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by gilgad13 15y ago
So basically implement a system like Slashdot? I think that the vaccine HN had was size. Just like a modern republic vs. ancient Athens, HN has grown to the point where the obvious answer just doesn't seem to work. I think that Slashdot h
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by gilgad13 15y ago
I hope it actually presents itself to the computer as an USB optical drive. Now, is that worth $100? Probably not, as the number of computers which do support booting from USB cd. drives but not USB flash drives is pretty low. Edit: Though
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by gilgad13 15y ago
If you search from inside vim, it will load the results into the quickfix list. This means that it jumps you to the first result, and `:cn` and `:cp` will take you to the next and previous results, respectively. This is much easier than se
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by gilgad13 15y ago
Grandparent might have been saying that while that is close enough for now, as you pointed out with your allusion to Facebook, that won't be enough to keep it excursive for long (ie. its not exclusive because of a core feature, but rather b
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by gilgad13 15y ago
Not to mention that Skype has a lot of business users. I don't see them migrating to a social network.
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by gilgad13 15y ago
Downloads, or just streams?
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by gilgad13 16y ago
I personally use vim, and have gotten very used to the action+movement commands and the modal behavior. However, I am very jealous of emacs' integration with other OS tools. Nothing in vim comes close to emacs integration with gdb and lisp
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by gilgad13 16y ago
There was a whole section related to bad coding practices, so I don't think this article was as simple as "Devs awesome; users suck".
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by gilgad13 16y ago
> True, but he didn't want to buy 20 companies. Do you think it's reasonable for a man to ask 20 women to marry him, based on the premise of "19 of them will probably say no"? Oh, come on. Do you think its reasonable to try to buy a ca
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by gilgad13 16y ago
Well, perhaps, but I don't think this big fuss is coming from GPL advocates.
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by gilgad13 16y ago
Reminds me of the success Steam has had fiddling with their pricing structure. Can't find references now, but reports say that they've been ridiculously successful with it. Though I assume that Valve consults with the publishers before put
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by gilgad13 16y ago
I noticed that the migrants he was tracking were all "foreign faculty who had their first US faculty appointment after 1993". I would think that receiving a faculty appointment would be a relatively powerful reason to stay. I do realize th
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by gilgad13 16y ago
So moral of the story: Making unreasonable demands and threatening to completely cut off funding for related projects works as a way to force a contractor to deliver despite "setbacks" on your end? Looks like the suits won this one.
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by gilgad13 16y ago
I thought they were required to do this. Thus all the "How I Met Your Mother" websites. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother#Websites )
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by gilgad13 16y ago
So here is a situation that happened to me. A professor of mine has taught the same class year after year, and builds his tests for this year from last year's, changing only a few numbers. This professor also allows 1 8x11 "crib sheet" to
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by gilgad13 16y ago
I'd like to think that the point of your investigation isn't so much that Amazon will be pissed, but, "Look at how much we were able to find out about a random guy through just his username and blog post" I think most users have already acc
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by gilgad13 16y ago
The best comment I've heard on the free-ness of Android is: "Everyone thought that Android would usher in a new era of freedom for handset users. Unfortunately, it just turned out that Android is more open not for users, but for Carriers t
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by gilgad13 16y ago
This is pretty effective, ctrl-] takes me to the definition of any symbol. And with the appropriate plugin I get the same quality tab-complete I'd get with an IDE. If you need even deeper exploration, cscope will allow you to find files w
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by gilgad13 16y ago
Maybe I just don't get it, but the things keeping me tied to my apartment are my bed, shower and stove, not my shelves and shelves of physical media. I don't see how the digitalization of my live helps with those things.
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by gilgad13 16y ago
Wouldn't publishers already be doing this as most ebooks are physical books as well? I don't see how the format printed to (ie. physical book vs. ebook) matters. Its not the responsibility of the physical book printer to manage the handic