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Will the Chevy Volt really get 230 mpg?(sfgate.com)
6 points by joshuaxls 17y ago|8 comments
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
More important things in life, or at least more important things for this community. The top two stories right now are two dudes complaining on their blog. One giving the same old tired reasons why Apple is turning sour, and the other telli
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
Right on. That coupled with the fact that most intelligent and capable web developers in SF are looking for more than a salary w/ benefits.
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
I personally don't see this myself. I work for a profitable startup in SF and we've had a hell of a time finding good hires. The problem may be that we do PHP development and the market is saturated with ex-lifers who are Java and .NET afic
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
Hrm, I still see it on the Console tab. The thing that bothers me is now Firebug truncates long AJAX responses. I tend to work with heavy amounts of JSON data, so this renders the new Firebug useless to me.
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
Sorry, I was a bit vague. I also use grep -R to search through files. I meant searching for files. As in, I have hundreds of files and I want to quickly open bar.rb which is buried in some directly. In project.vim I type '^wh/bar.rb[ent
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
Why do you think Project.vim stinks? I've been using it for nearly a year now on a daily basis and I can't live without it. I tried your plugin out and it worked well, but I have no reason to switch. The one thing I can't do without is bein
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
Link to the entire, original article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9P7paNzS3... A $50 per ounce fee is nothing, especially considering that the price would plummet as the market would be flooded with suppliers. The l
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
Little competition? There are a TON of companies in this market space, many of them well established. Just off the top of my head: Super Rewards, Offerpal, Gambit, Peanut Labs, etc... And those companies are already driving down the margins
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
Good corrections, but you're still wrong about one thing. Super Rewards did NOT make 140 Mafia. lolplaying did.
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by joshuaxls 17y ago
You should never ever touch an arrow key when using Vim. If you are using hjkl for movement, hit 'l' to open a fold.
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
I think he's referring to how much it would cost if you paid for a server like that through a hosting provider.
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Generally I agree, but for the pedantic there are other issues. Tabs at the beginning of lines aren't a problem. But, for example, it's common to see multi-line declarations of, let's say, a hash where each line looks like this: key <ta
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Tabs are not fixed-width. Tabs are interpreted by the viewing application according to that application's settings. Two spaces are always two spaces.
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Yep, I loved that - cracked up every time he pointed out a bug. A great book on Romero and Carmack's journey at id: http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu... Kind of unrelated, but the second time I watched it I was
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
I think the idea of women going to bars for NSA relations is a bit degrading. The quality of a bar hookup is very low. I'm speaking anecdotally, but I doubt anyone will disagree: most infidelities happen with someone you know fairly well. T
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Am I missing something? Isn't Mechanical Turk the community of real people? Or do you think "we'll also use..." means that they're using something else? I didn't get that gist from the full quote: "After you send us a photo, we'll store it
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
It uses Mechanical Turk. http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/amazon-proves-i.html
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Yes, it was hacked. Here's the original post from a lesser hack earlier today with pg's response containing the "not a bank" quote: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=518752
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
As someone who has become fairly involved in the monetization of viral, online gaming, I can confidently say that it's not that unlikely for Socialmedia to claim numbers like that. My real beef with this post is the assertion that Faceboo
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Unruly teenagers? Come on. I can't be the only one who gets tired of the petty, smarmy anti-Reddit talk. It's just another site; we're not cults. And we're also not the old farts telling the "unruly teenagers" to get off our damn lawns, are
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a vim guy. When I get awe-struck comments from those looking over my shoulder, it's not about any plugins or IDE-like functionality, it's about how fast I'm editing text. Let's remind ourselves, that's the core function of a
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
I agree. I'm really irritated as well that when you click the any of the tabs while Safari is in the background, it will bring Safari to the foreground AND make that tab active. I primarily use the "title bar" area of my windows to switch a
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
If you're using curl to poke around headers, as the author suggests, use the -I flag instead of the -i flag. -I gives you the headers only.
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
I agree. For years I coded in tiny, non-anti-aliased fonts. Recently I switched to an anti-aliased font at a larger size and the difference is definitely real and positive. Less headaches, easier readability, more distance between my eyes a
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Ask HN: Favorite board games?
6 points by joshuaxls 18y ago|18 comments
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
Learning from 37signals is overrated.
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
If you like these, might I also suggest some other fascinating visualizations of the commit history of Python, Eclipse, Apache, and PostgreSQL: http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/ Link takes you to the homepage of the original aut
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with pretty much everything you've said here. There is no magic "Vim cheat sheet" for new Vim users. To understand the power of Vim, you have to understand the power of its parts. It reminds me of playing with K'NEX a
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by joshuaxls 18y ago
fantastic, and pg's essays are great. but why is this so important? please, please, please, please, please, please, please don't become sycophants. that's what makes these social link sites so terrible.

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