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by ralph 19y ago
What people say they'll pay in the future when asked in a survey, and whether they'll actually pay that, or anything, when the time comes are two different things.
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by ralph 19y ago
I'm surprised adsense doesn't offer this. It must be quite common for a web app. to be showing a page to many different users, but for it to know particular information about each user. It really needs to be able to pass that onto adsense
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by ralph 19y ago
Summary: tells you how to use GNU gettext with PHP, part 1 of ???. (Hopefully, your web framework does some of this tedium for you.)
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by ralph 19y ago
How about telling the submitter that on the submissions page? (Along with a few other choice things, e.g. there's a Feature Requests thread.) I agree a good title is important, and a denser front page is good too, but that doesn't rule out
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by ralph 19y ago
If I wanted volumes of information I know where to find it. This is news.yc. I'm hoping for quality, not quantity, and if that means a 70% fall in submissions, who cares? Besides, having the ability to attach a comment to the URL does't m
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by ralph 19y ago
LLVM is outstanding, but little known. One example, a C program that uses a malloc-per-node linked list implementation might be compiled into an executable that uses an array, saving the space occupied by the pointers, and improving locali
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by ralph 19y ago
news.yc really needs the ability to add a descriptive sticky first comment along with a URL otherwise the RSS feed, and this page, has bugger all on it to know whether to click on the link or not. Yes, this is already on the Feature Reques
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by ralph 19y ago
The /threads page doesn't show recent comments. I replied to an old comment of mine on the Feature Requests thread to add more information. That new comment should then have appear at the top of my /threads page, possibly with the other o
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by ralph 19y ago
Summary: says that harnessing the power of crowds is great, but you can't do without a small (maybe one) group of quality control arbiters at the core. Compare Linux (Linus only lets good stuff in) with Wikipedia (anything gets in, hope it
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by ralph 19y ago
Yet, system administration is still tied to the shell and the old toolset, despite the astounding advantages of moving to a modern high-level language. This is where I stopped reading. Python's great, but the shell and the old toolset is
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by ralph 19y ago
That's not what he's saying. He said self motivation. So if left to their own devices they'd rather learn more than stick to one task and produce something. Smart, productive people are what you want when they are being motivated, possi
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by ralph 19y ago
You can do > to get a greater-than sign. But be careful if you edit the post later, it reverts back; a known bug on the Feature Requests thread.
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by ralph 19y ago
Won't more and more users find plugins like Adblock over time? And if someone was to set up a trusted list of URLs to block and the plugin updated occasionally whole swaves of ads would disappear and not be loaded. Has anyone any stats fro
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by ralph 19y ago
They make individuals tell them precisely what music they like. This information is hard to find normally. Sellers like to either target people that will buy what they're selling, or alter what they're selling once they know more about th
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by ralph 19y ago
I'm now sure it isn't stable, which makes re-finding your place and making sure you've read everything more awkward than it need be.
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by ralph 19y ago
As I use news.yc more I think this is more and more vital. Not only so the OP's comment stays with the URL, but that comment also needs to go into the RSS feed, otherwise I just get a load of one line titles which give little clue as to wh
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by ralph 19y ago
Dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=25370
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by ralph 19y ago
Down in cider country. Used to live in Lambeth years ago though.
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by ralph 19y ago
Also on BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/6701863.stm . Nice to see a London-based co. hit the headlines.
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by ralph 19y ago
Our bug fixer is suggesting you add a post to the "Feature Requests" thread, http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363 , in case that isn't clear. There's a link of the same name at the bottom of some of the site's pages. Isn't this on
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by ralph 19y ago
(*But* is *But*.)
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by ralph 19y ago
Quite. It's an international audience on here. I'm English and I've no idea what he's on about. (No, please, don't tell me.)
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by ralph 19y ago
Three pages filled with off-topic crap outside of the article. Read the print version instead: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=292772
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by ralph 19y ago
I suppose you could also make $(SOURCES) depend on $(GEN) to save having to remember the "make clean" sometimes. Speaking of clean, the ... .out needs cleaning up too, e.g. "rm -f $(SOURCES:%=%.out)" perhaps (untested).
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by ralph 19y ago
Do you mean projects, e.g. Vim, or sites that host projects, "like SourceForge"? Also, Open Source only? How about Free Software?
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by ralph 19y ago
Don't know why anyone's modded you down. I was thinking that either the interpreter, e.g. ruby, or the script itself already returned a non-zero exit status and the makefile detected that. That doesn't cause make to remove the target. $ m
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by ralph 19y ago
The makefile rule will leave behind a .css file even if there's errors. Compare to "cc -c foo.c" and the existance of foo.o on an error; we don't do "cc -c foo.c >foo.o". Things like this can cause hard to find problems further down th
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by ralph 19y ago
Peopleware is a great book. Well worth a read by anyone who has a "desk" job, including those lone wannabees sitting at home with their laptop. http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/pw.html
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by ralph 19y ago
There's an anecdote about Ken Thompson having "coder" as his occupation in his passport. Shame I can't find a link. Typical of a man who debunked persistent objects with a quip about having them for years; they're called files. Being an
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by ralph 19y ago
* yields *

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