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by eykanal 15y ago
This is called "planned obsolescence". It is almost certainly NOT because the computers "can't handle it". It is Apple's business model . Complaining about this is about as useful as complaining about the walled-garden approach to the App
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by eykanal 15y ago
My response to this post is, what on earth for? While you can use LaTeX for a ridiculous number of things [1][2][3], LaTeX is primarily a tool for typesetting technical documents. Note that word "technical" in there; why would a non-technic
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by eykanal 15y ago
For what it's worth, and focusing on this isn't worth much at all, I read it completely differently. Gruber was trying to convey a sense of how different this is from the Apple of days gone by. He's trying to demonstrate that Apple has go
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by eykanal 15y ago
Excellent post on the outline of his management style, but far too short on details. How does this management style deal with inevitable conflicts between engineers? How does this style deal with pivots? Who makes hiring decisions for manag
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by eykanal 15y ago
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Still...
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by eykanal 15y ago
I disagree with the premise of this article. By trying to differentiate the different "programmers" by nothing other than their skill , he is ignoring the fact that you simply shouldn't group together low-level chipset programmers with PHP
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by eykanal 15y ago
So far, my friend and think that the last two phrases are "through my email" (my has no vowels). Other finds: - "aoe" could be "anyone" or "randomness" - "uie" could be "quite", "quiet", or "business"
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Dilbert strip contains only-vowel word challenge(dilbert.com)
4 points by eykanal 15y ago|1 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
Personally, I use a mouse all the time, I'm not a fan of trackpads. I'm not much of a gamer, though, which may explain why I haven't noticed the 1/30th of a second lag.
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by eykanal 15y ago
Longtime Mac user here... for what it's worth, I don't know what the OP is referring to. I use both Mac and Windows regularly (home vs work), and I don't see a noticeable difference. Maybe I've just gotten used to it. Definitely isn't a pro
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by eykanal 15y ago
I am a human, a male, an American, a Caucasian, a PhD, a statistician, and a Risk Management Quantitative Analyst (level II), in broadly-decreasing levels of specificity. The term "programmer" is ridiculously broad, the same way that "weigh
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by eykanal 15y ago
Heh, well, good for him, and I hope someone finds a way to get it to work in Safari as well.
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by eykanal 15y ago
To all of those complaining that "side scrolling is a bad idea": This is a red herring. The chief complaint here is that Apple made a single gesture which in the past caused a single action (scroll to the left) and made it modal, such that
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by eykanal 15y ago
I was very impressed that it was able to interpret "min" with "x-2" underneath it, but if I wrote anything next to it the interpreter failed. I tried writing the "min" bit on one side and putting a very large parenthesis on the other side o
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Google's "Evil" Pivot(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
4 points by eykanal 15y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of your buddies charging appropriately for their skills while you consistently undercharge.
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by eykanal 15y ago
The quoted line is a good point, but your take on it is completely wrong, I believe. The main point in college is to get a degree. You don't spend approximately $150,000 in order to "not have regrets later on". You spend it to increase your
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by eykanal 15y ago
I'll agree with you that there is some fun in putting the whole thing together. However, "merchandising" is definitely far too strong a word... (1) very few people will create better themes all by themselves than what Tumblr/Posterous/Blogg
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by eykanal 15y ago
I'll agree with you partly, but hacking with something just because you can hack with it can be a huge distraction as well. Put another way, "maintaining a blog" is a professional development goal, which can and will have direct benefit to
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by eykanal 15y ago
Regarding the comment you received of "If you can code, then you can only code. Forever.", you need to work on your own branding. If people are getting that impression of you, it's likely because that's the part of your work that you most f
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by eykanal 15y ago
The only problem I've had is embedding github gists in tumblr (or any other javascript-based embed). Putting code snippets in is trivial using Markdown.
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by eykanal 15y ago
Very good point. I write (and save) all my posts to Simplenote, so I forgot to mention this. I don't save any of my Disqus comments. Definitely do this.
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by eykanal 15y ago
I believe that simply redirecting the base URL obviates the need of setting up redirects for each post, but it's been a long while since I looked into that. Hopefully someone else will give you a more definitive answer.
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by eykanal 15y ago
I disagree with most of this post, and I'm glad I didn't apply to any position with him as an interviewer. Specifically: You can’t tell me why you like your current job - Maybe I hate my current job, and took it to pay the bills. Maybe I
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by eykanal 15y ago
That's pretty easy, I did it with my blog. Check their help docs: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains In brief, you would set up a custom domain name, and then if necessary set a redirect so that "blog.mydomain.com" points to "my
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by eykanal 15y ago
Here's my take on Blogging for hackers: 1. User tumblr. 2. You're done. Seriously, the service is brain-dead easy to use, scales wonderfully, and took me 30 seconds to set up, rather than the <X time units> that it would take to set
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by eykanal 15y ago
Your point-by-point answer focuses on the details of his post rather than his general point, and makes your answer both pedantic and accusatory. The way I read it, he only has a few main points: 1) Google+ makes it easy to unintentionally p
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by eykanal 15y ago
What an excellent idea. Giving free reign makes the class more enthusiastic, and more enthusiasm will hopefully make the learning process that much more effective. My prediction: You'll have 1/3 of the class do something completely stupid j
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Always take the front-row seat(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
3 points by eykanal 15y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: gui front-end for ssh-keygen app?
1 points by eykanal 15y ago|1 comments

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