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by mark-t 19y ago
Feature requests go here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 . You can use GreaseMonkey to change the fonts on your own end. As for down votes, they're only available to members who have enough karma. (Paul claimed 20 a while ago, th
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by mark-t 19y ago
I actually have experience on both sides of this issue. My principal would not allow me to skip 3rd grade, despite my teacher's and parents' requests. On the other hand, in junior high, I was allowed to test out of three years of math. I ca
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by mark-t 19y ago
You should have to enter an explanation when you downmod something. Then the recipients won't be left confused, and it will enforce responsible use of the privilege. I feel this is a better solution to the abuse problem than only allowing d
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by mark-t 19y ago
Would somebody care to explain to me what's wrong with my comment? I'll admit it's short. Is there something more fundamentally wrong? Feeding trolls? Frankly, a belief that natural disasters only strike highly religious areas is quite stra
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by mark-t 19y ago
That's a very strange opinion.
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by mark-t 19y ago
What happened to the footnotes? Edit: Oh, they've managed to make it into a completely different URL. I guess that's slightly more usable than the previous system, if I open that URL before I start reading, but it would really be nice if th
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by mark-t 19y ago
This looks interesting, but it doesn't seem like the content is actually available yet. Anyway, I think most perlmongers and anyone else who cares already knew perl had these capabilities.
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by mark-t 19y ago
Do I really own the rights to the camera I lost in Sweden? The police seemed to think so.
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Fame vs. Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content(shirky.com)
8 points by mark-t 19y ago|3 comments
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by mark-t 19y ago
You know, if they keep giving YouTube free advertising, they'll never kill it. Just look at cereal killers.
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by mark-t 19y ago
Slides are available online, in some strange proprietary format: http://www.doxpara.com/?q=node/1149 .
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by mark-t 19y ago
You would be looking for http://www.marvquin.com/blog/top-five-5-best-non-criminal-ha... . Well, maybe. Also not a great list.
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by mark-t 19y ago
I would have thought it would be just the opposite. Going to school drives me bonkers. By the end of the quarter, I can't wait to stop being taught all this garbage and get back to my own studies/projects. I presume you're talking about peo
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by mark-t 19y ago
> Viewing and not upvoting something is like half a downvote anyway. This statement depends a lot on your habits. I open up 5-10 links at a time and then read through them all. I rarely remember to go back and upvote, and I reserve that
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by mark-t 19y ago
I had the same feelings about this being old news. Also, it doesn't actually tell me anything useful. I don't think having the problem solved in Erlang and functional languages is even close to enough, though. No offense, but there just are
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by mark-t 19y ago
Yes. Actually, it takes you to the original thread (and upvotes it for you?).
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by mark-t 19y ago
The link above redirects me to an Associated Press page. http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/T/TOO_FAST_COMPUTERS?S... works for me, though. Perhaps I'll comment after I read it, but I thought I should add this for now.
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by mark-t 19y ago
"no one is always irrational, and some people are never rational." Would you mind clarifying this?
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by mark-t 19y ago
Yup, file upload works in IE6 under wine, though. I used IEs4Linux, which you can get at http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page . I also use this for web development work, and it's great, besides the obvious.
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by mark-t 19y ago
Actually, upon further investigation, it doesn't seem to let me upload anything at all. The response seems to vary between remaining at 0 progress indefinitely and crashing firefox. I'm guessing this is another no-linux site for now, probab
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by mark-t 19y ago
Looks great. My one complaint so far is that I can't just choose a directory to upload. (yes, I know why this is impossible with browser features, but it's what I expect from a music player) Oh, and it only seems to accept .mp3 files -- I'v
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by mark-t 19y ago
I completely agree with Joel. I've done major refactoring work by making a series of minor alterations that clearly don't change anything. This approach takes a lot less time and doesn't introduce nearly as many bugs. Our svn repository is
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by mark-t 19y ago
What's the big deal with ramen? I like ramen. I have no financial troubles, and I eat it anyway. It requires no preparation, 3 minutes to cook, tastes good, and costs maybe 20 cents for a meal (including the cost of water and heat). The pro
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by mark-t 19y ago
How many people host their websites where they could handle a lot of traffic? I sure don't. Up until last year, mine was running on a 586 with 32 MB of EDO-RAM (remember that stuff?), from my parents' house. I think you'd have to stick to m
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by mark-t 19y ago
echo -e "keycode 18 = 9 bracketleft\nkeycode 19 = 0 bracketright\nkeycode 34 = parenleft braceleft\nkeycode 35 = parenright braceright" >> ~/.Xmodmap xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap Cheers! 8)
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by mark-t 19y ago
I don't hate ads. I hate companies that sell products or services that only benefit themselves. When ads come from legitimate businesses providing products/services that are actually valuable, I think it's a wonderful thing that it's gettin
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by mark-t 19y ago
I have a bit of a conflict of interest on this topic, being a developer for a window manager, but I also have some rarely expressed opinions because of that point of view. So, keep that in mind when reading my comments below. This is an ide
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by mark-t 19y ago
That's a clever solution to a difficult problem. I hope they see this.
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by mark-t 19y ago
1. Make it clear that feature requests are not welcome as threads on the submit page. Provide a link to this thread. 2. If no URL is given, prompt the user to submit a comment before creating the thread. If given, always display that commen
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by mark-t 19y ago
It seems to me that the first comment by the original poster should always be shown at the top, and top-level comments by other users are responses to that. This seems to be how all comment threads are treated by the community, and the curr

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