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931.
by almost 18y ago
Thanks! I've been meaning to write this exact thing for a while but never got round to it, now I don't have to :)
932.
by almost 18y ago
I think you may be right. I retract my previous comment (don't seem to be able to edit it at the moment)
933.
by almost 18y ago
It's comments from users like mechanical_fish that make Hacker News so interesting. Looking through your comment history I don't see anything massively interesting. It worries me that your comment has been voted up.
934.
by almost 18y ago
Exactly, we really don't need another "Fucked up things in the American justice systems"-news site.
935.
by almost 18y ago
There was a new series to the radio play fairly recently. Just for anyone who missed that.
936.
by almost 18y ago
If you're an Emacs user then org-mode is has excellent time tracking features. You have a normal org file with your tasks, I use one per client with 1st level headings usually being projects (you might find that one per project suites you b
937.
by almost 18y ago
> I miss the days of mode 13h! Happy memories :) Discovering that what you see on the screen is just bytes in memory, and you can access them directly.
938.
by almost 18y ago
And now the story is dead. The systems works!
939.
by almost 18y ago
Yes, there is always a risk to anything. Walking alone at night can lead to all manner of unpleasant things. Never the less, I think living in a state of fear is the wrong way to go. It depends on the exact situation but just because there'
940.
by almost 18y ago
I've tried Conkeror and while I like the concept and can't really find any problem with the execution I just don't get on with it very well. Being an Emacs user I feel compelled to ignore Vimperator ;) The ' key in Firefox (search for links
941.
by almost 18y ago
Until you have friends over and you're trying to explain how the he'll you're meant to find and play a track ;)
942.
by almost 18y ago
It would appear that meta was just the beginning, we now have meta-meta-posts :p Seriously though, the meta-phase, or the crawling-up-its-own-arse phase, seems to be something a lot of sites go through. Hopefully it will die down soon becau
943.
by almost 18y ago
Mouseless and WIMPless desktops are great. I've been using ratpoison for the last 6 months or so and I love it, previously I was using ION3 for about a year but I ended up not using the tabs at all, just having everything in fullscreen and
944.
by almost 18y ago
I think this is explained by a previous news item on the linked page. pg talks about introducing lots of caching to speed the site up. Sounds like you're seeing cached bits and pieces.
945.
by almost 18y ago
No, I didn't. And that kind of eliminates those concerns a bit. Apologies for my lack of reading-all-the-way-throughness
946.
by almost 18y ago
This kind of stuff makes me a little uncomfortable. I can imagine someone being in a situation (abusive relationship maybe?) where they are compelled to share this information. Even under normal circumstances it seems a little creepy, but m
947.
by almost 18y ago
Sounds like good advice to me. Life's too short.... One minor bit that got me wondering though. He talks about a "bullet proof contract", anyone else here doing freelancing use a contract? I've not ever used one and wouldn't really feel rig
948.
by almost 18y ago
I think this is a very good idea, but for a slightly different reason. The whole points-for-posts thing creates a meta-game of accumulating points above the normal game of participating in discussion. This leads to those annoying meta-disuc
949.
by almost 18y ago
That's not a reason to give up. Maybe this time it will work. As pg says, this is an experiment. The problem of retaining the character of a site while not just letting it stagnate (as happens when you start doing things like cutting of new
950.
by almost 18y ago
How about "Don't say anything you wouldn't say to someone's face" next to the submit button for the comment box? It could be a link to the full guidelines page maybe. Even for older users it could be good to have a little reminder to not be
951.
by almost 18y ago
One to file under "no shit Sherlock" maybe? Doesn't really seem fair to compare it against mentally challenging things though, probably more fair to compare it against other video games or watching crap TV...
952.
Ask HN: Custom logging for web applications
1 points by almost 18y ago|2 comments
953.
by almost 18y ago
Can the Kindle not read PDFs then? The text of that article (and the Kindle formatted I've seen available for download) would suggest that it can (or at least some un-DRMed or optional-DRMed format) I agree about the Sony Reader though, muc
954.
by almost 18y ago
Brilliant! I listen to this on Radio 4 and was I looked down the list of Radio4 podcasts and didn't see it. Guess the list I was looking at wasn't complete.
955.
by almost 18y ago
Seems like a great idea. Would be cool to see more of these... Of course C# seems like a horrible choice for learning about this sort of stuff, but maybe that's just me.
956.
Ask HN: programming and science related podcasts?
23 points by almost 18y ago|17 comments
957.
by almost 18y ago
Lots of fun :) Reminds me of the time at a previous job when I had to incorporate distance measurement based on post codes (zipcodes, UK style). There wasn't a whole lot to do for long periods at this job (which is why I left it eventually)
958.
by almost 18y ago
Rule 1 of the Internet: If it's described as "Hilarious", it isn't.
959.
by almost 18y ago
It's really useful to see articles like this. With something like git it's not good enough to just know how it works and how to use the commands. The real power seems to come in learning the new working processes that let you take advantage
960.
by almost 18y ago
Not to mention Hacker News...

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