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by bp_ 8y ago
Screen rotation is also a thing on desktop. My Dell has three external monitors, side by side, all rotated in portrait; use a decent window manager and you can have a decent 3×2 grid of windows that easily leads to Perfect Window Placement™
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by bp_ 13y ago
You still wouldn't be able to hug your counterpart.
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by bp_ 13y ago
No. Even if they both have monitors that move with your head, they are very, very different products. One's a head-attached smartwatch. Another's a presence creator.
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by bp_ 14y ago
I like that your main argument against trees for organizing files is that people use specific applications per file type to organize them... _in trees._ Photos are sorted by year first and album then. Songs are sorted by artist first and al
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by bp_ 14y ago
Time however is a finite resource and it is effectively wasted on 'fun' questions. Every 'fun' question steals time off the actual Q&A content that is the whole point of SE. Hiding stuff that doesn't below under the rug doesn't make the
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by bp_ 14y ago
Most of the time protection kicks in _because_ the question has received many "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. Indeed, the third deleted answer on any question automatically triggers protection.
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by bp_ 14y ago
"I want to be in places where I can be myself, which might include chuckling at the same old jokes or discussing how much my job sucks. The more SO/SE is a place where I cannot be myself, the less desirable a place it is for me to be." Ther
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by bp_ 14y ago
"Fun" questions are bumped over and over again; thus, they accrue ALL the votes and farm ALL the badges. They're just constant noise on the homepage.
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by bp_ 14y ago
The problem is mainly that chat.SO sucks in a lot of ways and probably should be reduced to a single room where all SO regulars who have time to chat do chat - together. That's the way pretty much all other sites do chat (including MSO) and
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by bp_ 14y ago
No, opinion is welcome (on Stack Exchange, not necessarily on Stack Overflow) but it needs to be backed up by research or fact. That's not the problem on the sample question.
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by bp_ 14y ago
It's really the software. It isn't made to host lists. Votes on lists are historically on the item (OMG YES JQUERY!!!!!), not on the answer (You should use jQuery because a. b. c. d.), and that isn't how the rest of the site works. Besides
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by bp_ 14y ago
SE is not meant to be a replacement for reddit or traditional forums. If you want to have discussion by all means have discussion. Just don't do it on SE because SE wasn't made for discussion. Just because echo doesn't read from files doesn
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by bp_ 15y ago
I apologize for sounding condescending. However... the blog is for superuser.com, this is hacker news and I'd say the audience probably does know that Windows 8 and Metro do, indeed, exist :)
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by bp_ 15y ago
Here's the thing though: it surprisingly also works with mouse and keyboard! You do lose some display density, mind you, but the upshot in size allocated more than makes up for it.
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by bp_ 15y ago
Actually that's a comparison I meant Grub to win. To reiterate and clarify: if the price to have all the bells and whistles of the Win8 bootloader is to have it take as much time to load as the entire damn operative system you're loading i
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by bp_ 15y ago
Have you tried right clicking the whitespace? or are you talking about the charms bar, which does indeed take too long to come up?
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by bp_ 15y ago
There's very little in Windows 8 that requires multiple touch input - pretty much the only thing touch input can do and the mouse can't. This is what's ultimately allowing Win8 to keep mouse keyboard and touch on the same level. Compare wit
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by bp_ 15y ago
I'm perfectly aware, but can you take that approach and execute it in 6 "steps" for all data sizes? Since the whole point of the exercise is "optimizing" maxPairSum so that it runs in 20 "steps" or less, I guess this slower solution is st
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by bp_ 15y ago
The tool is awesome, but I wouldn't rely too much on the instruction bounds. For example, the greatest sums exercise ( http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/question.html?op... ) can be solved in six "steps" for all input lengths, w
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by bp_ 15y ago
US only.
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by bp_ 15y ago
It might however prevent or deter contributors living in Italy from contributing. And those are, quite obviously, the vast majority of the people contributing to the localized wikipedia. You seem to suggest that a geolocation-based "blockin