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by alekratz 5y ago
It helps that IRC is extremely simple. Most servers you can connect to and chat using telnet if you're so inclined.
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by alekratz 6y ago
So I'm seeing that this is from the 8th century, but they make reference to corn and pumpkins, which were imports from North America. What's up with that?
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by alekratz 6y ago
People can think about more than one thing at a time, you know
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by alekratz 7y ago
Someone told me back in high school that "C is just shorthand for assembly", which I think about a lot. Does anyone else feel that way?
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by alekratz 7y ago
> Electric cars become the norm. All cars are fully autonomous on highways. I don't believe this (not to pick on you specifically). A lot of people forget about the rest of the USA, in towns with a population of <20k people. I ha
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by alekratz 7y ago
Maybe if you can fit your life in a backpack. That's a serious limiter.
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by alekratz 7y ago
I don't understand why you were downvoted for just asking a question.
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by alekratz 7y ago
Brand identity, I suspect. They're the only folks in the world who are allowed to (legally) prepend "Google" to a service or product, which is essentially free marketing.
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by alekratz 8y ago
I thought this too. What about dreamweaver?
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by alekratz 8y ago
This is fascinating. Are there any other crazy "wtf, how has this site not died yet" stories from the inside?
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by alekratz 8y ago
The debug code (up down up down left left right right B+A start) looks really similar to the Konami code (up up down down left right left right B A start). It's like the debugging equivalent to "don't forget to drink your ova
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by alekratz 8y ago
This is worthy of being put in fortune(6).
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by alekratz 8y ago
It's a very real concern. We have a thing called a "bus plan" for all of our tech employees (6 of us - small non-tech company). It basically attempts to cover everything that we would need to know if one of us gets hit by a b
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by alekratz 9y ago
It annoys me that you're getting downvoted with no replies. I completely agree with you. The only way to stop your data from being spread across the web is to never put it there in the first place . I feel like federated systems (Mast
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by alekratz 9y ago
I'm... still confused as to what this is. It sends emails, based on events? The FAQ link at the bottom leads to nowhere, there's no explicit "Pingpoint is an API that does XYZ", and nothing beyond the front-page multipag
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by alekratz 9y ago
Wow, so tapping the wi-fi icon only temporarily disables it, rather than doing what (I'd argue) most people expect, which is disabling it until enabled by the user. Oof.
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by alekratz 9y ago
I'll second LibreOffice. It's much more polished than OpenOffice, and it's quite functional and mature. It has definitely gotten the TLC that OpenOffice so desperately needed about 10 years ago. I'm not sure if it has th
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by alekratz 9y ago
It feels like they should have some kind of place where they lay out all of their powers, no? Mentioning it in a few threads or comments scattered across the site isn't exactly a useful way to disseminate this sort of information.
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by alekratz 9y ago
I think this is a silly comparison. The HN curation isn't done to further some sort of agenda (at least, not at its surface or in some obvious fashion). It's to make sure we have higher quality content, not to sway the users'
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by alekratz 9y ago
Where is this documented? Not trying to be snippy - I have no idea what powers the moderators have in this realm. Maybe HN could benefit from some lobste.rs-esque moderation transparency.
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by alekratz 9y ago
I've noticed that a lot of submissions have had their titles changed recently (past month or two). I wasn't aware that users were allowed to change their own titles - I was chalking this up to moderators "curating" artic
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by alekratz 9y ago
Just to note: the author is not some random blogger; Herb Sutter is the C++ guy at Microsoft and on the ISO C++ standards committee. What he says definitely holds some weight.
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by alekratz 9y ago
> So how about a JavaScript OS/Machine/Hardware anybody? Please, no.
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by alekratz 9y ago
> Just disable this feature and move on! This implies that you're aware of the feature in the first place. One of the major points is that they don't make any sort of notice that telemetry was added in, turned on by default. Th
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by alekratz 9y ago
Please tag your spoilers!
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by alekratz 9y ago
VMware 6.5 finally has an HTML5 interface! Woohoo! Too bad it's still a "work in progress" and not actually that useful for the more fine-grained/advanced things (like deploying a new VM or template directly from an OVA
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by alekratz 9y ago
Yup, I'm seeing this with Google sites (sort of) right now. Even though they're rolling out a new version, it's pretty much impossible to get a digest of all pages on the old sites with revisions. There is an API to access
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by alekratz 9y ago
Awesome. Thanks so much.
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by alekratz 9y ago
I like how this book reads. A quick google search yields no copies for sale; does anyone know where I might purchase a copy?
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by alekratz 9y ago
Oh wow, this worked for me too. Scroll up a page, then scroll down. You can keep reading.

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