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by rcfox 15y ago
I use Emacs with all of the ido stuff. Even with dozens of buffers open, I can just hit C-x b and then a couple of characters in the name of the buffer I want. I don't even have to use consecutive character; 'fb' would work to match 'foobar
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by rcfox 15y ago
There was a Waterloo-based company called AideRSS that did just this. Then, they became Postrank. Postrank was recently bought by Google, so perhaps they will add some kind of smart filtering to Google Reader.
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by rcfox 15y ago
As someone who went through "gifted" class for a while, I disagree. Those who are generally considered "gifted" tend to be good at one or a few things. However, each person is likely to be good at a different thing than someone else, so gro
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by rcfox 15y ago
Usually, a hash function is explicitly designed to have very different output for similar input.
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by rcfox 15y ago
The code isn't obfuscated; it's golfed. ( http://codegolf.com/ ) I assume the line-breaks are to allow the code to fit within 80 columns to display on most standard terminals. If you look closely, they occur at places you wouldn't expect th
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by rcfox 15y ago
Trademarks and branding are strange things. One would assume that giving a term wide-spread use would be beneficial to everyone, but it seems that it's bad for companies. I still don't quite get it myself... For example, "Google" as a verb:
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by rcfox 15y ago
Didn't you click the link? Minecraft can produce a tangible product now!
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by rcfox 15y ago
...What? First of all, 1 country in 203 had a holiday yesterday. Second, if you're worried about your link not being seen on a holiday, maybe you should wait until after the holiday to post it.
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by rcfox 15y ago
You posted this last night. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728604 ) Please don't double-post. It's annoying, and it certainly doesn't look good on you either.
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by rcfox 15y ago
HNCommentTracker (Chrome extension) - Highlights comments you haven't seen before, and shows an indicator of how many new comments exist for comment pages that you've previously read. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imeeonmdbakdm
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by rcfox 15y ago
Hacker News Collapsible Comments (Chrome extension) - Lets you collapse entire comment threads. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hockhafcdegocajmjh...
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HN Roundup: Hacker News Hacks
10 points by rcfox 15y ago|3 comments
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by rcfox 15y ago
> It doesn't even begin to explain to me what it measures or how it applies to an actual circuit. What components of a circuit have an impedance? If I increased the impedance, what would happen? How would I even do that? That's all in h
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by rcfox 15y ago
I'm just guessing, but I think it's probably an installation of http://www.busybox.net/ , which includes a standalone sshd. This would make it very easy to allow remote access once you're in a system.
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by rcfox 15y ago
Celebrate?
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by rcfox 15y ago
http://cowbirdsinlove.com/43
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by rcfox 15y ago
Enterprises want more support from Mozilla. Mozilla says they don't have the resources to provide that. I can't think of a group more able to provide funding for the resources that would solve their problem.
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Does a Simulation Really Need to Be Run?(blog.regehr.org)
5 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 15y ago
Ah, that's what I missed. So it's technically possible to have all of the niceties of GitHub without having to use GitHub?
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by rcfox 15y ago
Why is it a huge deal? It's just a desktop version of their web app. Or am I missing something?
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by rcfox 15y ago
Hm, I'm tempted to go to meet other HNers in the area, but I'm not really interested in the topic you've chosen...
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by rcfox 15y ago
What about Waterloo? We've got tons of tech companies, both big and small. It's also significantly less expensive to live here than Toronto or Vancouver.
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by rcfox 15y ago
> Once in a while when the recycling bin gets too big, the user can empty it. Many Linux systems don't even have a regular "user". They just sit in a corner and serve webpages, or do other tasks silently. > Or you can have a schedul
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by rcfox 15y ago
Even if it did, you wouldn't use it in this case. Windows batch files delete files outright too, instead of sending them to the recycling bin. You don't want to have to depend on the user to clean up after your automation.
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by rcfox 15y ago
Yeah, I would like to be able to get everything except for a few keywords.
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by rcfox 15y ago
This comment would be more persuasive if it weren't coming from a newly-created account.
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by rcfox 15y ago
I wonder if you're referring to the Stack Overflow decision to do this. They've made several strange modifications to their reputation system since the beginning, and I'm not sure any of them have really added value: paying for downvotes, d
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by rcfox 15y ago
> The OS user cheers and hails once a year with every OS update. "Hurray! They've finally fixed some of the issues I've been having!"
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by rcfox 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
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Yes, it is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub(kindle-maps.com)
139 points by rcfox 15y ago|58 comments

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