Aethaeryn

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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
It's called svbtle and the theme is part of a blog network. https://svbtle.com/
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
There's Lisp: [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3830867 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151751 [3] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=lis... There's just not enough Lisp.
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
> To be clear, your phrasing seems to present this as a novel > approach, though it is not. Obviously, the idea of a strategy game[a] in a browser is as old as web browsers themselves. I even played a few in the mid-2000
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
> The 'hanging out' part was key, and I am convinced that if > Blizzard could figure out a way for folks to sit down and play > cards or checkers or something it would be popular. The problem with Zynga is that they
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
> I suspect because there just isn't a big enough market for games > of that nature. Maybe there is a handful of us out there. Maybe a > relatively small handful, but one that's willing to pay a fair > amount for
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
Please do not be a contrarian who buys ZNGA. You will probably lose money. They have 3,000 employees,[1] even though their business model revolves largely around cloning[a] games that are simple enough for very small teams to create.[2] T
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
You can also find out about the important changes from: C-h r m antinews RET This provides a changelog in the opposite direction, which is entertaining: For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about down
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
What reference would you recommend instead?
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
I'm actually surprised by the lack of rigor in many of the sources I checked. It's obvious that b != 0 is necessary because otherwise you can't get results like line segments having an infinite number of points, and hence equal to the amoun
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
> A zero-length line segment is a point. The Wikipedia definition of a line segment says that it is bound by two endpoints.[1] It provides a reference to Planet Math that goes into specifics.[2] In this page, it is made clear th
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
I think that the overall list of 'fastest companies to IPO' might be skewed by the dot-com bubble companies that were fast to IPO but failed soon afterwards thanks to having no real business model or income.
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
Your link is to blogspot.ca, this link is to blogspot.com.ar. To HN's software, they seem like two entirely different websites even though the content is identical.
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
> White on solid color is what basic metro tiles look like, though, and > the offenders are the parties who shove their faux-3D logo into the > tile without adapting it to the platform. Why didn't Microsoft anticipat
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
It's not even the Windows XP-7 UI paradigm. Cosmetically, the look has been updated over the years, but the same fundamental elements have always been there: a start menu; a panel at the bottom with a start button, a clock, a place for mini
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
Yes. They should have saved the start button and tried to keep familiar concepts that they could then later slowly phase out in future releases. One way that they could have gradually introduced Metro in a way that would keep familiarity of
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
You can hold down Alt and then the Suspend button magically becomes Shutdown in the GNOME 3 shell's menu. Yes, it's not a very discoverable feature. You basically have to find out about it on the Internet somewhere.
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
> I am not entirely certain how to shut off an OS X computer either. Open up the terminal and type: sudo halt (NOTE: In Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, the man pages state that 'halt -p' should be used for a power off, but
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
They're missing a few languages. For instance, Quicklisp.[1] [1] http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
I haven't had any issues with the multimonitors besides: - The Fedora defaults for background image stretches a 1920x1080 picture across what is effectively 3840x1080 pixels. There doesn't appear to be an elegant way to set a background ima
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
> It's not: https://extensions.gnome.org/ That's not user friendly customization: (1) When there's something that's called "Remove Accessibility" on the front page that's indicative of a broader problem. A tiny little script to remove
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
If you have to wait for a Linux desktop environment to improve over time into something that's fully usable, wait for a desktop other than GNOME 3's shell to improve. I have used Fedora and GNOME since Fedora Core 4, which was almost 6 year
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
If there's a bubble, and it's related to the Facebook IPO, then why did Facebook lose 11% of its value on Monday?
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
For just the features, subscribe to broadcasts[1] rather than the entire blog.[2] I couldn't find a mention of this on the website itself; instead, I just guessed the URL and it seems to work. [1] https://github.com/blog/broadcasts.atom [
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
I use Gmail, but I definitely get spam. I get false-positive spam all of the time (mailing lists I'm on have a decent chance of going to the spam box), and whenever a spammer has 'Google' in the email title, it has about a 60% chance of bei
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
UPDATE: (140 minutes later) They are now officially sold out on Kickstarter. Other reports of them selling out were premature. This means that they sold out at 6:37 PM eastern time, 3:37 PM pacific, with 85,420 watches total. The last one s
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
There are apparently less than 400 Pebbles left[1] before they sell out at 85,000 watches[2]. If you wanted one and haven't ordered it yet, your opportunity is almost gone! EDIT: (30 minutes later) There are only about 150 left. EDIT: (60 m
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
The whole point of taxes is that we can't rely on voluntary donations to fund public goods. Actually, the Romans did just that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedile Note this part from the article in particular: Becaus
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
It's interesting to look at major projects that have many commits to see when their active hours are. For instance, this is Linux's punch card: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/punch-card Of course, interesting != useful
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
They're removing the favicon from the address bar. They're not "killing" them altogether. They will still be on the browser tabs. This is similar to what Chrome already does.
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
One of the top Google results for "javascript cryptography" thoroughly attacks the concept, but I'm not an expert in the area so I can't refute or confirm its claims: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

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