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by masnick 15y ago
I doubt end users will care as long as the TOS aren't absurd (e.g. Amazon has the right to sell your non-anonymized data probably wouldn't fly). People _will_ care that their Silk browser is screaming fast, though.
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by masnick 15y ago
Here's a list of what's new in 1.9.3: http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-1-9-3-introduction-and-change... Scroll down on that page for some more lengthy explanation.
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Original Twitter homepage(kottke.org)
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by masnick 15y ago
It looks like this uses a chat server on alagu.net ( https://github.com/alagu/gmail-irc/blob/master/chrome_extens... ) but presumably you could run your own server as it appears to be a fork of https://github.com/chrismatthieu/CHATS.iO .
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by masnick 15y ago
Hah, I've never actually looked at the Twitter app for OS X. I'll check it out.
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by masnick 15y ago
Wow, this is great. This would be good pinned to the status bar (OS X) with Fluid ( http://fluidapp.com ).
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by masnick 15y ago
My point is that to a naive user googling to figure out what is going on, the dotfile element of svn is inscrutable.
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by masnick 15y ago
I think the author's point is that the git internals (i.e. the .git folder) are simple; I don't think the author is disputing that the commands sitting on top of the git internals are sometimes horribly complicated. The fact that the conten
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by masnick 15y ago
Thanks -- great article. This is the most readable and straight-forward explanation of git's internals that I've seen (and I've read a bunch of articles/books/etc. looking for resources to help others learn git). I'd also recommend The Git
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by masnick 15y ago
I'd be really curious to hear exactly what is wrong with github's pull requests (seem fine to me). And what "horrible things" does github do to commits?
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by masnick 15y ago
Yes, see what I just posted as a reply to the GP. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957403
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by masnick 15y ago
I printed out this infographic and taped it to my office door shortly after switching to a standing desk. Two of my coworkers have subsequently switched as well, and several more are interested. I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on a
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by masnick 15y ago
> It sounds like he's not evaluating the Finder, or any other window manager on its own merits. He's comparing it to what he's used before (command line) and assuming that any new way of doing things won't need relearning, or at least t
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by masnick 15y ago
I don't use use my "pwdff" command that often. It is convenient if I need to read a specific file in a script that's buried in some folder. I use my "cdff" command much more often, which changes the directory in Terminal to the frontmost Fi
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by masnick 15y ago
Yes, this is a UI element Microsoft has nailed. It does exactly what I expect it to do. The "Copy path" button just saves you a few keystrokes.
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by masnick 15y ago
I really like the column view. Why don't you like it?
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by masnick 15y ago
> Are you a regular user of Office 2007+? Yes, I hate it. I use Excel 2010 (PC)/2011(Mac) almost every day and I can never find anything in the ribbon. On Mac I use the Help/Search function to jump directly to the menu item I need. On W
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by masnick 15y ago
I don't like the ribbon because it's hard to find things in it. Same reason I don't like menus. Same reason I don't like Apple's ambiguous menu bar buttons. The only solution I've found to this is the Help function on recent versions of OS
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by masnick 15y ago
I agree that Finder isn't the pinnacle of folder browsing applications. The best example of this from my own experience is how absurdly it is to copy the path of the current folder. The only built-in way I've found to do this is to drag the
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by masnick 15y ago
IMHO, this redesign just adds visual noise. Compare the screenshots of the redesigned Windows 8 Explorer with Finder in OS X: - Win 8: http://cl.ly/321a2D0b1M1G1v1o2r3F (from article) - OS X: http://cl.ly/290D3q2Q06203b181C2b (random Go
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by masnick 15y ago
I use it when in-app search fails. Sometimes gmail search is atrociously slow or doesn't find what I'm looking for, for some reason. I also have multiple gmail accounts (don't ask why), so Greplin is way easier than searching through them i
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by masnick 15y ago
One use case is searching multiple gmail accounts. I often need to search for a message in my secondary account (I'm logged into my primary acct in Safari on my iPhone). Before this, the options were: 1. Log out of primary account and log i
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by masnick 15y ago
Felt it in Durham, NC. I'm on the 4th (top) floor of a building and it shook noticeably but gently for about 10 seconds, with maybe a minute total of less-pronounced sharking.
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by masnick 15y ago
I absolutely agree. This was in 2009, so today's obvious alternatives to Java (Ruby or Python) were not as popular. However, it should be noted that for the course I mentioned, the friction of getting started in Java was not an issue: there
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by masnick 15y ago
This is fascinating. I observed the "double hump" in an intro computer science class I took in college. Out of 20 people in the class, only 3 had prior programming experience. As the semester progressed, some were able to learn basic Java w
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by masnick 15y ago
It would be great if there was a way to bypass or disable CommandQ temporarily. Like an option in the menu, or something else (not sure what) for people like me who have the menu bar icon disabled.
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by masnick 15y ago
Have you tried to auto-resume a bunch of Safari tabs/windows? All the pages reload, which on my computer is anything but instant.
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by masnick 15y ago
Require a twitter or google acct. Use gravitar for the photo.
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by masnick 15y ago
Is there any way to get around this? If so, is it implemented in any OS? I'm no encryption expert, but it seems like you would need to store decryption keys (or in this case, the login password) in plaintext so they could be used by the OS.
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by masnick 15y ago
Check out this demo video: http://cleartax.in/meta/demo I wish taxes in the US were this simple. I've been thinking for a long time that some good UI/UX designers should be in charge of redoing the US tax code and forms. If it's too compl

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