jarek

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by jarek 14y ago
I'd bet i has been used to denote the imaginary unit long before it was used as a loop counter in programming languages. Wikipedia appears to date the former to sometime in the 18th century.
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by jarek 14y ago
> The inverted-T has never made any sense to me. It makes it easy to keep your fingers on left and right, but you can only easily have a single finger on either up or down. Contracting fingers to slide between up and down keys is a lot
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by jarek 14y ago
It can, of course, if you put in the work to make it do so. Presto already has had that work done. I'm not sure doing the work for Webkit would be worth the reward, especially considering they wouldn't be in control of iOS Webkit (controlle
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by jarek 14y ago
I'm not sure Turbo would be available on the Webkit version. It seems like a feature quite deeply integrated into the engine.
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by jarek 14y ago
Paypal 2.0
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by jarek 14y ago
And if you want to switch from a different app into the other Chrome window?
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by jarek 14y ago
The alt-tab behaviour is borderline unworkable for anyone who's used Windows or Linux windows managers before 2011 and is trying to work with a case like several terminal windows and a browser window. My GNOME 2/XFCE/MATE setup has one bar
728.
by jarek 14y ago
xfce improved my experience of ubuntu considerably as well and the install was trivial too (sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop). alt-tab works there!
729.
by jarek 14y ago
It took forever to get Square or Stripe outside of the U.S., and they don't even store your money for long. I think you far underestimate difficulty of "scaling" banks across jurisdictional borders.
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by jarek 14y ago
Discussion last time around http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924537
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by jarek 14y ago
So, you're not a fan of Seattle, Portland, NYC, or moving outside the U.S., then?
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by jarek 14y ago
Professional services and agency world, for all its faults, tends to be pretty good about specifications.
733.
by jarek 14y ago
I've owned a touchscreen Kobo, with no page turn buttons, since May. It's just fine. No undue fingerprint smudges or damage, no trouble turning pages.
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by jarek 14y ago
That issue might as simple as an incorrectly applied heat shield or heatsink pad, hard to tell without more detail.
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by jarek 14y ago
> Blackberry's were perfect for the business person on the go -- constant access to needed email. But they never really offered anything for the non-business user. This is not true. The chat/SMS experience was excellent, BBM or otherwis
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by jarek 14y ago
Hm... apparently I can't do math in my head :(
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by jarek 14y ago
All reasons to watch them fall, none grounds to declare them dead yet.
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by jarek 14y ago
> You can't buy any decent laptop without a wide-screen You can - just not a new one. There's plenty that can still be done with a T60p with a C2D and 3 GB of RAM.
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by jarek 14y ago
RIM will be really dead when articles on how dead it is no longer make #2 on Hacker News. As it is, there's obviously still eyeballs to be had dumping on them and repeating over and over how uncool they are. I wonder why?
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by jarek 14y ago
> Source? This seems extremely anecdotal. Source is the darn kids on his lawn.
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by jarek 14y ago
I had a similar experience and judging by other comments it seems pretty common. School is really good for this because it provides both goals and immediate deadlines. You want to graduate and to do that you have to do this assignment for T
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by jarek 14y ago
You can check out anytime you like
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by jarek 14y ago
The anti-Japanese grudge does run fairly deep, but as far as I can see it seems to be slowing significantly in younger people. The parents of people I went to school with (graduated university 2010) might hold one, but my friends are much m
744.
by jarek 14y ago
I wouldn't really be into it for the money, just the mentorship and publicity. $137 worth of mentorship and publicity.
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by jarek 14y ago
six successful applicants at $37 each = $201
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by jarek 14y ago
Thanks! I'll reiterate obilgic's question since I don't know if your showdead is on: what is the ownership situation before, or in absence of, subsequent fundraising? Would a company be considered automatically split into some number of sha
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by jarek 14y ago
You just need a more risk-seeking landlord and grocer.
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by jarek 14y ago
Can someone more in touch with corporate finance explain what an uncapped convertible note means for ownership and operation of a company? Serious question.
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by jarek 14y ago
A hang-out on IRC
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by jarek 14y ago
Korean at least is an alphabet fairly easily entered via a standard qwerty keyboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_South_Korea.svg The letters are composed into blocks describing syllables, rather than strings describing words as i

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