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by decklin 16y ago
The auto-refresh on this page is rather annoying. I was attempting to skim the whole thing, and in the middle, the entire page was replaced by a connection-refused error (I imagine they're getting some heavy load, but I don't know why they
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by decklin 16y ago
IMHO this is disingenuous linkbait. An attempt is made to connect a political speech issue with a technical measure used to block certain software. Whether Twitter has any interest in blocking content might be an interesting discussion, b
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by decklin 16y ago
Yes, but if you want to be honest about numbers, you should say something like Reddit.com HTML.: 37.6 KB Text in that HTML: 5.9 KB (That's just what I got from copy+pasting.) The difference at issue is loading another 37.6 KB page versu
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by decklin 16y ago
I've always stuck with du | xdu. Except for the primitive rendering it is rather reminiscent of webtreemap (or vice versa, i guess) -- click to dive down, top to go back up.
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by decklin 16y ago
I feel someone should point out that "set" in this usage is a csh thing. The slides and the referenced comment use Bourne-type shells, where "set" is a builtin mostly used to set shell options: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/969991979
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by decklin 16y ago
I wrote http://github.com/decklin/curlicue for precisely this reason. It's kind of a hack (shell script!), but I've gotten some mileage out of it.
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by decklin 16y ago
Don't automatically submit each article to HN. Have your hypothetical reader click a "comment" link which, if the article is not submitted, prompts them to submit it (and then leave their comment), or if it has been submitted, goes directl
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by decklin 16y ago
If you really want to obsess about this stuff, this is a good forum: http://geekhack.org/
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by decklin 16y ago
Is there a link to an actual PDF instead of a Flash viewer?
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by decklin 16y ago
Try: http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/manage
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by decklin 16y ago
I don't think any of these designs will help if they continue to give them away for free.
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by decklin 16y ago
One of the things that I like about a movie is if it makes me think about who/what the camera is. Is it a character? A god? Part of some piece of architecture? ...etc. Does it control time/linearity, or does time control it? The idea of imp
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by decklin 17y ago
Not reading the linked article I expect, but not reading the one-word summary in the article's URL? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hiatus Edit: to be fair, the title of this submission is misrepresenting.
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by decklin 17y ago
Erm, sorry, I just meant DejaVu Sans. But I do appreciate that its metrics are still different from Arial. Is that important in every application? Maybe.
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by decklin 17y ago
I might be daft, but this article doesn't explain (and seems to assume it's perfectly obvious) why in the world you should use Arial, sans-serif instead of: sans-serif at the bottom of a stack. If I am on a platform where
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by decklin 17y ago
Nope; I'm using https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epieehnpcepgfiil... .
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by decklin 17y ago
On Linux, neither Chrome nor Firefox are working for me, yet: $ host _why.usesthis.com _why.usesthis.com has address 74.207.245.100 odd. [Edit: Looking at darshan's post be
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by decklin 17y ago
I would really like to see this. I'm inclined say it shouldn't have any relation to karma or killing, because there's nothing inherently wrong with meta-discussion, but the front page would be infinitely more pleasant to me if I could see
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by decklin 17y ago
I was curious, so I downloaded it and ran unzip -l. It contains the contents of the .git directory and another copy of the .crx file, inside itself (who knows how many levels this goes down). Actual code (almost entirely jQuery and .psd "
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by decklin 17y ago
I like this, but does it really make sense to call it a "command-line" application? I'd call it a terminal application (like w3m, lynx, etc). I can also type "firefox http://news.ycombinator.com/ at my shell, but I don't think that makes
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by decklin 17y ago
I think you might want to try http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/ or http://help.twitter.com/ .
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by decklin 17y ago
OK, this finally motivated me to make a userscript that replaces Scribd links with Google docs (I didn't realize it was so easy to construct a link to their viewer). http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63596 I'm sure Scribd works just as
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by decklin 17y ago
I think the obvious conclusion would be that people upvote things without reading them.
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by decklin 17y ago
I would have trouble explaining this to my parents, or anyone not familiar with how cookies or "cloaking" work. I just heard the BBC world report (radio) summarize this coverage a few minutes ago; it made it sound like - Google copies and s
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by decklin 17y ago
"And then the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication." I stopped there. Why give this man more attention?
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by decklin 17y ago
Despite what you might expect, there is actually a fascinating article behind this poorly-titled link; it starts at the fifth paragraph.
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by decklin 17y ago
Yesterday, I was thankful for not paying any attention to the news while I cooked, served friends, and then relaxed. I turned the radio off and didn't check any websites. It was nice. I don't mean to be callous about Mr. Woods' injury, bu
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by decklin 17y ago
I cannot pass this without pointing to the definitive reference on the subject: http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity381.html
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by decklin 17y ago
I, too, have been saying this for several years now. I think it's worthwhile to remember what we fight for (peace) and why we thank our veterans for doing it; WWI didn't turn out to be the war to end all wars, but maybe that day will still
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by decklin 17y ago
You should do this one: http://xkcd.com/33/

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