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by samdk 16y ago
It's generated a ton of hype and interest. I suspect that's one of the main reasons.
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by samdk 16y ago
Prolog's pattern matching actually isn't much like an if-then-else construct at all, and thinking about it like one will get you into a lot of trouble once you move beyond very very trivial Prolog programs. While it resembles the pattern ma
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by samdk 16y ago
This is why I buy from Bandcamp ( http://bandcamp.com/ ) whenever possible. They take 15% (or 10% if the artist has made over $5000) off of the top, and the rest goes to the artists. They also have a really nice HTML5 music player, and let
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by samdk 16y ago
Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not the same thing as dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality disorder. (Which is I believe what you were suggesting with that joke.) From Wikipedia: Schizophrenia is a menta
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by samdk 16y ago
In an ideal community people would up-vote arguments for adding value to the conversation and down-vote only for detracting. I agree in general with this point--I'd much rather have comment ranking based on comment value than
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by samdk 16y ago
Cailliau recalls that Berners-Lee put forward the name “as a temporary measure.” They agreed to use it for their revamped proposal for CERN management, as the proposal could not be delayed any further. “If the proposal
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by samdk 16y ago
Normally I'd agree with you, but in this case you're signing up for a beta for a web browser that is (at least right now) almost entirely built around Facebook. If you don't have a Facebook account, why do you want an invite? ( quick edit:
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by samdk 16y ago
This is actually exactly what I meant by a lack of focus. That may be the focus of the underlying codebase (and that may be where the innovation is), but the UI was just really a glorified chat room. It wasn't particularly suited to actuall
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by samdk 16y ago
It's interesting that you mention wanting someone to implement the "core concept" more effectively, because I think that one of the biggest problems with Wave was that it didn't have a well-defined core concept. It was billed as the Next Bi
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by samdk 16y ago
I don't think you can really claim "full browser support" with an asterisk that says "assumes latest beta". That's really not helpful when you're trying to figure out if you can actually use something. That said, this is a pretty nice pre
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by samdk 16y ago
This is fascinating. And terrifying. I can't imagine living in an environment like this. I'd be extremely interested to know what (if anything) has changed since 1993 when this when was written. (Speaking of which, a (1993) in the title mig
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by samdk 16y ago
from the schools' point of view, individual gifts are literally worthless A huge motivator for getting people to donate any amount at all is college rankings. The US News and World Report takes into account the "average alumni giv
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by samdk 16y ago
There's an open-source alternative, Redshift, that does something similar: http://jonls.dk/redshift/ There's a fork of Redshfit, RedshiftGUI, which gives you a GUI if you want one: http://www.mao-yu.com/projects/redshiftgui/ I don't use
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by samdk 16y ago
As far as I've been able to tell, Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar are relatively close to each other in terms of features. I'm pretty sure I could use any of them and be happy. It's the fact that GitHub is by far the best code-hosting site I've
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by samdk 16y ago
It's worth pointing out (as the linked page does) that the survey was announced prominently on GitHub (and wasn't on some other Git hosting sites), so those results might be skewed. (Either way though, they clearly do have a ton of very wel
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by samdk 16y ago
I think it's possible to do, but you need to differentiate yourself from browser keyword search and DuckDuckGo-like !bang searching more in order to get me to use it. In Firefox (and I'm assuming other modern browsers) I can right-click on
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by samdk 16y ago
This mostly matches up with my own experience. I always start several days early, and I always work with one or two other people if at all possible. Starting several days early gives you a few days to think about a problem if you need it an
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by samdk 16y ago
Dive Into HTML5 has another good overview of using Local Storage, along with ways to fall back on other methods if it's not supported and some information about (potential) replacements: http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html
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by samdk 16y ago
I don't know about a parsing library, but the HTML5 spec defines how parsers for it should behave, so at least at some point in the not-too-distant future, it shouldn't matter too much. I think Chrome/Safari already implement it (or at le
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by samdk 16y ago
Partly because PNG is lossless, but also largely because that's not the kind of image that PNG compresses well. JPEG is a better format (than PNG) to use for photos and similar types of images, because it does an okay job of compressing the
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by samdk 16y ago
This is partially true, but this (and other replies) are all somewhat wrong/light on actual information. You're correct in saying that Tor assures anonymity and not privacy: if you don't want other people to know what you're sending over To
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by samdk 16y ago
This is not vim-related, but the reason you couldn't reply is that HN doesn't let you reply to a comment until after a certain amount of time has passed. This amount of time depends on how deep the comment is in the tree. (I believe the res
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by samdk 16y ago
One of the things I love about Vim is that every time I read though a post like this or look at someone's .vimrc I learn something new about what it can do or get another insight about how its features can make my life easier. My (semi-comm
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by samdk 16y ago
No he's not, he's saying that infinity is a useful abstraction for dealing with "arbitrarily large". That often the tools we have for dealing with infinity can give us a better idea of how things behave in arbitrary large cases than the too
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by samdk 16y ago
There's already Cobol on Cogs: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
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by samdk 16y ago
It's really interesting to see what went into this before the competition. I'm on one of the other teams that'd doing pretty well in the voting (we built Drawbridge: http://team-hyphen.no.de/ ), so it's especially interesting for me to see
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Node Knockout entries are up(nodeknockout.com)
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by samdk 16y ago
The Denver Post had a similarly interesting series of color photos taken during the Great Depression a couple of months ago: http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-ame... . They (unlike many of these) actually do feel lik
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by samdk 16y ago
This is wonderful. I will absolutely be using this the next time I want to search for a flight. The logo makes me smile (although it's a bit indistinct on a white background), and the fact that the default sort method is "agony" makes me ve
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by samdk 16y ago
SearchYC has a page that shows all of the Ask HN posts: http://ask.searchyc.com/ , so you wouldn't have to write a script to do this, although filtering out ones that weren't upvoted very much might have made this job a lot easier.

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