lucumo

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by lucumo 18y ago
That's pretty cool. Any chance of making it a GreaseMonkey script so it will be done automatically on HN?
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by lucumo 18y ago
That's a great idea. I've put mine in.
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Yeah, I did. Forgot that one, but remembered it on review :-)
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Oceania
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Poll: Where are you from?
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USA
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North America (except USA)
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Europe
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Asia
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South America
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Africa
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by lucumo 18y ago
Allow me to explain my other post. I wasn't being sarcastic. I was merely pointing out that this women-are-only-there-to-drive-men-to-better-themselves is a bit silly. There are a lot of women that are constantly improving themselves too. A
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by lucumo 18y ago
Except of course when you are a woman...
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> It doesn't matter if they've only got a few % market share, that's just the way it works. Well, no. I used to share your opinion on this, but not anymore. The thing is, supporting a certain browser costs time and (therefore) money. At
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by lucumo 18y ago
It may be emotionally hard to cut your losses, but it may be economically sound. There's a concept in economics called "sunk costs". You can't recover your investment, so whatever your choice, the money's gone. The only choice you have at t
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by lucumo 18y ago
> India's emission norms are based on euro-emission norms. I didn't notice that when I lived there. It was hard to breath in busy intersections. As a European I'm quite sure that isn't happening here. But the standards are probably diff
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> too savvy to click on ads. Why do you need to be dumb to click on ads? I see ads that are interesting quite often and I do click them if I'm curious.
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> Some of you might ask, "Why would anyone pay money for a game that looks like that?" The answer is, "I don't know, but they do." Some people really enjoy gameplay a lot more than pretty pictures. We've built a webgame (a tennis manag
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by lucumo 18y ago
On top of that, most browsers already have support for GreaseMonkey scripts. Opera has it built in. IE has http://www.gm4ie.com/ . WebKit has http://8-p.info/greasekit/ . Chrome http://greasemetal.31tools.com/ and will likely have it
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by lucumo 18y ago
According to the article, users will get a Ads Preferences Manager. It will show what Google thinks you're interested in and you can change the categories as well. Edit: It has an opt-out button as well. http://www.google.com/ads/preferenc
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It was mostly about Greg Whitten and what he did at Microsoft...
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by lucumo 19y ago
"IE6 is the Netscape 4 of our time." ;)
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For some medium-sized, low-tech site: IE6 49.8%, IE7 34%, other IE: 0.7%, total IE 84.5% FF 2.0.x.x 7.5%[1], other FF 1.9%, total FF 9.4% Others 6.1%[2] 1. FF 2.0.x.x number has been arrived by adding the percentages of the seperate version
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by lucumo 19y ago
Kate, mostly. Vim when I need to do a quick edit (I use xterms for a lot of stuff I do) or when logging in remotely.
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by lucumo 19y ago
I use that too. Did you have to use some hack to use it as well? I found that there are errors when I specify the feed directly, while it works perfectly when I use some wget hackery in the command-field.