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by lucumo 18y ago
I have the same usage pattern as you (and I would like to see a bar on HN as well), however there's a huge difference between Digg and Reddit in this regard: the Reddit bar is opt-in. If you haven't opted in, the URL will simply forward to
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by lucumo 18y ago
Sure. But you're only allowed to sell in a "coffee shop". And demand there is probably too high to support such a model.
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by lucumo 18y ago
We're running a freemium model. Users get to view ads or they can pay to remove them and get some other features. The free part gets a lot of people into the game (as a figure of speech, but also literally) and some buy a VIP account.
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by lucumo 18y ago
I would say that failure should be very, very low. What I really took issue with here was the relative silence about altering my query. It wouldn't have been half as bad if the note was on the top of the page. I would really prefer it if th
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by lucumo 18y ago
Thank god there's still something like a nuanced argument...
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by lucumo 18y ago
Just some information about the legality of marijuana in The Netherlands. I know very little about this, but the knowledge I have by virtue of living there and the discussions that are going on about it is probably more than that of some ot
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by lucumo 18y ago
Ah, so these Upgrade-IE-warnings are actually anti-procrastination tools in disguise! :-)
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by lucumo 18y ago
I'm not sure about the quality of Live Search. I do know that I'm starting to find that Google Search gets increasingly more annoying over time. Not in the sense that I start to dislike their interface, but more that their latest "enhanceme
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by lucumo 18y ago
Ehrm... It does now in any case. I didn't see it before blushes (Seriously, how can I miss the only line on a four line page that completely invalidates the point I was trying to make?) Anyway, that probably was a good demonstration why i
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by lucumo 18y ago
"Writing a Compiler in 24 Hours"
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by lucumo 18y ago
I'm guessing that will be a favourite to recommend to others, too :)
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by lucumo 18y ago
I tried it on my start-ups domain. The result is interesting :) "The web address you entered was http://rockingrackets.com/ . This has been converted to http://rockingrackets.twi.bz/a You can copy and paste it from here. Your original we
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by lucumo 18y ago
If sleep is garbage collection, can I switch back to old malloc/free? So I can do it more evenly over the day? :)
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by lucumo 18y ago
So, how would you call a Linux machine?
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by lucumo 18y ago
That probably has a lot to do with having more experience and mostly age (read: time to get experience with it). Not so much with generations...
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by lucumo 18y ago
Also, family handling completely sucks. If you have both a husband and his wife in your contacts and they move, you have to change both their contact details. Even worse when you decide you want to keep track of the birthdays of their three
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by lucumo 18y ago
Oh, so politics is acceptable on HN now? Well, another site down the drain :/
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by lucumo 18y ago
How nice. There's two paragraphs of which the author says it's about programming, but in reality it's about how hard it is to fact check political statements. The rest of the article is politics pure and simple. If you don't believe me, you
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by lucumo 18y ago
Has this been inspired by CNprog.com?
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by lucumo 18y ago
I learned it by switching to Dvorak. I put little stickers on my keyboard indicating the letters. So I started typing with hunt-and-peck. After some time, some stickers came loose. The keys I used the most, lost their adhesion the first. Th
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by lucumo 18y ago
Hmmm... Using the UNIX word list for password resets may lead to passwords like "oversexed#asshole". May not be the best password to send to your users. I would suggest trimming the wordlist before use, if you plan to use it for handing out
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by lucumo 18y ago
Allow me to clarify. I don't mean that it's confusing or ambiguous. What I mean is that the only place people have seen the backslash in their language and many other places is as an escape operator. This means that the backslash - when see
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by lucumo 18y ago
I think most people have internalised the notion of backslash being the escape operator. That's the way it's used in a lot of languages. Using it for something different not only feels dirty, it may also make it harder to get the "feel" (i.
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by lucumo 18y ago
There are some open source projects that offer or offered "bounties" for fixing bugs or improvements.
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by lucumo 18y ago
Part time: 2 days a week in the startup and 4 days in the week graduating. I'm not sure it's optimal. I find that for months at a time I simply stop working on my graduating thesis, mostly to do work in the startup, but also (when I put mor
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by lucumo 18y ago
You can also use <span class="aside" title="these">parenthetical remarks</span>. Title works on all elements and is actually quite a nice thing to have :)
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by lucumo 18y ago
I found this particularly interesting: "It comes just a few weeks after a member of parliament, SPD minister Joerg Tauss had his office and private house searched by police. German bloggers discussing the subject were similarly raided." So,
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by lucumo 18y ago
I can't tell you about the password, but we had a registration form which asked for the e-mail address. You could actually read the e-mail address (like normal) so people could easily see and correct their typos had they bothered. The thing
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by lucumo 18y ago
Both work beautifully! Thanks!
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by lucumo 18y ago
Very cool! Thanks! I did notice a little bug, though. If you've started a poll, it thinks the * marker of your own vote is a poll option. I didn't happen to me on other polls, just on the one I started.

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