qqq

16 ms·

121.
by qqq 18y ago
What do you need a GUI for?
122.
by qqq 18y ago
partial summary: the app store promotes whatever sold the most units yesterday. this gives an incentive to sell more units at a lower price, even if that's not the ideal pricepoint. it should promote whatever sold the most real dollars yest
123.
by qqq 18y ago
No it's not.
124.
by qqq 18y ago
Can other people download those off your website and install them without using any crazy hacks?
125.
by qqq 18y ago
Is Apple preventing it from being installed in any way or just via Apple's app distribution mechanism? (I don't know either way, just asking.)
126.
by qqq 18y ago
games is 2 megabytes larger. it must be better! just get both, their fault for bad UI.
127.
by qqq 18y ago
turn on full keyboard control in sys prefs. i do all dialogs with the keyboard. try using quicksilver instead of spotlight you don't have to use itunes. i rarely use it. i like the way cmd-tab includes things from all my spaces. but i can s
128.
by qqq 18y ago
Every syntax quirk that requires the code generator to do something (e.g. add more parentheses) makes code generation harder.
129.
by qqq 18y ago
generated code to convert stuff to explicit true/false
130.
by qqq 18y ago
This is hard to read because they specifically asked for a short line count, but it's not really very complicated. an if/else, a map, and a recursive call. Could maybe do the string manipulation more cleverly, but the obvious (assigning a n
131.
by qqq 18y ago
A story about starting businesses gets political responses and gets marked dead for political reasons. Bye bye free speech and impartiality on Hacker News. Why can't people just reply to the large on-topic part? PS I would reply to the post
132.
by qqq 18y ago
Presumably he wants you to do it like this: > Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker, and never touch it until retirement
133.
by qqq 18y ago
Good ideas aren't worth anything, remember? Just buy one on the cheap.
134.
by qqq 18y ago
So you want to raise taxes on some people, and raise spending. You say this is a good idea; maybe it is, maybe it isn't. My statement above, that dems don't want to do half the list, stands. You don't have to be so partisan in response to b
135.
by qqq 18y ago
So, do you want to do more than half the things on the list, or not? Which ones do you want to do?
136.
by qqq 18y ago
Democrats don't want to do half of those things.
137.
by qqq 18y ago
My comment on how this is related to epistemology: http://curi.us/blog/post/1339-steve-yegge-on-epistemology
138.
by qqq 18y ago
if you type this into google you will find sources: government forced lower lending standards
139.
by qqq 18y ago
Many of the problems were blatantly and directly caused by Government intervention, for example when they forced lower lending standards on banks in the name of anti-racism. And Fannie and Freddie were not private companies. One thing they
140.
by qqq 18y ago
We don't have a free market. Blaming the crash on freedom is ridiculous.
141.
by qqq 18y ago
Why break lines at a fixed length yourself instead of letting your editor's wordwrap handle it?
142.
by qqq 18y ago
fail
143.
by qqq 18y ago
with kazaa/etc, you share all the files in your library. so if i download one, then unless i remove it from the library folder i share it every time i download anything . so it's kinda different. bittorrent doesn't share old stuff.
144.
by qqq 18y ago
APPL actually lowered laptop prices. 100 less for the bottom end. and 700 less to get features like aluminum and decent graphics.
145.
by qqq 18y ago
L2typ3
146.
by qqq 18y ago
Wow that's terrible. And I think it did get worse: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200... > Between 1989 and 2006, the median inflation-adjusted price of a Seattle house rose from $221,000 to $447,800. Fully $
147.
by qqq 18y ago
Large home. Hundreds per month on electricity. Hmmm. Maybe they need the space and power for their dozens of computers? ;)
148.
by qqq 18y ago
And have 5000 regulations for safety, external prettiness, etc... Those may be good things, but they cost money, and poor people aren't given the option to choose which features they can live without.
149.
by qqq 18y ago
Try ultimate frisbee.
150.
by qqq 18y ago
What was a "hack" about this?

More ›