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by spb 12y ago
> The key characteristic of a funny person is that he doesn't comparmentalize fun ("this is serious business" vs "this is fun"). Actually, in my experience, that's the key characteristic of an unfunny person
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by spb 12y ago
> [Gruber's original post] You mean Atwood's.
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by spb 12y ago
Which post is this?
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by spb 12y ago
Yep, I hate having my boot process finish in a fraction of the time with simple and straightforward configuration files. I hate it so much I'm going to abandon the entire kernel I've architechted my system around so my boot proces
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by spb 12y ago
Usually the companies I've interviewed with don't like their candidates sharing the problems they failed at afterward. I wonder how Twitter feels about this one getting out?
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by spb 12y ago
I'd say just use hyphens like YAML, but I guess I get the keyspace-advantage of using a dot. Still an aggravating change.
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by spb 12y ago
I didn't think of Cloud9 for that mockup. Cloud9 has two horizontal, tabbed panes, one being for files and the other being for the console (for the out-of-box workspace).
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by spb 12y ago
Cloud9 allows similar unlimited pane splitting iirc.
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by spb 12y ago
How is this different from ksplice?
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by spb 12y ago
FYI, unlike most new HTML5 standards which were discussed in the WHATWG list and added to the standard based on developers' needs, "HTML5" DnD is a standardization of the bizarre implementation of Drag and Drop used by some w
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by spb 12y ago
After Code , I recently discovered Brian Kernighan's D is for Digital , published in 2011, which gives a much more concrete description of how modern computing works.
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by spb 12y ago
"awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.
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by spb 12y ago
> By filing an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO), No-IP was prevented from having any knowledge of the case or offering any support in stopping malicious activity. That's messed up.
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by spb 12y ago
Would it be possible to write something like an SMTP server that feeds directly into Inbox, no Dovecot/Cyrus/IMAP/POP3 required?
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by spb 12y ago
While we're showing our own resume formats, here's my own, half-YAML half-Markdown base: https://github.com/stuartpb/stuartpb.com/blob/master/routes/...
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by spb 12y ago
But who would want to hack a lightbulb? http://www.gunpointgame.com/
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by spb 12y ago
> The crypto-equity platform is enabled through bitcoin 2.0 technology Oh, please tell me this isn't going to start becoming a thing people say. Please. I can't bear the thought of another "Web 2.0" buzzword bubble.
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by spb 12y ago
I thought that, too, but that didn't line up with the part about hiring smart people.
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by spb 12y ago
"I have been made aware of the proposal to add the named color beccapurple (equivalent to #663399) to the CSS specification [...] I did set one condition: that if the proposal is accepted, the official name be rebeccapurple. A couple o
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by spb 12y ago
Off the top of my head, UserVoice and TF2 both use a bullhorn for "Give Feedback".
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by spb 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/80fMIju.png - here's a quick mockup I made in Inkscape of the best icon I know for "share". It's two people handing something off to each other. When I was a kid, this is what I though
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by spb 12y ago
Probably Microsoft's traditional "submarine patent fears" excuse for NIH.
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by spb 12y ago
"Leaved" and "loose" are both misused in the text as written.
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by spb 12y ago
Just change the name of the master branch on the remote to "gh-pages" and have GitHub host the files on github.io.
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by spb 12y ago
> Steam is also completely broken on case sensitive filesystems. Except, y'know, Steam for Linux.
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by spb 12y ago
Source code? https://github.com/mbtaviz only seems to have minified/built dists.
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by spb 12y ago
That would break aggregator sites like HN and Reddit (although really they should really be maintaining the visit history themselves, as they do with Reddit Gold users).
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by spb 12y ago
Why is the square draggable?
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by spb 12y ago
Web Animations. http://www.polymer-project.org/platform/web-animations.html
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by spb 12y ago
> (And a single digit number of non-Protestant Presidents.) If I'm not mistaken, that number is 1 (JFK).

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