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by jcurbo 14y ago
Sure. Reader - Self-hosted Fever, although currently evaluating Tiny Tiny RSS. Checked out Newsblur a while back but felt like the interface was too busy/animated (same reason I left Reader). TTRSS feels a lot like Bloglines of old (which
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Show HN: My MVP bought 9000 dogs a t-shirt! This makes a nice second monitor screensaver if you have the screen space.
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I moved off of Google Calendar and Google Reader (and have never used GMail) for exactly these reasons several months ago. I do not want to be dependent on free services or ones that might go away. I know this could be true for any compan
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Well, what he is likely referring to is the fact that the Air Force has majorly cut and consolidated support fields in the past decade. There used to be finance personnel at every base to help you if you had any problems with your regular
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Former USAF officer here, and what you said absolutely applies to the Air Force. It trickles down to the enlisted ranks too. I think right around the time I got out (2010) there was a big push to cut back on useless training AF-wide but I
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Great article, I am close to doing something similar myself, except with Hakyll and a Linode node instead of Github Pages. Pandoc (what Hakyll uses on the backend) gives the Markdown input a bit more flexibility than normal, I think.
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Ah, I had no idea. I saw it explicitly defined in someone's vimrc and thought, hey that's a good key to use.
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I use \ for <leader>, doesn't seem to clash with anything I do on a regular basis (but I'm not a power user by any means)
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I think Eve did two things to embrace their online economy - hired a real-life economist to oversee changes and study it, and brought buying and selling of timecards with in-game currency into the game directly. Previously, you could buy t
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Case studies of commercial Haskell usage(fpcomplete.com)
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Do you mind laying out your specific concerns? I'm not the developer of news:yc but I use it every day and like it a lot, and I think the user experience is fine and have never felt hampered or awkward using it.
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To me it's about the existence of the nil pointer itself. If there is a pointer, it is guaranteed to be valid by the type system. The other case (which would be represented by a nil or null pointer in other languages) is represented by th
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Sure, but what's wrong with his approach? POSIX sh supports all the things you need to do 'if GNU grep run this, else if BSD grep run that' - functions, case statements, conditionals. He's not talking about building up major libraries in
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iTunes is available on Windows and does content syncing with multiple devices just fine.
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Citations: Pandoc has its own format for citations that it translates to LaTeX etc as needed. Most Markdown editors I have seen or used don't have any support for pandoc's extended features. So while I am sure this could be possible with
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What about writing it in Markdown then doing conversion to LaTeX using pandoc? I'm working on a research paper this way and it is working out nicely. Pandoc allows you to include a LaTeX template that you can customize to your heart's con
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Since he's a vet, have him talk to the VA. They have this http://vetsuccess.gov/ and especially this http://www.benefits.va.gov/vow/ Also see if he has service-related disability and thus can use VA Vocational Rehab. http://www.vba.va
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Or maybe not, if it's the same case as Homeworld: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106540
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I agree. It was a bit 'easier' in that there were features like automatically vacuuming up all resources on a map once a mission was complete. The graphics were more modern (not that Homeworld 1 had any problems in that department) and I
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My bet is that Red Faction comes along with Volition.
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I'm actually quite pleased with that, Sega seems like a good home for Relic. They seem to do ok with The Creative Assembly (Total War games). Homeworld 3 please :)
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Rather interesting because Scott James Remnant was a longtime Debian and Ubuntu developer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_James_Remnant
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Actually I think just having the head tracking for your view, while sitting in a fixed cockpit with your hands on static controls (HOTAS), will make this a killer application for flight sims and similar simulations. There's already head tr
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On Brinksmanship(dankaminsky.com)
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Definitely interested. I've been looking at FRP for a school project. I haven't done a lot of investigation yet, mainly just branching off http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functional_Reactive_Progr... , saving bookmarks and reading pap
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It doesn't stand for anything in normal speech. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/blob?q=blob In the context of 'binary blob' I think it would be clear it just means an amorphous mass of bits and not some Jargon File defin
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What? The b in blob does not stand for binary.
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Ok, I had time to check and it was apparently this ep. http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/93
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Marco Arment talked about this in some detail on Build and Analyze a while back. (Can't look up the EP number right now unfortunately, sorry)
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Fever's scoring doesn't really work for me. I think my requirement is much like yours - I just need to be able to skim quickly through content. I can read quickly and skip over items of no interest. It helps to keep my list of feeds culled

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