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by jokermatt999 14y ago
This could be very useful. From what I've seen of most intellectuals' personal sites, they are generally not that interested in putting too much work into a website for their material, they just want it on the internet so that it can be ref
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by jokermatt999 14y ago
You Are Not So Smart not only features great content, but it's also written in a very readable and understandable style. He also links to multiple high quality sources for every article. His pace has slowed down now that he's finished his b
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by jokermatt999 14y ago
Except when they killed that feature, they killed a community of people sharing. I'm friends with the same people on G+, but we all share a lot less now. Why? So that Google could promote G+.
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by jokermatt999 14y ago
TF2 is a very different style of FPS, except maybe for scout and soldier.
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set editor=(command line here), if you were curious. I've found you can easily check if an option for something exists by using :set and its nice autocompletion.
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
> That's the problem with the google boys, they're a one hit wonder. You don't consider GMail, their dominance in ads, Android's ubiquity, the YouTube acquisition, etc as successes? Because all of those seem to have improved vastly sinc
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
I like Python because I'm an inexperienced and infrequent programmer. While I took a few courses on programming (VB, Java), it wasn't til I discovered Python that I would actually code in my own time. All the boilerplate crap I had to deal
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Poe's Law makes satire difficult these days. With the huge amount of tech sites that post stories like this with a straight face, I actually wasn't sure it was satire, and I follow your blog pretty regularly. I thought it was out of charact
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
The population of HN isn't just anti-SOPA because it's fashionable. SOPA would directly affect small internet businesses by putting the onus of copyright policing on site owners. Considering how many of the HN startups have any user gener
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
That sounds likely to me. Part of the guidelines say "No current events", which probably led to people flagging it. I'd rather not comment on the story's appropriateness, but I'm pretty sure that's why.
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
It's also probably much, much easier to port to an interface that includes some physical controls. Minecraft uses a number of control on the PC (movement including crouching and jumping, interacting with M1/M2, inventory, menu). I can't ima
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Minecraft for iPhone doesn't exist, so that's out. Minecraft for PC has existed for months. I could see it drawing in new people with the promotion a new port gives, but I doubt it would be enough to cover development costs considering how
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
sho\_hn mentioned the ASE, and I think he's on target. An important thing to remember is that these are Android phones. Unless they're unusually locked down, you can install anything on them through .apk, and the market itself has fewer res
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
I'm not sure I'd agree with that last part. Perhaps hardware to some degree, but Android has lead in terms of software. Look at the intents system, notifications, and their implementation of multiple application support vs iOS. iOS may have
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
I disagree. Shame is a good deterrent to theft. Naming and shaming the thief could prevent future crimes. Furthermore, I don't see how putting someone's information on the internet is comparable to physically depriving someone of their prop
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
I've seen a lot of hostility in this thread to the perceived egotism of this act. I've also seen some people who dislike that the donations were used for something other than their intended purpose. Since my initial reaction was that he's i
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
My way of remembering its/it's is to associate it with his/hers rather than the typical 's. `The cat stepped on his foot.` `The cat stepped on its foot.` Still, I don't get annoyed at its/it's because it's such an easy mistake to make.
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I completely disagree. Criticism is telling someone there's something wrong with their project. Constructive criticism is telling someone what specific things should be changed, and in a helpful manner. "Your home
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
No, Chrome's extensions are basically the same as GreaseMonkey scripts (at least, that's the frequent comparison I've heard). Firefox's extensions have the full power of XUL and can radically change the browser. engage beating a dead horse
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
This is probably possible through some extensions and Firefox. The much loved TreeStyleTabs already has an option for "autohide the tab bar". If Pentadactyl/Vimperator don't already have an option for autohiding, it's probably pretty easy t
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
You have to approve being tagged in Google+. Yet another reason why I'd rather see them succeed than Facebook.
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Firefox does that in 5, at least as far as I can tell. It also updates addons silently. The only reason I've noticed things were being updated is addons that show a "what's new in this version!" page. For me (and apparently a large number o
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion for this, but here goes... Please don't bring this phrase to Hacker News. The only time to complain about downvotes is when you're sure you've been unjustly downvoted. I think it's completely reason
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Confirmation bias is a tough thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Persistence_o... I know about confirmation bias, so I should consciously look closer at things that confirm my prejudices, but it's not easy to remember. I
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Just out curiosity, how do Chrome users deal with multiple tabs? I always felt like Chrome's tab bar became useless when I was going through my RSS feeds, because tabs shrunk to nothing. Side tabs is kind of a solution, but the lack of hier
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
My thoughts on it: you can find humor anywhere on the internet. It's much harder to find decent discussion. When humor and decent discussion try to coexist, humor tends to crowd out the discussion. Why bother posting detailed information ab
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Relevant: Slacktivism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism That's not to say that doing things on the Internet are never useful activism, but often times they are used in place of actual action. Think "change your Facebook picture for
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
That study was done in 1989, without experts, before standardized keyboard shortcuts, and in a lab setting rather than actual usage. I really doubt its relevance today, and I'd like to see an updated look at it. I don't think it should be c
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
It's a difficult problem to explain in a typical narrative journalism style. Patching security is a good thing, yes. Being able to do what you want with your own phone, The Man be damned is also a good thing. Now, try to present both sides
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by jokermatt999 15y ago
Follow that with an assertion that individuals who are not themselves spiritual, most of which freely admit having little or no education on or experience with spiritual matters are qualified in any way to speak on spiritual matters. I'd

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