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by jpr 15y ago
I'm going to build my next site in UTF-8, just like news.ycombinator.com.
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by jpr 15y ago
Now you have two problems.
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by jpr 15y ago
I think part of the problem is that most industrialized nations have pushed for high percentage of the population to have a college/university degree, while not considering whether the degrees are needed for the jobs that are going to be av
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by jpr 15y ago
I presume that most people who have lots of tabs open, like I do, use addons that make finding tabs fast. I use Tab Kit to organize the tabs in trees, and Pentadactyl to give me fast search that is activated by pressing b. I can't imagine u
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by jpr 15y ago
Yay, let's link every service ever together, what could possibly go wrong!
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by jpr 15y ago
More accurate title would be "Something like, but not as useful or generic as, lambdas in gcc's dialect of C".
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by jpr 15y ago
While off-topic, this is relevant. I don't like it either, and I think there are many others who would agree. Have an upvote.
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by jpr 15y ago
How many times does irc need to be re-invented before it's considered fully invented?
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by jpr 15y ago
"Explore boobs in 3D" disappointed me.
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by jpr 15y ago
Firefox and Ubuntu: making sure that no-one ever again is confused whether or not FOSS might be usable for people who have other things to do than updating their software.
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by jpr 15y ago
If xterm, less, ls, vi and others would take 3 seconds to start, I would never get anything done. I think it's sad that people think that 3 seconds is fast (unless the program is loading some big data of course).
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by jpr 15y ago
Apparently one doesn't need to be awake, sane or sober to become an enterprise "programmer".
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by jpr 15y ago
> what happens if electric vehicles do become popular? That is a really strange question to ask. I think more appropriate question would be "what does it take for electric vehicles to become popular".
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by jpr 15y ago
What exactly is different between X11 emacs and win32 emacs? I haven't noticed anything significant.
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by jpr 15y ago
Yep :)
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by jpr 15y ago
I skimmed the whole thing before realizing I had parsed the headline wrong.
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by jpr 15y ago
Apparently he has had a mustache, so no guru status without facial hair yet: http://www.xb360info.com/images/herb_sutter.jpg
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by jpr 15y ago
Silverlight is irrelevant, has always been, will always be. Maybe it won't completely "go away", but anyone who is betting a farm on it is an idiot that deserves what is coming at him (yes, him, women wouldn't be that stupid).
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by jpr 15y ago
Probably not. But one thing I'd think is true is that no person that is primarily nice and sociable has ever done anything that has significantly advanced the state of anything worthwile.
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by jpr 15y ago
tl;dr anyone?
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by jpr 15y ago
Here's my guess: * people eat shit * people don't exercise, not even a little, like walking a couple of miles * doctors are too eager to medicalise everything so that they can put you on drugs
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by jpr 15y ago
Context-switching is slow, yes, but in the first example the cause of evilness is not context-switching, it's that you must program web apps' client side in JS.
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by jpr 15y ago
> the right meats There is no such thing as "wrong meat".
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by jpr 15y ago
Yet another case where "the common way" is wrong and disgusting. Nothing new here.
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by jpr 15y ago
There is no difference. That's why people who want to retain their sanity disallow Flash. And it's really fucking close that I don't disable all JS too.
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by jpr 15y ago
I disliked the article itself too, but find that the nice discussion it caused balances it out.
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Beware of online filter bubbles(wimp.com)
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by jpr 15y ago
I wish I could go all Dijkstra on this stupid "must upgrade everything all the time" -attitude that seems to pervade everyone.
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by jpr 15y ago
AFAICT, that's achievable with pointers, too.
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by jpr 15y ago
How often do you need to endure that 20-30 second startup time? Is it every time you change anything?

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