hashhar

56 ms·

1. 541.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   Arch also does it. The first time I encountered this was when I accidentally deleted my EFI partition and was unable to boot. Boot into live media, chroot, run grub-install and rejoice.
2. 542.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   In case someone wonders where this is from -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc
3. 543.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   But then any Windows Update would wipe out that driver.
4. 544.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   SO doesn't focus on CS, they focus on solving problems like "How to get better replication on postgres?" etc. This is also why books like SICP, TAOCP and CLRS seem to be missing.
5. 545.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   Most of the poor (and the rich too) here (I mean in India) look at such social programs as nothing more than cash-grabs. I have known people who make money by registering for multiple CNG connections and distributing them to other people in
6. 546.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   I find this [1] one quite amazing as well. 1: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...
7. 547.▲
   Increasing the limit of number of columns from 1024 to 16384 in LibreOffice Calc(niocs.github.io)

   1 points by hashhar 10y ago|0 comments
8. 548.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   You seem to have articulated all my thoughts perfectly. The thing about parsing text is a very huge pain point for me because I've had some tool change their output (and unicode issues) which broke some scripts. The structured nature o
9. 549.▲
   by hashhar 10y ago

   For one, I can do away with all of the text parsing that is prone to breakage in case a tool changes their output somewhat (or god help me - tools that can't handle unicode properly). The power of bash actually comes from the GNU coreu
10. 550.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Totally off topic but the way you used 'spirit away' made me realise the title for Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away". I never bothered to look it up and felt it was about ghost 'spirits'.
11. 551.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    .NET Core does have this and allows distributing the runtime, your classes as a standalone executable. It is obviously larger than just the class files and dlls but works great for portability.
12. 552.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Firefox Nightly has been saying that for almost over 8 months now. I think there were issues regarding the "too many warnings make people blind" stance. But I'm happy it finally made it into release.
13. 553.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    StackExchange is the reddit of Q and A. You can find just about anything, and even start a new one if you find it's missing. The important part is answer percentages, quality of answers and the behaviour of people. StackExchange websit
14. 554.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Check this experimental addon from Mozilla. https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/activity-stream
15. 555.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Is there a website which collects/links to such anecdotes and surfaces interesting ones? I would to read more such stories.
16. 556.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Thanks for the information. I've been running only Nightly for over a year now and hence my misinformation. That logic does seem sound though but would be better implemented if any change to any preference that's not visible in th
17. 557.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Those are really great points you brought up. They went to the back of my head after all these years. I think they dropped Hello altogether. Extension signing is not forced though, can be toggled from about:config. In my opinion WebExtensio
18. 558.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Could you elaborate on some anti-user stuff that Firefox and Safari do? I'd like to know. I do consider Firefox comparatively more open than Chrome though, so I may have my biases.
19. 559.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    I'd have to say that Firefox did this much better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13493407
20. 560.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Seems to be some issue with the website. I can't cURL the file properly. It fails with "connection interrupted".
21. 561.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Check this out. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
22. 562.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Couldn't that be rectified with a Parts of Speech tagger? Or am I overlooking something?
23. 563.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Firefox is secure against this. FF needs you to right click an input field and select an identity to use for autofill. But Safari does it in the most elegant way. They show a popup with all the information that will be autofilled and ask yo
24. 564.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Firefox works that way and is in my view a much saner default. The best solution used to be in Opera long ago where they showed a little dropdown with the information that was going to be autofilled. You could accept it or deny it.
25. 565.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Could you provide some more information or maybe ideas for a better system? From what I've experienced as a casual user on SO (<200 rep in over a year), most of the times I (or anybody else) am downvoted is because: 1. My question w
26. 566.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    I see the same with StackOverflow. Most of the engineering decisions they take are widely discussed on podcasts and blogs by the employees and they try to write detailed writeups of why they do what they do and how. I think it has carried o
27. 567.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    This is actually not the launch post. This is the launch post [1]. 1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/05/31/introducing-hyperd...
28. 568.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    I agree. It has started to kind of happen to OpenLiveWriter [1]. [1]: https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/
29. 569.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    That's a bashism I think and hence not as portable as POSIX shells.
30. 570.▲
    by hashhar 10y ago

    Queue management (really great). Ability to extract titles from DVDs.