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by sjs 15y ago
It is. There is no room in my toolbox for sluggish and cumbersome tools.
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by sjs 15y ago
The problem with Eclipse is that the UI and UX are terrible, so it really doesn't matter what else it is good at. Unless someone actually likes Eclipse or is already very familiar with it I cannot recommend it over IntelliJ.
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by sjs 15y ago
Well, get writing your own post and then submit it to HN. </cheeky>
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by sjs 15y ago
Why not type * instead of ./* in the first place? Sidestep the whole issue by eliminating redundant information.
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by sjs 15y ago
He's doing better than your bank teller. Lots of jobs pay less than 55k, even in New York.
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by sjs 15y ago
If you are rude or demanding you will be treated accordingly, and this post has a very demanding tone. Maybe I'm cold but I don't think being disabled is a pass to treat other people in a condescending or rude manner. It sounds like a frust
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by sjs 15y ago
Fair enough, just providing some context.
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by sjs 15y ago
A playbook is a book of strategies used by sports coaches. Typically in US football.
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by sjs 15y ago
Interesting character. You can copy & paste it in front of any text in an editable field and the text immediately flips.
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by sjs 15y ago
They contracted someone to build the thing in the first place. Whoever is there for the data centre will be renting or buying a place to live, or at least staying at hotels, shopping for food and going to restaurants. It may not solve all o
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by sjs 15y ago
So does email. Email will be around in 5-10 years and is not tied to a company. Who knows what will happen to Twitter.
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by sjs 15y ago
I think that idealistically we agree, and it also seems like we agree on a practical level. We may be in a semantic death spiral, but I'm leaving my long reply here as well since I already wrote it. -- Ok I see what you mean about thinking
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by sjs 15y ago
Oh, it is older than I thought. Wikipedia says version 0.15 was released in 1996. Either way "bz" stands for Big Zipped and is unrelated to bzip2.
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by sjs 15y ago
Before it was the Big Zipped Image it was the Zipped Image, zImage or vmlinuz. Google has results as far back as 2001 or 2002 for vmlinuz so it's safe to say the tradition predates bzip2. It's worth noting that Linux can in fact use bzip2 t
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by sjs 15y ago
Some people can't be helped. In such extreme cases with incredibly unreasonable and unknowledgeable people just don't upgrade their browser. Let them languish. On the other hand it could be a benefit to be removed from the duty of maintaing
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by sjs 15y ago
Was anyone harmed? ... I'm joking of course. So they were frustrated for a second and then you showed them how to get the menu bar and everything was ok, right? Why was there a lot of angst, and why was it unsafe?
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by sjs 15y ago
Did you read it? > The Atlantic advises a conservative approach: don't switch to a different browser, just give them the latest version of the browser they're already using. Be on hand for the first time or two they use the browser, jus
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by sjs 15y ago
Here in Canada I can't use Spotify, Pandora, Google Music, or Amazon's thing without jumping through hoops and proxies, and I'm just too old and lazy for such shenanigans now. Grooveshark has me as a customer for life whether the labels wan
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by sjs 15y ago
Agree to disagree then. The alternative to Windows and OS X is not GPL-licensed Windows and GPL-licensed OS X, it's no Windows and no OS X, and we still have BSDs, Linux, and other open source systems in the ecosystem. Nobody who wants
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by sjs 15y ago
(That was mostly incomprehensible, but I'll respond anyway...) You're making the faulty assumption of thinking that someone who wants some source code that is only available under the GPL will just use it and decide to license their work un
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by sjs 15y ago
> they can do whatever they want with the software What if they want to build something on top of it that is not open source? They cannot and that is a restriction. It is the definition of a restriction. > When someone closes the
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by sjs 15y ago
Is our thing complaining about the popular things from the lesser travelled discussion forums? Snickering about how the masses don't know Facebook from the web from the Internet. "The fools!" That's obviously tongue in cheek but there's som
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by sjs 15y ago
What? Why not? iCab, Opera mobile, Opera mini, and dozen other browsers have already existed in the App Store for a while now. There's no rule against shipping a browser that uses UIWebView. (There was some fuss around Opera mini because it
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by sjs 15y ago
You might want to take a look at iCab.
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by sjs 15y ago
"People that love software want to build their own hardware." -- Alan Kay, paraphrased by Steve Jobs on at least one occasion Apple is a product company, and their products consist of hardware and software.
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by sjs 15y ago
The good shops still have at least a few demo units, and if not you can ask someone who works there to bring out a real device to try out. I'm not saying that's a good way to do it but it is at least possible to try them out, if you're dete
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by sjs 15y ago
I had to use this 'zap' bookmarklet[1] on it. It was way too distracting. [1] https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
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by sjs 15y ago
I frequent HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc. and have heard the name Hunch once or twice, but have no idea what they do and don't know anyone who uses it. There's a different kind of bubble in the valley, it's a contained ecosystem that people get
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by sjs 15y ago
Joanna looked like she was about to lose it when he interrupted her, but she let him continue. Even she seemed to know when arguing with Jobs was pointless.
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by sjs 15y ago
"Hey guys check out these sweet Ubuntu commands!" ;-)

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