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by bodhi 12y ago
I don't want to come across as mean, but this is a thread for pedants, and I couldn't resist the irony: > So “we are going to go to the airport with the bus tomorrow” would be correct Actually you go by bus, or on the bus
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by bodhi 12y ago
> To be specific, BEFORE there's an earthquake. Otherwise it wouldn't be very useful :) To be even more specific, after the earthquake has been detected, but hopefully before the seismic waves reach their location. Otherwis
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by bodhi 12y ago
As far as I know, Quicksilver has been taken over by another team, and is in constant development at the moment. I know because I regularly see "Quicksilver has been updated" messages ;)
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by bodhi 12y ago
So, honest question. I've been musing over REST and RPC for a while, and was trying to come up with some domains that were verb-oriented instead of noun-oriented. The only thing I could come up with was message passing, a-la XMPP or st
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by bodhi 12y ago
> Unless you were describing a person who has a hipster-like behavior in regards to shoes Wouldn't that be a "shoe hipster"?
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by bodhi 12y ago
> The ideal is to write what the original author would have written, if they were writing fluently in the target language. [...] If a pun doesn't work in the target language, a fluent writer would have used a different pun, but how
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by bodhi 12y ago
This is can actually be quite useful on "help me!"-style forums, like car forums. People often forget to give enough info about eg. their car year model, for others to help specifically. But if this info is in your sig, it's
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by bodhi 13y ago
Can you tell me more? Is rekeying a common option for most registrars?
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Ask HN: SSL Certs need to be revoked, right?
7 points by bodhi 13y ago|5 comments
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by bodhi 13y ago
Capybara does pretty much what you are asking for: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara And it has various drivers for e.g. Selenium.
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by bodhi 13y ago
I think they often end up underwater? In that case, sound seems to be the more used medium, unless hollywood stories about sonar have led me astray...
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by bodhi 13y ago
You got a lot of questions in there, and I'm writing in a hurry, so sorry if some of the following doesn't make sense. > Aren't the arrows all facing the wrong way? Technically, commits are linked to their parent (you can
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by bodhi 13y ago
Lexaloffle has been working on something like this for a couple of years: http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php Apparently it can actually run well on a volumetric display!
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by bodhi 13y ago
> they have a really awful habit (or most developers do!) to keep copy IN the storyboards.. If you internationalise your app, you can extract all the copy out of a storyboard into a strings file.
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by bodhi 13y ago
How about a stacked single-bar chart? I'd suggest that it has all of the benefits of a pie chart without introducing perception issues of angles and areas. Well, I guess you could make a fat bar and still run into problems... Ah, visua
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by bodhi 13y ago
I wouldn't personally call someone like that a nice person.
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by bodhi 13y ago
Tools, as in command line tools, I'm not so sure about. But Cocoa has NSLinguisticTagger. Good overviews: http://www.objc.io/issue-7/linguistic-tagging.html http://nshipster.com/nslinguistictagger&
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by bodhi 13y ago
Boo hoo you missed my hat in this ring! ;) https://github.com/bodhi/MarkdownEditor I'd submit a pull request to your repo, but I'm too lazy...
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by bodhi 13y ago
No comment about the new version, but my view of the old version was that it was the most heavy-handed overly-styled app that I use. Sure, that was the Tapbots aesthetic, but I used Tweetbot for the interaction design, in spite of the vis
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by bodhi 13y ago
Are you disputing "amazing"-ness of 3 displays, or number of horizontal lines of resolution? Because I calculate your collection of displays at 7.08k, and 3 * 4k ~ 12k, or a 70% increase over your current count. ;)
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by bodhi 13y ago
Divvy's another good one for this, and you can define your own regions. Maybe this is possible with ShiftIt too? http://mizage.com/divvy/
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by bodhi 13y ago
I don't really understand, can you explain more? I should have written in my comment that I'm a Haskell beginner...
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by bodhi 13y ago
> Well, there are programming languages and then there are conventions. I think a programming language is more like an alphabet, and programming conventions are the real languages. I like this. As a thought experiment, consider the idea
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by bodhi 13y ago
> I'm not particularly persuaded to the "you have to type a lot" complaints. I haven't used Java in anger in a long time, but my beef was never that you had to type a lot, but that it was verbose. Verbosity impacts on
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by bodhi 13y ago
> AIUI the pressure lets up rather a lot once one gets to university, yes? The running joke that I've heard is that university is the only vacation that a Japanese person will get in their life.
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by bodhi 13y ago
Then you build one in the southern hemisphere. Oops!
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by bodhi 14y ago
In case you were curious, from Wikipedia[1]: > Each label may contain up to 63 characters. The full domain name may not exceed a total length of 253 characters in its external dotted-label specification. In this context "label" means a
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by bodhi 14y ago
Using an example from the article: > Others start out at level 1, if they're something new (for example, Flexbox "CSS Flexbox level 1" is a fair bit less confusing than "CSS1 Flexbox model". It would get even worse if a module moved to
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by bodhi 14y ago
I think it's always been that way. There's an old hack: > The best way to make money in a gold-rush is to sell shovels.
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by bodhi 14y ago
From that spec: > Concatenating the four numbers a-b-c-d (in a number system with a large base) gives the specificity. So webkit is using 256 as "a large base". I only just read this spec a few months ago. For years I was under the impr

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