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by muxxa 14y ago
It's great to see progress on this. Both PyPy and Py3000 have been just curiosities for me; a combination of the two is a very compelling case for making the move away from Python2.7.
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by muxxa 14y ago
To me the only thing negative that stuck out was the purplish necrotic colour of the hands.
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by muxxa 14y ago
Love/Hate Irish Crime Drama
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by muxxa 14y ago
Thanks!
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Ask HN: Tech tourist in NY
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by muxxa 14y ago
The winbeta article you've linked to is a repost of this article: http://microsoft-news.com/windows-8-overtake-android-web-pre... This completely ignores mobile android use! It's basically comparing desktop Android (Tablets) with Windows
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by muxxa 14y ago
'Congratulations, your bid has been placed' This wasn't actually true, as someone had outbid me as I filled in credit card info. Also, after filling out the popup, the widget didn't update with the new bid(s).
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by muxxa 14y ago
Just wondering if you played with the hStore column in the postgres ways/nodes tables before diving into ArangoDB? I see hStore as nosql-on-demand within a relational schema: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html
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by muxxa 14y ago
Haven't run it yet, but a simple change to the cost function: https://github.com/eoghanmurray/css-bipartite-compression/co... Maybe the assumption to merge more frequently than to split doesn't hold with the new cost function.
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by muxxa 14y ago
What about if you rerun the genetic algorithm with the fitness function being the size of the final compressed+gzipped file? Maybe that could counter-intuitively reorder the CSS so that there are more long runs of repetitive rules which re
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by muxxa 14y ago
When I'm on an untrusted computer, e.g. in an internet cafe, I typically try to avoid logging into webmail. E.g. I'll first put files I want to print into Dropbox and then log into that instead, (the consequences of an attacker getting acc
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by muxxa 14y ago
MochiKit isn't listed: http://mochi.github.com/mochikit/download.html
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by muxxa 14y ago
> Define non-geek then I was using 'geeks' in the sense of someone who is interested in computers in their own right, as opposed to the vast majority of people who use computers as a tool to accomplish other things. I don't mean "people
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by muxxa 14y ago
The giveaway phrase here is: "... instead of having your own structure, tailor-made for you because you created it in the first place ..." Non-geeks don't have the time, interest or inclination to catalogue and curate these sorts of structu
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by muxxa 14y ago
Travtar: way too beta to be featured - no popup to choose a date, none of the date format variations I entered (US and ISO) were accepted, got an opaque 'your search parameters are not valid' - search for 'San Sebastian', get 'did you mean
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by muxxa 14y ago
Nobody here has mentioned stress. I suffered from a lot of wrist pain (RSI) for a number of years, tried everything including alternative keyboards and trackball mice. The only physical 'device' that improved things was getting a proper cha
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by muxxa 14y ago
Bug: site allows me to add a 'Who paid you?' before any invoices are created. Then when I create an invoice, it loses the 'Who paid you' info I entered. What I'd really like is to have all my expense invoices set up to be sent to myaccount1
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by muxxa 15y ago
Also http://statcounter.com/ as a straight GA replacement. Disclaimer: I consult for StatCounter
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by muxxa 15y ago
Also, sometimes you really need some text beside your indicator arrow. On the native email app on the iPad, my Dad repeatedly cannot figure out how to reply to an email (despite it being the principle thing he wants to do), because the ico
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by muxxa 15y ago
Also might be a good idea to take the Metaphone of the words, and only select words from the dictionary that have unique metaphones.
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by muxxa 15y ago
16th December: http://www.ndrc.ie/launchpad/
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by muxxa 15y ago
For what it's worth Utrecht has a high student population. Rather than weather, I suspect that flat terrain has the biggest positive effect on bicycle use, especially for commuting. On flat ground you don't have to work up a sweat.
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by muxxa 15y ago
Brilliant. I'm excited about attempting to use the data to produce an Indian timetable site on top of the frontend I've built for Irish rail and bus; http://getthere.ie/
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by muxxa 15y ago
Ponoko: http://www.ponoko.com/ aims to be the Amazon/Ebay of manufacturing.
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by muxxa 15y ago
Beware! I have the volume on my soundcard turned down (windows xp), but the 'Play sound' button didn't seem to honour that, and blasted out the synthesized sound extremely loudly into my headphones.
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by muxxa 15y ago
> Now if you’re Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, then Exfoliate is an absolute nightmare Is there anything to say that deletion on FB isn't just setting is_deleted=true ? Any European laws on this?
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by muxxa 15y ago
This graph indicates that bing has been flatlining for some time: http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-quarterly-200903...
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Night time flybys: Nasa Earth Observatory(eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
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by muxxa 15y ago
My older sister once gave told me 'never commit suicide hungover' (even though I wasn't feeling particularly depressed at the time). It respected that there are valid reasons for feeling down, while highlighting the need for a wider view t
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by muxxa 15y ago
One thing that is overlooked with voice control is privacy. There's a reason why the SIRI demo videos show people using their iPhone in their own home; nobody wants to broadcast their intentions and interactions to bystanders. Even for 'i

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