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by kimmel 14y ago
Good god, the comments in this thread really show how douchy the HN community can be. Tons of anecdotal stories with no evidence. Obvious outsiders trying to image what it is like on the inside (all the guesses about how DDG works) and of c
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by kimmel 14y ago
No. The hot button topic right now in open source is "increasing diversity" which means more attention is being focused on this.
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by kimmel 14y ago
I am ready for the white washed report saying MIT did everything right. Since MIT is made up of humans and humans are perfect.
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by kimmel 14y ago
A thousand times this. Javascript as a modern language for non-web things is not mature at all. The amount of date/time, string, and hash utility functions that JS simply does not have is staggering.
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by kimmel 14y ago
I would like to point out that open source projects love, absolutely LOVE when you report security bugs to them. Many projects have procedures and special mailing lists to get a hold of the correct people in a prompt manner. To me this stin
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by kimmel 14y ago
Every time someone implements something new in Brainfuck it makes me smile. Where is your god now, high level language snobs? ;)
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by kimmel 14y ago
"Time is valuable." In that vein I would look to point out this handy reference: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html which goes into depth about why certain reactions happen. "What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to pe
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by kimmel 14y ago
Why should we fund a project that has repeatedly ignore its own community? Why fund a project that has numerous Google SoC projects not merged in? That is wasting donated time and money.
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by kimmel 14y ago
Python is by design a one way to do things language whereas Perl is There is more than one way to do things. 'There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.' from http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ a sentiment
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by kimmel 14y ago
I'm no UEX expert.. Then let me enlighten you. Your ctrl-alt-delete example is poor due to the fact and this is backed up by a Bill Gates interview that that command was meant for debugging and was not supposed to ship in the final product.
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by kimmel 14y ago
And your anecdotal account of OpenOffice vs MS Office is supposed to mean something to the rest of us? It is one persons opinion, are you a recognized authority in usability of desktop applications? Can you provide non-biased large scale re
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by kimmel 14y ago
A good chunk of this article is just rehashing the same history every interview does. What a waste.
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by kimmel 14y ago
I actually feel stupider after reading this article. The author is missing the point but hey that is techcrunch for you.
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by kimmel 14y ago
VLC has always lagged behind in proper x264 decoding. For most of the 1.x and the first few versions of the 2.x series I had dozens of video files with visual artifacts whilst the newest versions of mplayer at the time did not. I maintain t
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by kimmel 14y ago
I know I cannot be the only person who sees this and thinks text only emails are still the way to go. If you are going to generate something like this maybe you should just make it a pdf and attach it to the email. HTML emails are still a b
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by kimmel 14y ago
I have been using freeplane for 3 years now to map out software projects. The visuals you can produce really help others understand complex software systems. I selected freeplane over freemind and vym after those two out and finding them la
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by kimmel 14y ago
Here is an accurate tl;dr of this article: "I am too stupid to manage employees smarter than me so I label them and get rid of them. I am always correct and everyone else is wrong and this has nothing to do with me being the boss." Also tha
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by kimmel 14y ago
<a href=" http://www.ogre3d.org/>OGRE 3D</a> a MIT licensed game engine that has been around since 2001. I think some of the games in the OGRE gallery are far superior to most Torque engine games.
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by kimmel 14y ago
Yes Tree Style Tab is a must. Chrome and Chromium do not offer vertical tab support on Linux.
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Getting started with DIY personal analytics(blogs.perl.org)
1 points by kimmel 14y ago|0 comments
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by kimmel 14y ago
No mention of polyfills for IE8 and below. Ha. It should read 'HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: This shit don't work in IE6-8 without polyfills'
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by kimmel 14y ago
> Further, a menu with a responsive design, such as the following, negates the need to abandon anything: > http://jasonweaver.name/lab/flexiblenavigation/ I ran some tests on this menu. It fails on android 2.3.x and 4.x. Also does
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by kimmel 14y ago
> Something else? GTK+ still doesn't look very native on Windows or OS X, so for many cross-platform apps it's not a viable option. GTK+ can look just like Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac OS X. It has themeing capability.
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by kimmel 14y ago
Star Trek had slide to unlock before Apple even made a phone. Star Trek PAD versus the iPad... hmmm
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by kimmel 14y ago
There are no pros for craigslist having an API. This is a for-profit company that has chosen not to be greedy bastards. If they wanted they could have an advertisement on every single page of the site but they don't. Craigslist is cost free
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by kimmel 14y ago
> I am also deeply offended by your use of the term "slave". Nobody has used this term. When I read slave I immediately jumped to 'Wage Slavery' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery and it happens all the time. People cannot leav
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by kimmel 14y ago
I just tried padmapper out and I am not impressed. The responsiveness of the site is sluggish and the longer I wait for that page load the less time I am saving. The listings on there now are junk. Recycled listings from aparatmentfinder, r
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by kimmel 14y ago
I am happy to see this happen. For years computer companies just skate by with no punishment for security breaches. It is time to pay up.
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by kimmel 14y ago
As others have already said 'I miss the tree eating blob' and the site had character. The new version obviously had the corporate types in mind. It is clean and optimized to sell it to the pointy haired boss. At first I thought some company
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Ask HN: What information do you find valuable when evaluating software?
1 points by kimmel 15y ago|0 comments

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