smegel

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by smegel 14y ago
Motorola Razr Maxx. Killer battery life - i get 2 days of heavy usage, would get a week or more of light usage. Updated to ICS from Moto. Specs are soso but dual core plus 16gb flash is plenty for me - no way would i trade specs for battery
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by smegel 14y ago
Your assuming our descendants aren't living in a post apocalyptic dystopia where civilized society is little more than a fairytale. We may seem like gods to them. And it may be much closer than people expect, perhaps hundreds not thousands
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by smegel 14y ago
> What's the point of having a "remember to deal with this issue in 3 weeks" Because it would be more like "remember to deal with this issue by 3 weeks". What's the point of a calendar entry that reminds you half an hour before a task
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by smegel 14y ago
So your boss comes up to you one afternoon and asks you to perform a minor, yet important task the next morning, alongside the many, many other tasks and activities, both work and private you have going on. Also, the following morning your
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by smegel 14y ago
I could not disagree more strongly with this post. For me, managing a todo list has been the single greatest boon to my own productivity and self-management I have ever come across. That is not to say I think most or any todo list applicati
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by smegel 14y ago
This should have been titled "Too lazy to learn regular expressions" Once you have learned them, using them is the epitome of laziness.
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by smegel 14y ago
> ...Python is even less popular than Java/Swing. Can you name any popular Windows applications written entirely in Python? Can you name any popular Java/Swing desktop apps that aren't development tools? I don't even have Java installed
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by smegel 14y ago
We are not seeing a shift from desktop to mobile. We are seeing a shift from mobile plus the backend servers that enable mobile applications. And Python is the language choice of many for developing backend applications and tools alongside
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by smegel 14y ago
sigh
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by smegel 14y ago
Looks like Apple's monopoly in Korea is coming to an end. Samsung will be thrilled.
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by smegel 14y ago
> I think it depends heavily on which parts of the cities you visit. Tourists don't tend to visit the slummy areas. I was walking the streets of Brooklyn and Queens in not-so-touristy areas and didn't run into any problems or feel threa
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by smegel 14y ago
As an Australian i felt far safer in NYC and San Fran than say in Melbourne or Sydney, which went against my expectations. I think both Australia and NZ are extremely tolerant of youth crime which is a big part of the problem. That combined
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by smegel 14y ago
I am bemused by the coverage of this. I imagine if the BNP staged a protest in St Paul's cathedral during Easter it would be less about free speech and more about trespass and violating a sacrosanct place and causing great offence to a reli
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by smegel 14y ago
If app.net gets the userbase, i.e. the people I want to follow, i will be over there in a flash.
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by smegel 14y ago
Learn the 20% that you will use 80% of the time. If your not willing to do that your probably not serious about programming in the first place.
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by smegel 14y ago
uT went crap after 3.1. I use an old 64 bit version of 3.0 - no ads and no plan to upgrade.
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by smegel 14y ago
Could you achieve the same outcome by spreading the logic though the three standard bash dotfiles? Standard names plus no symlinks, i could live with that.
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by smegel 14y ago
I think most engineers can hack their way to .bashrc even if they don't know the exact differences between those files. And those that can't probably don't need to or can get someone to help them. I just don't see a huge problem out there
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by smegel 14y ago
Solution looking for a problem. Not a particularly good one at that.
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by smegel 14y ago
"but distribution restricted to the size of a CD is a major feature" For me a major feature would be VirtualBox images ready to go. I haven't installed a Linux distro in years, and I would much rather let Windows/OSX act as the HAL so I jus
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by smegel 14y ago
How could google index a page if the page requires an account to view? I'm pretty sure googlebot has no such account. Surely such pages are invisible to google.
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by smegel 14y ago
Wasn't he responsible for PayPal? I'm not even sure a trip to Mars would make up for that.
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by smegel 14y ago
Great article! I was just planning on starting a fairly complex Web app with jquery, now i'm thinking I should give one of these js mvc frameworks a shot.
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by smegel 14y ago
Which universe exactly is this where "geeks" and "nerds" suddenly turn into ravenous, over-confident and over-sexed pickup machines? In my universe, and it has always been this way, whenever I go to a party the geeks and nerds end up huddle
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by smegel 14y ago
Do we need a HN front-page post now for every module in the Python standard library?