aiurtourist

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by aiurtourist 14y ago
Agreed. Does anyone know the backstory?
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by aiurtourist 14y ago
As much as I love to see people iterate on the boring old command line, this will never catch on. 1) It's too difficult to remember all the tricks to make it useful, and the cost of memorizing tricks that I saw in the first screencast isn't
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by aiurtourist 14y ago
This is my secret to interviewing and speaking as well. On the inside I repeat, "Fuck this guy" or "I could beat the shit out of everyone in this audience" even though I don't truthfully want to cause harm to anybody. It helps surpress the
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by aiurtourist 14y ago
I think realizing that .xxx domains are now available was one of the more useful results of me reading this article.
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Whoops! Guess I'll read more carefully, then.
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Ask HN: What was that random image site posted a few weeks ago?
1 points by aiurtourist 15y ago|3 comments
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Science be damned! Onwards with subjectivity! • 24-bit audio is magical. When I recorded myself playing guitar in 24-bit and played it back through my amp, it sounded like I was still playing. 16-bit sounded like a CD. • With MP3s, 192 kbps
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Thanks!
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Regarding the headline image for that article -- where'd they find a MacBook with bright red keys? Is it even a MacBook?
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
After Panda and a few other search ranking improvements were implemented, the spam you're referring to has pretty much disappeared.
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
I tried using DuckDuckGo for a few days. Here's what I found, YYMV: • Google's results are much better. A handful of times I searched for something I would think, "Wait, that can't be all there is," and Google would give me back what I was
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
"The Mission: Recommended for awesome people." Guess I'm not awesome. I'll just continue to live in the south bay under a rock.
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
> Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will st
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Cats might be carrying mind-controlling protozoan(theatlantic.com)
6 points by aiurtourist 15y ago|1 comments
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
This is a great project that helps to bring a more "hip" feel to Django development. FWIW, if you're working with a lot of CSS and JavaScript resources, check out webassets ( https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets ) for building asset bundl
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
As long as it's in Google's interest to provide such an outstanding service to their users, yes, that particular billion-dollar Top Coder champion-filled company will do a better job of managing a mail server than you and I combined.
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Thanks :)
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
So why is there such a high degree of Gmail usage among those groups? Because we're lazy. you give away control over your personal data Yes, and if my data disappeared tomorrow, I'd be pretty pissed off. But since Gmail has a sort of cr
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Not a troll, real human, but I guess I was unconsciously trolling. Oh well.
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
I love Perl. I wrote it professionally for 10 years. I have great friends who still do. The community is full of smart, fantastic people. Five years ago, however, I learned Python for a job and never looked back. In terms of programming lan
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Promoting these practices does little good for companies that aren't GitHub, and believing in them might be woefully idealistic. Let's look at GitHub: * Most of GitHub's 50 or so employees are engineers[1], not sales or marketing or product
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
I'm usually wary of Holman's presentations and writing. GitHub is such a unique, special place — an engineering company with a product engineers use and are devoted to. This presentation is pretty good and has some good tenets. However, I h
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Any opinions on which startups I should look out for?
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Very smooth, great graphics. However, I'm still hoping to see an example of an HTML5 game that's more than a simple shooter. Construct 2 looks like a great framework. There's a little background in this interview: http://www.html5grind.com
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
I second this experience, and "Lovecraftian" is indeed an excellent way to describe it. It's not just that the process was difficult, it's that my confidence dwindled through every strange and baffling step. Since you mentioned paying "a fe
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Sorry, let me be more precise. After completing a course you correctly associated new knowledge with the potential for a cool project in an area which has been made very attractive ("hot") following Google's announcement of self-driving veh
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Congratulations -- you'll never need a resume ever again. :)
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Your cookies or location might be affecting the result order. I'm in the SF bay area and, with a cookieless Chrome incognito window, I see GoDaddy as result #1 and NameCheap as result #4 — after three sponsored results, one of which is al
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
Instapaper is fantastic. • The "Read Later" bookmarklet is handy and even works inside Google Reader. (You're using http://fulltextrssfeed.com/ for your feeds, right?) • The Instapaper iOS client is amazong on iPad. Reading is nice and, i
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by aiurtourist 15y ago
I'd like to switch to !GoDaddy, and Namecheap seems popular. Are there any useful pro/cons I should know about Namecheap before switching?

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