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by yycom 16y ago
Professional
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Poll: working class or professional?
2 points by yycom 16y ago|6 comments
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by yycom 16y ago
How do you know they are his?
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by yycom 16y ago
This app-specific myopia drives me nuts. As other commentators have noted, the right place for the tab functionality is in the window manager . The effort would be better spent working with desktop vendors to support a cross-platform an
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by yycom 16y ago
So, maybe the name doesn't matter so much as long as it's distinct per-market? It's happened long before the internet and probably has nothing to do with trademarks, and more to do with local marketing. Case in point: "groupon" wouldn't wo
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by yycom 16y ago
1. Could have put some more movement in the camera work to show off the parallax. 2. Next: RGB for 4D.
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by yycom 16y ago
Adblock et all: By advising users to use Adblock, once again you are encouraging users to do something that can cripple the web as we know it. That's the point.
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by yycom 16y ago
Why should this particular <link> incantation receive special treatment over others?
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by yycom 16y ago
Clearly number theory research is a prohibited circumvention activity and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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by yycom 16y ago
Can someone explain me the current fashion to have pale text-shadows? I find it strange-looking.
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by yycom 16y ago
That's one stupid infographic
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by yycom 16y ago
The problem with laws and regulations kowtowing to religion is who is the arbiter of authentic religions vs. other arbitrary mumbo jumbo? What stops me (or L. Ron Hubbard) from inventing a religion specifically contrary the law so I can ev
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by yycom 16y ago
Another angle: ads are pollution. Blocking ads and reducing ad revenue will expedite the creation of an alternative business model that doesn't pollute my entertainment. Giving in to the ads only validates the polluting business model.
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by yycom 16y ago
I do wish Americans (and it seems to be an American peculiarity) would stop using "off" (and its heinous derivative, "off of") as a general-purpose preposition. "From" will usually suffice.
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by yycom 16y ago
How else would you divide 60 by 7?
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by yycom 16y ago
Can someone point to a non-trivial example using prototypal inheritance?
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by yycom 16y ago
wikihow
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by yycom 16y ago
This is the type of comment thread that makes HN really annoying: a whole thread in response to [deleted].
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by yycom 16y ago
Problem is you can't predict the speed limit on the M4.
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by yycom 16y ago
And here was I expecting a typically insightful commentary by PG regarding the front page of a business journal.
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by yycom 16y ago
Nope, just another word vomit from Jeff. He likes to throw around clever-sounding phrases such as "actively harmful at worst" without any substantiation. I don't disagree with the sentiment though.
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by yycom 16y ago
I've given up on reading jwz. De-css-ing doesn't help and readability only shows the comments.
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by yycom 16y ago
IME users (office drones) seem completely ignorant of the back button.
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by yycom 16y ago
What do teams use for single-sign-on or password management with so many hosted services?
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by yycom 16y ago
Isn't the expense of frequent commits the cost of composing an intelligible commit message?
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by yycom 16y ago
It's one thing for a random comment, but to see it on an actual, real live blog post by the likes of Zed is irritating. "couldn't care less", please. How can you be hackers if you can't get some basic logic right?
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by yycom 16y ago
That's the trouble with being brilliant, people think you're arrogant.
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by yycom 16y ago
Too many and it's still not enough
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by yycom 16y ago
The best quote IMO is Knuth: programming is the art of telling a human what you want the computer to do.
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by yycom 17y ago
> prolog ... metaprogramming This is very relevant to my interests. Please post or write an article about this.

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