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by slipperyp 14y ago
In an effort not to totally derail the conversation I guess I'll mention that nearly every browser is going to have some shortcut keys that would map to common emacs functions that will get swallowed by the browser. But what I'm really wond
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by slipperyp 14y ago
A) it's not "not news" because the intent for this was disclosed in the S-1 B) is this a necessary distinction on hackernews? I'd been under the impression this site is more about discussion about topics of interest to geeks and the odd pr
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by slipperyp 14y ago
Facebook also has tremendously greater adoption, especially among the non-tech savvy, than MySpace ever had. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is unalterable inertia here, but at its peak MySpace was constantly broken, had far less a
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by slipperyp 14y ago
You and Aziz Ansari.
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by slipperyp 15y ago
Very much agree. The analogy I'm used to (and use) is: CPU = person (researcher at library) RAM = bounded physical space on desk Swap = cart for stacks Disk = the stacks (requiring scheduling of the elevator) In my mind, the discussion of
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by slipperyp 15y ago
All the cgit.freedesktop.org links in the seclists thread time out for me. Do they point to the commit or work for others?
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by slipperyp 15y ago
What I'm saying is that I'm not convinced that this would move a significant chunk of the market. I could be totally wrong but my impression is that this is a lot more like the a gold rush with all parties scrambling to lock in business wi
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by slipperyp 15y ago
I worked around the syncing but it was tedious. Primarily I would read on my phone on the bus during commutes and want to use my Kindle at home. However, having viewed the appendices of families, I could not simply sync. This was tedious,
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by slipperyp 15y ago
FWIW, I agree most prose works great and think you're right that the technical book experience is where it's most clearly lacking (not being able to quickly flip to an appendix or back / forth 5 pages is a big annoyance of mine). There are
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by slipperyp 15y ago
For the convenience of being able to carry it on your phone, make highlights and notes that you can search in the future, for the ability (if you're interested in it) of finding information about passages others who've read the same book fo
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by slipperyp 15y ago
Fascinating - one of the most interesting things to me is the characterization of the US soldier on the picture translated (on englishrussia) as "If you forgot where our borders start, we'll help you to land!" Also the pictures toward the e
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by slipperyp 15y ago
Yawn, this old saw? Despite the fact that every person who cares about this has a blog where they complain about it, the market is indicating pretty clearly that this is not so important that it needs to be solved today. I'm sure this wil
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by slipperyp 15y ago
Where do they get data like speed, bearing, and altitude (at what looks like finer than 1 minute granularity)?
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by slipperyp 15y ago
A well-documented phenomena of the wikiality.
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by slipperyp 15y ago
I think a couple interesting things are happening. It's becoming more obvious to everybody that good mobile applications are not cheap. This isn't news, but I think the fact that it's widely understood is new within the past year or so. Als
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by slipperyp 15y ago
Same here. I found this patronizing and nearly the opposite of relaxing - it reminded me of 10th grade English teachers bringing in mood music for a freewriting exercise. http://www.workrave.org/ is a much better solution for this kind o
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by slipperyp 15y ago
No more than the C64 or (arguably) the Amiga, though. There have always been games for every platform but I think the author's point is that if you want to look at what's been transformative in gaming (at least in the US), it's the rise of
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by slipperyp 15y ago
There are a bunch of parallel conversations spawned from this 2 year old blog post. For reference, here's the area the author talked about in current google maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Huashan+Road,+Shanghai,+China&... The locati
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by slipperyp 15y ago
By pure coincidence, the exact set intersection for "things rms has stuck up his ass and been unable to extract."
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by slipperyp 15y ago
Who is the author protecting by not sharing any actual details? I anticipate an update to the post: "The game shipped. I got fired from my job at Dairy Queen in high school, but that's another story!"
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by slipperyp 15y ago
Cool - I saw that DISKDRV car driving around Seattle last Saturday, I think. In fact, it wasn't far from the Ikea where picture was probably taken.