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by samdk 17y ago
Provocative, general headline with an overly specific example. I know I'm not the only person who's tired of posts like this. There's a point to be made here--a good point. But it's completely ignored in favor of making a broad, meaningless
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Karl Rove practically invented the attack ad. This is not an attack ad, it's a satire of an attack ad. Taken literally, yes, it's pretty stupid--attack ads generally are. But that's missing the point.
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"Visually stunning" is the wrong criterion to use when selecting graphics trying to convey information.
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I'm glad this his happening again--I heard about it after the fact last year and it looks like it could be fun. I do wish that there was more information on the site though. It's very light on actual details. A google groups thread ( http:/
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If you're using most modern web browsers, typing something into the address bar is almost equivalent to typing it into Google. Which, as another comment indicates, is probably where a lot of these hits are coming from.
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This just links to a stub. The full article is here: http://www.examiner.com/x-36206-LA-County-Social-Policy-Exam...
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Much better (at least in my opinion). The old positioning threw me off.
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For what it's worth, I have a pretty similar opinion, and I'm 19.
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"Aren’t there enough ways to write web-applications as it stands?" ...no? Choice (and the ensuing competition) is a good thing. Different frameworks and languages have different strengths and different uses, and people have different pref
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You can make polls here: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll This is not really a decision someone else can make for you though. Especially given absolutely no information about you.
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Some of these graphs are much more confusing than they need to be. The money scales should remain more consistent. Most of the graphs are scaled in billions of dollars, but one is in trillions, and one is (completely inexplicably) in millio
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It was almost certainly a talent acquisition. They don't want the product: they want the people behind it. This is pretty similar to what happened with Etherpad.
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Windows Mobile 7 . And if Windows Mobile 7 is anything like it looks like it'll be then yes, that's a very reasonable comparison.
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One of the (Rails) apps I'm developing needs subdomains, and I don't think it's uncommon. We probably could find some way to develop without subdomains, but Rails likes doing it this way. While aliasing localhost takes about 30 seconds (o
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Teresa Nielsen Hayden and John Scalzi Discuss Building Online Communities(asaecenter.org)
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GitHub is overwhelmingly populated by projects written in dynamically typed interpreted languages. A quick look over at the 'Top Languages' tab tells us that compiled languages don't even show up until position number 7.
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I've built two, and both were completely trivial compared to this. One took me about a week, the other took me and two other people about a month. (In both cases, working an hour or two each day.) I can't imagine the work that must have gon
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Ars Technica had an article a while ago on how to deploy standalone Python applications written using PyQt: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/03/how-to-dep... That's probably your best bet for cross-platform Python applicatio
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Chrome is significantly faster on a resource-limited computer. I use it on my EeePC for that reason. On more powerful computers I don't notice enough of a difference to feel the need to switch.
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Network Solutions also stores FTP passwords in cleartext, and anyone with access to the overall account can easily look them up.
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Types and Programming Languages was one of the books used for my (undergrad) programming languages course. This article made me feel much less guilty about not actually understanding most of the small amount that we did end up actually re
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Is there anything like this that integrates well with Vim? Or should I get hacking?
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That's actually exactly the kind of thing that prints beautifully though. That would be much easier to read if printed than it is on a computer screen.
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"Typing the name of a popular site is unambiguous and it should redirect the user to that site." Firefox has done this for a very long time. It uses Google. Most other modern web browsers behave similarly.
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Mark Guzdial responds in the comments, and it's worth reading. He says that his comments were related to the demographics of open-source development, and in that context I don't really disagree--although I'm by no means convinced that the
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I'll have to start paying more attention to what I'm doing when I'm surprised. I think that for surprises that don't affect me on a personal/emotional level I probably identify closest with the Distiller. But for surprises that do, I really
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The important bit: "Every time you lose your Internet connection the game boots you to the main menu, and all progress made from the last save point is thrown out the window. This isn’t an MMO, mind you, but a plain ol’ single player game.
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This is basically what the blank 'new tab' page in Chrome is. (Except that that shows eight links instead of four.)
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There's a very long, very good thread on the xkcd forums full of them: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22741 . Some (maybe all or close to it, I haven't been paying attention) are also up on http://xkcdsw.com/ .
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It is far from perfect, yes, but it's also much better than anything that's come along before. More and more when I search for solutions to problems I'm having I've been coming up with SO links. And when I do and the SO question is related

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