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by ordinary 15y ago
I don't see how being able to give away games would be bad for business. I do see how trading could hurt business, but that's a narrow view of things. It might be that the ability to trade attracts more sales than the trading itself costs.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I think you're also confusing millions and billions. For one, there is no such thing as "American millions", millions are the same everywhere.
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by ordinary 15y ago
First, find total number of digits of the 3 999 999 999 smallest integers. Let's assume 0 doesn't count. The first 9 numbers have 1 digit each. The next 90 numbers have 2 digits each. The next 900 have 3, etcetera. That's 38 888 888 889 dig
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by ordinary 15y ago
He wrote that while on Livestream, so it's not on Justin.tv or Twitch.tv. Unless he also wrote to a local file, there's a good chance that part is gone for good.
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by ordinary 15y ago
You're right, of course, but this is not a tech site. In this case, I think it's reasonable to use the more familiar term. It's a bit like Lisp; it's not technically a language, but everyone knows what you mean. [edit]Or seanstickle could
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by ordinary 15y ago
I'm curious: what made you discard C++?
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by ordinary 15y ago
I almost always SSH into the remote machine, but I use Emacs' TRAMP on occasion, when I know I'm only editing a couple of files.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Back when my laptop wasn't the size of a fully grown hippo, I used to take day-long train trips with it. Lacking a phone to tether it to meant I had nothing else to do but working and coding. Rarely have I been as productive as during those
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by ordinary 15y ago
> You're obviously getting downvoted, so I probably will too Why the groupthink?
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by ordinary 15y ago
!google and !images also exist as !g and !i. Additionally, if you're concerned with privacy (as I assume you are, if you use DDG), then I can recommend !scroogle (or !s).
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by ordinary 15y ago
Why do you think the search engine market is so hard to penetrate?
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by ordinary 15y ago
You're missing out. After (or maybe alongside) those two keys, I find the most useful ones are: Ctrl-a c (to create a new terminal) Ctrl-a 1 (to go to the first terminal) Ctrl-a 2 (second, etc) If you're an emacs user, you might
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by ordinary 15y ago
In fairness, these are AI experts . Surely they, more than anyone, know how to reliably distinguish people from non-people?
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by ordinary 15y ago
They could name it Firefox XP, I guess. All silliness aside, I see your point. But is the browser really still at a point where such earth-shifting changes are likely to occur? The biggest single change of the last few years that I can thin
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by ordinary 15y ago
This really, really does not matter.
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by ordinary 15y ago
> The problem with Google, or any software company buying a hardware company is that generally the street values hardware at a lower multiple so this has the chance to pull down google's market cap. I don't think I understand what you'r
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by ordinary 15y ago
What's wrong with good old pen and paper?
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by ordinary 15y ago
The problem is not how much money is being 'donated'. The amount is fairly insignificant. The problem is the influence it buys and how that influence impacts the bigger picture. So yes, I agree with you that this kind of corruption is a big
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by ordinary 15y ago
I have never tried this, but apparently you can set key binds in Word. See: http://emacsblog.org/2007/02/18/emacs-key-bindings-in-ms-wor...
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by ordinary 15y ago
You can customize ls' colours. Look into the environment variable LS_COLORS.
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by ordinary 15y ago
The query is fairly easy to extract from the original URL, but here it is: site:news.ycombinator.com 3100...100000 inurl:"/user?id"
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by ordinary 15y ago
The G+ link just lifts out some choice paragraphs. It links to the full article at the end. For your convenience: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/07...
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by ordinary 15y ago
Unless you're planning on keeping them there forever, that's not a solution, just a postponement.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Once "criminals" have a bright future and a job, they probably won't be criminals any more. I think that's a good thing for everyone involved. I say "criminals" not to imply that what these people do isn't criminal (it is), but because divi
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by ordinary 15y ago
Even 4 words is good enough for many use cases.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I almost missed it, but there is a 100x100 pixel drawn image of a woman with her breasts out in the top right. I'm not sure why it's there at all, it has nothing to do with the text, but there you go.
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by ordinary 15y ago
There are 3 links to mirrors or images in this thread. It would have been trivial to find out that the text was both in English and Arabic.
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by ordinary 15y ago
And also, as I learned recently, gdb. That took me by surprise, until I realised that .inputrc does not contain settings for the shell, or any individual CLI program, but for readline .
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by ordinary 15y ago
You'll also like this little bit I yanked from my .inputrc: # By default up/down are bound to previous-history and next-history, # respectively. The following does the same but gives the extra functionality # where if you type any t
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by ordinary 15y ago
I often try to get math topics by reading about them on Wikipedia. I've found that almost universally, they're completely incomprehensible, unless you already know everything about the topic that's being discussed, and are thoroughly vers

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