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by arnarbi 14y ago
Not just programmers. AutoCAD has had this kind of interface always, and it is absolutely the best/fastest way for power users to make drawings. Integrating nicely textual commands, prompts and mouse usage works very well there. Looking at
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Every app should have this.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
TL;DR: Wifi was cheaper for mobile so he changed the User-Agent header.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I'm on a pretty nice mac, and it is basically unreadable without either zooming a lot or using some css switcher.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
It's not very intuitive. However, a notebook stays with me for a couple of years, so I prefer it to be nice as well as durable. A novel lasts a few days usually.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I use XMONAD with VIM for that. :)
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Presumably only the arrangement and sizing of windows. I.e. you don't have to :split or :vsplit manually, just create or delete windows and they'll be arranged according to the layout algorithm.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Building one will be much easier, and much more fun. Start by drawing it up in Sketchup or similar. reddit.com/r/diy will be happy to help I think, if you don't know where to start.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Don't worry, you don't need to be married to HN. There will be something else replacing it, probably giving you exactly the kind of community you look for (because, simply, you are not the only one). I hopped from slashdot to digg, from dig
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by arnarbi 14y ago
> No it doesn't really, it keeps your HTML clean. You can also keep your kitchen clean by stuffing all the dirty stuff into the cupboards.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
> Going out on a limb, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that where people fall in the emacs/vi debate is correlated with how they eat corn. I wouldn't predict a very strong correlation, but I'd expect that emacs is likely to appeal t
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by arnarbi 14y ago
If you have a mac or iOS: http://dayoneapp.com/
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I don't think that is a clear description by any measure. It could be summarized in a couple of paragraphs. It's perhaps good for beginner programmers to learn from, so I'd encourage him to write a blog post. Pull request motivations should
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Why the essay?
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I'm not from the US, but doesn't F have a different meaning than A-D? I.e. it means you failed and have to do the test/project/whatever again? A-E is logical I'd say.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
That was not his point. He just didn't know shuffling only happens when you activate shuffle mode, so he was getting exactly the same order (not just a "good" distribution of artists and albums).
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Hmm, cycling in Copenhagen is the default mode of transportation. You can't live there for more than three days and not be aware that there are cycle paths everywhere.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
If you click through to the Danish news article, it is rather critical. The title says "Is the new super cycle-path really super?" and there is a video of riding through it. Turns out it is just normal cycle paths that have been there for y
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by arnarbi 14y ago
> speaking Icelandic is a big deal Only if you are not Icelandic. :)
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by arnarbi 14y ago
> I find JSON tedious and error-prone to generate by hand. Why do you need to generate it by hand? Create object structures in whatever language you are working in and then simply serialize them to JSON.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Not sure what you mean with the Windows comment - if you have your terminal in black-on-white, it's generally considered "inverse" colours on any platform. That means you probably have to pick white to get what your terminal shows as black.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Flashy. Mine's also on github: https://github.com/arnar/cv PDF: http://www.hvergi.net/arnar/public/cv.pdf
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by arnarbi 14y ago
For a US resume, yes - not for an European CV of a researcher.