Surio

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by Surio 14y ago
@coldtea: I understand you very well. I also agree with you. But at this point in human history, this is just a lost debate. Better minds have fought this but lost! http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/186
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Speak.js-- 100% clientside JS with eSpeak: C++ -- emScripten -- JavaScript(syntensity.com)
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by Surio 14y ago
Ha! If only it were only that ;-). (I know you are being faceticious). No, really it was a genuinely thoughtful and respectful description of the person. I only hope that at my own level, and at some point in life, people I am associated
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by Surio 14y ago
Very nice answer. Qualified, thoughtful with no loose ends.
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by Surio 14y ago
I can confirm this too. Can only be intentional
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by Surio 14y ago
Very good point. I am curious about this point too. However, dragonfly is open source too. :-) So there's every chance someone will fork it and take it forward to keep it going on Opera (one hopes)
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by Surio 14y ago
Anyone has any guesses what would be the equivalent font to be used today if typesetting books like this? One guess would be Century Schoolbook which would be close to the original. Any others?
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by Surio 14y ago
Thanks :-)
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by Surio 14y ago
I know...! Tell me about it :-)
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by Surio 14y ago
What a gem! What a discovery this site has been for me...... To the OP: You have my eternal thanks! They bring back mixed memories... The unblemished joy of returning back to childhood/youth and the absolute white-knuckle terror at the inab
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by Surio 14y ago
>> In Germany everything is dubbed OT: I've seen a few of these dubbed shows across Europe and Asia. And you know what I found fascinating? Most of these dubbed shows from Europe are done really well. Of particular note is how much
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by Surio 14y ago
You make some interesting observations, michael. But there is a small voice in the back of my head repeating " Pareto suggested that even if the wealth was redistributed equally to everyone in society, in a very short time it would revert t
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by Surio 14y ago
You should really read some of the replies from the other HN thread I placed in my reply above. It does a good job of removing the halo effect around VCs and their "decision making criteria" >> The top-8 as a group make up 80% of a
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by Surio 14y ago
Your observations here are very similar to Venkatesh Rao's blog post on "Return of the Barbarian". He has a terrible way of redefining words to suit his own meanings for whatever narrative he is on at that moment, but I was reminded of that
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by Surio 14y ago
>>In the US, we seem to have this sense of superiority on this issue, but I think our tolerance of risk is paper-thin. It's superficial. Hmmm... Judging by the overall comments so far, it seems every culture seems to has an acute (a
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by Surio 14y ago
> I've seen this cultural phenomenon in the UK too Anecdata or not, thank you for standing up and being counted. I've seen it too :-)
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by Surio 14y ago
>> the extreme shame of failure and unwillingness to "lose face." Apologies in advance, for it pains me to generalise like this, but in my view, you have accurately summed up "asiatic culture" in that one line. :-/ (No, I'm not bei
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by Surio 14y ago
Thanks. It's what I also do. Wondering if there was a better way. Seems not. :-)
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by Surio 14y ago
Hmmm, I see. In this case, we simply move from userstyles.org to userscripts.org ;-) There is grease monkey, tamper monkey & violent monkey which essentially allows various customisable JS codes tailored to various different sites. Like
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by Surio 14y ago
What if one is not on twitter? Are there email invites available, a la lobste.rs ?
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by Surio 14y ago
Not a Chrome user (poor font rendering on my m/c). If you released it as a usertyle in userstyles.org, that would have been truly browser agnostic. The Stylish extension makes it possible to then use it on pretty much all browsers: I use Ge
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by Surio 14y ago
Another thing that's missing in this overall thread is context.... .... context of companies like SF, Yahoo, etc. Basically, SF (Yahoo, etc.) has been in existence before the days of dropping server costs, dropping bandwidth costs, dropping
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by Surio 14y ago
This is what stood out for me. I am surprised that while so many of the comments are intensely hateful of the ads, but for a very tech-savvy site, most people actually seem to have no ad-blockers installed on their browser(s), which takes
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by Surio 14y ago
I don't have a problem about "geeking out" with LaTeX `\' slashes, but frankly, what you mention about LyX is right. Thought you might appreciate this writeup by someone else who also agrees on your LyX viewpoint.... http://yihui.name/en/2
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by Surio 14y ago
This article seems like an excerpt/promo for the author's new book, which seems to be an interesting read, http://www.amazon.com/Smuggler-Nation-Illicit-Trade-America/... and has garnered a few favourable reviews so far. P.S: Is there a w
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by Surio 14y ago
Sigh... Tell me about it! This story and small variations on this story, I hear a lot from various sources! > We now use git for everything, because it seems like it is the thing to do, You nailed it. And IMO this current obsession wit
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by Surio 14y ago
Hi. Missed the first showcase here. Looks like a very interesting idea. To me this is in the same league as another site called tldr.io. Get informed and get inspired "quickly" On FF 18, the site loads up and all the screen goes blank to al
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by Surio 14y ago
It is a book excerpt from 2011 - the actual book is very well written and documents a lot of cognitive biases.
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by Surio 14y ago
Oh British English, how much I love you..... Let me count the ways! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Me_Count_the_Ways ] ;-) http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/luvvy http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Luvvies
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by Surio 14y ago
Going through some of the discussions and views and opinions on legacy code rewrites, I thought I should provide another relevant reading warstory: An oldie but a goldie: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html EDIT

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