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571.
by teach 12y ago
I have no doubt the Dysons made a decade ago were excellent vacuums. In my experience the ones made the past few years are very much not worthy of the good name.
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by teach 12y ago
I think you'll be sadly disappointed if you buy a new Dyson. My wife and I bought one about a year ago. It was great for a week, but now suction is average and we are constantly having to remove and clean various filters to get it to w
573.
by teach 12y ago
Is there an online demo? Would love to play with this! (And I swear it's not just because I currently have an eBook without a cover....)
574.
by teach 12y ago
I'll take lack of context over editorializing any day.
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by teach 12y ago
The guideline is that submission titles should be the same as the title of the linked document. Which is true in this case.
576.
by teach 12y ago
In the future you can avoid downvotes by searching rather than asking HN for the answer to an easily google-able question.
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by teach 12y ago
But I'd wager that the vast majority of Americans don't live in cities like that. It sounds like Citymapper is nailing its niche, so for people that fit that profile it's a much better experience. But I live in Austin, TX. No
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by teach 12y ago
There's no need to downvote someone just because you disagree with them. For my money, the best remote I ever used was the original TiVo. There's something a lot more haptic about a physical remote with real buttons. And I have ye
579.
by teach 12y ago
But it is quite confusing to use that idiom when the original article is in a language most HNers don't speak. An actual translation from German to English is what's expected, and would have been a lot more useful.
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by teach 12y ago
So, you 1) had solved a bunch of Project Euler problems, but fewer than 200 (account recovery is still available for those folks), 2) lost/forgot your signon information, and 3) lost/deleted all the code you used to find the answe
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by teach 12y ago
Agreed on all fronts. The article has some decent suggestions, but they seem INCREDIBLY elementary to me as a person who has made a career of teaching programming to beginners. In fact, just did a back-of-the-envelope calculation. In an
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by teach 12y ago
Such a thing would have been very helpful to me. My domain's SSL cert expired and I got a new one but didn't notice that my provider had shipped a different, newer intermediate certificate. For three weeks I was showing a great bi
583.
by teach 12y ago
Why not? My wife and really enjoy Netflix. We can't always watch a particular program, but we can always find something worth watching. In fact, sometimes it's the very fact that the show we were "looking for" isn&#x27
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by teach 12y ago
That doesn't necessarily mean anything. Github is very, very new relative to C development. There are programmers who had coded in C for decades before Github even existed.
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by teach 12y ago
Newspaper headlines very often omit linking verbs (am, is, are, etc) when they can be inferred from context to make room for more important words. They probably don't have much use on a web page except to sound like a newspaper headl
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by teach 12y ago
What would a company possibly have to gain by creating a service that a lot of people will use and not pay for? Despite what you may have "learned" from the examples of Facebook and Twitter, companies giving away things for free i
587.
by teach 12y ago
Can't you edit your comment? You ought to be able to go that within the first hour or so.
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by teach 12y ago
I have my "main" Google account from forever ago. That's a gmail address I don't use, my Google calendar, Youtube, Google+. I use Google apps on my vanity domain, and that's the email address I actually do use (@g
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by teach 12y ago
I never execute them. I just grade them by reading the code. Running them takes FAR longer than reading.
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by teach 12y ago
This is only if you subsequently give them a link to what they uploaded, correct? I have a site that allows uploads (students turning in Java files) but the files are just stored in a folder on the server that isn't in the web-served p
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by teach 12y ago
My wife has a PhD in nutrition and is also a dietitian, so I know a lot more than average about food and healthy eating. It's gotten where I don't even click on the comments of any nutrition-related story I see on HN, because the
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by teach 12y ago
I wish you had said this differently. Not only is it hostile, it doesn't contain enough information. I run a web site. All my pages contain <meta charset='utf-8'> in the title. What are you suggesting I do differently?
593.
by teach 12y ago
You won't have to. Once there's new information, you can bet it'll be on HN again. (And probably TechCrunch.)
594.
by teach 12y ago
Be very very careful with this sort of thing. Try "the better part of a decade" if you want a phrase with a similar ring but actual truth behind it.
595.
by teach 12y ago
Mods: You should probably add (2012) to the headline. Worth reading again, though.
596.
by teach 13y ago
Thank you. Glad to see HN shifting to a more nuanced approach than the "almost always prefer the original headline" that was in vogue there for a season.
597.
by teach 13y ago
The title is link-baity and overreaching, but the article itself is actually good. It's a shame.
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by teach 13y ago
To be fair, if you have hand-created many Makefiles, you'd already be quite familiar with that error.
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by teach 13y ago
Except that it doesn't work like this. The major Linux vendors are too decentralized for this to work.
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by teach 13y ago
I'd recommend Leanpub[0]. They accept markdown and their workflow is pretty easy and non-exclusive. For my book[1] I just used pandoc and Makefiles, but once the school year ends and I turn my attention back to the book getting it up o

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