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by Torwald 8y ago
"the UI paradigm of Emacs" is also called a roguelike interface by ESR, vi's too: "In Chapter 11 we described the effect of the absence of standard arrow keys on early roguelike programs; vi was one of these. " htt
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by Torwald 8y ago
"German" und "English" usw. immer groß schreiben. FYI.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Now, this comment is proof that Germans can have a sense of humour.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant re the grizzly. Don't run and then? What ought one to do?
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by Torwald 9y ago
It's a trick to increase the recruiting pool.
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by Torwald 9y ago
> Can you elaborate on how Hobbes tried to imitate Euclid's "Elements?" Please!
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by Torwald 9y ago
What I am trying to do is to give an explanation to the question posed by the grandparent. My explanation is relying heavily on a sociological observation. I don't see how that is immature. Let me put it another way. People who tend to
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by Torwald 9y ago
I wouldn't know either. The reason your cite, status in tech, however, could be a real thing. FB was innovative in some areas like infrastructure and PHP. If your career goal is to set yourself up as a PHP guru, some FB credentials cou
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by Torwald 9y ago
Can you elaborate on how Hobbes tried to imitate Euclid's "Elements?"
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by Torwald 9y ago
I had an equivalent multimedia authoring system on the Amiga, called Hyperbook. http://obligement.free.fr/articles/hyperbook_beta.php It was very much influenced by HyperCard, obviously. They didn't try to hide it
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by Torwald 9y ago
Sure, if people in Hollywood would be developers instead of actors, the world would be a better place, LA certainly so. All kidding aside, I think the solution to this sort of problem, and specially LA, would be to have an open market for p
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by Torwald 9y ago
I still remember Kottke before he blogged. His site was hie web design portfolio and called 0sil8 or some such. It was pretty cool, instead of the usual gallery it was a sort of a demo. One version featured horizontal scrolling. First time
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by Torwald 9y ago
The free email account at Yahoo was a nice one too. The web client was really nicely done.
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by Torwald 9y ago
I don't talk about US-partisanship in the media, but of reality. I am not a DC insider, all I know is that at this very moment I am living in peace.
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by Torwald 9y ago
To answer your question. Me, as a European, I like a POTUS who doesn't drag us into a war with Russia, thank you.
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by Torwald 9y ago
The people who downvoted you are idiots.
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Tell HN: The stuff I learned to program on
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by Torwald 9y ago
I've found your comment very interesting: "As SSC put it, you have to think about whether people with different moral aims than you are just not clever enough to see you're right, or know they're wrong but hope to profit
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by Torwald 9y ago
I see this a lot with this kind of projects: the "techie" stuff is there, like for example the link to the github or so, but the five sentence explanation to the end user of what the heck is actually going on here is missing. I se
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by Torwald 9y ago
Instead of posting this here, you could have this written above the poster. This is called usability and it's a real thing!
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by Torwald 9y ago
What about making your current employer one of your clients? This could even be seen as "taking one for the team" in the course of some restructuring process in that company? Just a thought.
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by Torwald 9y ago
If you gamify you also have to maintain the game. Players will game the system, the mere fact that the game exists itself will change the overall dynamics, this and that everything is in constant, natural change, all makes it necessary to m
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by Torwald 9y ago
Those employers who employ illegals do not require such a SSN. It's the whole point of employing illegals, to not have the regular overhead.
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by Torwald 9y ago
> ambulances would be adjusted to walking persons What about death? I mean, wouldn't this take too long to reach people and to bring them into hospital if needed? (We already have cases were people die on the way to the hospital as
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by Torwald 9y ago
I strongly disagree with everything you just said. (Except the overall notion that all people should get to their rights.)
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by Torwald 9y ago
If that was unexpected to you, I'll take it you don't know France very well. People send stuff back to Africa all the time. I can't say anything about the bike (obviously), but I can tell you what an African friend of mine do
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by Torwald 9y ago
Realize that surfing the net is mildly hypnotising. http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2016/12/21/fast-fvp.... http://markforster.squarespace.com/tm-systems/
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by Torwald 9y ago
Which could be fine, if we have a society without theft or the house is in a gated community etc. I think that was the point of the grandparent: when do we really need it?
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by Torwald 9y ago
How are "three generations of iphones" "cannibalizing each other and lack any real differences" ? Care to elaborate?
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by Torwald 9y ago
There is nothing wrong with a political argument. (It would be a very narrow minded view on business building and IT, if you'd think of them as apolitical.)

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