paulnechifor

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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Hardcore mode.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
I think `width: 70%;` is a bad idea. If you have a very wide screen, 70% of it is too much and on a mobile device you don't want to waste 30%.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
In my language “grafician” is a word and I assume it is in others too. It's common for people to assume their words have a direct mapping to another language. It's more embarrassing when the word exists, but has a different meaning.
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
>Ok, so what are your perceived advantages of knowing your colleagues salary? This looks like a loaded question. It's not a perceived advantage, it's a real advantage to know how much you are paid compared to others. I'm still in colleg
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
I guess that's fair if you want to play it safe, but I don't agree that we should do something wrong because people are used to it that way. In Romanian “fata” can have 6 different meanings (some related) depending on how you put the diacr
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
>Not using special chars. Consider replacing é with e and removing any non-alphabet non-number character like: ' " ( I disagree with this. Maybe this works in English where some spell naïve with two dots to appear fancy, but in some lan
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
>Humans had never walked on the moon. Yes, but they were 2 years away. We are now 41 years from the last moon mission.
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
I'm also guessing syntax highlighting isn't a planned feature.
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
It's like an equivalent for Muphry's law[1] for ignorance: “If you write anything criticizing ignorance, there will be ignorance of some kind in what you have written.” [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
Everyone knows animals think and feel, but that's no reason not to deny our need to eat animals. I think animal cruelty is bad because it shows disregard and they have a propensity to do the same to people. But I think it's ridiculous to ha
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
Really offtopic: This[1] is why you don't use   to fake double spacing. It should be done in CSS or by using one of the longer space characters[2]. [1] http://i.imgur.com/22vFOLO.png [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_charac
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
Better yet, RDF. It's the final solution for data representation.
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
I too don't know of any such country, but he might be living in a country that bans all foreign currency. (That's how it was in communist Romania.)
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
This isn't really criticism of XML, though. You can do a good job of screwing up in any language or format.
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
I'm wondering how many upvoted because they found the article worthwhile versus upvoting because they noticed the author is not a women and that's what's expected. I say this because to me it looks like it's something that's off-topic judgi
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
I prefer: while True: codeHere() if shouldStop(): break
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
That ratio is misleading for Reddit since it was posted on a bioinformatics specific subreddit. Of course they were going to be more negative.
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5118838 (There. Now it's an infinite recursion.)
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
If by mixing conventions you mean careless foul practice of trying to please everyone by partially satisfying all of their preferences which only ends up annoying them all, then I am certainly against it. But, if by mixing conventions you m
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
Actually it occurs every time somebody writes something long like this: xt=urn:btih:41b2fd2403eba5a1dc23743fb08a15f968acc1b5&dn=Minecraft%3A+The+Story+of+Mojang&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftrack
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by paulnechifor 14y ago
Styling? Look at the source, HN is full of <center><table><tr><td><u><font color=#000000>outdated HTML</td></tr></table></center>