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by arantius 17y ago
Started using it recently. I'm finding that it's very limiting. It has very few features. For instance: no fixed/duplicate/wontfix/etc resolve status. Just "closed".
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by arantius 17y ago
> someone could write a parsing component that would That's what @require is for.
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by arantius 17y ago
> I think if you wanted to get a better handle of how many women are in HN, a poll ... You mean: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617 ? There, female was about 6%.
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by arantius 17y ago
> Do you want someone down-modding your posts simply because you ,,, had nothing ... valuable to say? Yes, that's exactly what I want. Based on the vote count, I conclude that I'm not the only one.
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by arantius 17y ago
> I don't think the scoring system is good. According to it the best behaviour would be to build all tetraminos on one side and wait for "I" tetramino to arrive and score 4. Except, of course, that's exactly the way every single real ga
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by arantius 17y ago
Oh! The _white guy_ is the one photoshopped in! That's not the sort of thing I'm used to seeing.
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by arantius 17y ago
Even better, just use Greasemonkey to make all links clickable. http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/linkify-plus.user.js
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by arantius 17y ago
Rarely, yes. It takes a pretty serious storm, but I've seen service interrupted due to rain within this past year. This year has had record rainfall. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/nyregion/01hot.html "One reason for the record-break
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by arantius 17y ago
Yes, I'm one of the two core contributors to/maintainers of the Greasemonkey Firefox extension.
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by arantius 17y ago
The contest page ( http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ ) talks about being based on the "Infinite Mario Bros game by Markus Persson .. with the added benefit of endless random level generation". I wouldn't be at all surprised i
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by arantius 17y ago
cull (verb) 2. select or obtain from a large quantity or a variety of sources. cherry-pick (verb) selectively choose (the best things or people) from those available prefer (verb, preferred, preferring) 1 like (someone or something) better
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by arantius 17y ago
I got a Nokia N810 recently. With a hefty SD card it plays media very adequately for my needs -- and it does a whole lot more too! My iPod is starting to gather dust.
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by arantius 17y ago
I commute about an hour (40 minutes on the subway) Brooklyn<->Manhattan. I live at the end of the line, so I get a seat in the morning _every_ time. I always take the local train, and get a seat almost every time in the evening, p
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Vulnerability in FireFox 3.5.1 confirmed; exploit PoC(isc.sans.org)
11 points by arantius 17y ago|13 comments
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by arantius 17y ago
How long is "long enough"? I've had a dedicated server running my (personal) web site, mail, and a variety of other services, directly connected to the public internet, with no firewall, for five years. My domain is #95k in alexa, #69k in C
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by arantius 17y ago
Not stock. But you can get it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207
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by arantius 17y ago
High school (16 or so): McDonalds College (18-20 or so): summer internships at Johnson and Johnson
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by arantius 17y ago
Actually, no. This is the primary problem with this idea. Browsers use <input type="password"> as the tip-off to know there is a password to remember here. If the input field isn't a "password" type, the browser won't remember th
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by arantius 17y ago
So does bash. http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/ It's extensible to boot.
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by arantius 17y ago
I haven't really done all nighters since college. But I certainly learned one critical point. During a normal day, you might eat three meals over ~11 hours (8am, noon, 7pm). If you stay right up, that will be 12 hours with no eating. The
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by arantius 17y ago
Indeed. Try this one I threw together: http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/hacker-news-new-commen...
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by arantius 17y ago
If you use Google Reader and Greasemonkey: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2346 Quick Links makes links _inside_ the articles keyboard accessible. A few extra keystrokes as compared to the main link, but another possible compromise.
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by arantius 17y ago
Much simpler solution: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#view_pass...
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by arantius 17y ago
I was worried for a brief moment, when I saw my personal site (domain: my username + dot com) show up in the list. I thought: that couldn't be in their list of sites to check for via the visited-link-css-pseudoclass trick, could it? It is
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by arantius 17y ago
Never. But, living in NYC, I walk around a mile in 15 minutes, each way to and from work, every day. I also walk or bike any time I need to run errands.
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by arantius 18y ago
I'm just coming up with this off the top of my head, but: 1. When loading the survey page check for a cookie. If it's not present, set the cookie, record the ip-and-cookie mapping, and redirect back to this page. 2. Now that we're loading
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by arantius 18y ago
gzip + chunked encoding = works http://arantius.info/gzip-chunk.php Notice headers: Content-Encoding gzip Transfer-Encoding chunked And also notice the 10 second delay between the two paragraphs appearing in your browser. (At least it do