emilv

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by emilv 13y ago
The title/header is from HTML. The nicest thing is not the lack of HTML but the lack of an image. The picture is entirely painted by CSS.
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by emilv 13y ago
"can be interesting to debug" sounds scary :-)
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by emilv 14y ago
I always do this in all my browsers (I use Flashblock or similar extensions). I have no idea why people need plugin content to start immediately. This also blocks most of the annoying ads.
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by emilv 14y ago
I have found most humans to not care about their energy consumption. So in the name of humanity, I have at least one computer on 24 hours a day.
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by emilv 14y ago
Interestingly enough this means you have to install software on your own computer to get better search results from a company that tries to deliver a hosted ("cloud") service. Seems backwards to me.
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by emilv 14y ago
This might be a good thing. I am still not convinced that machine learning is so great it is pictured to be, but the potential is certainly worth studying. Better tools and languages are a must in this area.
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by emilv 14y ago
Don't forget to set a good user-agent header and follow the rules set forth by robots.txt!
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by emilv 14y ago
I think it is a terrible idea to put fake security symbols on the screen. It makes people trust those fake symbols instead of learning what they should look for. Since the symbols are just fake it is very easy to stage a MITM attack. A much
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by emilv 14y ago
The term "SEO" should probably be banned from Hacker News altogether. No need for a downvote button then.
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by emilv 14y ago
I see your pun: since ARM uses less power the power users will in fact not be power users anymore!
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by emilv 14y ago
While it technically works in Opera Mobile 12.10, it is just not giving me a good user experience. It is down in the lower right corner of the phone and I need to zoom in to be able to read it (which takes effort and time since my phone/han
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by emilv 14y ago
Original question on Programmers: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/176582/55712
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by emilv 14y ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/243/
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by emilv 14y ago
Why would anyone think they can write good code without sleep? I need my sleep to function and will not go to any contest or event where sleeping at night is not an option.
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by emilv 14y ago
The point is that the business owner is the one taking the risk of the business, as well as investing his money and making business decisions (including the decision to hire a server). Why should the servers take some of that risk when they
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by emilv 14y ago
I cannot talk for the French, but in Sweden they usually handle special food requirements rather well. The children with special needs are all known to the kitchen staff so they get what they need directly from them.
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by emilv 14y ago
Why is this showing up in the Hacker News feed?
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by emilv 14y ago
I think you are wrong. I don't think people listen to Torvalds because he created and leads the development of the Linux kernel. I think people listen to him because he is very active in the free software community, voicing his opinions, wr
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by emilv 15y ago
Maybe they even shipped this to users automatically through an already existing (Python-supporting) system?
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by emilv 15y ago
1) Use unit tests. 2) It isn't that ugly! If you know what the code is supposed to do (which should be clear from documentation or just the purpose of the program) and it fails in some cases, take that failing case and go through the if-els