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by spdustin 12y ago
It's offensive behavior, to be certain. But unless it's legislated otherwise, it's "okay", yes. For the record, I'm 6'3" with rheumatoid arthritis, and I despise flying in coach. But I have to separat
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by spdustin 12y ago
All of your examples relate to the knowing use of, let's say, "flavorful" language. The author's "flavor" appears to be "hyphen-happy" - do you believe his intent was to style his writing that way for
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by spdustin 12y ago
He didn't say the author was stupid, nor did he say he was unprofessional. He said the author's behavior wasn't nice. And it isn't. There's no question in any English reader's mind (US or UK) that the author&#x
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by spdustin 12y ago
To be fair, they're not forcing anyone into anything. As much as I loathe handing over my money to airlines - an experience I sometimes have to face three times a month - they are a for-profit commercial enterprise with no requirements
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by spdustin 12y ago
Um... All airports with United or American lounges? It's $50 a day, though. With American, they actively try to sell you a day pass on their in-airport check-in terminals. Edit: please don't correct actual life experience with a q
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by spdustin 12y ago
Since it's tangentially related, is anyone aware of a tool (browser based or Mac-supported) that would take a CSS selector and, rather than spotlight it, capture a screenshot of its bounding box? Ideally, capturing multiple screenshots
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by spdustin 12y ago
The sound of the high speed tape drive when booting up (or playing Buck Rogers) still remains fresh in my mind. That, and the daisy wheel printer's rhythmic whir-rat-tat-tat-chunk-whine whenever I printed out a letter asking for anothe
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by spdustin 12y ago
From only reading the site, my guess is that the product allows you to select a rectangle, and whatever apps' window surface is in that layer stays there. So I could highlight the bottom 40px of my slack window and those bottom 40px wo
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by spdustin 12y ago
Small companies will, too. Just not the sort of small companies who look for talent on Freelancer boards. They're looking for bargains or non-critical work, in my experience, and the majority of them - if they get past the sticker shoc
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by spdustin 12y ago
This. I own a small consulting and training shop focusing on a particular "enterprise" product that's used by more companies than I can count, big or little. We charge a premium rate per hour for consulting, and a premium per
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by spdustin 12y ago
Your comment excludes a large group of pensioners: those that retired from state-funded employment, such as teachers or other public service personnel. Their contract stipulates an ongoing obligation that the state has to them once they ret
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by spdustin 12y ago
I was about to comment about that... I've had one for years and still find clever things to do with it. For example, when searching a project in my editor for a string, turning the knob jumps between search results. It's amazing h
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The Voynich Manuscript(en.m.wikipedia.org)
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by spdustin 12y ago
I'll post here the same thing I posted on another HN post about user agent strings [0], because it's still relevant. I'll also add that the MS article link artfully dodges the whole "we suck at UA sniffing" issue th
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by spdustin 12y ago
Asp.Net 2.0 (and up to 3.5, which is still framework 2.0) sites use UA sniffing to determine which markup to emit for many built-in controls, like Asp:Menu. When Yosemite / iOS 8 / Safari 8 was released, anyone with a SharePoint 2
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by spdustin 12y ago
Since some are reminiscing, I thought I'd throw in. I owe my interest in computers to, among other people, Mr. Wizard. It wasn't frequent, but when he pulled out the old (Apple IIe maybe?) and taught kids how to write Logo, I knew
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by spdustin 12y ago
What's wrong, for me, isn't the native alert. It's a personal pet peeve that most of them ask "yes" or "no" questions when "Okay" and "Cancel" are the actual options presented to the us
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by spdustin 12y ago
Cute and approachable app :) The music in first demo video, and the pattern-based sequencing reminds me of when I used to compose Mod files on an Amiga 500, which reminded me of Information Society (there as an Amiga on the cover of their &
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by spdustin 12y ago
That's a great site. Could use more background on a few items but it's a clear and opinionated (in a good way) 30,000-foot-view treatment of development tools and tech. Thanks for posting it!
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Ask HN: How do you use web analytics effectively for niche B2B sites?
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by spdustin 12y ago
I legitimately want to know why the "Great Firewall" doesn't block spamming botnets that post to wp-comment.php hundreds of times per hour.
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by spdustin 12y ago
As the parent of an autistic child, I'm rapidly growing weary of the use of "autistically" to describe socially awkward things. Sure, one might say we should be concerned with the intention and not the word, but clearly the a