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by mcantor 16y ago
Have they tested it in the rain? Have they tested it in the snow? Have they tested it driving on ice? Does it know when its fuel gets low? Can it tell when a head gasket blows and the engine is overheating? Have they driven it on the highwa
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by mcantor 16y ago
Did a Hacker News post just give me warm fuzzies...? I think it did.
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On Lego-Powered Time Tracking(jexp.de)
2 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
I don't understand the appeal of these articles. There was another one a while ago that had a quote like, "I asked someone with 10 years of PHP experience what they thought of the Rails project they had been working on for the last few mon
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by mcantor 16y ago
I discovered this last week and almost instantly donated some cash to the developer. It has easily already saved me hours of manual effort.
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by mcantor 16y ago
My major gripe about Hacker News is that the time you make a post disproportionately affects its likelihood of making it to the front page.
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Are your pants lying to you? An investigation(esquire.com)
139 points by mcantor 16y ago|110 comments
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Alligator Eggs(worrydream.com)
1 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
disown disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...] Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the `-h' option is given, the job is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is no
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by mcantor 16y ago
I circumvent this by having a gmail account and an apps account, forwarding everything from the apps account to my gmail, and using the "Send mail as" feature to complete the illusion.
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by mcantor 16y ago
How is Battle.net these days, anyway? People were howling in outrage because of some kind of identity thing that Blizzard decided to do. Is it usable? Fun?
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by mcantor 16y ago
I feel like I get $60 of value per year out of playing online with my friends, having voice chat, fooling around with avatars, and particularly, downloading free games and demos from XBL Arcade. No complaints here.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Lately I've been following an approach that I suppose you could call "strict duck-checking in danger zones." I define a very lightweight "contract checker" and drop it into the beginning of methods that make a lot of assumptions about thei
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by mcantor 16y ago
We need a Hacker News Hall of Fame for comments like this. Succinct, polite, thorough, organized, and immensely helpful.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Many modern televisions have D-SUB connectors; if you have a desktop that is near your TV, you can also get a second video card and simply connect it to your TV like any other monitor. Even if you only have DVI-out, you can convert lossles
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by mcantor 16y ago
At its worst, Hacker News has continued to impress and inspire me as vastly superior in quality and consistency compared to other online communities.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Ahhh. It's like a breath of fresh air.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Yeah dude, I gotta say that it could have been pulled off better in that respect. It's not that I was offended --I curse all the time, depending on context. It's just that the stutters and "shits" didn't really add anything, and made it
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by mcantor 16y ago
In that case, you can merely bask in the notion that perhaps your content is so good, filters consider it to be pornographic!
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by mcantor 16y ago
I found vim's configuration to be pretty natural, in that the bare editor worked fine for me, but as I became better-versed in its use, I would run into small things that made me think, "Hmm, I wish I could do this," or "Hmm, I wish this fe
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by mcantor 16y ago
Sounds like a badass webapp, dude! ;-P
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by mcantor 16y ago
Link to information on vim's ruby bindings? Google doesn't say much right off the bat.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I was surprised at how much the swearing and hesitating grated on me. I'm usually the first guy who wishes presenters would lighten up and joke around a little, but for some reason I couldn't stomach more than 3 minutes of this video. I j
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by mcantor 16y ago
There are many small-to-medium differences between Python and Ruby, but in my experiences, no one actually chooses one language over the other because of these differences. When you ask someone, "Why do you prefer Ruby over Python?" or v
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by mcantor 16y ago
Huh. Looks like the lack of a trailing underscore in my link let it snuck through. Shenanigans!
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Bathroom Monologue: In Sheep's Clothing(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
3 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
Thank you--this is a good explanation of why the parentheses don't work on anonymous functions: Ruby's immediate calling essentially forces you to choose between "objects that you can call like methods" and "objects that you can easily pass
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The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface?(osnews.com)
3 points by mcantor 16y ago|2 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
Interesting! I am a half-breed; I write Python at my day job and Ruby in my personal projects. You seem to be suggesting that I am sort of making a mountain out of a molehill. Can you perhaps elaborate on this? I have definitely felt th
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's the inconsistency that bothers me. In Python, you can make anything callable by providing a __call__() method, and the parentheses will work as expected. This makes functions fungible with anything , including any object or anonymous

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