aquadoctorbob

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   by aquadoctorbob 15y ago

   Trick question; you've specified the `ipsum` column twice anyway. ;)
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   by aquadoctorbob 15y ago

   Here's how I do it, improvements welcome: https://gist.github.com/875467
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   by aquadoctorbob 15y ago

   You might like my molokai-inspired color scheme for xterm: https://gist.github.com/845878
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   by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

   Reminds me of TidyPub, also featured on HN a few months back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952882
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   by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

   My favorite version comes from Douglas Adams, though he probably didn't coin the original: > Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people
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   by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

   Nope. Not by default, anyway: http://i.imgur.com/n6iqN.png
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   by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

   Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.
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   by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

   Really? I thought that one was the most human of their responses because it is so obviously tongue-in-cheek.
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   by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

   I got a knock on my door a few minutes after reading this post. Signed up via the QR code during the presentation. Also, it seems to be working with my Apps account. Yesssss.
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    Terrible redaction job by the editor, too... that blur might as well not be there.
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    To enable multiple voting: votedIds={length: 0, push: function(){}};
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=deceased
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    LHC@home seems to be the closest thing, but Wikipedia notes: > BOINC users who are considering joining this project should know that it only occasionally has work; the project is used for design and repair considerations related to the
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    Here's a link to the moving story you're thinking of: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/11/animalc...
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    You're missing a U at the beginning of the string.
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    Well, in writing -- Internet discourse in particular -- multiple exclamation marks are occasionally (ab)used to indicate absurd levels of emotional intensity on the part of the speaker. The factorial operation is also denoted by an exclamat
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    by aquadoctorbob 16y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    Thanks for the link. That's useful.
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    CoffeeScript: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#existence
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    Check out Befunge ( http://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge ) and its n-dimensional siblings. It's a favorite of mine.
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    Okay, I've had my surreal moment for the day. I was not expecting to see a thread I made four years ago when I clicked that link.
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    I think you've misinterpreted the OP or the purpose of svn-git -- that programming language metaphor doesn't work at all. Rather, everybody at his job uses Notepad and he'd like to use vim. It improves his performance and affects nobody els
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    I find your previous comment humorously prophetic in light of this :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132225
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    Bug report: when reading a website, I typically click the middle mouse button once in some whitespace, then gesture around to scroll slowly. The polling mechanism used here seems to dismiss the autoscroller. Firefox 3.6 / Windows XP.
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    I'm a native speaker of American English. It was certainly readable, but some of the sentence constructions were stilted enough to distract me. Here's my extremely pedantic edit, which also changes the tone to be more conversational: http:
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    You ought to give CyanogenMod a try; it's breathed new life into my G1. I installed it yesterday after my home screen's several-second rendering time pushed me over the tipping point. It's easier to install than it seems, noticeably faster/
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    by aquadoctorbob 17y ago

    Reminds me of Teracent, recently acquired by Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/displaying-best-displ... Evolving ads are very cool. And a little unsettling.