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by thebigshane 14y ago
Two questions: 1) In Firefox 15, the demo page adds two new options to my right click menu: Rotate clockwise and Rotate Counter-clockwise. Is Firefox recognizing pdf.js (since it appears that they are related) or pdf.js adding menu option
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by thebigshane 14y ago
================ Please note that if your comment thread starts getting squished against the right side of the page like this, it might be time to move the conversation off of HN. ================
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Doesn't hating something usually imply that one is being irrational about it? I'm sure `tptacek` will get over it :-)
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by thebigshane 14y ago
It's sick Sometimes I really hate the English language. I think in highschool I remembered which adjectives meant good and which meant bad, but now they all completely confuse me. Hella, bad, the sarcastic awesome, wicked, twisted
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I'll dispute it. If I cram more code into a single line it will not lower my defect count. In fact there is a chance that the concision may turn into clutter and become harder to read/maintain and that may increase defect count. Is ther
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Oh, and here's a pretty good comment on the article regarding static vs dynamic typing: eamonnerbonne Thursday, September 13 2012 It’s a night and day difference. Let me try a writing analogy with Word + Notepad. Say you’re try
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Wow... I don't understand diving into a language like this without reading about or looking at other source code already written in the language. This is not a bug! Golang enforces certain formatting, it is very opinionated and the author
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by thebigshane 14y ago
summary: Click-bait title, content-free article, great language, excellent conversation in (HN) comments.
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I haven't 'diff'-ed these two lists but a similar listing of Go-related talks can be found on Go community's unofficial wiki: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoTalks
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Let me re-phrase... If I'm brain dead and there is zero chance of me feeling pain, they can take my organs. I just want them to be sure I'm brain dead. How is that determined? (oh and my brain is not an electrical cpu, I understand your a
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by thebigshane 14y ago
While I agree with you overall, I have to nitpick your wording... Being brain-dead, it is also very unlikely that you feel pain Very unlikely? This seems like something that should demand complete[0] confidence. [0]: Ok, ok, maybe
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Wait, who is suffering because of doped up cyclists? (The insider trading investor does seem different as `lsc` talks about elsewhere in these comments)
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by thebigshane 14y ago
In case anyone missed the small blog link on the bottom: http://blog.automicrofarm.com More information about the idea there. Count me interested! As long as it doesn't involve entomophagy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy
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by thebigshane 14y ago
FlashBlock extension is pretty good for this (if of course the music/video is flash based)
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by thebigshane 14y ago
A bit late of a response sorry, but now that VMWare and others have OpenGL support inside the VM, isn't that the graphics card access you are referring to? I'm sure it's still slower than bare metal, like all abstraction layers, but perhap
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Big Business is rather influenced by Big Brother in this case. I don't think Big Brother would be pushing so hard against copyright infringers if it weren't for Big Business lobbying, particularly Big Media. Big Brother is the acco
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by thebigshane 14y ago
It feels weird (as a conservative leaning pseudo-libertarian) believing that Big Business is doing a far better job of screwing up the Internet than Big Brother. The next step will be prohibiting US-based services from providing truly-encry
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Ok, thanks. But when I start hearing conspiracy theories that the NSA (or anyone) has already developed one, I should basically look for an encryption algorithm that isn't based on prime factorization?
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Ok, off topic, sorry, but... Are you saying that if/when quantum computing comes around, existing encryption systems would be suddenly ineffective? So if the NSA gets their hands on a quantum computer, they'd be able to brute force a 1024b
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I find it readable enough as is, but if textifying is desired, how about use Aaron's own textifier? http://html2text.theinfo.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaronsw.c...
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I am an "enterprise" programmer currently working on an invoice automation project. Since invoice approval processes vary across clients, we provide a (3rd party) workflow designer to personalize/customize the process. And it sucks. It suc
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Why does it need to be C? Why not python or javascript?
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by thebigshane 14y ago
The problem isn't that mono (or programs written using mono) have portability issues themselves. Requiring mono itself is the portability issue. Many people don't like running mono or .Net runtime or even the Java runtime and some busines
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Down-vote comments could be hidden by default so as to not pollute threads too much. I really like the idea of private comments for this case. Wild tangents, pedantry, grammar/spelling corrections, personal questions, (constructi
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Hushmail has a fantastic pseudonym service (among other fantastic services) for this use case. real email: name@hushmail.com servicexyz: name.servicexyz@nym.hushmail.com serviceabc: whatever-isnt-already-taken@nym.hushmail.com h
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by thebigshane 14y ago
That sounds nice and I hope you are right. But I can certainly see a scenario where one of these walled-gardens gets big enough to where most people communicate using this platform and email ends up being like usenet or irc. Email can nev
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by thebigshane 14y ago
Exactly. It was very well written and held my interest to the end. But the article didn't have an ending at all. Not the fault of the author really, the real story really didn't have an ending either. It just ended like "...and I guess
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by thebigshane 14y ago
We're in agreement. I should have worded it as: there isn't anything a recreational jogger needs from running books in order to enjoy and even get decent at running. Not to say running books are completely useless, but most of the things
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by thebigshane 14y ago
There isn't. But it is an interesting book. It's about barefoot/natural running btw.
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by thebigshane 14y ago
I haven't been in the linux gaming loop in a while so pardon my ignorance here... are you using Wine or VirtualBox/VMWare or something else?

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