hiptobecubic

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by hiptobecubic 9y ago
The document was written by a Googler about Google and is being commented on by a Xoogler that literally just left the company. It's not a general statement about human incompetence. It's about Google specifically.
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by hiptobecubic 10y ago
Isn't this RCS?
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
Sure, I do agree that having a law like "don't rape people" is a positive thing. My argument is that I am not yet cynical enough to believe that the only way to prevent rape is to threaten people with an eternity of agony beyond all compreh
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
This is the kind of argument that has lead Americans to rate atheists as scarier, more dangerous people than violent fundamentalists. Just because you need to derive your sense of morality from a book doesn't mean everyone does. I find that
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
I vote we change the name of this website to Hacker "News".
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
Why does $83,000 have a bar twice as long as $94,000?
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
"I've learned my lesson and switched to Firefox." Good luck with that.
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
Wait for the froth to settle down and then dig it up again and pass it with virtually no contest later. Standard play and I don't see why it should be hailed as some kind of "victory for the internet".
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
Start the scroll-loading earlier, and make the loading notification at least 50% smaller. It's annoying.
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
I think part of the problem with Ubuntu's UX direction has been the extreme reliance on context for everything. Menus change location and contents, buttons change their behavior or just disappear, all in the name of 'sleek'. It drove me mad
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
I don't understand these articles that assume you understand what "two 2.40-gigahertz Intel Xeon E5645 6-core... and two NVIDIA M2050/C2050 448-core .... which reside on a Supermicro 2026GT0TRF motherboard" means, but didn't already know wh
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
This "issue" with the GPL is ridiculous. "Complying with the law is annoying and expensive, why would anyone bother?" Replace "GPL" with "OSHA" or "child labor laws" and the stupidity of this argument becomes readily apparent. You are licen
553.
by hiptobecubic 15y ago
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. Most of the time you can try the magic SysRq key combos to sync/unmount and reboot. Wikipedia has a nice article on it.
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by hiptobecubic 15y ago
Can't say I agree with this one.