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by dsrguru 14y ago
The thing is, the sites that benefit most from these client-side-centric approaches are single page applications [1]. I'd imagine the benefits of having prewritten reusable widgets are the same for SPAs as they are for desktop software. Th
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Style Tiles for rapid site-wide style prototyping(designshack.net)
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Do you mean from ycombinator-funded founders becoming more productive or by giving reddit more ad revenue from the HN crowd?
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Same here. It's just gnh in Vimperator/Pentadactyl for me.
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"Java, .Net, Ruby, Node, Python, PHP, etc." Does that "etc" include Clojure and Scala?
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On a very similar note, if you want people to upvote you on another HN thread, you should really probably link to news.ycombinator. com instead of . org so people like me won't have to sign in again. :)
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Cool project! But I must say, the algorithm that computes the percentage score seems rather poor, at least if the goal is to score the percent visual difference between the selected color and the actual. It gave me 100% on Coca-Cola (and
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Yup. My first-gen white MacBook back in 2006 was one of the ones afflicted by the random shutdown issue ( http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1599 ). It took over a year iirc of local Apple stores blindly trying heat sink and logic board replac
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Blindfold chess is certainly effective for improving your spacial memory, but why leave it at that? I highly recommend anyone and everyone learn the memory palace technique ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci ), which takes advan
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by dsrguru 14y ago
That's why I use Evil ( http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil ). I get all the programmability benefits of Emacs with the more powerful editing model of Vim. In fact, the whole of Evil is actually greater than the sum of its parts, since it pro
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by dsrguru 14y ago
It's not a real product. The video is a parody of where the startup industry has been heading.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Have you considered upgrading to stumpwm by the same author? It has all the features ratpoison does plus support for floating layout via gnew-float, among other things. And it's written in Common Lisp, so you can hack/customize/extend it
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Thanks! Would companies using Betable need to get licenses from the same countries that Betable already has licenses from (which so far means the UK) or would Betable's licenses mean that users of Betable would be covered as well. Edit: Ju
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Is it definitely clear that it would be legal for a startup based in the U.S. and with American founders to use Betable? It wasn't until "Black Friday" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(2011) ) that it became clear the U.S. gove
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Even harder is translating from the sign language to a spoken language. Machine translation is a very much unsolved problem, and sign languages are no more similar grammatically to spoken languages than spoken languages are to spoken langu
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by dsrguru 14y ago
gbattle's comment in the article is gold, possibly the single most useful thing I've ever read on making pitches. For those who didn't read it yet, gbattle provides a strict template for wording one's mission statement in a highly descript
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by dsrguru 14y ago
For those of us who don't have an available modifier key (or at least one that's accessible without looking down at the keyboard), is there a way to use a prefix key à la ratpoison and stumpwm? There's a patch for dwm that provides that fu
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by dsrguru 14y ago
neutronicus should read the Blug Paradox in pg's Beating the Averages ( http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ).
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The second person plural in my parents' idiolect of English is "you", but in mine there's effectively a familiar/formal dichotomy of "you guys" and "you", with the latter rarely used. In the American South, many people use "you" for singul
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I completely agree, but that's when the bullet points present the information in the video. Here the video didn't even convey all the info in the bullet points.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I don't like sounding so negative, but that was the most uninformative video I've seen in a long time. The bullet points below it present far more information than the video itself.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
But so do Vim's t text object (one of the few text objects that Sublime's Vintage mode doesn't implement) and dot command, along with Vim's C-o and C-i cursor history commands.
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The author says "The likelihood of success is very low." I hate it when I see such discouraging remarks, especially when they're not meant to be discouraging. The percentage of startups that succeed enough to compensate the founders for t
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Implement text objects and Vim-style fFtT (character searches are repeatable via ; and ,) and you'll have me as a user. :)
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That's interesting. When I used Emacs with the default bindings, I only used C-s or C-r when I was genuinely trying to search for something, not for navigation. I think I normally used an estimation like C-u 2 0 C-n exactly where I would
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Were those cash reserves at Facebook used for anything besides hiring people to write advertisement monetization code? I was under the impression that the rate at which Facebook accumulated users would have been very similar to what actual
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That certainly would cause the bubble to start losing air so-to-speak, but I'm not sure it would pop. If you think about it, Google and Facebook happen to be specific examples of companies that could have become billion dollar companies wi
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by dsrguru 14y ago
That assumes that the product is worthless and that they have alternative ways of acquiring equally valuable talent. The author of this article asserts that neither of those is true. The opportunity cost of developing the product in house
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But what makes it not sustainable? As long as there exist a few GooBooks, won't acquisitions continue to be sought?
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Hacker News is one of the few forums where being able to lock in a six-figure salary (100k USD) for 60 years isn't viewed as being set for life. The wonders of entrepreneurship and the cost of living in the Bay Area.

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