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by idle_processor 14y ago
Multiple windows with <= 14 tabs/window. I don't push 200, but 80 isn't rare for me (going by TooManyTabs extension count). IME, Firefox slows down much faster than Chrome when browsing this way (on Win7-64 w/ 4-8GB of RAM).
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Couple questions: 1) What differentiates steerway from http://android.stackexchange.com/ ? 2) Why is /collections included in the nav if it's NYI?
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by idle_processor 14y ago
>For some reason, it's always assumed that science fiction is about the future. Isn't steampunk essentially science fiction that's set in the past, near the industrial revolution?
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by idle_processor 14y ago
More room for vulnerabilities, less consistent user experience, and all the other annoyances Flash and Java applets bring to the table. Sounds great.
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Boolean operators for on-page text finding. E.g., being able to search for "goose|geese", since the pluralization doesn't involve a common root.
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by idle_processor 14y ago
I have not found ack[0] to be a drop-in replacement for grep, even when dealing with code. However, you may find it worth investigating. [0] http://betterthangrep.com/
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Don't try to constrain me with your personal measure of temporal granularity, man! Time is a continuous domain, so they don't really go one anything at a time. (Well, unless physiology is shown to have some kind of fundamental clock period.
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Yes, but the context was value systems. Cosmology is a separate domain.
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by idle_processor 14y ago
In the absence of deities, why call it a religious system instead of an ethical one?
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Diablo II's levels provided more than just stat boosts: there were skill points, and likely changes in level-based mechanics underlying damage taken by player characters. D2's uniques and runewords were more common and reliably useful than
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by idle_processor 14y ago
Why use the A record, rather than MX?
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by idle_processor 14y ago
>by flaunting social convention and dressing down http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flouting
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by idle_processor 15y ago
The author doesn't mention that buying from companies¹ perceived as evil incurs an $I cost. In the same fashion one wants to support indie devs, there's resistance to feeding the beast responsible for bad market direction. It's basically a
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by idle_processor 15y ago
The email address field is a bit too short for the email address I wanted to use. Some universities force students to use cumbersomely long emails addresses; e.g., California State University Long Beach makes its students use firstname.last
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by idle_processor 15y ago
>Geeks love IRC, but it comes with a few hassles, mainly having to host it, that have led teams away from using it in favor of easier IM solutions. The nature of IRC's channel-level organization¹ obviates the need to set up independent
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Swearing is also cultural/personal, and correlates with familiarity. People will swear more among friends than with strangers. "[S]wearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority" implies people respect their friends les
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Agreed. 1) I'm not sure what made Apple feel that their video codec warranted a home in the control panel. I don't forgive DivX for this, either. 2) They put their personal aesthetic before usability in a big way. E.g., iTunes was unusably
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by idle_processor 15y ago
It feels like the author is giving Apple an undue free pass. He mentions Microsoft and Yahoo as other companies who've failed him with bad releases, and the subtext seems to be that Apple hasn't done significant wrong. To do so conveniently
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by idle_processor 15y ago
>I have a pet theory on the whole thing. Humans are pretty much pattern matching machines. I get the feeling that a certain percentage of individuals in abscense of a known crisis will value the pattern over basic feelings. That's the c
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Here's a gross oversimplification showing the possibility (not actuality) of something like this's occurrence. 1) Suppose the government sponsors $100 out of every student's $103 tuition. 2) Suppose that $3 of that $103 tuition goes towards
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Zach Weiner of SMBC-Comics.com did an AMA on reddit and said that he makes a living off of, "Mostly ads, though t-shirts sales are a decent percentage as well" [1]. He lists the ad networks he uses in the AMA. You could try asking him for m
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by idle_processor 15y ago
I think MS's primary model, for development tools, involved targeting management and enterprise, above programmers. University outreach shows they're not entirely neglecting coders. It seems like being the hot new thing is less critical tha
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Some people use expensive hardware as a status symbol, and having something expensive with a flashy UI will probably appeal to them. I don't know how common this type of person is. Others spend a lot on hardware to eke out as much performan
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by idle_processor 15y ago
I occasionally "hide" bills in selected sections of textbooks I've been meaning to read. It serves as a perk or secondary means of positive reinforcement (the primary being learning interesting/useful stuff). It also indirectly brings the m
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by idle_processor 15y ago
IANAL, but this sounds like the idea behind Mens rea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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by idle_processor 15y ago
a yota an iota
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Email registration won't always fix retention problems. In general, if a site forces me to register, and I either (a) don't trust the site ownership/security, or (b) don't yet intend to become a long-term user, I will fall back to using a
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by idle_processor 15y ago
302 won't break bookmarks. Most users get taken to where they meant to go, without noticing the domain rewrite.
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Hacker News comments are useful. Consider making the # comments oval a link that opens the HN thread in the right-hand pane.
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Google Reader didn't die like Wave; that implies some level of success.

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