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by avinashv 17y ago
I have always had a lot of trouble getting up in the morning, and when I started working at a company where I'm expected to put in normal hours, I changed my wake-up routine quite drastically. I use my computer as an alarm clock. This has a
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by avinashv 17y ago
Excellent list. I use all of those except the last, which is new to me and extremely useful--so, thanks! It's now aliased. I find myself using the first two on an almost hourly basis.
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Better Firefox Searching(avinashv.net)
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by avinashv 17y ago
This is great! I like the style, love that octopus logo (beard is just perfect), and like the formatting. One thing--and this might be me--that I would change is the color of the body text. It's not dark enough.
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by avinashv 17y ago
> I stopped using Linux on the desktop because I didn't want to have to be a sysadmin on my personal hardware. When did you stop using Linux? I have had either a laptop or desktop with Linux installed (Ubuntu, Gentoo and DSL) since 200
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by avinashv 17y ago
Well...he's made 20 bucks.
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by avinashv 17y ago
Came here to say this, with just one addition: I think there is a select group of people for whom the Segway has a legitimate use--I'm thinking along the lines of people who have trouble walking long distances (say, more than 5-10 minutes
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by avinashv 17y ago
I'm not familiar with the display adapters on a Macbook, but my 2008-gen 13" Macbook connects to an external monitor fine. Could I use a splitter, like he states, and connect it to two 24"? That would be pretty awesome.
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Best of Wikipedia--a tumblelog(bestofwikipedia.tumblr.com)
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by avinashv 17y ago
Take it from someone who just finished a degree—you sound like you aren't enjoying your major. I entered college as an engineer, and found that after some time, I was in your position. Your lack of motivation might be because you—like me—ar
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by avinashv 17y ago
Not emacs, but I dropped TextMate for Vim, and was very, very happy to do so. The stagnated development, the closed source and lack of portability, the annoying bugs etc. made it an easy choice.
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by avinashv 17y ago
I almost always don't read anything from TechCrunch, Coding Horror, SlideShare and anything that is hard-linked to Scribd (although I don't think that has happened since the [scribd] link started that I can remember). On the other side, the
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by avinashv 17y ago
Fair enough, then. As I said, I couldn't access the article. It surprises me, though, that the number is close to that high.
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by avinashv 17y ago
Urgh, I'm not happy about this. WordPress' codebase by itself is reasonable--don't get me wrong, it's bulky in places--but if MU is going to be added to the core, that is going to make a stock WordPress install carry a lot of extra bagga
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by avinashv 17y ago
Individual correspondence is important, and I don't think Twitter would be a good vehicle for the types of things that might be communicated in personal correspondence. That's actually exactly why I like Twitter. Direct Messages are a
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by avinashv 17y ago
If it makes you feel better, I assumed this was a joke! Avinash is a very Indian name, yes. It's "Avi", a nickname I have, that gets mistaken for a Jewish name.
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by avinashv 17y ago
Don't be so arrogant as to think that Indians don't follow what is going on around the Internet.
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by avinashv 17y ago
This is cool--and public domain? That's awesome. For the record, it's 2D Boy that released the framework, not the piece of software World of Goo.
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by avinashv 17y ago
Polluting my Twitter feed with the votes from this is a total dealbreaker for me. Of everyone that follows me, only a small group of people read HN and will have heard of this. The rest of them are going to see some convoluted hashtags. I
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by avinashv 17y ago
I love this story. The BSG finale reminded me somewhat of this.
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by avinashv 17y ago
I watched this from the students--felt great to sit through the commencement and be declared a graduate. As for the speech itself, I thought the delivery was poor, and the speech itself a little long for what he talked about. I also though
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by avinashv 17y ago
It's just the "amalgamation" version off http://www.sqlite.org/download.html (it's the first download link).
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by avinashv 17y ago
Disclaimer: I go to UMich. I can give you an honest opinion of what life is like as a student here, but know next to nothing of WashU over what grandalf has already said. I'll get out the obvious out of the way: Michigan is cheaper. It's
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by avinashv 17y ago
I learned C a while back, and don't regret the time spent doing so at all. This is how I'd recommend going about it: * Everyone is going to recommend K&R, which is fine. Find a copy of C Interfaces and Implementations as well--very go
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by avinashv 17y ago
I really like this. It's something I've wished for, and have set up with other systems (various online todo/calendaring etc. apps) but never this easily. I think the simplicity is what's incredible. I like the <when>@3mindme ide
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by avinashv 17y ago
For the most part, I agree with what you've chopped, but I'd leave the developer's information on that page--it's small enough that, with the rest of the edits, it'll be above the fold and present the entirety of the app's information in
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by avinashv 18y ago
One of the commenters on the site voiced exactly what I was thinking: > The delivery is so dry that it almost comes off as serious. Very nice. Humorous, and I imagine it's on the front page because it raked up 15 votes in an hour. To
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by avinashv 18y ago
I think you're going to get much better feedback if you let people actually use your service. How much trouble could it be to make a bunch of HN invitation codes? You're essentially asking us to critique your front page and screencast. Th
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by avinashv 18y ago
+1 for The Atlantic. Excellent articles on a variety of topics. Going to try Harpers.
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by avinashv 18y ago
Honestly, if work is buying the computer for you, I'd get a Macbook (or Macbook Pro depending on the budget they're giving you) and run OS X and your Linux flavor of choice side-by-side. Develop in Linux--you may find that you never need t

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