jsonscripter

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by jsonscripter 17y ago
Arithmetic overflows and exceptions: humans and mathematics usually have a concept of numbers that can be arbitrarily big. Machines do not, they need to fit them into memory, usually into 32 or 64 bits worth of storage. Machines also gener
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
Did you know that return { something }; and return { something }; are not equivalent in Javascript?
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I'm happy just knowing I'm better at my speciality :D
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I'm sure there's a way to make users want to enter captchas, like by making it a game of some sort. It would be cool if each captcha was some sort of pun or riddle that the user had to answer. If they don't know, they get another one. It wo
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I’ve used mainstream image editors like Photoshop, Paint.NET and Gimp; some of my best friends are mainstream image editors. And when I saw Gimp I almost went blind. Children were weeping; fruit was bruising. The UI could kill small animal
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
Why not all of the start-up files though? There are loads of other things (such as scripts) that are not compressed...
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Ask HN: Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files?
5 points by jsonscripter 17y ago|14 comments
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I work on GPLd code at work, but it is not distributed, so that doesn't really count.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
How about this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602606 Create an online AJAX IDE for developing flash using the haXe language. It would be compiled and put together on the server, but the client would be open source and free as a des
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I think some employees either can't be bothered or don't understand it.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
What are the specific advantages?
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How to Back Up Gmail In Linux(mattcutts.com)
50 points by jsonscripter 17y ago|22 comments
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
You can't submit a bug without a specific problem. A title like "Multisearch breaks user trust" wouldn't fly.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
What I love about your comment is that your idea is already possible with today's Open Office. Just no one takes advantage of it.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I think we need to create an approval process for processes so that we can slow down the creation of processes.
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Fractal Explorer in Javascript(www-cs-students.stanford.edu)
1 points by jsonscripter 17y ago|0 comments
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
Sounds to me like the movie distributors should cut the middle man the way Fox cut out the middle man with Hulu.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
In bash, just press ctrl+c to get back to the bottom. Also, 'cd -' to get back and forth between your current directory and last directory is great for the edit/execute cycle.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
Or assume a default language and then have a clear option to change to something else. That's the same number of clicks in the worst case, but less in the average case. If you use the user agent string in combination with geo-location (and
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
After using namespaces in 5.3 I'm more than sold, I'm in lust Woah now, it's just a little syntax... relax a little. There's a whole world of programming languages out there with more variations on syntax than you can dream of. Then again
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Nifty Text Editor: Gedit + Vim Plugin(launchpad.net)
2 points by jsonscripter 17y ago|0 comments
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
It is for me. I think it has something to do with the baud rate of the virtual terminal...?
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
ssh-copy-id is great, but the connection argument must be quoted, so if you need to use a different port you must use the form: ssh-copy-id 'user@host -p1337' Took me far too long to figure this out :\
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I love plastic :( I'd vastly prefer to recycle or decompose it than to never use it again.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I'll be smug for a moment and declare that this is one excellent reason for not choosing closed software systems.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
That totally depends, though. If you're designing general computing or consumer goods, fine. If you're designing a custom point of sale program for a particular industry, that statement clearly doesn't apply.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
It's perpetually 10 years away. They've been saying this since the first computers started calculating.
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
There's no way it actually does that. What does it actually do?
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by jsonscripter 17y ago
I personally don't like terminus, so this anti-aliasing is great for Deja Sans Mono :)

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