juan_juarez

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by juan_juarez 13y ago
A) It's still in alpha. B) It's not Vim. C) The questionnaire asks "which other editors do you use" and uses radio buttons.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Things in parts of NYC are extremely expensive. Doubly so if you're in an upscale club. It's not that the beer is more expensive, it's that the cost of the labor involved in serving it to you and the real estate you're consuming it in cost
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Transparency and background images are great for making screenshots to show off your customized desktop. For actual daily use, they're absurd.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Expressions of our tribal nature through consumer goods. XBox/Playstation. Mac/PC. Coke/Pepsi. Ford/Chevy. People like picking sides & hate being wrong.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
If you actually have the infrastructure and ops to withstand a freak DDOS, you've got a leg to stand on. Taking advantage of a freak shitstorm to steal clients is dishonest because you have just been lucky enough to avoid a shitstorm. I
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
If they were cheap, people would still buy them because they are incredibly pretty stones. The social aspect of diamond engagement rings would fall apart but they wouldn't go away. Come on - even if you're against the industry and everythi
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Chrome Windows 7 ends up rendering them all as boxes. The lack of whitespace prevents line breaking. The problem is that it forces the container out to 1400px wide, rather than responding to browser width. I really don't like trying to re
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Thank you for ruining my page rendering.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Currently, Steam is only distributed for Ubuntu.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Working for free is almost always a bad idea. If you don't value your time & skills, nobody else is going to.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Looks like a simple triage to me. I don't see an issue unless they're making it publicly visible to your coworkers.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
That Intel thing is nothing new - IBM was doing that on mainframes 30 years ago.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
You're building up a great big chain of complicated requirements. You're quickly approaching the point where it's easier to steal the machine.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Staring at an empty bank account, a pile of bills & wondering how you're paying rent next month does a remarkable job at distracting you from the emotional aspect of getting fired as well.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
A limited templating language forces you to behave. More importantly, it also forces other people to behave. It stops people from creating ugly hacks in the middle of templates that become impossible to track bugs. It stops Joe Random De
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
All this article demonstrates is that PHP is more verbose than than Ruby with a good DSL. This exact same logic could be used to argue against Java. There's plenty wrong with PHP. Verbosity is the least of its sins.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Presumably by the word.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Important to note that this is the opinion section, not news. I wonder how many people are going to miss that detail?
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Hell - this could have been avoided if they weren't using graphical tools or had a database that used transactions.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
It's not always a bad sign, as both WoW & EVE Online have trials and are both running quite strong. In most cases, however, unless the game was launched with free trials/F2P in their business model, it's a sign that they're struggling
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
In the MMORPG world, even handing out free trials, let alone going free to play, is often a sign that a game that's dying. It's a last-ditch effort to keep things going for a few more months.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Clearly dealing with a fine, upstanding, productive member of society here.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
AKA - How to spam app stores with crap.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
AUG. 24, 2010
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
What I don't get is the states where it's at a bar. I can understand how it's weird to talk to people in some of those other places but a bar is an explicitly social environment. If people didn't want to talk to others, they'd be drinking
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
GNU Guile.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
GAE supports Go and Java and, by extension, Scala, Clojure and all the other JVM languages.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
I hate to break it to you but HN is not a great site because of it's implementation. HN's value lies in the content and community. If somebody other than PG launched an identical site today, nobody would even bother making an account.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
> commercial ones that come with excellent support Maybe I'm just too small-time for it to matter but what, exactly, does this commercial support actually buy you? In the last 10 years of programming, I've only run into a handful of bu
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The fact that there's so much activity in the space suggests that it's undergoing disruption. For years, POS systems have been... well... POSes. They're unfriendly, overpriced, lacking in features and just all around bad . The tech has

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