selven

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by selven 17y ago
It's about which websites you're checking. On, say, cnn.com you might get a more IE-centric audience. On places like Slashdot, Linux would have a higher market share than IE. It's extremely difficult to make an accurate census of who is usi
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by selven 17y ago
Google has been around 12 years, you don't see them getting bored.
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by selven 17y ago
It's true in programming and its true everywhere else: don't optimize before you find the real bottlenecks. Otherwise you'll have a 1% gain but all sorts of unforeseen consequences start popping up.
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by selven 17y ago
Ctrl+B (or Command+B on the Mac, I assume) opens up a bar at the top (or at least it does in the Linux version) and you can drag your bookmarks between the bar and the "other bookmarks" folder.
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by selven 17y ago
Have you tried torrenting it?
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by selven 17y ago
I might not know what you exactly mean by a "bookmark manager", but the star to the left of the URL textbox and Ctrl+B give you bookmarks.
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by selven 17y ago
I doubt Chrome (browser and OS) are going to become spyware platforms. Even if Google feels like data-mining you, it'll happen on the server side as you use Google search and your Google account and associated services.
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by selven 17y ago
I've never had anything like that. Chrome on my computer is, at worst, taking 5-10% CPU usage to maintain 10 tabs in 2 windows, and it doesn't slow anything else down. Perhaps your OS is the problem?
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by selven 17y ago
So when this slang-using generation grows up and joins the real world they will become the real world, and slang will become acceptable there and everyone will understand it. I fail to see the problem.
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by selven 17y ago
Yes, loans are useful, and being permanently in debt is useful if you have an investment with a higher return higher than your loan. But it has disadvantages - it's an obligation what you have to watch over lest it runs out of control. It c
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Double your productivity without doubling workload(blog.asmartbear.com)
4 points by selven 17y ago|0 comments
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by selven 17y ago
Guess not. Could be because I tend to focus on the article rather than wandering around all over the place.
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by selven 17y ago
Fully integrated augmented reality. Once we get mind-machine interfaces working, we could have an application that looks at every object around you, checks which one you're focusing on and somehow the entire Wikipedia article on it is alrea
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by selven 17y ago
When trying to look at a product you're thinking of buying, ignore the 5 star reviews. Those are always a mix of fanboys (whose posts amount to "<insert product here> is awes0me!!1!1"), people paid to rate it high and other people w
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by selven 17y ago
Except maybe (insert 3-5 diminutive adjectives here) the diaper bowl, these are all extremely unviable. Wasting hundreds of dollars of machinery to collect the insignificant amount of heat energy given off by a human (especially in its rest
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by selven 17y ago
Maybe I'm not in the target audience, but I find the article incredibly confusing. Parts of it literally feel like something out of SCIgen.
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Salon.com looks back at paywalls(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by selven 17y ago|0 comments
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by selven 17y ago
Copied the text down here: http://pastebay.com/74435
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by selven 17y ago
If you're talking about the dreidel, I don't think any other major religion or culture has a christmas-specific object like the dreidel (that is, a toy that you can build yourself out of paper). It's like berating someone for planting a Chr
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by selven 17y ago
Mindlessly repeating internet memes for one (except in Soviet Russia, where meme repeats you). That's at least 50% of internet humor. Obscure references, as well. It's a type of humor that makes no sense unless you're immersed in the cultur
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by selven 17y ago
The basic pattern is that it's like trinary, but once you get to something ending in some 1s and finally a 2, the two starts to migrate upward, leaving 0s behind it (as in 10112, 10120, 10200, 11000) until the 2 disappears and you keep on g
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by selven 17y ago
It's not an absolute truth, but overhyping something is dangerous. Even if you do get it done, you'll be compared to much higher expectations, and your result will look worse in comparison.
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by selven 17y ago
I totally understand the concept of not reinventing the wheel. Reminds me of the time when I was overjoyed at the fact that I figured out how to implement a flood filling ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill ) algorithm and then the n
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by selven 17y ago
There's no substitute for experience. There's a difference between knowing that x,y and z are bad and understanding why they are bad from personal experience.
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by selven 17y ago
How does including information prevent me from finding other information? Sure, it makes the "random page" option (which really should have a bias toward popular articles) less interesting, but if you're looking for information on something
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by selven 17y ago
Search engines are completely different from downloaded software - you can't avoid reliance on the provider unless you feel like writing your own web crawler and waiting for it to gather web content (even though it will never catch up with
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by selven 17y ago
"The Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't really apply here, as I understand it. Antitrust is when a company uses its dominant market position to make competition impossible." I was thinking of the Microsoft antitrust trials where, IIRC, Microsoft
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by selven 17y ago
The problem with Microsoft's business tactics in the search area is that they're not improving their product - instead, they're literally paying people to use it. While moving your price down into the negatives may be legitimate price compe
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by selven 17y ago
What's so bad about the site in Chrome? I'm looking at the site in (Linux) Chrome and Firefox side by side and, aside from the extra 4 lines of vertical screen space that Chrome gives you, they look exactly the same.
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by selven 17y ago
That's essentially what I said, just the bias is swapped.

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