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by zenspider 18y ago
afaik, almost all new printers come with half-full ink/toner cartridges.
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by zenspider 18y ago
Monica Lewinsky
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by zenspider 18y ago
PEBCAK I've got 244 DVDs in my queue and I've rated 1496 so far. I don't seem to have any of the problems that the author seems to have. Their recommendation system is far better than I've seen in any field and it is incredibly accurate in
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by zenspider 18y ago
points to x11 and squeak smalltalk that's why... GUI objects that have intrinsic knowledge of networking are actually really powerful and useful.
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by zenspider 18y ago
The actual reading material he chose is immaterial. Much more important is that the tools required to build his system were trivial and yet he had a wide array of search parameters to choose from. There is a lot of power there.
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by zenspider 18y ago
Congratulations... you've learned how to bias your samples! Out of my last 20 comments, 4 are me being "HN police". 20% vs your 60%. And you're right, I don't come here for humor or jokes or any other bullshit. I come here because the name
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by zenspider 18y ago
new logo? how does this relate to hacker news?
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by zenspider 18y ago
Can you not? Please? I'd prefer YC's comments not go the way of Digg or Reddit.
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by zenspider 18y ago
Disclosure: I used to work at amazon. I find it immaterial considering the easier thing to speed up is the number of HTTP requests on the site, and that has clearly gotten worse over the years, not better. I pushed heavily to get HTML clean
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by zenspider 18y ago
I sorta agree, and I sorta disagree... Here in Seattle I've been held up for over an hour on the 520 bridge because of an accident THE OTHER DIRECTION. Having screens would prevent rubber necking on the other side of the highway (with a lar
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by zenspider 18y ago
This is lame and I don't think it is YC material. As someone who's worked on many build systems, I was actually (naively?) hoping for some build status UI ideas. In particular, my current build system that I'm working for needs to visualize
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by zenspider 18y ago
This is my favorite parser/compiler book. It is better on paper tho. :P
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by zenspider 18y ago
I totally agree, and this is exactly what I do an the method/micro level. Generally I can get something working in just a few minutes but then I spend another 5-10 really polishing it up in 5+ small iterations on it (all test driven, so I k
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by zenspider 18y ago
This is totally deflating the value of my blue books! I will say tho, that there is still value in owning these books in paper. I swear it makes a difference in readability, comprehension, etc. I can vaguely remember something, open the boo
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by zenspider 18y ago
Alternatively, I've used that book to _prevent_ all sorts of nonsense. It can be great when you have a manager who is inexperienced with software development (sad, but too common in some places). "No, we shouldn't add an offshore team to me
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by zenspider 18y ago
Fully agreed, from another full-time Seattle cafe denizen.
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by zenspider 18y ago
The best definition of a cult that I've heard was from some guy on NPR (no clue who, I was driving and came in mid-program)... he said, quite simply, that a cult is any organization who's ulterior motive is to have sex with minors. I'm sure
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by zenspider 18y ago
aye. back when I was coding on a 9 inch B&W screen with bitmapped everything, it was a great font to use. damn crisp and non-ambiguous at 9pt. now I use deja vu sans, which is a fork of bitstream vera sans with full unicode.
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by zenspider 18y ago
what... the ones with VB code samples seem more legit? WTF isn't worth time
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by zenspider 18y ago
perhaps they mean in terms of UI design, not software design? I saw in one of Ian Piumarta's talks that OSX has considerably more lines of code than vista. Kinda surprises me, kinda doesn't.
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by zenspider 18y ago
What does this have to do with hacker news?
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by zenspider 18y ago
Care to write up said sigils, scan them, and post them somewhere? I'd love to see your system.
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by zenspider 18y ago
yup yup... I prefer the shotgun approach. In the last 6 months: 22 releases across 8 projects (with differing levels of inter-relatedness). I've worked on 19 other projects in that period of time (this number might be low as I polled the fi
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by zenspider 18y ago
"After citing my confusion as to why OSX doesn't have a decent package manager, doesn't ship with apropos, doesn't come with gcc, etc." wrong: macports or fink. wrong: apropos apropos: apropos(1) - search the whatis database for s
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by zenspider 18y ago
actually they've done that several times now.
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by zenspider 18y ago
"Once you get the hang of that, you'll find yourself cursing any editor that doesn't have an easy way to move to the end of the 3rd word from the current location." I find myself cursing any editor that is moded. Moded editing is simply wro
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by zenspider 18y ago
100,000 source files? and you haven't quit? you deserve eclipse. :P
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by zenspider 18y ago
as an emacs user, that's the only one I'm required to know. :) Actually I'm competent in vi, so I can pair with others, but man I don't like it.
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by zenspider 18y ago
seconded... you certainly don't need the feedback of strangers to justify your decision... just act on your gut.
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by zenspider 18y ago
It is really hard to write a generic precise GC (knows and follows object structure) that you can open source because every project that would want to use it has a different object structure. So pretty much every one has to be written from

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