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by powrtoch 14y ago
I feel really dense, but I don't understand why the example line is throwing an error. The article mentions line terminators, but it doesn't seem to contain any, and I also don't understand why "owned" would be escaped the way the author sa
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by powrtoch 14y ago
There's a "submit" link at the bottom, which is probably the coolest thing about this.
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by powrtoch 14y ago
I'm all for making it easier to work with the cloud, but... is this application really all that useful, considering that the whole concept of the Dropbox app is that all your Dropbox files are constantly kept in sync on your local machine?
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by powrtoch 14y ago
> The assumption is that your utility curve in the lossy region is sublinear Which makes lottery tickets all the more a bad idea. Not only is the expected return in dollars less than your investment, but thanks to the diminishing margi
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Did you make an account and name it after this browser just to post this?
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Well, finding 2 computers that are exactly equal in specs is more effort than I care to put in, but here's the first reasonable comparison I see at Best Buy: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+14%26%2334%3... Compare it to th
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Also any random Linux user is more likely to be a developer, which likely motivates them more to support the indie devs. And since Macs are 2-3 times as expensive as their PC counterparts, owning one tends to imply you have money to throw a
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by powrtoch 14y ago
My first thought was that they're planning to release a black one just so they can call it the Paperblack.
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by powrtoch 14y ago
What are the creative ways in which HN screws us?
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by powrtoch 14y ago
I wasn't sure what to think of the red/yellow cards when I first heard about them, but the suggestion that it should be bystanders them giving out is awesome . Everything we know about human psychology suggests that a disapproving peer gro
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by powrtoch 14y ago
> I can't emphasize how much I disagree with you. I don't think you disagree with me at all... I said that javascript feels strange to me because I didn't start with it . I think it's a fine language to start people on, just an uncom
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by powrtoch 14y ago
It's hard for me to imagine learning Javascript as your first programming language. It's always felt kind of crazy and bizarre to me (especially when you try to do anything requiring more than 20 lines of code), but I think a lot of that is
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by powrtoch 14y ago
As another commenter pointed out, Opera already has something very similar to this. YMMV, but while I didn't really see the point at first, now I love it. I'm usually developing several websites at a time, each of which I have several tabs
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by powrtoch 14y ago
I don't think HN should be the place for this type of question question. Try Stack Overflow.
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by powrtoch 14y ago
The article doesn't mention intelligence, and I can't see how it's especially relevant. Yes, the best programmers are going to be very smart, but it seems to me that slightly above average intelligence is perfectly adequate for a successf
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by powrtoch 14y ago
I don't know what mathematical purity has to do with anything, I was just thinking Principle of Least Surprise, which is a user experience plus. Of course, I'm just going by what I would find least surprising and most useful, but I've heard
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by powrtoch 14y ago
The top answer is good, but it doesn't explain why iTunes couldn't maintain the seed while skipping forward and back, but reshuffle whenever a new song is selected, or whenever iTunes is restarted, or whenever you switch to a playlist and b
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by powrtoch 14y ago
It's really unfortunate that this would be so hard to use in production due to lack of a suitable IE fallback. If a browser doesn't support @font-face, for example, you can always fall back to a standard font. For isometric text though, lac
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by powrtoch 14y ago
For a self-identified "data scientist", this is a pretty naive approach to "finding out what worked for others". The methodology doesn't distinguish in any way between "colors that help make apps successful" and "colors that are just used o
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by powrtoch 14y ago
maratd's comment next to yours is correct. It's actually an old term (well, old relative to social media) used by psychologists to describe the way people make judgments (consciously or otherwise) based on the behavior of their peers. http
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by powrtoch 14y ago
> Has Kickstarter invented a new form of online commerce, where merchants who are close to you on the social graph, rather than in terms of physical geography, can thereby charge a premium for products which would never fly in the open
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by powrtoch 14y ago
This is pretty awesome, but the following is noteworthy: > creates a random sequence of 30 letters chosen from S, D, F, J, K, and L, with no repeating characters. This equates to around 38 bits of entropy Which is not so bad for certain
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Facebook profiles can be expected to contain information about one's religion, sexuality, and other factors employers aren't allowed to ask about, and can get sued for trying to find out. At worst FB could create a sanitized version of your
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by powrtoch 14y ago
This was submitted to reddit as "Site Jumps gun and announces God Particle has been found." http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/vwo1h/site_jumps_gu...
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by powrtoch 14y ago
I would say iOS already works like this. They push out OS updates to devices not capable of running them properly, and provide no easy path to roll back. Many non-technical users will just think their "old" phone has "gotten slow", as if th
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Writing likable, memorable songs is about striking a balance between comfortable and interesting. It always irks me when people go from "this chord progression is in a lot of popular songs" to "therefore all you have to do to write a good s
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by powrtoch 14y ago
This article hits pretty hard on jQuery Mobile. I'm considering it for an upcoming project and hadn't heard about it being such a steep tradeoff on performance. Can anyone who has played around with it comment?
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Technically true, but you can fake it if it really strikes your fancy. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4804068/move-mouse-cursor...
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by powrtoch 14y ago
First idea that comes to mind: It would be cool if there were an option to let the gamepad act as a mouse. There would be an initialization option, as well as a toggle function, called something like "controlMouse". When activated, the cont
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by powrtoch 14y ago
My fault for being ambiguous about the word "bigger", thanks for pointing this out. It's true that you're not looking for a large area per se. What you want is a large perimeter. The best starting click would be a whole lot of thin tentacle

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