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by tomku 14y ago
Thanks, downloaded and read through it and I picked up a couple new tricks, even as a pretty experienced Vim user. Some comments: 1) The order feels a little artificial. I like that inserting text isn't mentioned until a couple chapters in
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I can't speak for other users, but I'd rather see more project launches than any of the following types of submissions: - Rumors about what Apple will do next week, and the ensuing flamewars between Apple fans and Android fans - TorrentFrea
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Indeed, that line of argument is a form of the Galileo gambit[1], which is just a way to rationalize ridicule or criticism by claiming an unfounded correlation between opposition and eventual victory. Yes, many people who eventually succee
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I was wondering how he could top bringing political labels into programming language discussion... and then he makes an analogy to prisoners urinating on command. I'm not sure what I think of the actual argument in that case, but I'm certa
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I don't like this as precedent. If there's one thing we've learned from Wikileaks, it's that evidence of wrongdoing should be out in the open. This is a back-room deal between Assange and Ecuador to give him asylum as protection from a cl
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Sounds like they wanted to get the sales figures of the addictive IAP-dependent top-selling games, but without any of the actual psychology behind it. Doesn't work like that. The reason those other games were in the top 25 weren't just be
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A quick check of the git-annex package in Ubuntu shows that you're right, no runtime Haskell dependency. I can only assume that the same will be true for the user-friendly "assistant". Thanks!
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The project is based on git-annex, which is an extension that treats big binary files differently. Namely, it doesn't check in the file contents, so you don't get full-file versioning. You can find out more at http://git-annex.branchable
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Very cool, but I suspect that making it user-friendly and slick will end up being much more difficult than implementing the actual functionality was. Edit: I have another question/concern, does the implementation in Haskell mean that the en
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Who's to say that we won't see them patent trolling against malaria-fighting companies in a couple years?
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I can't help but feel that the powerup_type change is short-sighted. In the new code, the enumeration of powerup types happens three times, in three different places. The first is in Powerup's constructor as a tuple of strings, the second
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Seems like this would be a very easy way to DoS a Meteor app, if it's really spawning a PhantomJS process for each request.
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Many forums give read-only access to Google and other search engines so that they can be indexed without requiring an account, sometimes by UA or IP range.
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Huh? I think you're getting Scheme and PLT Scheme confused. Racket has replaced PLT Scheme, but there's a whole world of non-Racket Scheme implementations out there.
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You can view the course page via the link given in a sibling comment, but be aware that the course is apparently using Google+ for class discussion as well.
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Is it really a bet if there's no clearly-defined winning or losing conditions? What dates would you use to calculate the prices of the things mentioned? What "stock market", DJI? NASDAQ? FTSE? Something more exotic? Do bitcoins have to ou
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Seconding Skritter, they're amazing. I'd also like to add that they support Japanese kanji as well, and that their iOS apps are brilliant. The Chinese iOS app is out, and the Japanese one is in beta. I own a Wacom tablet that works great
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Please explain how either of the examples (one is specific, one is not) have anything to do with CISPA. One was a traditional terrorism investigation that was horribly botched, while the other is a case in a foreign country with laws that
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That's nice rhetoric, but when you disregard the truth in order to keep up in the arms race of lies that you claim the other side started, you become as reprehensible as them.
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There are good reasons to oppose CISPA. You shouldn't appreciate people trying to manipulate you into opposing it. This is something that really annoys me. It's incredibly frustrating to see people argue "on my side", but using reasons t
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For a slightly more balanced take on it, check out the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and... There are definite problems with CISPA in regards to privacy, but a lot of the stuff on that "Do you
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As a shameless polyglot, I've found editor snippets to be very helpful for this kind of thing, particularly if your editor lets you put in helpful placeholder text in fields.
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Looks like an iframe, probably to some third-party rebate processor.
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The GIMP started off as a college project, and I'm guessing that the name was a product of youthful cleverness combined with no expectations that it would ever become a widely-used open source project. As far as why it's still named that ne
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Could you give some examples of "blatantly CIA-created propaganda" here on HN? If it's virtually impossible to prove, how are you so sure?
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It's a cycle. The more people exaggerate to counteract "charitable interpretations", the more charitable interpretation is necessary to get back to the truth, and so on. The end result is a dysfunctional "discussion" where both sides are
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The problem with this is that it assumes that the only (or main) source of disinformation, propaganda and manipulation is the government. These techniques are used on a daily basis by people on all sides of every issue. Is it possible tha
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Did you read the article? This is about autocompletion and automatic Google Instant searches, not removing anyone from the index. As with the huge list of terms that are currently "censored" (including every adult-oriented term they could
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No, Google is under no legal obligation whatsoever to link to your site, let alone promote your site/topic using keyword autocompletion or instant searches. There's more to the legal definition of "anti-competitive behavior" than "anything
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When something is "censored" from Instant, it just says "Press enter to search" rather than loading it automatically. Nobody who bothered to put "torrent" in the search box is going to be dissuaded by having to press one extra key to see t

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