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by jakobe 13y ago
Unfortunately this doesn't work in mobile Safari...
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by jakobe 13y ago
You are right, that is a rather weak claim in an otherwise very well written article. I especially don't see how higher pain-and-suffering damages would have helped stopping this criminal sooner.
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by jakobe 13y ago
But unfortunately it takes lots and lots of money to apply Red Bulls branding strategy.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Watching TV shows in English (with English subtitles) is a great idea, but I'm not so sure about The Simpsons. I speak English fairly well and I still have some trouble understanding the Simpsons (Homer especially). There are other sho
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by jakobe 13y ago
I wish HN had a "star" button or so to keep track of insightful comments.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Concerning the click tracking thing, there's a browser extension for Safari that replaces the tracking links with the real links. This extension has made Google search a more reliable for me. Maybe there's a similar extension avai
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PG Commander, a PostgreSQL client for OS X(eggerapps.at)
2 points by jakobe 13y ago|0 comments
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by jakobe 13y ago
Not really. Google's autocorrect regularly 'corrects' my search term to something else. Or Google suggests a similar search, where by "similar" they mean "the same search but with the most important term missin
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by jakobe 13y ago
Why is it not okay to use tables for styling purposes? Why is it okay to use multiple nested divs, but not the table/tr/td tags? Are there any practical reasons, besides the goal of making the markup more 'semantic'? Are
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by jakobe 13y ago
Interesting fact: How evidence was obtained is only important in the US. For example, in Austria where I live, it doesn't matter how the evidence was obtained. In Austria, if someone illegally spies on you, the information they collect
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by jakobe 13y ago
You are right, I don't know much about Torvalds. He might be a very patient person most of his life. Like any public figure, he is probably badly misrepresented on the web. But what makes me sad is that when he does snap, there's
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by jakobe 13y ago
I did not mean to call Torvalds names. Apparently I wasn't careful enough in my wording. I meant to express my frustration how the community often accepts socially inacceptable behaviour from accomplished people. When "normal&quot
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by jakobe 13y ago
I find verbal abuse in private just as inacceptable as in public.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Torvalds seems to be a real bully. And it hurts me to see all these responses justifying his behaviour, as if this is the way it must be. Just look at this message: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1TUvG3
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by jakobe 13y ago
We are talking about early stage startups here. I don't think it's a good idea to hire dedicated tech support people at an early stage startup. Hiring tech support staff is for later, when the product is solid, and the developers
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by jakobe 13y ago
"As strong as styrofoam" doesn't really mean anything. Are you talking about tensile strength? Or about resistance to shear forces? Compressibility? I haven't found much data on the mechanical properties of aerographite,
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by jakobe 13y ago
The author doesn't understand the concept of a blimp. The only reason for filling it with helium (or hydrogen) is to counter the atmospheric pressure. Since aerographite doesn't do that (it would just collapse under the pressure)
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by jakobe 13y ago
First thing I did was disable all email notifications. Not a trivial task: I had to turn off like 30 different types of notifications one by one. However, these sly bastards just kept coming up with new notifications, that were turned on by
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by jakobe 13y ago
All my other tools don't track everything I do with them, don't sell the information to advertisers, and don't spam me with dozens of emails. I don't get why it's necessary to justify not using such a "tool&quo
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by jakobe 13y ago
The problem is that there are no signs on the fence explaining why it is there, and the people who raised it are nowhere to be found, and the most likely reason for its existence is unreasonable paranoia.
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by jakobe 13y ago
One technique for reducing customer support email is to write extensive documentation. Whenever I get a specific question more than once, I'll add the answer to the docs. It turns out that most customers read the docs before emailing,
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by jakobe 13y ago
I always feel that the most difficult part of any project is its design, the implementation is rarely difficult. By design I mean both the conceptual design (data model, user flow), and user interface design. It takes a lot of time to come
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by jakobe 13y ago
> How dare you assume that your competitors have the time and skill to copy you. Unfortunately your competitors don't need your skills to copy you; once you make your thing public, everybody will see how to do it and copying your pr
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by jakobe 13y ago
I don't get how a cardiac stress test can cost 2000USD. You put someone on a home trainer, let them pedal for 20 minutes, and look at their EKG. It's usually performed by a nurse, and the doctor spends 30 seconds looking at the EK
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Don't launch on HN(eggerapps.at)
3 points by jakobe 13y ago|1 comments
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by jakobe 13y ago
The most important thing about a codebase is how it is designed at a large scale, its architecture. Using a framework often dictates a specific architecture, and this might lead to more manageable code bases. But you can come up with a clea
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by jakobe 13y ago
That's why I still use vanilla PHP & Postgres for web projects. I don't use any hot new technologies, I don't use frameworks, I don't do unit testing. I try to use as little client side JS as possible. Whenever possi
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by jakobe 13y ago
I have to disagree, wine is bullshit. If you are going to use Windows apps, just use Windows!
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by jakobe 13y ago
Why is it not a fair comparison? Someone claimed travellers in the EU were subject to similar surveillance as in the US. As far as I understand, you need to show an ID even for domestic flights in the US.
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by jakobe 13y ago
I'm not sure I like the approach of serving files from your repository. I'm not sure about how git works in detail, but are repository updates even atomic? When I deploy my website, I use a different approach: My webroot is just a

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