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by szopa 14y ago
A dead comment by DanBC has some interesting links about how Clippy was dumbed down before its release in Office 97: "Clippy was crippled by MS when they implemented the working research project into the broken version used in Office. ( htt
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by szopa 15y ago
What you are saying is incorrect. YouTube has deals with major content producers (music labels, movie studios, etc.) which work in the following way: whenever we discover a video that infringes their copyright, they can choose to either blo
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by szopa 15y ago
This reminds me that in Argentina in primary school we would make an improvised football (as in: soccer) by crumpling some paper and then wrapping it in scotch tape. It was of course much smaller than the real ball, but it worked surprising
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Foreign accent syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by szopa 15y ago|0 comments
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by szopa 15y ago
I am 26, and when I was living in Europe (Poland) I didn't even bother to get a driver's license - getting around by public transportation was cheaper and faster (especially if you take in account the time you need to find a parking spot an
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by szopa 15y ago
It is really interesting how the socially acceptable level of honesty varies from place to place. I've recently moved from Poland to Northern California, and the expression "dancing on eggshells" describes very well my experience. In Poland
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by szopa 15y ago
That's sort of confusing. In a number of places I've read an explanation that what is described in the Wikipedia article as "Mid-Atlantic English" was in fact higher class New York English before WWII (one of its most characteristic feature
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by szopa 15y ago
ACtually, lingua franca was NOT French. Also known as _sabir_, it was a pidgin language used by the sailors in the Mediterranean (it went extinct in the XIX century). It was a mix of various romance languages and Arabic and Turkish. At firs
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by szopa 16y ago
It's funny how now most people seem to know Maciej Cegłowski as "the creator of Pinboard." His blog, Idle Words [1] is one of the best I know of. I would even say that the piece about Scott and scurvy [2] was the most interesting thing I
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by szopa 16y ago
I had a free weekend, and the thsrs idea by Ironic Sans [1] looked like something too cool to let it go (and http://thsrs.com/ didn't work too well for me). Also, it was a chance to implement my very own instant search ;-) The thing is do
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Show HN: trsry.com, a shortening synonym finder
7 points by szopa 16y ago|3 comments
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by szopa 16y ago
You've listed three browser based editors and one which seems to be completely focused on JavaScript editing. If I understand correctly, Kod is supposed to be a universal editor for programmers, only scripted in JS. (But thanks for the link
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by szopa 16y ago
Comments like the parent make me sad. It could be summed up as "node.js, damn hipsters." It's just another form of fanboyism, except negative. There are not many good, scriptable editors for programmers. Actually, I would consider only 3 f
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by szopa 16y ago
Are you the author of Kod (that's what some of your comments suggest)? If yes, do you have a roadmap? Do you want to make it open source? I would be pretty excited to try it, out even if it was in scary-alpha state.
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by szopa 16y ago
This is quite exciting. Anything is known about the authors or a release schedule? I would love to beta test it.
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by szopa 16y ago
It's because Emacs is one of the few editors where you can actually manage 90 and more buffers -- thanks to the fact that you can refer to them by name.
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by szopa 16y ago
Emacs is a fantastic editor (and I think I can say that I am what you call a power user), but Emacs Lisp is a terrible, terrible language. The more I use it, the more I hate it. And it's not because of the lispiness or parens -- Common Lisp
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Testing is just like washing your hands(hipstercoder.tumblr.com)
3 points by szopa 16y ago|0 comments
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by szopa 17y ago
I think that you are missing the point of this satire. The rant doesn't seem to be directed to other people as much as the younger version of the author. A lot of young developers who are smart and well meaning have the tendency to behave i
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New Media Hoop Dreams: the Smart Kids' NBA(drstarcat.com)
18 points by szopa 17y ago|1 comments
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10 steps to how SetJam beat Google at search for $50,000(drstarcat.com)
8 points by szopa 17y ago|0 comments
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What to do when an $8 million gorilla launches 3 weeks before you(drstarcat.com)
95 points by szopa 17y ago|60 comments
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by szopa 17y ago
Scary is the fact of how dependent I am on this single company. They have my e-mails, they have my jabber account, they have some of my documents, they host the stats of my websites, people find my stuff using their search engine... Not to
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by szopa 17y ago
Uff... It is getting back to normal. We are all saved! ;-)
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by szopa 17y ago
Funny thing... I just realized that without Google I am kind of cut off from the world: no e-mail, no jabber... I do have some backup accounts, but the people with whom I'd like to communicate don't... Or at least I don't know their seconda
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by szopa 17y ago
Here in Europe (Poland) it's also very slow. I was convinced it was a problem with my ISP, but now it is getting scary.
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by szopa 17y ago
I appreciate the hack value, but this website could be done so much easier using plain HTML and PHP for the Contact Us form...
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by szopa 18y ago
Hm, JavaScript is in fact a nice little Scheme with a cute little object system originating from Self with an ugly, ugly, ugly C-like/Javaish syntax and some dark, horrible secrets (like an asymmetric, atransitive `=='). Moreover, a lot of