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by nathanb 13y ago
So I see two sorts of comments here: * The article is invalid because I find the author's website hard to read. This is the ad-hominem fallacy and is not at all relevant to the correctness of his point. * Don't blame the web desig
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by nathanb 13y ago
I'm not sure that you know what the word map actually means. This is a free collection of country images, or silhouettes, but only in the loosest possible definition of the term could these be considered maps. Not trying to belittle yo
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by nathanb 13y ago
This is just another example of Google not caring a single solitary iota about developers who volunteer their time to improve their products and bring value to their platform and ecosystem. Digital sharecroppers, etc. It's a tragedy. H
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by nathanb 13y ago
This is an interesting idea. In the area where I live and work, there's a charity called Activate Good ( http://www.activategood.org/ ) which is designed to place willing volunteers with nonprofits who need help. It&#x27
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by nathanb 13y ago
One thing that's really cool about being a software developer (and I promise I'll relate this to the article in a sec...) is that you can practice your craft by yourself, with freely-available tools, and then point at something co
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by nathanb 13y ago
To me, this is one of the most serious concerns about Google Fiber. Google's legendarily bad customer support (motto: make a product that keeps 85% of your customers happy and ignore the unhappy minority) combined with something as imp
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by nathanb 13y ago
Yeah, isn't that one of the things that ended up getting geohot in trouble with the PS3? They found an account where he had agreed to the TOS, thus putting him in violation of the same?
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by nathanb 13y ago
One of my favorite things about The H is (was) that it always seemed to have a handle on how many news stories to run. Many of my RSS feeds (I'm looking at you, Ars) get skimmed simply because of volume. With the H, I generally at leas
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by nathanb 13y ago
Linux users are no better (or worse) than the average human, in my experience. There will always be those who use it because it's trendy (in certain circles), iconoclastic, or quirky. There will always be those who are incapable of con
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by nathanb 13y ago
FWIW, I use Linux and am fairly happy with Amazon Cloud Player. The lack of Linux support for their downloader is annoying, but I don't feel the need to download entire albums particularly frequently. When I do, spinning up a Windows
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by nathanb 13y ago
Yes, you are correct. Allow me to introduce you to the concept of satire.
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The crime rate in San Francisco is well higher than the national average [1]. If you value your life, you should not live in San Francisco. It's the only logical choice. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US [2], and is
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by nathanb 13y ago
Interesting, thanks for clarifying. Perhaps I'm biased by my own ignorance, but the speed of sound in the solar wind (or the fact that terms like "speed of sound" still make sense in an ostensible vacuum) seems like the sort
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by nathanb 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. Also: "the spacecraft’s instruments indicated that particles around it were moving subsonically" lolwut?
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Water is noncompressible. Maybe the word "definitely" was misused because there's always the possibility for a fluke, but my understanding is that at terminal velocity hitting water is functionally equivalent to hitting concr
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by nathanb 13y ago
This is why I love the TV show Mythbusters: they routinely demonstrate how our intuition on these matters is wrong. (A 30-foot fall onto concrete might still kill you, but a 300-foot fall into water will definitely kill you. And if the fall
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by nathanb 13y ago
Consider: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/color-toggle/
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by nathanb 13y ago
This article doesn't cite a source. I'd be interested to see more information. (The article also claims that you could install Windows on your PS3, which I never tried but I'm reasonably certain would not in any way actually
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by nathanb 13y ago
I didn't say "take him to court", I said "consult a lawyer". Any advice you get from HN is just as likely to get you in a heap of trouble as it is to work. If the time comes to enter a courtroom then obviously you w
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by nathanb 13y ago
Consult a lawyer. If you believe that keeping your existing name is worth something to your startup, put that money where your mouth is and pay a professional.
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by nathanb 13y ago
Yeah, I really like tab groups. I can understand that they're not for everybody, but please accept that some of us really like them and have integrated them into our browsing workflow.
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by nathanb 13y ago
If you're running your browser as a privileged user then you deserve to have your system pwned.
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I didn't say I definitely don't want a multiprocess architecture. Just that a multiprocess architecture may not be the only way to solve the problem, and if Firefox devs believe they can provide equivalent stability without swit
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by nathanb 13y ago
I also discovered recently that if Firefox crashes and then presents the "recover your previous session" tab and you accidentally click "new session", you can get your previous session windows back by going to the Recent
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by nathanb 13y ago
This article is, in my opinion, not very good. It documents areas where Firefox differs from Chrome, yes, but it fails to make the case why I should care. * I don't want a multi-process architecture, I want it so one tab can't kil
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by nathanb 13y ago
History > Recently closed windows?
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In his defense, systemd does solve some fundamental problems with sysV-style init. Incrementally improving the disparate sysV init systems to be more concurrent and robust would likely have benefitted the community less, and at the end of t
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by nathanb 13y ago
The big win that YaST brings is a common configuration and management interface across multiple UIs. Back when I used OpenSUSE, I had LXDE, KDE, and headless/CLI boxes which could all be administered using roughly the same interface. The bi
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by nathanb 13y ago
In my (limited) experience, GUI development in Ruby is only a weak point if you want to retain portability. If you're just targeting one Linux distro, it's less of an issue.
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I think it's interesting that Arrington seems to accidentally agree with Jamie. > "I've been burned badly by VCs. Treated unfairly. But my response was simply to stop doing what I was doing and start doing something else." Isn't that e

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