts. Fascinating and a real eye-opener: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=183
9. 4149.▲
   by Stratoscope 13y ago

   No, this is about downloads only. It doesn't affect cloning and accessing repositories with version control software, which continues to be supported as before.
10. 4150.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    I like to think the answer would have been "both": Lisp for power and elegance, and Fortran for speed.
11. 4151.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    wreegab was not objecting to the "royal", but to it being a pardon instead of an apology.
12. 4152.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    If the average HN reader knows what Tinder is, that could mean that 51% know and 49% don't know. Never ignore the 49%. :-) Definitely agree about the "YOU THINK THAT'S A BAD IDEA" language. Besides being negative, it put
13. 4153.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Happens to the best of us! And I see you've fixed it already - fast work, thanks! :-)
14. 4154.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    I'm familiar with those guidelines, and I did send an email to info@ycombinator.com. Sorry I forgot to mention that in the post. The purpose of this post was not to notify the HN team about the problem, but to give HN readers a quick a
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    Fix Hacker News word breaks

    10 points by Stratoscope 13y ago|5 comments
16. 4156.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Use the Source, Luke. view-source: http://www.mundoviejuno.com/pong.htm http://www.mundoviejuno.com/pong.js You're playing Pong on your own machine, implemented in jQuery UI. The 286 is just serving the
17. 4157.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Well, the server may be an 80286, but as its faq.txt says, that's not the machine you're talking to once the page is loaded. It's just a JavaScript console simulation: http://www.mundoviejuno.com/bios286.png
18. 4158.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Their stylesheet https://play.google.com/static/client/css/2587577817-lowlife... has these styles in it: .multicol-column { -ms-word-break: break-all; word-break: break-all; word-break: break-
19. 4159.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    If you're feeling generous, go ahead and post the question anyway, along with the answer you found. That's very much encouraged, and very helpful to people searching for answers later.
20. 4160.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Speaking as a harmonica player, this is a bit like the difference between listening to Toots Thielemans and Stevie Wonder. When I listen to Toots, I'm thinking, "This is amazing, and wonderful! Aw man, I could never do anything
21. 4161.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    There was a problem on the JetBrains site yesterday where it would erroneously not allow some license keys for upgrades. I also bought my IDEA license in the end-of-the-world sale last year, and the site wouldn't accept my key for an u
22. 4162.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    The one I don't understand is repeated commas. My older sister used to do it all the time. She would write something like: Well,,,, the way I see it,,, is this,,,,,, I have no idea why. I don't think she does it any more th
23. 4163.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Indeed, when I was firing those rubber bands, I didn't think I'd coined some truly novel piece of terminology. It seemed like a fairly obvious word, especially given the use of "trigger" in the SQL world. Ah, it starts t
24. 4164.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    I wasn't working with Alan when he wrote the original Tripod prototype. He hired me and Gary Kratkin, Mark Merker, and Frank Raab to rewrite the whole thing in a more maintainable and extensible way. Alan was a good coder before he dec
25. 4165.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Cool! That is very interesting, thank you for that research. I guess I can't really claim to be the true originator of that term then. But it still makes a good story...
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    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Wow, thank you, it's great to hear your story. Actually, the apology at the end of my post wasn't about Visual Basic as a whole, but the VBX interface specifically. People did use it to build a lot of nifty controls and extensions
27. 4167.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Aw man. I only got 87/100. And I thought I was a decent kemer!
28. 4168.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    > Long before operating systems got exciting names based on giant cats and towns in California named after dogs, most of their names were pretty boring. Ah, yes. Mavericks, California. It's a great little offshore town, just off Pil
29. 4169.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    Idiomatic JavaScript code uses both PascalCase and camelCase. Constructors use PascalCase; variables and methods use camelCase. So, it's OK to call it JavaScript! :-)
30. 4170.▲
    by Stratoscope 13y ago

    I've been using Georgia for years and really like it. Much better than Times New Roman, both for coding and for general reading. Georgia is a pretty hardcore proportional font, though. Even the numbers are proportional, where most prop