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by gamache 18y ago
Thank you for this link. It also reports 13 million users log in once per day. That, in the context of Facebook, is what I'd call an "active user". These, overwhelmingly, are the people who are taking this poll. 700,000 therefore represe
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by gamache 18y ago
Please, if you're going to act as a proponent of responsible statistics, don't exaggerate like you did in your first line. (EDIT: wow, this is not an exaggeration. An adjacent link confirms it. Currently eating my words.) True, 700,000 i
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by gamache 18y ago
Is it wrong to dislike when features are removed from a website? Is removal of features and reinstating the single stream of everything, a la Facebook circa 2004, "amazing"?
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by gamache 18y ago
The new "constant stream of updates" does not work as well as the previous Live Feed feature. I personally find the new design not just less "addictive" but also quite repulsive. Seeing a stream of fifteen "Jane Doe just gave Joey Someshi
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by gamache 18y ago
Selection bias exists, but it doesn't explain away numbers like "700,000" and "94%". The fact is that Facebook pissed off a huge number of their users, for seemingly no good reason, as the previous design was quite popular and functional
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by gamache 18y ago
Yeah, maybe it's better than Twitter, but it's not as good as it was a month ago. They have removed the organizational features which brought me back to the site after several years of avoiding it. I can't see why they would want to "catch
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Facebook's Lousy Facelift, or how Facebook is playing catch-up to its runner-up(huffingtonpost.com)
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by gamache 18y ago
I've read Perl Best Practices . Good book. I don't agree with every single one (the deep ?: structures in particular) but everything in there is very sane. I've also found that with http://perldoc.perl.org , I don't have to refer to th
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by gamache 18y ago
Sounds good, but at this point I take any Perl 6 date projections with a big fat salt lick. Years ago, I slacked on updating my 2nd edition Camel Book to 3rd edition, figuring that I would just wait for the Perl 6 version. Ten years ago.
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by gamache 18y ago
Halfway complete means Perl 6 will drop sometime around 2020. Sounds about right to me.
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by gamache 18y ago
Oops, I stand corrected. All the news I read skipped that part. But I too can't imagine how the original hardware would not be able to handle it...
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by gamache 18y ago
If I understand correctly, MMS will be available on all iPhones once they are updated to iPhone OS 3.0. It was never a hardware issue.
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by gamache 18y ago
Passenger is a big win. I once ran nginx + mongrel_cluster, and while it probably had less overhead than the equivalent Apache + Passenger setup, it was more than cancelled out by the effort necessary to babysit the mongrel processes. Thi
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by gamache 18y ago
The bitch of it is that he's right so often. It's like John McEnroe on the tennis court.
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by gamache 18y ago
No, that is incorrect. I’ve actually built a huge number of circuits, read tons of books and learned how to program a PIC basic stamp. I fucking love this shit. Then: I had to do my own research and found that, no, these guys get some of
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by gamache 18y ago
Yeah, California's a great place for a wound-up guy who doesn't want to hang with entrepreneurs.
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by gamache 18y ago
"Where do you get your parts?" is a lot more like "What editor do you use?" than "How do you declare a variable?". It's cool as hell to find a parts shop you never knew existed, or to find a useful component that Radio Shack sells, or to f
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by gamache 18y ago
Fancy typist.
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by gamache 18y ago
Perhaps both schemes could be supported, using a system of symbolic links, or in its most elite case maybe even a specialized user-space filesystem. Now you have me thinking...
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by gamache 18y ago
Except that particular measure was designed to discourage casual visitors from being interested in HN, for the sake of reducing the load on the server. And it was a joke at that.
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by gamache 18y ago
1. If you upvoted all the Erlang articles yesterday, it has something to do with pg. I like Erlang too, but much of what made it to the front page was bullshit. 2. A day's worth of Erlang madness will do nothing for HN other than squash
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by gamache 18y ago
....but does it count as a hack??
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by gamache 18y ago
Ah, gotcha. The Cult of Paul strikes.
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by gamache 18y ago
And it continues. Is this legitimate?
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by gamache 18y ago
Apple Announces Incredible New iPod shuffle iPod shuffle is based on Apple’s incredibly popular shuffle feature Pod shuffle is the smallest music player in the world and is incredibly easy to clip to almost anything This all sounds pr
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by gamache 18y ago
Holy mother! Dextromethorphan and pot do not even compare, in terms of effects. That said, I am glad you found it to be of use. My several experiences with DXM did not have such positive effects, so I have learned something here. It's al
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by gamache 18y ago
Vaporizers are the premium delivery device for marijuana. Virtually all the harmful components of smoke are simply not produced, and virtually all the desirable components of the herb are released. I never owned one, but my time near a Vo
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by gamache 18y ago
You can consume alcohol nearly every day and still drink in moderation.
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by gamache 18y ago
Not a pedal, but do you know the TriAxis? http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Rackmount-Preamps/Tri...
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by gamache 18y ago
And Hal Abelson knows how to give fledgling programmers that Eureka moment in spades. This article mirrors my experiences very closely -- I came into the class Spring 1998 with BASIC and assembly experience, thinking I knew how to program.

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