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by blueblob 13y ago
I think the benefit is that a lot of people are proficient with SQL and are not very proficient with awk. I think whether it will be faster or not depends on how complex your query/queries are relative to the amount of data that you ne
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by blueblob 13y ago
I found the term page ambiguous just on the very first use, whether you meant printed pages, or manpages. I am running archlinux which would normally be light, but unfortunately I work with a lot of different programming languages and prefe
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by blueblob 13y ago
In the default font size this looks really bad in firefox 26 on archlinux. Is/did anybody else having/have this problem? How do I fix it other than making the font bigger?
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by blueblob 13y ago
It seems like this is providing and charging for a service instead of a product.
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by blueblob 13y ago
None of your text inputs seem to allow me to enter anything in firefox 26 on archlinux.
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by blueblob 13y ago
I meant generalizing all manpages as short is inaccurate. The original statement was that the average is 4 pages which tells you almost nothing without some idea of the spread. You have provided that, thank you. 5831 is the number of manpag
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by blueblob 13y ago
I think stating that manpages are short is a little inaccurate. The average may very well be 4 pages, but the standard deviation is probably high (bash, gcc, ssh among others have long man pages). A few commands nowadays also have multiple
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by blueblob 13y ago
Yeah, that's one way. Or a similar text formatting on html/md on the readme. If you look at the bropages one, it very concretely shows you what it is. Any way of doing this makes it easier for people to tell what exactly they&#x27
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by blueblob 13y ago
I would like a "favorites" or "saved links" page. The front page changes rapidly enough that if you don't bookmark pages that you want, a few hours later they can be hard to find if you don't remember the exact
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by blueblob 13y ago
It would be nice to have an example that is viewable from the markdown/on github. I think it would make people more likely to build it.
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by blueblob 13y ago
I don't think this is the place that you would send your criminal plans and ideas, I think that it is a place where you can discuss things that might be embarrassing or get more objective opinions. There is still the potential problem
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by blueblob 13y ago
King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga trademarked the word "Candy." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7090913
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by blueblob 13y ago
That does not sound cheap to me as a graduate student.
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by blueblob 13y ago
My girlfriend found it frustrating that she can attach a picture to a facebook post in the browser (even on mobile) but can't in the app.
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by blueblob 13y ago
Are you making a comment about "candy?"
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by blueblob 13y ago
Ah, my mistake, I confused it with scroogle. I tried to upvote you but I don't think I have enough Karma.
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by blueblob 13y ago
Is there an operator similar to "define:" that you can use? I can find a link for operators, but I do not know how up to date it is. http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
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by blueblob 13y ago
I am afraid I don't understand. Duck Duck Go searches google, so if you are having a problem with a google service, how would this help?
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by blueblob 13y ago
He should be best known for bsd-games (package name on archlinux, I think ubuntu too). :-) http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ EDIT: oops, the link is for a different package called puzzles on arc
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by blueblob 13y ago
My question too. Given that I can get a list of open source projects that I can work on for free with GitHub Explore[1] I am wondering what this provides me that is worth any money, not specifically $30. To take it one step further, why sho
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by blueblob 13y ago
When I first saw the article for the google patent on free ad-powered taxis[1], I immediately thought that it was another way to get get more cars for street view. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7114079
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by blueblob 13y ago
An answer somewhat stolen from stackoverflow says "ps -o rss $(pgrep executablename)" but I guess that assumes that you only have one process running, maybe it would be easier to put it in a script and use "ps -o rss $!"
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by blueblob 13y ago
Yeah, pretty annoying, if you use less as a pager for your manpages, you can try: /^[[:blank:]]+-l but it's kind of annoying that you have to use regular expressions to find what you are looking for faster. EDIT: it may wor
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by blueblob 13y ago
I went from a school that used Desire2Learn and switched to Blackboard and lost my hatred of Desire2Learn.
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by blueblob 13y ago
Man pages are nice sometimes but oftentimes they have a lot of options and no examples. For advanced usage of some commonly used commands it's far easier to just look it up online, or perhaps with this tool. Example good man page is ps
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by blueblob 13y ago
You want to mine bitcoins with a laptop? Why? The laptop will wear out faster, you would get better performance per cost with a different option, many other reasons not to as well. Also with fairness to the nVidia Optimus, AMD has "Dyn
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by blueblob 13y ago
Fair enough. Lots of people dislike vimscript and although I think you can also write plugins using python, it also seems more difficult to interface with. I know that you can have a big fullscreen window with multiple buffers and a termina
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by blueblob 13y ago
Not trying to be a douche, but trying to get an honest answer: if you are coming from Vim, using Evil-Vim to get Vim-like commands why use Emacs in the first place? What features do you use/did you want that made you switch?
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by blueblob 13y ago
How does Julia interface with C? Is it easy to interface Julia with C because all it does is compile the C with Clang/LLVM?
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by blueblob 13y ago
Grad student that makes a stipend of $1,900/mo with a rent payment of $400 and car payment of $300 here. I do not donate because I do not have great insurance nor do I have sufficient savings to last more than 2 or 3 months if I were t

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