furtivefelon

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by furtivefelon 17y ago
In my experience, most linux distro's battery management doesn't even match windows xp out of the box (no clear way to tune it). It is the only thing that is stopping me from transitioning to linux full time.
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
Hey guys, i think he has removed the paywall. This thread is very useful!
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Any good hardware book for software people?
3 points by furtivefelon 17y ago|3 comments
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
you know you are looking at the "height" of debating art when prodigious analogies are drawn between the topic at hand and Hitler.
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
Who believes in the strong version of efficient market hypothesis anyways? One of the most interesting paradoxes of efficient markets is that to have efficient market, you must have people in the market who doesn't believe in efficient mark
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
The stated goal of search is to find relevant information. If Google somehow provides that information to me in a easy to digest way, who am i to refuse it? If not, i would go elsewhere for that information. Since net neutrality ensures tha
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
What extra value does this provide me over just checking the header in firebug? Firebug also gives me a lot more information than what you are providing.
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
I think this is "his" javascript library (can't find his name mentioned anywhere though): http://www.cinsoft.net/mylib.html
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
Many designs on http://csszengarden.com/ is very nice, and it has designer contacts there as well.
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Ask HN: Ways for reading open source code bases?
10 points by furtivefelon 17y ago|18 comments
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
a forever qualm about online code editor i have is that they don't do automatic indenting properly. I have never used etherpad, i'm not sure how well they did this, but textmate is a good example to model after :D
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
I hope it is not true, but apparently in normal circumstances, domain masking (privacy) works as intended, but only in disputed cases would ownership issues comes into play, for more details, see here: http://www.circleid.com/posts/2008112
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
The site design looks kind of depressing, and the logo looks weird. It definitely need some way of differentiating yourself from the competitions. I currently use dropbox for most of my file sharing/backup needs, and dropbox is a difficult
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
I recently settled on XMonad as well for most of my development needs. i run it under VMware Fusion, with xmonad and some tweaks to run less non-essential background stuff, i manage to get by with just 128mb of ram dedicated to vmware (usua
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Ask HN: Great intro books for web design/graphic design?
6 points by furtivefelon 17y ago|5 comments
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
I will recommend the book i'm currently reading: Secrets of the Javascript Ninja: http://jsninja.com/ . It is written by Jquery author, and it shows you basically how a framework like JQuery would be written. It is not a book for the faint
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Ask HN: Graph theory books?
8 points by furtivefelon 17y ago|5 comments
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
Perhaps automatically filters to sane prices? If you search for iphone 3gs, first few pages are all really cheap (either accessories or have some catch associated with them), not particularly useful unless specifically requested.
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
I don't actually think the two are exactly the same. Tim's blog talks about how to read faster by increasing various parameters of conventional reading. On the other hand, the article (mainly the video) talks about how to turn off one parti
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by furtivefelon 17y ago
The reason why the typeset is poor is due to the fact that all the mathematical symbols are in the "Concrete and Euler or Concrete Math", whoever published the pdf probably doesn't have that font installed. Hence the poor quality. I have ye
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by furtivefelon 18y ago
I had the same problem using 3.1.0, and with some suggestions from the news group, the html5lib alternative works fairly well. I never had a problem so far parsing about 6 sites i previous had to clean up using regexp.