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by ralph 19y ago
Me too. I worked out I can spacebar over them.
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by ralph 19y ago
I emailed Daniel and Jason a few days ago. Daniel says they hope to make some improvements to the search in the future, I requested more filtering, e.g. by poster's name. He said Jason would know if it was behind in indexing -- I thought
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by ralph 19y ago
When taking a place on a six month contract with it to run on with two months' notice thereafter, I've made up for the lack of "normality", i.e. no employer salary cheque, etc., by paying the six months rent up front and then reverting to t
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by ralph 19y ago
The advantage of the US seems to be a large pool of candidates can move freely between states. The other place I can think of like that is the EU where a resident is allowed to work in another country without requiring a visa, etc. The di
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by ralph 19y ago
If you felt all that, could you try and put some of it in the title when you submit the link. It would help a lot to know why something thinks a post is relevant, it may not be obvious to others. bootload has started doing this. I think i
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by ralph 19y ago
Yes. My earlier reply to pg's question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499
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by ralph 19y ago
Some Ycombies may be using ideas promoted by XP, e.g. wide ranging automated testing, without chanting the XP mantra. I'd have thought good unit test coverage and web interface testing, e.g. twill, benefit fast site development, especially
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by ralph 19y ago
news.yc doesn't validate its parameters properly, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479)foo
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by ralph 19y ago
So the second set, the down arrow, could really just be something like an exclamation mark?
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by ralph 19y ago
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an eff
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by ralph 19y ago
Show you how many copies of a file exists, and how quickly a file uploaded to them becomes redundant. If I could search YC I'd point back to an earlier discussion we had on S3. One of the points that came up was how do you know when your
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by ralph 19y ago
I guess extremely fine execution of a "bad idea" can make its use so painless as to raise its usefulness into a good idea?
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by ralph 19y ago
I've an idea that (I believe) would be useful to people in their day to day real-life. If I get to the stage where I need to attract those people as users I was thinking of targetting a small number of them that are geographically local;
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by ralph 19y ago
That's excellent, thanks very much. I'm also reminded of Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales, letter 16, 1657. (I am sorry for the length
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by ralph 19y ago
Well I guess roundabouts to someone not used to them are dangerous, just like traffic lights. I'll see your Padova roundabout and raise you The Magic Roundabout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon) It's five roundabou
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by ralph 19y ago
Here in the UK I've heard of people "running lights" in the USA. It doesn't happen very often in the UK. Someone driving through red knows that they're likely to have an accident or mow down a pedestrian. I've long wondered if it is the U
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by ralph 19y ago
He's just too verbose. If the content took 40% of the words I'd be interested.
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by ralph 19y ago
It's unfortunate that some RSS readers limit the amount of displayed text, e.g. Firefox's menu items. As for the RSS linking to the external article, the feed has both that URL and a "comments" URL. Some RSS readers appear not to show or g
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by ralph 19y ago
I won't bother linking to all the previous times I've requested you add guidance text to the submissions page, including pointing them to the Feature Requests thread. I'm sure you've seen them yet prefer to leave the page sparse. Is it int
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by ralph 19y ago
Yes, as a native English speaker I'd assume arTIFFia as the pronounciation.
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by ralph 19y ago
Yes, you cannot.
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by ralph 19y ago
Isn't that still brain-damaged? You are alleviating the problem rather than fixing the cause. The cause being using closures means you have to store data for all clients for an unknown amount of time instead of having each client store th
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by ralph 19y ago
It's not bad, as a native English speaker. Is it arty-fee-a or ar-tiff-ia?
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by ralph 19y ago
I find this sometimes gives incorrect results, as if my fast typing speed and slow link speed cause problems, especially if I backspace multiple times to remove characters from the end. I've had false positives because of this, i.e. I've go
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by ralph 19y ago
I want any particularly long word to be forcefully split instead of making the page wider than the window. I'd have thought 200B is the "right" way to do this.
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by ralph 19y ago
Thanks, 200b is was I found too after reading the CSS 2 spec.
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by ralph 19y ago
You're bringing up a pioneer in the commercial world of OO, I'm talking about suits using the term OO without knowing what the letters stood for.
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by ralph 19y ago
Off-topic: is there any CSS that can be added to stop long words like URLs from causing a horizontal scrollbar to appear, i.e. to force the word to be broken in two?
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by ralph 19y ago
I said "in the mainstream", not academia. I'm talking about when personnel departments heard of it and when marketing departments started labelling everything OO.
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by ralph 19y ago
Some more bits on MOO: A mention by Niall Kennedy: http://www.niallkennedy.com/podcast/2007/03/moo-cards.html Suw Charman's notes on Richard Moross and Stefan Magdalinski's presentation at FOWA 07: http://strange.corante.com/archives/2

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