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by mhansen 17y ago
Their mission is to get more people using Ubuntu - a 6 month release cycle works wonders for that. People (like me) who think "I could almost use the permanently" get excited, and give it another go, when a new version comes out. Also, it
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by mhansen 17y ago
To anyone who hasn't read Neal Stephenson's work: Go and do it! It's science fiction written by a man who is a hacker at heart. Start with Cryptonomicon, a tale of WWII codebreakers, cryptography, and modern-day data freedom. How can you n
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by mhansen 17y ago
If other comments had been posted, you would lose your place. Also, the screen flash would interrupt reading. Not to mention, some people don't have superfast broadband.
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by mhansen 17y ago
This is exactly how you identify chemical compounds using X-Ray Crystallography. You shine x-rays of different frequencies onto a compound, measure the magnitude of the reflections, noting down the 3 highest peaks. Then, you look up those p
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by mhansen 17y ago
Is there any explanation as to why? Are other vendors not internationalizing sufficiently to get traction in Korea? This doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that would spring up without reason.
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by mhansen 17y ago
Don't jump in the deep end. Do it in bite-sized lessons. It makes it a lot easier. These are the lessons I used: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...
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by mhansen 17y ago
Works fine for me on Windows. Make sure you have set wildmode=list:longest in your ~/.vimrc
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by mhansen 17y ago
Explain please? Java is verbose, but although it is old, age isn't important.
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by mhansen 17y ago
The music never stops playing - the entire website is implemented in AJAX? Wow!
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by mhansen 17y ago
Facebook. The whole experience is so tight. And the chat program/shortcut bar at the bottom is very impressive, and must have been so hard to get right cross-browser.
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by mhansen 17y ago
> Williams said the change is not a response to the recent > attacks on the fees launched by investor Jason Calacanis Sure!
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by mhansen 17y ago
Holy crap, it's older than me!
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by mhansen 17y ago
Cygwin (None/Windows isn't really accurate for me - I have a POSIX-compliant emulation layer on top of Windows)
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by mhansen 17y ago
I remember coming across machines with BIOS passwords... I'd groan as I realized I had to open up the computer, and remove the little battery to reset the password. Took a few minutes.
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by mhansen 17y ago
It's not picking up escapes (Google Chrome 4.0.221.6)
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by mhansen 17y ago
The distinction is irrelevant to the article
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by mhansen 17y ago
Minix3 has comments galore, but seems plagued by one/two letter variable names like 'c' and 'ip'
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by mhansen 17y ago
Didn't you see the 'doc' directory?
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by mhansen 17y ago
On Windows 7: Windows+1, Windows+2 ... Windows+0, bring to the foreground any of the first the first ten items in your taskbar.
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by mhansen 17y ago
Put a '-f' in your shell script, to force the overwrite
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by mhansen 17y ago
Why don't you use paren matching?
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by mhansen 17y ago
If you spend that long with a tool, you certainly push out and find the weaknesses
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by mhansen 17y ago
Javascript not functional?!?
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by mhansen 17y ago
You can, check out Mozilla Rhino. It's a javascript interpreter written in Java. You can use all the Java libraries through it, but I'm not sure if it'll be quite as nice for working with files etc
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by mhansen 17y ago
The Zune software is pretty awesome. Can't sync ipods though. Try Winamp for that. (assuming you're on windows)
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by mhansen 17y ago
Based on what I've read: Apple's decision-making process on what gets into the App Store is completely opaque, and has a hugely variable turn-around rate. Developers need to push updates out quickly, and Apple's approval process is actively
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by mhansen 17y ago
A Toshiba Satellite Pro. * the keyboard is excellent * the touchpad is almost frictionless (it doesn't actively try to push your finger back in the opposite way: I'm looking at you, HP/Compaq!) * the touchpad is indented, so when you're typ
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by mhansen 17y ago
The way I remember it: this is whatever is before the dot when you call the function. E.g. for car.drive(); in the drive function, any reference to 'this' will get 'car'. If the function is called on it's own, as in 'drive()', 'this' will r
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by mhansen 17y ago
Wow, I had no idea you could bulk-insert that easily! Thanks for sharing
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by mhansen 17y ago
Source: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial... That's the tutorial that fed me that chart in easy-to-manage pieces, easing me into vim nicely. Also highly recommended, the rant by the same guy: http://www.viemu.c

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