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by mwexler 17y ago
Whoops. That was a bad example, wasn't it? Ah well, the rest of the comment (hopefully) is still valid.
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by mwexler 17y ago
Out of 101 comments, no one mentions that this site is hosting an illegal copy of an artist's work? I mean, sure, the whole book is great... but shouldn't we be having a bit of respect for someone's intellectual property and not linking to
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by mwexler 17y ago
Robert X Cringely was an alter ego for years; PBS gave him his own show under the name. I guess this fellow carried it a bit too far, but it's not the first time it's happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
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Google, Yahoo don't want to reveal gender/race makeup of their workforce(mercurynews.com)
1 points by mwexler 17y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 17y ago
You guys are all focusing on his complaint of "too many games". If you notice, he's pointing out that they are actually too full of content for him to complete before the next shiny object grabs his attention. Yes, we rate "playtime" as on
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by mwexler 17y ago
Hmmm... I'm a bike newbie, and when I just bought my road bike, I never used the word Cyclocross or "hard tail". And I bet, if you looked at the answers to questions like "Suggestions for a $650 road bike?", they were all things like "It d
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by mwexler 17y ago
Unclear if this is aimed at bike experts or bike newbies. Is this to help me find a bike? Then help me understand WHY the data points are important. Even your front search frame dropdown: alum vs. steel? I don't know, why should I pick
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by mwexler 17y ago
This has been present on google for months now; a quick search shows Labs announcing it May 24, 2009. That this is making HN now goes to show that most people still don't use the "Show Options" search modifications in the left sidebar, inst
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by mwexler 17y ago
Perhaps I do have a dated perception. Think of when we had to filter our own spam with rules, and articles like http://www.pcworld.com/article/111193/stupid_spam_tricks.htm... were in vogue (link from 2003, 1st link in the search). Not
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by mwexler 17y ago
The issue is around legitimacy, or even honesty (well, I need a better word, I mean honesty as in "an honest mistake"). 1) As a reader of the email, the misspelling could have occurred honestly as a mistake, or be a manipulation. I don't k
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by mwexler 17y ago
Wow. So, I didn't send you an email, and then you send me an email with the indicator "Re:" which traditionally (well, in the last few years of email history) means that you are responding to my email... which I didn't send. Sorry to be a
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by mwexler 17y ago
Somewhat off topic, but Resolver One is an interesting mix of python and spreadsheets... http://www.resolversystems.com/
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by mwexler 17y ago
I agree. I looked on http://haxe.org/doc and it took some searching to finally find "Code Snippets" http://haxe.org/doc/snip and then go to that page... which still has no code, but is just a list of examples, each on their own page.
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by mwexler 17y ago
This reminds me of the various cases against "guerrilla" advertisers during the Olympics: they don't register as official sponsors, but use sports themes, former Olympic champs, other evocative imagery to associate themselves with the Olymp
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by mwexler 17y ago
I understand that lots of nooks have shipped. If you order one today, you won't get it for about a month when I write this (accd to http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp?cds2Pid=32280 ), but nooks are shipping now if you ordered on
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by mwexler 17y ago
I'm just waiting for the Red Kryptonite.
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by mwexler 17y ago
Forgive me for asking, but why is this link here on HN? I mean, he's a great guy and all, but what is the relevance to HN at this point?
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by mwexler 17y ago
Well, yes and no. Unclear what countries, languages, etc. they are including in here. Your site's audience may in fact not represent the general population, so you could be optimizing for the wrong group. It would be helpful to be able t
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by mwexler 17y ago
A paragraph or so down, he says "That is, there are functions of x and functions of y that are correlated." So, for your example, could we consider Abs value as a function?
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Microsoft targets programming newbies with Vedea (aka, copy Processing.org)(blogs.zdnet.com)
1 points by mwexler 17y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 17y ago
While poor intentions appear to be able to be enacted very swiftly.
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by mwexler 17y ago
And I ask: is that the right place for System Requirements? And should that be the ONLY place it's mentioned? Is requiring space really a "feature"?
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by mwexler 17y ago
Hmmm... I guess I thought a userfriendly distro should be friendly to the user by providing me info I didn't know I needed to ask up front, and hiding things that are merely technically interesting or edge case. Disk space is probably the
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by mwexler 17y ago
Hmm... I guess I never thought of Sys Req as "features". I would expect it in the release notes (not present) or on the download page (not present). Placing at the bottom of the "features" page is obfuscating, in my opinion, if it is pla
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by mwexler 17y ago
Just whiny, but why does Ubuntu (or most distros) not give any idea of minimum/average disk required for install in their system requirements area? I know, I can customize the install so as to reduce or increase space requirements, but eve
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by mwexler 17y ago
Nice, but since it's not being developed anymore, might be useful to mention their referral to http://www.gosu.pl/dbkiss/ which is also 1 file, easy to install, and pretty easy to use... and supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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by mwexler 17y ago
One limitation is the throttling for each domain. If I had a smaller set of pages that I wanted to read frequently, this solution would not work. I understand the need to avoid DOS attacks, but in some cases, it would nice to be able to r
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by mwexler 17y ago
I always find these things funny, because there is a belief that all dealerships are the same (that is, the variable is simply the price of the car.) It turns out that dealership location is a HUGE variable driving both pricing and decisio
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AdWords: Conversion doesn't vary by position(adwords.blogspot.com)
16 points by mwexler 17y ago|5 comments
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by mwexler 17y ago
Ohh... NOW I understand that song. Too bad someone didn't do this back in the 80s, life might have turned out very different for me.

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