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by eblume 14y ago
Sometimes when I read HN I feel like I must be the only person who really likes most Google products. I think the design is pretty good. I don't analyze it very closely, and... I don't know, it works and it works very well for me.
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by eblume 14y ago
I'm sure this isn't a new thought, and I will also admit I didn't finish the article so this may have been brought up, but I strongly consider 'teaching someone to program' and 'teaching someone to program using language X' completely diffe
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by eblume 14y ago
No, it's a great point, and one well taken.
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by eblume 14y ago
I guess I don't really understand why this is impressive - the GPU is still not good enough to handle modern gaming and apparently has some issues with media encoding as well (although I will admit that that section confused me somewhat), a
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by eblume 14y ago
It's a bit of both. I don't work in legal but I see them going at it from time to time when patent stuff comes up. There is definitely 'the filing cabinet' (more like a room) and it contains one of several copies of the important documents
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by eblume 14y ago
I personally discourage the use of squash, I think that everyone benefits with more granular commits. Is this not common practice?
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by eblume 15y ago
You bring up an important point, I think, unintentionally. Kids may be able to 'screw up and fix' the software components, but it would be very cool to also allow the same interaction with the hardware. I feel like maybe a version of the Ra
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by eblume 15y ago
I wonder if something like this could be surgically implanted behind the cornea, and then removed at the end of service? Just a thought.
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by eblume 15y ago
I agree on all parts - a clickable 'up next' link on the top right, and also a clickable 'previously you learned' link on the top left. Wording should change to fit the layout, of course. Also some sort of hint that the ToC is clickable, I
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by eblume 15y ago
Very intriguing but I personally can't stand watches that 'get in the way', and looking at the prototype it sure looks like this thing would get in the way a lot. I haven't worn a watch for years, so this may be just a personal gripe.
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by eblume 15y ago
I have a feeling that the JOBS act could actually be a very, very good thing if the right company (or, better yet, marketplace of companies) came around to offer a gateway service to these micro-investments. Personally I would implement - o
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by eblume 15y ago
Subscription counts in G+ are only a problem (to me) if: A) They are too low for a user to engage anyone, which is simply untrue (I have lots of fun and engaging conversations - with strangers, often - on G+) B) The product relies on a mass
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by eblume 15y ago
Ah, point taken, sorry about that. :)
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by eblume 15y ago
I beg your pardon, but you do not 'need it in JS', if 'it' is referring to using === instead of == to compare strings. Here is what node.js says: > "9223372036854775807" == "9223372036854775808" false
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by eblume 15y ago
Perhaps those two lines are the same in JS and PHP (I do not have PHP installed so I can't confirm, but I do have node installed): > 9223372036854775807 == 9223372036854775808 true > 9223372036854775807 === 92233720368
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by eblume 15y ago
I think you may be missing the point, or maybe it's I who am missing the point. Your three very thorough examples are a good way of showing how (most?) languages handle floating-point arithmetic vs. arbitrary arithmetic. But it seems to me
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by eblume 15y ago
Whoops, I got something important wrong there and the edit deadline has long passed: his takeaway was that writing extensions for Google+ was hard, not for chrome. His complaint was the lack of a G+-specific DOM API, and how (at the time at
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by eblume 15y ago
I've never maintained a hugely popular open source project so maybe my opinion on this will change when that happens, but at the moment I am always over the moon (very happy) when someone submits any Pull Request to one of my projects. A
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by eblume 15y ago
I agree, and a friend of mine actually had a working Chrome extension to support filtering by tags (implemented as hashtags, but transparently, so if you had the plugin it rendered the tags in a prettier way.) Unfortunately his only takeawa
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by eblume 15y ago
For the lazy, if you enter "correcthorsebatterystaple" the password strength gets set to "lol" with an info-box that reads something along the lines of "Don't take the webcomic too seriously. :)"
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by eblume 15y ago
I think it was a Science Friday, if it helps.
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by eblume 15y ago
Thanks, and that wasn't rude at all. But again - those 27 million users are almost certainly already on Facebook. If Facebook came out with 'Hipster Pics for Facebook!' (obviously I should not be in charge of naming things) then I would ass
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by eblume 15y ago
If you visit the site you'll see 'Edit this page' links at the top of each page (sans a few) - go ahead and click it to find out! As far as the OP's product goes, I think it mainly helps you in the design & layout phase along with the W
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by eblume 15y ago
I recently made a university CS club website [ http://csclubsjsu.com/ ] using the Jekyll+Github stack. It wasn't using any platform in particular, just a Jekyll project automatically deployed to our server from a Github project using post-c
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by eblume 15y ago
Here's what I don't understand, and I'd love to hear why I am wrong about this because I am sure I am wrong, I just haven't grok'ed /why/. A lot of people seem to be arguing that this move may have been not to get Instagram tighter with Fac
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by eblume 15y ago
What English is good at is expressing a huge variety of ideas. I once heard someone argue on NPR (sorry, no citation) that English is perhaps the /best/ language at expressing absolutely any idea to another person precisely because it has s
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by eblume 15y ago
I hope that the lesson learned here isn't to never make mistakes, or worse still, that if you do make a mistake you need to cover it up. There is also a third, even more frightening potential lesson here - if you arrive at a surprising resu
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by eblume 15y ago
That's really interesting - is there a place where I can read more about these early Rails performance issues?
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by eblume 15y ago
Content contains some NSFW images. The site clearly isn't aimed at me, I don't speak or read any asian languages, but the design seems cool. It's a bit cluttered but it's cluttered entirely with content (I think) so it works. I like the end
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by eblume 15y ago
I may have misread this, but I'm confused about the point of the article. It seems like the article is reporting that 'the nerds of Silicon Valley are all upset' that rich people are getting rewarded for success in a meritocracy. So, if tha

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