prairiedock

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by prairiedock 8y ago
My main dislike is a technical feature: that every response to a comment does not link back to the parent comment. This often makes discussions difficult to follow. (Indentation helps very little when reponse threads grow over multiple page
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by prairiedock 8y ago
You don't need the extension to get the benefit. Just go to https://outline.com
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by prairiedock 8y ago
If you read the article, you will find that they do propose to make daylight saving time (they call it "summer time") permanent.
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by prairiedock 9y ago
The only interesting question here is: why isn't he (Khosla) in jail?
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by prairiedock 10y ago
Can anyone explain why all authentication systems don't enforce a (say) 2-second delay on repeated password attempts? Wouldn't this solve nearly all insufficient entropy problems? Even a 5-character password should suffice in this
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by prairiedock 10y ago
Seconded. Their statistics without Chrome OS are of little interest, and a distortion of actual desktop trends.
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by prairiedock 10y ago
It's not advanced, it's not long enough, and it's not correct either. > This will set the value of TMP to `/tmp/myproject` only if it has not been set. This should read "if", not "only if". An
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by prairiedock 11y ago
You'll be glad to know that in GO, the ancient Japanese game which is played with black and white stones on a cross-hatched board, black goes first and has the advantage.
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by prairiedock 13y ago
I Looked at the site for z.m.l ( http://www.z-m-l.com/ ). It doesn't seem to do math, so it's a nonstarter. BTW, Pandoc (which does do LaTeX math) really needs no improvement, only more widespread implementation (e.
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by prairiedock 13y ago
This thing is dead in the water, IMO. I just tried to contribute (more than enough to get a phone) and discovered a Paypal account is required. (Over my dead body.) I would have been glad to contribute via any of several credit cards I hold
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by prairiedock 13y ago
"it does what currency should do, which is increase in value over time." What utter rubbish. Bitcoin may or may not survive (as a volatile commodity, like gold), but you buy it now at your peril. It is backed by nothing, and generates no ea
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by prairiedock 14y ago
Chromebooks out of the box lack any kind of straightforward text editor which will edit local files and/or files on Google Drive. (Google Drive is much more convenient to use on chromebooks than Dropbox.) Writebox looks as if it might be a
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by prairiedock 14y ago
You haven't been following Apple's lawsuits against Samsung much, have you?
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by prairiedock 14y ago
familiar? have? number? Don't think so...