technoguyrob

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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Can you add an option for disabling flagging? I probably won't use the option that often (maybe once every few days if not more), so I'd like to hide it until I need it. Too much clutter.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
"Obscenity" in general is such a silly concept. Why should anyone control the morality of viewing certain things? Is anyone here familiar with law that could explain the doubtless inanity behind "obscenity"? Honestly, what do the "com
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
If the framework does all you promise and starts getting adopted, you could make the language translation an open source project, maybe. That way it will both be quicker to completion and less error-prone (since you're not locking yourself
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
This is really awesome. Constructive comment: I can't middle click links to open them in new tabs. P.S. You're not getting too much enthusiasm for it here because of the choice of PHP. I can assure you, though, if this takes off, a lot of t
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Is that really Steve Pavlina?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky. http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=eyudkowsky
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Clearly clever...
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Exactly! And yes, all those "magic numbers" are derived. For example... this.hSpacing = Array.prototype.slice.call(this.parent.blocks.filter( function(n){ return n < _this.parent.cols; }) .map(function(n,o){ return o.offsetL
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Yeah, I did all this. :) For part 2, I still need a helper function like this because the timestamp changes (when the user resizes, moves, etc.). Does that make more sense? I have a grid of DIVs, on which I position events on top of. EDIT:
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
This is the dirtiest component of going between DOM and the event abstraction (start and end times). When someone resizes the event or moves it, it's going to take some kind of pixel calculations at one point or another, even if they're ver
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Sorry for not being clear about that. The purpose of this helper method (hence the underline before that name) is to take an event positioned in the DOM and convert its position into a timestamp for that event. Probably the only place this
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
The pixel computations are done because of the way this is used in the calendar. When a user resizes the event, some kind of pixel computation is going to happen at some point, since mouse coordinates have to be transferred in some way to "
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Yes, I skipped over a few of the specifics. The "Saturday/Sunday" at the end of the week versus "Sunday at the beginning" is taken care of, I was just using that as an example to explain; internationalization works fine. The time property i
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Ask YC: Fewer lines of clever code or more lines of clearer code?
14 points by technoguyrob 18y ago|34 comments
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Many things make Einstein more human. You should hear the story about his first wife, Mileva Maric. Quite a sad ordeal.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946. How I wish you were righ
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Also see Project Euler: http://projecteuler.net/
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I like the "Paypal plugin". You can generate both temporary long-term and temporary one-time use cards. Very handy, and you have the extra protection of having it linked to your Paypal account, so if you choose to limit your Paypal balance
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Joanna...fire.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
But I feel like all mainstream programming languages aren't truly "languages", they're mostly dialects of X, where "X" is a fusion of Lisp and C, i.e. same old ideas repackaged in different syntactic packaging. How are "normal" langua
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I don't like FF3's "Awesome Bar" so I disabled it. I tried using it for a while, but noticed I mostly type in things like "n", "r", or "t" to get to news.ycombinator.com, reddit.com, or my own domain, respectively, and with the "Awesome Bar
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I miss PG. The mods need to get back so they mark deads.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Keep in mind some people might also simply click downvote without paying much attention to their action. I've seen this time and time again on Reddit and here that when someone replies "Why are people downvoting me? Could you please explain
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I talked about this more in detail: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208748 To quote: It is not ridiculous, since people aren't downmodding to express a difference of opinion about what the person said. They are downmodding to asser
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I disagree with your second sentence, but I upvoted you for it.
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Ask YC: Your most interesting bugs / bug fixes?
25 points by technoguyrob 18y ago|19 comments
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I knew about Web Developer's Ctrl+Shift+S (disable all styles), but I had no idea about that built-in style disabling. I just tried it on Gmail and it was quite...interesting...
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Clever Doorbell Hack for Deterring Unwelcome Solicitors(blog.modernmechanix.com)
3 points by technoguyrob 18y ago|2 comments
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
You mentioned Rent A Coder. I used Rent A Coder for a bit, but their system is terrible. I now use eLance to freelance and it's MUCH better. I've already made $10k on the side with this, with a cumulative coding time of less than 100 hours.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Fixed to avoid wrath from Dijkstra and the raptors: while (true) 1. Find a new submission with no upvotes or comments that is interesting to you 2. Make an interesting comment for that submission 3. Upvote the submis

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