jrajav

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   by jrajav 14y ago

   You can elegantly present advertising and other non-essential elements alongside the main content of a GUI interface. There is no elegant way to do this with a CLI interface since it is not a static interface, it is a stream of characters.
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   by jrajav 14y ago

   Via quantum entanglement, possibly? I honestly have no clue either, but they hint at entanglement, and they don't seem to be worried about observation: "Peng Zhang, another co-author and member of Zhang's research group, notes that a space-
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   What Microsoft would like 2012 design language to be, at least.
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   First thought: Ruh-roh, someone caught a bit of the Metro square-spam fever. Second thought: ... Okay, I might be a little bit excited to see how this plays out. (Particularly like the searching ideas.)
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   by jrajav 14y ago

   Google Talk is also the protocol for chatting on Google+ (That is, it's the same chat as on Gmail). I've used it for a while to talk with friends around the globe; it's a great place to centralize quick chats/messages and video hangouts. I
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   This would be great as long as it's an open, agnostic API and not just something cooked into the OS vendor's bundled apps.
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   by jrajav 14y ago

   http://webintents.org/share
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   by jrajav 14y ago

   10 people learn about techniques A, B, and C who didn't before. 10 other people start thinking in terms of metrics N1 and N2 who weren't before. We learn and improve collectively. I think that is a pretty amazing thing about the internet an
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   by jrajav 14y ago

   Silently fails if you make a syntax error. I accidentally pasted this without newlines and at first I thought it wasn't responding: #include <stdio.h>int main() { printf("Hello World"); }
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521384
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    Or switch to new Vim buffer, then pg<C-g>
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    Microsoft still supports Windows XP. Apple does not still support 10.5.
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    MSYS is much more workable than Cygwin, but it's still not a panacea. More of a placebo really.
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    When I saw the title and URL, I initially thought that it was an extension to integrate HN comments with the actual articles. That would be pretty cool too.
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    I think HN could do with a lot more Adventure Time references. +freaking1
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    I say "I was wrong" quite a lot in fact, and I think it's an important ability. Of course, it's easier when you've been called out on some trivia or an educated guess, but I'm not often confronted with something I said that is diametrica
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    It's an I'm Feeling Lucky query, accompanied by a bit of snark.
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&#... Not entirely sure I understand the problem here.
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    In Lion, I'm pretty sure this only works if you enable "Three Finger Drag" in the trackpad settings.
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    There may be problems with your line of pricing thinking, too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393817
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    Or that its vim bindings are TOO natural and thus call undue attention to the inevitable incompleteness of its vim "implementation"
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    One of the several reasons that I use Ctrl-[ or Ctrl-C. ;)
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    Google Tasks (The task mini-app in Gmail and Calendar) seems like it's been neglected for a while now. Before asking for workable Android and web clients, I would want tagging in addition to or instead of nested lists, and a little more eff
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    As long as we're being opinionated, I think it would be better to just call this what it is: a Taskpaper plugin for ST2. By the way, same thing for vim: https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    TL;DR: Kanban is neat. So is daily, habitual team-building. Not a ton that hasn't been hashed out before. Hey, whatever works for you! My team loves planned socializing, but to make it daily would seem like overkill. Some of us would object
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    The NDK includes gdb.
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    I've tried using the NDK too, specifically to compile the Objective C framework ObjFW [1] on one of the few platforms where it's not yet confirmed working. Unfortunately, the gcc they include in the NDK has Objective C disabled for seemingl
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    Even more OT, but Angry Birds is $0.99 on iOS and free (with ads) on Android to this day: https://www.google.com/search?&q=angry+birds+android+OR+... Just the nature of the different app ecosystems, really.
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    I can tell you from personal experience that there are many concrete reasons to dislike Vista. My family runs a small business out of the house and I was the go-to tech guy for all the laptops in the office. This can't be anything but anecd
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    by jrajav 14y ago

    In the context of web design, responsive means that the webpage adjusts elegantly to different browser form factors and navigation capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_Web_Design