Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
cracki
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
24 ms
·
151.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
i read ebooks on my phone (854x480 screen) and if i have the time, i read until i can't sit/lie anymore. the discomfort of ebooks isn't about ebooks, but about the device you read them with. laptops and desktops just aren't fit for the ta
152.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
why yes. how do you think you'll use this without a google account?
153.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
not this again, and at the top of the front page too... i've heard it often enough. please stop.
154.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
if you have only few websites that offer content, sure, the one with the best content wins. but iphone apps are a little different. they offer functionality more often than content. functionality can't vary by orders of magnitude as content
155.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
so what is a tablet, if not a surface small enough to be carried? this looks like it can be carried. remember, there are people lugging around 17" laptops...
156.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
i care now because it's more than an upscaled ipod.
157.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
technically, it is. but practically, the one who reads it expects some veiled insights, some evaluation .
158.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
It's Steve Yegge again. Nice to see him not totally gone in the google black hole.
159.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
OMG... i had a few tabs of their site open. right this instant, they all reloaded! they're hammering their own servers, which is kinda funny.
160.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
what would keep you from going to O2? network performance? i'm curious and have no idea how to compare the providers' networks.
161.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
in germany at least, we have 10 or 16 amps rated, on 230V, and cables have 1.0 or 1.5 mm^2 cross-section per wire. what is 12 and 16 "gauge" and what voltage do you folks use?
162.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
ws.onclose = function() { // websocket is closed. }; someone reformatted the code without checking...
163.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
how would brackets be dangerous? just because the author of noscript thinks they are, doesn't make them so. he's definitely not infallible.
164.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
what's your take on the "battery cover" thing the author mentioned? how much BS did he put in his article there, or could it be true?
165.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
not any RAM modules, but SO-DIMMs. they're about half as long as what you'd plug into a normal desktop PC.
166.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
working less still means you think about work, which distracts from thinking about other things.
167.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
It's "Übermenschen", with sch, not ch. As a German, I'm offended. They chose to use the word but they failed to make sure they got it right. on the content: interesting observation.
168.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
the type thing is important to the kinds of people who get a woody thinking about the maths that deal not in numbers.
169.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
cut-throat environment? rather not. if i want to complain over an incompetent coworker, i do that under my identity, openly.
170.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
and then you burn the stripped video back and put it in your home theater.
171.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
8 hours inevitably leads to exhaustion. 7 hours is the limit, for me and many others.
172.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
nope. doesn't.
173.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
try ed2k/kad. torrents are not for old or rare stuff.
174.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
I'd like to see some functional perl code.
175.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
is that some kind of twitter-clone?
176.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
the visualization isn't meant for those who know that.
177.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
i find the non-latex version better because it has fewer $ and \ and {}
178.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
"undefined" doesn't mean it has no state. it does have some state. it's just that this state can't be predicted. it can still be recorded and used in debugging backwards.
179.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
what do you mean by "extreme prejudice"?
180.
▲
by
cracki
17y ago
sacrifice "speed" for validated thought. pair programming intends to prevent rushed spaghetti code and replaces it with deliberate code that was born from the shared thought of several people.
More ›