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by sleavey 8y ago
Urchin [1] was a popular one. It was bought and killed by Google. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_(software)
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by sleavey 9y ago
Why not just wait till the 27th?
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by sleavey 9y ago
I really long for the day where we can grow in the lab the stuff we currently harm animals for, but a big "if" will be whether we can replicate the nutritional profile. A lot of vegan-friendly food I find is bulked up with carbohy
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by sleavey 9y ago
Yeah, it seems strange to force people to use type hints when it has had such a mixed reception. I really tried to use type hints with a new project a few months ago, but ended up stripping it all out again because it's just so damn ug
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by sleavey 9y ago
Maybe we need a linter for plugins, and a score board or minimum score requirement for premier listing on wordpress.org...
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by sleavey 9y ago
The TinyMCE review, at least, has a bunch of spelling mistakes and duplicate words / broken sentences. Would be worth doing a once-over of the article.
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by sleavey 9y ago
Cool site! I recently made a plugin to turn WordPress into an academic labbook and found that the ecosystem is so, so full of absolute rubbish. If a plugin isn't immediately and continuously bugging you to buy the pro version, it'
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by sleavey 9y ago
ACIDity is an annoyingly missing feature in WordPress. For software that's used on something like 20% of all websites, it doesn't use the InnoDB MySQL table format by default, and therefore doesn't support MySQL transactions
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by sleavey 9y ago
Couldn't your own chosen social network "access point" just create a bunch of HTML elements with source URL attributes that point to other servers (those of your friends) with a unique ID that, along with a cookie you send th
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by sleavey 9y ago
An open protocol sounds like the only sustainable solution that protects privacy. Are there any other popular, open protocols in the wild?
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by sleavey 9y ago
Haha, you're right. Sorry, I should have read more carefully!
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by sleavey 9y ago
Regarding units: power plant outputs are given in power units (e.g. watt, or megawatt, horsepower, etc.) because these are innately normalised to some unit of time (watt is a Joule per second). If you stated an output of 1 MWh, I would imme
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by sleavey 9y ago
I was on a plane just about to push back at Heathrow, and the pilot informed us we'd be delayed 15 minutes due to this failure. In the end it was 10 minutes, and we landed only 5 minutes late at my destination. Doesn't appear to h
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by sleavey 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what are the killer features of the full IDE over Code?
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by sleavey 9y ago
Microsoft released Visual Studio for Linux [1] a little while ago. I find it to be excellent; it gives comparable functionality to Atom but with a lot of the stuff you get with plugins already built in. [1] https://code.visualstu
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by sleavey 9y ago
I recommend The Guardian Long Reads: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read
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by sleavey 9y ago
The US is not the centre of the world. I'm a researcher and even though the immigration process is smoother for academics, others and I have long since decided not to pursue work in the US. There are many reasons, but amongst them are
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by sleavey 9y ago
> Guns are, practically speaking, no more or less crazy than Bowie knives, hunting bows, cross bows, or any number of other devices purpose built for hunting. I somewhat agree with the similarity, at least for rifles; however, many firea
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by sleavey 9y ago
In terms of police response time, is it so different to anywhere else in the world? Police services are underfunded in many countries but this doesn't seem to drive people to think that because they won't be helped in time they ne
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by sleavey 9y ago
All I can say is that, as a Brit (from a country where regular police don't even carry guns), I find the concept of average Joes owning guns of any description crazy. It seems like the outcome of a broken society in which people don&#x
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by sleavey 9y ago
Something's up with the site, at least for me. The table content doesn't load - I see the different options (email, etc.) but no entries. Firefox console tells me: ---- Loading failed for the <script> with source “ https:&#x
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by sleavey 9y ago
Isn't part of Germany's success in manufacturing their conservatism when it comes to large changes in the way we do business? To take an example, there are still companies that make pencils profitably in Germany (the two biggest,
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by sleavey 9y ago
Looks like some eagle-eyed editor fixed it already. EDIT: the edit is not showing up yet on NewsDiffs [1], but maybe later. [1] http://www.newsdiffs.org/article-history/www.bbc.co.uk/news/...
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by sleavey 9y ago
I understand the anger directed at them. Facebook are the spearhead of the closed, privacy-invading web, and this is the straw that broke the camel's back. Most people reading HN probably remember the days when the web was open and fre
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by sleavey 9y ago
It's interesting to compare Stack Overflow to Quora, which was similarly great a few years ago and is now almost worthless, but in a different way. Stack Overflow suffers from militant moderators who close and delete reasonable submiss
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by sleavey 9y ago
It's a promising idea but has issues currently. In recent Nightly builds I found it completely broke websites that override control keys [1], which is loads (GitHub, Facebook, Google Docs, etc.). It'll be great when they iron out
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by sleavey 9y ago
Can you add a link to the title image to go back to the homepage? I try this on pretty much every website out of muscle memory.
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by sleavey 9y ago
Nowhere near as high quality as it used to be though. I stopped my email digest there a year ago.
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by sleavey 9y ago
I think this happens mostly because the site looks so boring on the outside to anyone but tech professionals and hobbyists and proper nerds. This discourages the majority of people who would otherwise bring immaturity to HN. Thankfully it&#
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by sleavey 9y ago
If your friend is just eating copious amounts of meat without any care for vitamin and mineral intake, then of course this leads to suboptimal nutrition. It's worth saying that recommended daily allowances are set for entire population

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