sid0

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1. 151.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   Microsoft Natural Ergo 4000. My wrists would be dead without it.
2. 152.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   Yeah, arbitrariness in enforcement defines totalitarianism, I think.
3. 153.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   The problem is I can't think of any. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X all support installation from a USB stick.
4. 154.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   I use it for short sessions on mobile, when I know I'll spend less time than it takes Fennec to load.
5. 155.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   Indeed. The advice is outdated and basically wrong. Flagged.
6. 156.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   Flipping around the hands used for directions and actions is standard with emulator keyboard input, actually.
7. 157.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   What is the value in aping a particular OS's look for your UI when chances are most of your users won't even be using that OS? You know what other sites attempt to copy an OS's native controls? The ones displaying fake virus scans.
8. 158.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   There are other forms of memory management than manual and refcounted.
9. 159.▲
   by sid0 15y ago

   Power users go with the "Combine when taskbar is full" option. What sample size do you have here?
10. 160.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    I'm not sure what definition of multiuser you're using, but all the Windows NT-based OSes meet the normal definition of multiuser.
11. 161.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    For what its worth, in the one class I've had where the professor did catch a fifth of the students cheating in the first midterm (and immediately handed everyone Fs), his mood towards the rest of the class changed similarly.
12. 162.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    Fahrenheit was invented by a guy named Fahrenheit, not Faraday.
13. 163.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    Google Code and Git are actually perfect for each other -- both have horrible UIs.
14. 164.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    aka add a level of indirection, just like the solution to every other problem in computer science. :)
15. 165.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    You're a dick for buying products that actively negatively affect other users and that would lead to chaos if everyone bought them, yes.
16. 166.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    I agree with Kant here: when deciding whether an action is right, one should consider what would happen if everyone started doing it. Also, you're a dick. Congratulations.
17. 167.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    And yet it is exactly as dickish and disrespectful of others. Just like Apple as a whole, it seems.
18. 168.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    If you think Google has access to your raw, plaintext credentials logged somewhere on their servers I don't think that. Read my comment again, paying special attention to the phrase "in any form".
19. 169.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    The data being synced is completely encrypted end-to-end, and you can provide a personal passphrase aside from your Google credentials as an added level of security if you'd like. I'm having trouble parsing this comment -- part of any "en
20. 170.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    People don't care about privacy. I find this kind of thought process philosophically unsound. People might not care about privacy enough today -- that doesn't mean that software developers should follow them off the cliff. At some level
21. 171.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    And have fun telling Google all about where you get your porn. Chrome's sync is not a reasonable option for anyone who cares about his privacy enough (which should be everybody on Hacker News). you need to use an (unretrievable) sync key t
22. 172.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    Terrible on YOUR machine. On something like 45% (and increasing) of vista or win7 machines the story is the opposite.
23. 173.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    That just means your Firefox isn't benefiting from GPU acceleration. It could either be because your OS or hardware doesn't support it or because your graphics drivers are out of date.
24. 174.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    browser.urlbar.trimURLs I don't like the change either. It's one of the many reasons Chrome's UI is terrible. Opera actually implements it pretty well through, since when you click in the location bar the part to the left gets replaced with
25. 175.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    Canvas on Firefox is hardware accelerated (at least on Windows), so it's really fast. I don't have Chrome installed, but I'm pretty sure it chokes on the FishIETank benchmark with 1000 fish: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/Fi
26. 176.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    While it is true that all JavaScript numbers appear to be floats, there's nothing stopping them from being optimized by the JIT compiler into 32-bit integers if possible.
27. 177.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    You're right, he is being a little abrasive there, but I'd take it in stride and enjoy; this sort of thing is normal on the Internet. That doesn't mean it needs to be tolerated. While such behaviour might be common on places like Xbox Liv
28. 178.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    While we might disagree on the exact mechanics, I think we can agree that any open-source community would be better without such people.
29. 179.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    No, if there's a track record of obscene bug reports, then the person involved shouldn't be given even the slightest bit of slack. edit: if I were dmose, I'd have banned him a year ago for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57937
30. 180.▲
    by sid0 15y ago

    Not if the negative vibe driving volunteers who might actually fix bugs away outweighs the help provided.