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by zyxley 12y ago
Something about emoji makes them less annoying to me than most text smilies. Maybe it's the broader selection making individual emojis more likely to actually add some context.
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by zyxley 12y ago
This kind of thing is why the best "code interview" I ever had involved being given a problem (in this case, a small message sending/receiving library) and told to work on it over the weekend.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Identity-as-memory isn't something I buy into much, because my own memory is flatly terrible already. My childhood up until 10 or so is mostly a blank, for example, with just some impressionist highlights of place names and locations p
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by zyxley 12y ago
I hadn't seen this language before, but it looks neat. Coming from a Ruby background, it's very interesting to see Nim's pragmas and templates, as they look rather like type-checked and compiled cousins of metaprogramming met
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by zyxley 12y ago
I am reminded of ELO's Eldorado, which itself follows the style of the original Walter Mitty story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldorado_(Electric_Light_Orche...
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by zyxley 12y ago
Ulysses' problem is that, despite saving as Markdown, there's no "real" Markdown editing mode. Certain things, like images, can only be entered through the GUI, and its clumsy parsing means that certain formatting gets p
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by zyxley 12y ago
The weirdest part of this whole affair is that they started with Skyrim, when Skyrim's mod support through Steam Workshop is fundamentally flaky. All the really thorough mods (AV, SkyRE, PerMA, Requiem, ASIS, DSR, FNIS, etc) use third-
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by zyxley 12y ago
There's also apparently a popular cannabis distributor in Washington state with the name.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Don't forget, for AmEx it's four numbers on the front instead of three numbers on the back.
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by zyxley 12y ago
The first hard date for when liability for magstripe fraud starts switching from credit card companies to merchants is this October.
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by zyxley 12y ago
This would interest me more if there was a good automatic build process for it (in the style of node-grunt-webkit-builder). As it is you still have to do a bunch of the packaging manually (or design your own shell script for it), and for wh
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by zyxley 12y ago
> Virtually every major CMS out there uses PHP This probably has to do with the majority of cheap web hosts out there offering only PHP, Perl, and (if you're really lucky) Rails.
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by zyxley 12y ago
On top of all this, what I'd really like at this point is (a) a "hide items I've already seen" toggle, and (b) a "hide mockbusters" toggle. In particular, the prevalence of shitty copycat mockbuster films and T
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by zyxley 12y ago
I dunno, I'd rather have "bad support" over "support that literally doesn't exist".
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by zyxley 12y ago
>Not quite what you're asking for though. WebSockets support, so that plain Javascript in a browser can connect to the server without having to wrap in node-webkit or use Java or whatever.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Thinking about it, I wonder if any MUD codebases have WebSockets support. It'd be interesting to see a full-featured client as a single web page.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Social MU*s usually have a keepalive option that does some silent character exchange in the background with the client every so often to keep the connection open.
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by zyxley 12y ago
The most straightforward argument I can see against Uber drivers being "employees" legally are the ones who simultaneously do work for Uber and Lyft, picking and choosing whatever fares they they want to chain together from both.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Thinking about it, it'll be interesting to see if the new movies stick to the pre-Disney EU idea of Luke's new Jedi Order being one that allows marriage and families.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Yeah, comics have enough duplicates of everything (including, in some cases, multiple identical clones of the same character) that the only sane way way to handle it is to assign an arbitrary unique ID to each character.
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by zyxley 12y ago
> and $1.8 is actively invested to yield an income of $75k per annum I would say "never actually having to work again if you don't want to" is a fairly strong indicator for being "rich" in the sense that most peo
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by zyxley 12y ago
Yeah, Ren'Py is the entrenched contender here. It can now generate iOS and Android apps along with desktop ones, it has Steam API support built in for commercial releases using the engine, and the engine using a domain-specific languag
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by zyxley 12y ago
From what I understand, with assorted chemical energy storage technologies you can get a (for our purposes) arbitrarily high power density... as long as you're also willing to deal with arbitrarily high volatility. See stories about la
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by zyxley 12y ago
Why shouldn't they? In the US, the top 20% do have something around 80% to 85% of the wealth. http://i.imgur.com/1Thy8LJ.jpg
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by zyxley 12y ago
Putting in "Swindle" instead of "Kindle" is painfully childish.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Heck, all you need for proof of that working is to scroll up and look at the people giving Zappos free advertisement on HN.
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by zyxley 12y ago
I think the biggest difference here is that the iCloud Photo Library functionality will back up/sync new photos but won't delete existing photos unless you explicitly tell it to do so, which prevents data loss from corrupted or ac
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by zyxley 12y ago
"Free" has the caveat that it uses iCloud storage, though.
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by zyxley 12y ago
>What a pity there isn't some sort of operating system that can be used to present your media/content NAS to you, from anywhere in the world, with whatever front-end you desire It's not "whatever front-end you desire&
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by zyxley 12y ago
Active infiltration of conspiracy theorist groups seems like exactly the kind of thing that would lend credence to conspiracy theories, not to mention directly proving the "the government is watching me and wants to brainwash me"

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