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by adwf 13y ago
I think an often overlooked issue is the type of social media button used on a site. All too frequently, you'll see every single media button at the end of a blog post or article, with no consideration as to whether it's approp
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by adwf 13y ago
I use disconnect too, after I found that Ghostery had some weird clashes with other plugins. CPU thrashing around at 100% for minutes kinda clashes :(
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by adwf 13y ago
Quite. I'm always shocked that people make jokes about this in American TV shows and movies. As if raping men on top of their prison sentence is somehow "justice" that they deserve. It's horrific.
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by adwf 13y ago
There are two major things for me: The first is the easy attachment to existing tmux sessions, ie. I just ssh to a server and it'll re-attach to my last tmux session automatically - F6 then detaches cleanly and logs out. The next is al
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by adwf 13y ago
Thanks, my first thought was some super-secret underground lair...
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by adwf 13y ago
I use Byobu on top of that for some extra useful features. http://byobu.co/about.html
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by adwf 13y ago
Gonna have to call you up on the cell phones I'm afraid. It has been pretty conclusively proven that there is no link between cell phone radiation and cancer [1]. Unless you call a study of 420,000 people over 20 years insignificant.
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by adwf 13y ago
I assume that historically it's because they were trying to keep function names short to help save memory, don't forget Lisp in one form or another has been around for a loooong time. A lot of the time there are more descriptive a
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by adwf 13y ago
I've always thought that CL needed a set of common libraries to be strongly recommended. The problem is that it has been tried before, but never really taken off. However, given the recent rise of quicklisp for managing libraries, it&
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, I didn't know whether it was worth it on the caching, I'd already turned on a 5 second cache-control just to eliminate this kind of quick back-and-forth mouseover on a list ;)
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by adwf 13y ago
Really awesome. I was working on something like this myself, but using Jquery ajax combined with history.pushState for partial page loads. This is much better! There are a couple things that I had on my TODO list that could be handy thoug
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by adwf 13y ago
Sure, it was Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug. Quite good, although just a basic short intro book on web usability. I'm generally hopeless at design, so it's given me quite a few ideas. Namely remove 80% of the wall of te
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, I have a long purchasing history of sci-fi novels. But then I buy a book about UX and another about value investing, suddenly my recommendations are all replaced by Warren Buffet and web design books... Sci-fi novels are an area wher
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by adwf 13y ago
Sounds like a good idea. Finding that distance heuristic will be a challenge though!
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by adwf 13y ago
Exactly. A human would usually make "acceptably incorrect" decisions, such as not indicating, or speeding. But these mistakes generally don't end in disaster. Only occasionally making a really bad mistake ending in an acci
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by adwf 13y ago
I agree absolutely. I believe that future AI's will be educated in much the same way we educate children. Perhaps less education will be needed - possibly we could start them off at a higher age bracket for example. But ultimately I
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes 87% is quite impressive, but that remaining 13% is all important. The errors sadly propagate (as above); more importantly, the errors tend to strike randomly also. eg. A human might not be expected to know too much medical terminology,
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes that's perfectly true, but the initial funding frequently requires the talent to go find the money. Take YC for example; Many people from Europe would love it if YC accepted applications from London or Berlin - and - let them stay
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by adwf 13y ago
Seems specious to me. SV is a centre for innovation because of two major things: Funding and Talent. So firstly, it's unlikely that any VC's are going to move out because their personal rents are too high, while there's stil
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by adwf 13y ago
I usually go with the footer height 50px, content min-height 100%, bottom-margin -50px. Generally works, but still has some edge cases that can throw it for a loop. Whereas what I instinctively want to do is something more like a condition
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by adwf 13y ago
Next week: The complete guide to sticky footers! It's unbelievable just how annoying CSS can be for seemingly simple things.
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, this feature would make me incredibly happy. With the current program I'm writing, I swear UPSERTS would cut a good third of the code out.
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by adwf 13y ago
I think because the large majority of the wealth is in the south-eastern Russian-speaking section. From the article, it sounds like that is where all the coal and iron mines are. Not to mention the most productive farmland. The Russian-sp
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by adwf 13y ago
One recommendation I'd make, is to reveal all problems at the very beginning. I logged in, saw that the first problem was nothing to do with distributed computing. Also realised it would take me longer to submit the code than it had t
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by adwf 13y ago
So they used language abbreviation as a kind of bloom filter? That's pretty cool!
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah that's fair enough, but 50% increase in revenue per impression is hardly bad. You can make the argument that it could be better, and I agree with that sentiment within the article. But one of the first things to bear in mind whe
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by adwf 13y ago
"Highly successful" and "All wrong"? There's an oxymoron if ever I've heard one.
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by adwf 13y ago
They'd fall afoul of some laws in the UK (probably EU too). In the UK, you can't have permanent "discount" prices without a certain period of time in between each so-called sale. This was mainly targeted at furniture s
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah I doubt there's an agenda, I was being cynical just because there was a potential point to make. It's almost impossible to find an article about countries overall happiness without discussing the Scandinavians at the top, so
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah I did, I was just trying to point out a potential difference between being a rich country and happy vs. a small, politically engaged country and happy.

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