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by jeorgun 13y ago
I'm noticing a trend recently of accounts created seemingly for the sole purpose of insulting a specific post / comment, and it's beginning to seriously irritate me. Does anyone know why this seems to be on the rise, and if t
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I'm getting similarly horrible performance on Chromium what-I-assume-is-latest (32.0.1700.107) on Arch Linux; Firefox has no performance issues but doesn't actually render all of the CSS being showcased.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
For the record, Dolphin has all of those features as well (although text-path-by-default and open-zipfile-as-folder both need to be enabled manually).
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Just to add to this, even for the special-compile-flags case, you shouldn't need to go the manual-make road; you can easily customize packages with the ABS ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS ) and use them l
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by jeorgun 13y ago
As a student, I have no idea how Moodle is from a professor's standpoint, but from a student's it's infinitely preferable to D2L, at least. I've never used Blackboard either, but nobody seems to think that it's appr
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by jeorgun 13y ago
While I agree that the name 'bro' was incredibly poorly chosen, I think the use of 'curl' may have less to do with weight-lifting analogies than the fact that it's an incredibly complex command with a 2280-line manp
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by jeorgun 13y ago
While I don't know that it's difficult to teach OOP in the sense of 'objects exist' in Python, I do think it's more difficult to teach a lot of tthe concepts associated with OOP, because the way it's done in Py
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by jeorgun 13y ago
The arrows do become higher-res at 200%, if you're having serious readability issues. Or you could do something with Stylish or the like.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
You can pass Ruby methods around; the syntax is just ugly, and it isn't really used: def call_on_two fn fn.call 2 end call_on_two 1.method(:+) #=> 3 The problem with [1, 2, 3].map(:function_name) is just
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by jeorgun 13y ago
It's the only unique bit, though. Nothing they're saying about systemd is exactly new material, whether for Debian or anyone else.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Wait, did they just release the Aura/ChromeOS desktop as a Metro app?
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Isn't this pretty much ChromeOS? * Obviously built with online services in mind * OS is automatically updated from the web * All (or most— downloads are sill local) data / config / etc. automatically synced with Google accoun
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Out of curiosity: what intent would you say is communicated by choosing references over pointers, or vice versa? I'm relatively new to C++, but I haven't noticed any real difference beyond personal preference.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I'd imagine he only reason adblocking is still as effective as it is is because it's used by so small a number of users. If it would ship by default, advertisers would have a much greater incentive to work around it, and ruin it e
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I agree--- if any author were to use `he/she' consistently, I'd probably find their writing quite annoying. Still, that hardly means they'd have no other ways of being gender-neutral ;)
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Much though I love the idea of extraterrestrial airships, wouldn't an airship be even less effective than heavier-than-air machines in an incredibly thin atmosphere like Mars'?
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by jeorgun 13y ago
National pride, I think. By the 19th century it was generally acknowledged that Antiqua typefaces were more legible, but they were perceived as insufficiently German or whatever. In any case, Fraktur probably would be a lot easier to read t
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by jeorgun 13y ago
The red marks are used to decorate (or maybe indicate) capital letters.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
In fact blackletter was generally considered more difficult to read than other scripts (that's one of the reasons Italic became so popular, IIRC). But it's also incredibly compact, which is a big deal when paper (or parchment, o
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by jeorgun 13y ago
``Mozilla/5.0'' doesn't seem to mean anything much— it's in Chrome's (and Konqueror's!) default user agent as well.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Going by Neal Stephenson, surely the scholar-class would be the Morlocks in this particular analogy :P
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by jeorgun 13y ago
The main answer seems to be `domain squatting'. Obviously this is a definite concern, but couldn't it also be solved by having TLD owners instituting some requirement to the effect of ``if you've owned your domain for over a
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Tangential, I know, but sure it's a word: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whiningly
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Which probably accounts (in part) for Reddit's low conversion rates— a significant portion of the page-views will be from people not in `programming-mode', compared with almost none from HN.
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Same thing's happening to me (with the same score, at that!). Is there any way (short of clearing cookies) to reset it?
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I think the specific case of ligatures isn't a failure in strings per se, but a failure in Unicode in that it includes them in the first place. What "ﬁ".upper() (or whatever) should do is kind of ambiguous. The following does
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by jeorgun 13y ago
No, it's operating in place: def append_world(str) str << " world" end a = "hello" append_world(a) a #=> "hello world"
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Chrome's tab shape didn't exactly originate in a vacuum, though. https://www.google.com/search?tbs=imgo%3A1&tbm=isch&q=manila... It seems slightly disingenuous to claim that every use of non-square tabs is
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by jeorgun 13y ago
Excellent! I'm glad to hear it. Yeah— is there a better way I should be doing it? (Also, as an aside, I've been a huge fan of your work with Firefox for years, so, uh, thanks for everything you've done on it).
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by jeorgun 13y ago
I only hope they're also getting rid of GTK icons on the main chrome. They make (unthemed) Firefox on a high-DPI screen completely unusable. (Why? Scaling up page content (via layout.css.devPixelsPerPx) also scales up chrome, including

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