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by tremendo 17y ago
That does sound counter intuitive. But even if performance differences are negligible, I still find it much more efficient, or at least ergonomically comfortable, to use single quotes with only one finger/keystroke, no need for shift. Same
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by tremendo 17y ago
How much is Twitter making again? What does it matter? They're certainly not starving (yet). These hippies started up something from scratch, are having an incredibly fun time doing it, getting funded, making waves and headlines and may y
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by tremendo 17y ago
Opera is likely counting on 3rd party developers on making the cool/killer apps. Things like setting up a photo gallery of kids now doesn't require you to sign up for any 3rd party service anymore. Indeed, but I believe Opera could get mo
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by tremendo 17y ago
Titanium mobile, beta was just released today http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile/
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by tremendo 17y ago
Of the many to-do apps I've tried, the one I actually use is UnTodos.com, with the somewhat loose categorization of tasks into "Today", "Soon" and "Whenever", and easily moving tasks about, it's one that I haven't given up on (vs. ta-da, re
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by tremendo 17y ago
Take a look at the Appcelerator/Titanium platform http://appcelerator.org/ it's like Adobe AIR but you can build using Javascript, C, Ruby, and/or Python, UIs in HTML/CSS on top of Webkit. So you can use your existing knowledge, know you
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by tremendo 17y ago
Andale Mono not only works great at small sizes, but also at bigger ones (14 & up) which ProFont does not (I have ProFontWindows which looks deformed at size 10, and annoyingly appears bolded at any bigger size than that).
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by tremendo 17y ago
Well I'm a bit older than that ('63) but I experienced all those things the same way. Star Wars, arcades, Atari, learning to PEEK and POKE on an Apple ][+ from the one-liners (255 characters) at the back of nibble magazine, Byte mag. and Ro
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by tremendo 17y ago
or "The paradox of choice: Why more is less" by Barry Schwartz.
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by tremendo 17y ago
Very long article but I still found it valuable. It identifies a few factors as being better predictors of happiness in later life, not just having say factor #1 or #3 but a combination of them simultaneously, the more--of course--the bette
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by tremendo 17y ago
Thanks for the mini-review, sounds like they do deliver a better experience than the Web counterpart. What about links? say to comment on an article from a blog post, or following a link from another site to the NYT? I guess you still need
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by tremendo 18y ago
Whatever happened to last next big thing, the memristor?
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by tremendo 18y ago
Also considered home-schooling and remember having many doubts as to whether in the end my kids would fare better or not. I feel we've been able to nurture their natural love of learning mostly by unschooling. My fear of the school system w
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by tremendo 18y ago
The original rationale for using @import for including a CSS file in HTML was that Netscape Navigator 4 did not understand the command and thus was an easy, effective and compliant way to exclude that browser, since it had atrocious support
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by tremendo 18y ago
From the browser compatibility chart there, I find that  would be better for the purpose than <wbr> failing only for Firefox 2 which at this point should be negligible.
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by tremendo 18y ago
Thank you for the last couple of paragraphs of your summary that provided the motivation to actually read the article. To others here quick to dismiss it out-of-hand as just a fluff piece, it's anything but.
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by tremendo 18y ago
No. If some HN users post codinghorror links, clearly those users find them of interest, and however well or badly informed they may be, they are still on-topic. What anyone can do is vote them up or not.
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Magic properties make Firefox synchronously load the Java plugin(code.google.com)
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by tremendo 18y ago
To each his/her own. I prefer Firefox's ctrl-K for the search box. and get frustrated by Chrome's insistence on giving me search results for a domain I type in the address bar after I press ctrl-Enter to automatically asume a dot-com (shift
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by tremendo 18y ago
Not aware of any book that specifically addresses the move from Ruby to PHP, but you may find the reverse helpful: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ndphpr/rails-for-php-develope... Of course there's plenty of PHP-specific books. I found one
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by tremendo 18y ago
> which JavaScript/Ajax framework is the best Well, personally I do plenty of Javascript (DOM manipulations, in-page logic and interactions...) but barely any "Ajax", and prefer jQuery. But isn't that in the end always the answer: "whic
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by tremendo 18y ago
http://www.kexi-project.org/
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by tremendo 18y ago
A well reasoned and presented series of arguments in pro (mostly) of many language options. However it is a bit confusing to me who the intended audience is. The decision criteria--choose this language if...--seem a little beyond what a nov
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by tremendo 18y ago
My experience has been different. After playing with the Colemak keyboard on-and-off for about a week, It's still growing on me. My fingers move a lot less from the home row, even when switching to Spanish. Since I also write code, it's c
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by tremendo 18y ago
A Pandora equivalent for pr0n. Enter/grade a few images you like or dislike, build a profile and "stations" to group similar kinds of content. Maybe these profiles could be condensed into some short-length string--say a Meyer-Briggs type of
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by tremendo 18y ago
I've been playing with this Portable Keyboard Layout utility and it works nicely: http://pkl.sourceforge.net/ You can also try it online: http://blite.iki.fi/lab/alternative-keyboard-layouts/colemak
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by tremendo 18y ago
Agree with these criteria. I personally like also some "airiness" so the Bitsteam Vera Sans Mono mentioned seems a bit too compact for me, but the Liberation fonts were a nice surprise. Personal favorites include Andale Mono, Dina and Conso
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by tremendo 18y ago
I can relate about wanting to move on after mastering an activity. Sadly, in many cases it doesn't take the fabled 10,000 hours or otherwise becoming an expert. When what you do is in essence the same thing a lot of other people do, when yo
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by tremendo 18y ago
Yes, we're asuming different meanings for "hacker", and I was hoping for the one I take is the more accepted one for this site (Hacker News), those who are "trying to write interesting software, and for whom computers are just a medium of e
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by tremendo 18y ago
+1. By title alone I would have never cared. Only because it's here in HN did I click through to these comments and based on yours I decided to actually watch the video. It's a 9 min talk by Clay Shirky basically praising the hacker spirit.

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