freakwit

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by freakwit 16y ago
Aren't these accounts precisely what generate Facebook's revenue? That's precisely the point. If the "real name only" stance is non-negotiable, they would ban these accounts, forgoing significant revenue in the process.
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by freakwit 16y ago
works for me in firefox (4.0b11) too
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by freakwit 16y ago
selfish question here: Does anybody know how to setup vim so that :! recognises aliases? something like... set shellcmdflag=-O\ expand_aliases\ -c
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by freakwit 16y ago
I wonder what the best webpage idea is to get people to send me $5 for nothing or very little in return.
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by freakwit 16y ago
"Opera and Webkit implemented (very brokenly, in at least Opera’s case) a small subset of SVG 1.1 Fonts; basically just enough to pass Acid3."
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by freakwit 16y ago
got any recommendations for a pull up bar?
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by freakwit 16y ago
Follow the link on "Compared to Haskell, Lisp is a big hack." - http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-lisp-is-big-hack-... - for a more detailled post.
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by freakwit 16y ago
tip: use dj to delete two lines
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by freakwit 16y ago
There are two implementations listed for Java. The first is 35 LOC and the second is 372.
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by freakwit 16y ago
http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/ and a demo in ie9 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickhodge/archive/2010/06/29/having-...
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by freakwit 16y ago
"at many points, playing guitar felt like work to Jimmy Hendrix" Achieving mastery is the "work" part
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by freakwit 16y ago
I'm sorry, if you're competent you can make svn work.
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by freakwit 16y ago
I think we have the same desktop.
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by freakwit 16y ago
The real idea here is mentioned in the about page: http://codingbat.com/about.htm Summarised... a CS lecturer noticed that students who struggle with the small things like syntax, have less time to focus on the big issues of algorithms an
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by freakwit 16y ago
codingbat is javabat renamed. Presumably because they added python
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by freakwit 16y ago
Have to disagree with you here. Classical notation is much easier for me to read than that.
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by freakwit 16y ago
Some of us aren't doing so fine. Knowing not to do something is good, but knowing how to do something is far better.
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by freakwit 16y ago
Disappointed that this comment does not recommend an alternative.
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Ask HN: How do I ask for a salary increase?
93 points by freakwit 16y ago|111 comments
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by freakwit 16y ago
What sort of problems are people thinking of? SSDs have been a big speed improvement - have they enabled new developments?
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by freakwit 16y ago
yes (This post was made at: 7:05 AM 30th July 2010 Sydney)
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by freakwit 16y ago
Prove it. (No, really. You're not presenting good evidence here.)
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by freakwit 16y ago
To be fair, they do note this shortcoming. "Note that this trick should only be used for arrays which you know do not contain "falsy" values (arrays of objects or DOM nodes for example). If you are iterating over numeric data that might inc
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by freakwit 16y ago
I don't think Google is winning hearts - rather, they are losing hearts more slowly than Apple.
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by freakwit 16y ago
But isn't it interesting that she gets her child to make a comment on HN instead of writing it herself?
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by freakwit 16y ago
I parsed it as "The overall lifetime of a phone is generally limited by the death of it's battery rather than the glass. If the battery could be replaced, the durability of components would be more of an issue."
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by freakwit 16y ago
But in the sale of the gift cards/credits, at a 1:1 exchange rate, your assets would increase as well as your debt, surely?
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by freakwit 16y ago
according to matt cutts' live "buzz". It is an android OS variant! "Software: Built on Android 2.1 + Google Chrome + a Flash 10.1 plugin. Aha: Android apps will work on Google TV. The mobile market will work on Google TV. Demo of Google TV
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by freakwit 17y ago
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different...
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by freakwit 17y ago
It's a hog inside windows, too.

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