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by sofal 17y ago
This is almost funny enough to become a meme: For those of you who insist on thinking that the truth always lies in between two accounts of a situation, I urge you to drop that misguided notion, especially for this situation.
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by sofal 17y ago
It drives me nuts when I visit popular blogs that serve as a place for discussion and yet they have no nesting of comments (three levels does not count). Forcing the linearity of comments does a big disservice to the readers, because in
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by sofal 17y ago
I think that having the ability to expand and collapse comment trees would solve the first challenge. I don't know why this hasn't been done yet.
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by sofal 17y ago
Would you say that building Etherpad isn't hard? Saying that real-time/comet/AJAX/[technology name] isn't hard is meaningless. I can easily say, for example, that "programming in C" isn't hard. I just don't see what your point is.
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by sofal 17y ago
Ignore the above comment. I must have been up way too late last night. Thanks for that piece of info.
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by sofal 17y ago
That sounds awesome, but it doesn't work for me. I did all that and yet FF just does an "I'm feeling lucky" for whatever I type in. Edit: It only works when I add keywords to the already installed search engines.
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by sofal 17y ago
Humor is welcome on HN, but attempts at humor are not. It's just that HN has a higher standard of what is actually funny. Some recent examples: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=976321 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=978683 I've f
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by sofal 17y ago
Civility does not require dishonesty. You can make firm, bold, blunt, and even emotionally powerful statements while remaining perfectly civil. Civility is not a weakness. It is a strength. Being civil is always more effective for persuad
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by sofal 17y ago
Actually, I already know about that. What I wanted you to tell me (because I was too lazy to find it out for myself) was that I can change the search engine used via the Command+Up/Down keys. Still, those arrow keys are all the way down th
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by sofal 17y ago
It would be nice if there were a way to get straight to it from a regular search though. It is still more convenient for me (in Firefox) to hit Command+k and type "define:". Also, it'd be nice if Google could just read my mind instead of me
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by sofal 17y ago
You are so totally screwed. But seriously. Maybe the message would then be: there is no curfew.
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by sofal 17y ago
The original Donkey Kong is easily the hardest and most frustrating video game I have ever played.
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by sofal 17y ago
I don't think the corporate-slave orientation is limited to CS students. If you're into entrepreneurship, you'll probably feel out of place in any technology-related major, especially if you only look for job prospects at campus job fairs.
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by sofal 17y ago
One of my favorite patterns: _, username, domain = */([^@]+)@(.+$)/.match("foo@example.com")
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by sofal 17y ago
Quake has taught me more about how to confront pressure and competition than my entire academic career.
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by sofal 17y ago
His redefinition of passion is: Passion: The feeling that arises from having mastered a skill that earns you recognition and rewards. He did not toss out the "like" or even the "love" from the idea. The feeling is the exact same. What he
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by sofal 17y ago
That's not an accurate summary. What he's saying is that you can pick any of your superficial interests (the things that you want or like) and construct a passion from it by getting really good at it. The message is for those people who hav
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by sofal 17y ago
Typing is an asset for those who use a command line interface as well. It's more than just a simple reduction of latency. If you are a slow typist, it's likely that your horizon of possibilities for leveraging the power of quick and easy sh
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by sofal 17y ago
Correct spelling is more generally used to convey educational status. ...which, like it or not, is often a fairly reliable mental cue for determining how much importance to place on someone's opinion. Clarity is only part of the equation.
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by sofal 17y ago
Another question: have you ever decided on a tone for a particular writer and then much later saw a video of the person talking which completely blew away all of your assumptions?
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by sofal 17y ago
What's the purpose of the "&& *p"? Would strchr ever return a pointer to a null terminator?
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by sofal 17y ago
I'm not convinced that redefining Pi as 2*Pi would cause an equal amount of complications (besides confusing everyone with the change). The radius is more fundamental to a circle. The diameter is just derived from the radius. The idea of a
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by sofal 17y ago
I don't know how they expect to be taken seriously without a related work section.
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by sofal 17y ago
Code should read like a mathematical proof, exactly because it allows you to follow the steps in between. The requisite granularity of the between steps is completely subjective. If you're catering for the lowest common denominator, then
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by sofal 17y ago
'accidental complexity' = 'essential complexity' / 'your intelligence' If you need the code watered down into a deluge of little baby steps to satisfy your own definition of "readability", that's fine. I personally don't find useless dissip
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by sofal 17y ago
There seem to be a lot of people who think that arguments about what language to use are 100% fluff and that they can all be neatly settled by the cute "right tool for the job" platitude. The truth is that sometimes we're just not sure what
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by sofal 17y ago
He said "optimizing a car to hit a rock wall." Believe me, if your car was optimized for hitting rock walls, it would look very different than it does now.
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by sofal 17y ago
I imagine his bot has undergone a couple of revisions since then.
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by sofal 17y ago
Here we go again with the fallacious nice == indirect argument. I've heard this over and over again and it never makes sense. Why do you think that it is necessary to go on an offensive rampage in order to be honest? Guess what? Some people
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by sofal 17y ago
According to this article it does: http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/09/27/a-guide-to-gnu-screen/ It says that I need to be able to run: chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen chmod 755 /var/run/screen Is there a way to bypass that or do I

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