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Show HN: Work. Go on. I dare you.(blog.onehundredandfiftythree.co.uk)
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by quarterto 14y ago
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, JEFF? [1] [1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...
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by quarterto 14y ago
Theft is defined as unlawful deprivation of use of property. Piracy does not stop the original owner from continuing to sell. It's a lost customer, not a lost sale.
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by quarterto 14y ago
Yes, but all of the previously-released Linux versions of Humble Bundle games have been high-quality native ports.
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Is it just me or is this "article" just a rehashed press release?
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by quarterto 14y ago
100.times {puts "Hello, world"} I'm just sayin'.
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by quarterto 14y ago
Why fork (and reverse half of Coco's semantics), instead of contributing to Coco? Do you expect that any of your additions will get merged into mainline Coco/CoffeeScript?
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by quarterto 14y ago
Almost certainly the latter. And it's not so much "I want to design a language. Ooh, I'll make it compile to JavaScript!" as "Dammit, why is X so hard in JavaScript X but trivial in language Y? Hmm, I know...". To me, it's testament to just
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by quarterto 14y ago
So, it's Facebook meets Pinterest meets Schemer? Looks interesting. I like how they go out of their way to assuage privacy fears on the login page ("Socl does not share your searches etc on Facebook"). Also, I hate to be that guy, but it sh
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by quarterto 14y ago
I've noticed the same with the Kindle charger (silent) and HP Touchpad charger (mosquito whine). The Kindle charger is a lot more compact. Doesn't provide enough juice to charge the Touchpad though.
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by quarterto 14y ago
There's a simple answer to that one. It's "don't use multiple package managers, you numpty". Use Homebrew. If it's missing a package, write a formula. Fork the repo on Github, brew-tap it [1], and if you think other people could use it, ope
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by quarterto 14y ago
Not "dead" as in "has no charge". "Dead" as in "This battery is no more! It has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up
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Schemer requires Google+(schemer.com)
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From http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/faqs/affect.html#retailer : What if the retailer does not accept chip and PIN? Where the retailer has not upgraded to chip and PIN technology, you will be asked to follow the current card payment pr
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by quarterto 14y ago
It's orders of magnitude harder to clone an EMV than a magnetic strip.
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by quarterto 14y ago
While the giant image slideshow of the product in use is a bit egregious, the rest of the site has a totally different look and feel.
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by quarterto 14y ago
"When it's at home" is a Britishism meaning "basically": http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/when_its_at_home . We use "easy as pie" in the UK too, although it's probably an American import. (EDIT: almost certainly 19th century American. Mark Tw
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Or the southern Spanish [ee-thet-lay]?
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by quarterto 14y ago
Looks good. I always thought the Square dongle looked a bit flimsy. This looks much more professional. On the other hand, what the fuck is with that name? iZettle? What's a zettle when it's at home?
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0 70015 1 51196 2 34396 3 27248 4 28487 5 18818 6 14918 7 12900 8 12680 9 12231 ! 8811 " 65196 £ 22 $ 10677 % 7848 ^ 2890 & 15019 * 78756 ( 164996 ) 164418 121.73935896998462% fewer keystroke
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by quarterto 14y ago
I have the number keys mapped to their symbols (i.e. pressing 1 gives !, pressing Shift+1 gives 1 etc.) using a custom XKB map. Feels so much more efficient, although I don't have any hard stats.
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Show me the code(blog.onehundredandfiftythree.co.uk)
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