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by albertsun 18y ago
Since I'm not a prescriptivist, I'll point out that there's a subtle difference of meaning between "speak good English" and "speak English well", and the meaning here is better reflected by the second phrase. Consider the similar phrase, "D
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by albertsun 18y ago
The problem is that at the early stages, the "business" guy will likely have nothing, or at least far less than the hackers, to do.
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by albertsun 18y ago
Best practices seems to be moving towards rewriting that url into http://news.ycombinator.com/item/461131
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by albertsun 18y ago
Try using something like http://userstyles.org/ They have a Firefox extension, Stylish, which lets you apply custom user styles to sites, to override the native CSS if it's not to your liking. Just like Greasemonkey for Firefox. I found i
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by albertsun 18y ago
An API or some way to feed it other statistics and visitor information. For example, you could hook it up to sliding door sensors or something like that and track flow of people entering and exiting a store.
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by albertsun 18y ago
For many cases of hard to find things, Google should have the advanced search option of excluding certain words more prominently highlighted.
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by albertsun 18y ago
"Do people speak English well?" you mean. I normally wouldn't point it out, but given the context...
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by albertsun 18y ago
I hope they have some great linguists and NLP people around too, because academically it's a great place to study how people use language naturally. And not-academically, figuring out how to parse meaning from Twitter could be huge for cont
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by albertsun 18y ago
Homework is play two games of Starcraft a week and submit replays. I wonder how much extra credit I can get...
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by albertsun 18y ago
Duh, Web 3.0 is "internet appliances". You can send your dirty dishes and laundry off to the internet to get washed.
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by albertsun 18y ago
Only the presentation layer is written in PHP. The rest is written in something else.
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by albertsun 18y ago
That element is for navigation so it's not awful to have it all set off. I don't see it as a design issue so much as GitHub just missing the common sense feature of having a link to all your repositories.
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by albertsun 18y ago
It looks like for exactly that year they split, and then returned to their previous level once the year ended. Why did they do that?
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What happened to GE's stock price in 1988?(finance.google.com)
3 points by albertsun 18y ago|2 comments
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by albertsun 18y ago
A good kick in the ass.
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by albertsun 18y ago
Anyone further interested would be well advised to check out the book Compassion Fatigue by Susan Moeller http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=tGmwvJ6STHkC&...