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by xer0 15y ago
With very few exceptions, if you don't have a feed you don't survive past my first visit. I visit HN manually every day, and stackoverflow and my bank manually when I need to, and documentation sites. That's it. The web is much too large
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by xer0 15y ago
This is part of a trend to abandon due process. In some cases it's the government itself, with ICE seizing domains without having to go to trial and prove their case. In this case it's government abdicating their role in due process, tellin
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by xer0 15y ago
Because that minimizes futzing around. Certainly if the colorscheme makes a difference to you, and you can't find one that satisfies you in the defaults, then you should try to find a better one, but I think you should try the defaults firs
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by xer0 15y ago
Are your users referring you to their friends? Are they not? Do you know the answer to that? Can you think of a way to encourage your users to send your site links to their friends? I see the share buttons over on the left, but I think the
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by xer0 15y ago
Nicely done. A new or returning vimmer will profit from following his advice. His best recommendation is at the top: don't configure a lot of settings and plugins at first. Start with a minimal setup, and slowly work up from there when nee
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by xer0 15y ago
Get your own domain and point your email at fastmail.fm.
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by xer0 15y ago
Push anxiety, excellent.:w I suffer from write anxiety.:w I've been helping someone learn to program,:w and as I watch him write code I feel more tense the longer he goes:w without writing his file.:w When I mentioned this as a matter of hu
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by xer0 15y ago
Be a solution, not a problem.
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by xer0 15y ago
"This is precisely what patents are designed to do: create monopolies." That's half of what monopolies are supposed to do, in my layman's observation of the field (i.e. everything I know I learned on HN). The other half is to encourage the
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by xer0 15y ago
There is often low level collective hostility toward transplants, or matter where you move to. High prices and congestion are blamed on the outsider/newcomers, rather than life just changing. This can affect a transplant's attitude a lot.
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by xer0 15y ago
Yeah, but they aren't anyone, they're just talent.
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by xer0 15y ago
Well of course UMG prevailed. They're the bigger, legitimate party, and they're who the DMCA was written for. The DMCA was never intended for us to use.
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by xer0 15y ago
I think we have a House to put in order first.
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by xer0 15y ago
Interesting. Then according to this result, http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsseldona.htm , one rational response to patent trolls (established and loved, or merely trollish) is to not pay, to fight.
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by xer0 15y ago
"Even so, so many people using Notepad++? WTF?" I've seen more than a handful of really smart developers use notepad, even without the ++. It's always surprising, but there's probably a lesson to learn.
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by xer0 15y ago
I'm not sure where your argument leads. Are you justifying smoking as a choice, based on the numbers? Are you attempting to explain why people choose to smoke, based on the likelihood of cancer? Something else? Regardless, smoking increases
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by xer0 15y ago
"I find if(...){} much more readable." Not only is it more readable, it's more correct in the example given. "if" is a statement. The ternary operator (?:) is an expression, that returns a value . The semantics are different, and using the
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by xer0 15y ago
Unfortunately you have to live your whole life to discover whether you're an exception or a statistic. I'll go with the statistics for my personal choices.
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by xer0 15y ago
"How did the auto industry resolve this?" Perhaps the auto industry's period of innovation and establishment happened during a more rational patent regime.
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by xer0 15y ago
Email works really well for most if not all that Path does. The interface is pretty bare bones, but the utility has stood the test of time.
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by xer0 15y ago
But wouldn't the store have to be sniffing the actual content of the traffic? Not a great move if it got out, and I might just assume that's happening anyway and not use it.
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by xer0 15y ago
Opinion: Emphasizing "as a good starting point," I'd recommend anything in the Ubuntu branch. This includes Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu, as well as Mint, based on Ubuntu. The Ubuntu repository system is excellent. My favorite is Lu
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by xer0 15y ago
But plausible to have a conversation.
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by xer0 15y ago
https://code.google.com/p/apt-cyg/ "apt-cyg is a command-line installer for Cygwin which cooperates with Cygwin Setup and uses the same repository. The syntax is similar to apt-get. Usage examples:" "apt-cyg install <package nam