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by donaq 16y ago
Wow, I did not know that. I've always just assumed they'd be different buffers. I'll probably be using this a lot in future. Thanks!
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by donaq 16y ago
This actually runs pretty smoothly on my Milestone's default browser. Colour me impressed. It did not run well on Opera Mini though.
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by donaq 16y ago
I can see how that would be useful, but I have a question. If you do edits in both windows, how do you save them? Do you just save in one window and reload the other?
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Pencil on Firefox(pencil.evolus.vn)
53 points by donaq 16y ago|6 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
That's true, but if I'm working for $1000/mth in Poland and my colleague is working for $8000/mth, I probably wouldn't stand for it.
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An image of the sun's surface covered in tubes of plasma(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by donaq 16y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
Well, at the end of the article, there was mention of a 40 year old in the body of a 10 year old boy. We can probably observe him to see if such people can have abnormally long lifespans.
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by donaq 16y ago
I've also noticed that there seems to be a mob downvoting mentality. I seldom downvote already downvoted comments unless they are especially egregious, but recently it seems that you either get no downvotes or a torrent of them. Either that
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by donaq 16y ago
Along the same lines: http://blog.figuringshitout.com/nov-5th-day-23-three-types-o...
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by donaq 16y ago
It's going to be tough on you and your family, but tradition be damned, follow your own path, not the one set out for you. Sometimes we don't have that luxury. Entrepreneurship is a risky proposition in that there are no guaranteed return
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by donaq 16y ago
I personally don't need anything right now, actually, but thanks anyway. :)
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by donaq 16y ago
Write useful modules and let HN members use them for free? Actually, just open source them and post links?
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The New Faces of Social Media(fastcompany.com)
2 points by donaq 16y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
It seems to me the problem is that there are many more opportunities for people working in computing to feel superior because of the way computers (and the internet, in particular) have become ubiquitous in our society. I mean, supposing yo
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by donaq 16y ago
We have definitely been talking past each other. Mostly because we understand the term "database" differently (see my other reply to you). I am actually mostly in agreement with you, since I don't do that much web development these days eit
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by donaq 16y ago
It seems this has degraded into an argument about semantics. When I learned the term in school, it was not synonymous with RDBMSes. When I was trying to learn lisp from the book Practical Common Lisp, there was a chapter containing an examp
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by donaq 16y ago
My comment wasn't intended to be snarky, but when someone questions my credentials, albeit inadvertantly and through ignorance, I find it a little hard to be entirely objective. Huh. Well, you've been programming for longer than I've been
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by donaq 16y ago
I don't need to stretch the definition for that to be included, since the definition of a database is an organised collection of data. Ephemeral or transient data is still data.
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by donaq 16y ago
I think you have misread me. And while my knee-jerk reaction was to meet snark with snark, I shall resist the temptation. If none of your software has ever read from or written to a source of persistent data, I think you should be concern
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by donaq 16y ago
I think you're letting your experience of development cloud your view of what a database is. Almost every program imaginable requires one.
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by donaq 16y ago
Well, not HTML, but I would maintain that any programmer who hasn't dealt with databases is either a newbie or a bad programmer. Any web programmer who can't write straight HTML is most definitely a bad one.
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by donaq 16y ago
Thanks for the information. I've been mostly considering New Zealand and Canada before posting this thread. I am beginning to like the sound of New Zealand more and more. :)
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by donaq 16y ago
Eh, I just got approached by Google via LinkedIn and went for it even though I was sure I wouldn't get it. Sure enough, I did not get it, but it was nevertheless a valuable experience. I have learned two things: 1) An n^2 algorithm runs in
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by donaq 16y ago
Thanks for all the suggestions so far!
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by donaq 16y ago
I would actually like to move to a place with four seasons. Over here, it's pretty much summer all year round. Anyway, isn't the US sort of difficult to get into these days? I've noticed quite a few HNers complaining about that.
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Ask HN: Best country for hackers to work/live in?
13 points by donaq 16y ago|20 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
They hire employees educated with government money... And those employees pay more taxes because they draw high salaries paid to them by Google, which they could not have gotten without their education.
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Jobs lashes out at Android, RIM, tablets(macworld.com)
2 points by donaq 16y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 16y ago
While Google may understand a 5-year old's conversation, it certainly couldn't participate it in and reply back to the kid I would argue that it sort of does. Only instead of a normal kid, it's a mute kid that can only reply to you by pas
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by donaq 16y ago
Yes, it is rather an odd position to put an ad, though as a user, I like that it's not intrusive, of course.

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