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by riobard 17y ago
That's exactly what is in my mind! The mismatch of domain name order and path order really bothers me for a while and I just couldn't find a sound reason for that. For the date format, AFAIK, only English speaking countries use MM/DD/YY, po
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by riobard 17y ago
I guess that depends on what kind of programming you are planning to do on the machine -- coding some web apps has quite different requirements than coding some 3D games. But in any case, GET AS MUCH SCREEN ASSETS AS YOU CAN AFFORD! :)
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Ask HN: why are domain names reversely ordered?
25 points by riobard 17y ago|45 comments
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by riobard 17y ago
I was living in Canada last year and thinking the same idea in the freaking cold winter. I guess for North America it might be a better idea to put servers in the cold areas (e.g. Northwest Territories) in the same continent instead of runn
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by riobard 17y ago
I have to say I just LOVE HN --- I've been thinking about this for quite a while and was planning to ask "How do you name your machines" today and just found this article ... Problem solved! Thanks! :)
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by riobard 17y ago
same feeling, esp. after get used to Apple's font rendering engine ...
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by riobard 17y ago
It doesn't solve the context _switching_ cost.
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by riobard 17y ago
Any idea about performance, robustness, etc?
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by riobard 17y ago
Interesting! Can you elaborate a little bit on the usage pattern and how you measured the speedup, please?
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by riobard 17y ago
Easy. Manufacture Prius in China and then export the final cars.
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by riobard 17y ago
I'm using Vimperator, but got a problem: how to escape from embedded Flash once it gets keyboard focus? Because once the focus is in some embedded objects, I can no longer control Vimperator unless click the mouse to move the focus back to
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by riobard 17y ago
Not sure if it just me or not, but anybody noticed the count-down on the right sidebar actually says 46 days? It's May 20 today, and it should be 16 days until June 6, unless someone forgot that JavaScript's month is 0-indexed?
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by riobard 18y ago
I guess platform/rendering engine difference should be taken into consideration when choosing the "best" fonts. Same font is usually rendered very differently on different platforms with anti-aliasing on. For example, Monaco looks fantastic
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by riobard 18y ago
"I think Google is making some bad choices with the technologies that they are choosing to support (Python/Java over Ruby, Mercurial over Git)." I remember a large portion of Google's codebase has been based on Python/Java when Ruby was not
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by riobard 18y ago
I have the same problem with the naming -- just clicked to figure out what this "dropbox" would offer, only to find out it's a comment system :|
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by riobard 18y ago
This is going to suck: those corporate IT departments will set Microsoft on fire if they push the automatic upgrade to IE8 really hard ...
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by riobard 18y ago
A side question: Do you need to get .net/.org/.[other TLDs] when you have the .com one? e.g. google.net redirects to google.com, but google.org is for a different purpose.
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by riobard 18y ago
I'm native Chinese. I speak English quite well, and now I'm learning German. I definitely agree with you that German is much much easier to learn if one knows another Latin-based language before. I guess same is true for French or Spanish--
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by riobard 18y ago
I actually tried to train myself somehow. It's just no knowing how long/hard I need to practice until I'm able to work OK with my left hand makes me stagnant. Now both u and eugenjen said it's doable, I'll continue my daily exercise. Thanks
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by riobard 18y ago
Emm, interesting. I'm always curious of how to work more with left hand (I'm right handed). I started with using mouse/touchpad with my left hand, but when it comes to writing with a pen or using chopsticks, my left hand always makes me fee
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by riobard 18y ago
"Another problem is to explain knowledge in Chinese that I learn first in English. Especially terms in computer science are not unified in Taiwan and China." I have the same problem, too. A much worse thing for me is that I use English as m
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by riobard 18y ago
"When Chinese use their native tongue, the knowledge exchange goes faster and in more depth. It encourages greater participation by a wider audience." I think that's a very important observation. One's mother tongue determines one's thinki
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by riobard 18y ago
And they support Mac too! So I can have my files available all across my machines now (Mac, Ubuntu, XP, ordered by use frequency) :)
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by riobard 18y ago
Dropbox my favorate!!! Had recommended many friends to use it and they love them too! Keep going! :)
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by riobard 18y ago
I can accept the fact that Firefox is a little bit slower than Chrome. After all, the Internet connection is already very slow, why bother saving some extra seconds waiting then? Plus I always start Firefox when system boots and have it wai
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by riobard 18y ago
I've been using Ubuntu since 7.04 and I'm still using it in virtual machine now. I agree that esp. for 8.x Ubuntu really beats XP on font rendering (well, except for OpenOffice and occasionally Firefox). However both Windows and Linux still
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by riobard 18y ago
I found Mac and OS X very appealing as a development platform. For me the most important think would be that I have a *nix system without any hardware support issue -- yes, "it just works". Got really really tired of dealing with various dr
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by riobard 18y ago
Ok, now HN is full of Erlang ... What's going on??
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by riobard 18y ago
"Oh wait, you can just use a gradient of colors instead of random ones, with the more-nested paren pairs having colors farther in on the gradient. Silly me." Good idea! Is it doable in VIM now? :|
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by riobard 18y ago
How do they solve the bandwidth issue for HD?

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