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by bk 16y ago
Text is really a great lightweight outliner implementation. Indenting works for multiple rows at once, but moving them up/down does not. This would be a key feature for reorganizing nested outline sections. Also, since I just used the demo,
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by bk 16y ago
I've been using Ubuntu practically exclusively for about 1.5 years (on 10.10 now). I mostly do web development/design and general productivity stuff. Obviously, most things work great or at least well enough, otherwise, I'd have switched to
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by bk 16y ago
OP, your title reads like a cheap ad. It would be more appropriate to put the main feature/benefit in the title and stay more neutral, e.g. "Silverback is a usability tool that let's you..." edit: title has been updated since my comment
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by bk 16y ago
Some ultra low voltage processor models get around 10hrs of battery life as well. The Asus UL series get really good battery life, at least under Windows. I have a UL80vt running Ubuntu 9.10 and get around 5hrs on that with the screen at fu
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by bk 17y ago
Another one is Xapian ( http://xapian.org/ ), but really why not postgres - it has very high-performance full-text search built in.
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by bk 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-handicapping
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by bk 17y ago
I've worked in 1-2 week sprints for ages, and it works really well. As pointed out in the article, 1-2 weeks is a horizon/deadline that you can _feel_. That pressure focuses. As a humorous side note, the following quote really reminded me o
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by bk 17y ago
Aside from the technological and legal issues, the availability of free wireless seems to reflect (perhaps even change) urban culture noticeably. I've stayed in major cities on three continents and the places with free wireless invariably h
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by bk 17y ago
You can fork it from http://github.com/sinatra/sinatra-book
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by bk 17y ago
Search for ruby +sequel <your-keywords>
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by bk 17y ago
Background: Former OS X user, switched to Ubuntu/Win7 dual boot, spending almost all time in Ubuntu. Quick thoughts: Linux on the desktop should be rebranded as Linux on the laptop. I haven't used a desktop for at least 6 years. This relate
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by bk 17y ago
I'm interested. I'm (stuck) in the Cranberry Twp area - in case anyone's there as well and wants to carpool.
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by bk 17y ago
Many of these are helpful reminders for the tech startup process as well.
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What every aspiring photographer should know(photodino.wordpress.com)
1 points by bk 17y ago|1 comments
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by bk 17y ago
To the Plurchase founders: It would be really nice if you could break down or explain how you got this press. A lot of people build products but have no idea how to work the PR angle, particularly with the traditional press.
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by bk 17y ago
Yeah, all my linode sites are dead (timeout) and no shell, at the very least for 1 hour, NJ datacenter. Sucks. Will be interesting to see how this unfolds.
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by bk 17y ago
I don't know who downvoted you, I voted you back up. I tend to share your pessimism (or its close correlate realism) about this particular situation. Pick your battles so to speak. As an example of what I was trying to express, in the last
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by bk 17y ago
I completely agree with your description of the problem, it's an organizational dilemma, and not much can be done about it. At the same time, reasonable people need to speak up about and work on important issues, because it affects the oppo
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by bk 17y ago
You know that recently a terrorist tried to use a bomb in his intestine to assassinate a Saudi-Arabian prince ( http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/qaeda_ass_assin_h... ). (I know, not the greatest source). As soon as one of those is
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by bk 17y ago
Regardless of its originator, to me the quote just serves as a reminder that my true productivity and progress are based on the quality and speed with which I can write (or integrate other people's) code (as opposed to talking about feature
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by bk 17y ago
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds
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by bk 17y ago
I'm about to move in the opposite direction. I've had Apple laptops for the past seven years, and I've had nothing but trouble with them, despite really careful treatment. OS X is nice, but since I deploy on linux it's easier to just have t
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by bk 17y ago
1. It's a good idea to partner with people, but pick projects where you don't depend on your partners to finish. Pick a problem/domain where if everything else failed you could at least push out a minimal version to see if you can get tract
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by bk 17y ago
I'm also really curious how renthop works in that regard. I've thought about similar businesses, and avoiding being cut out always seems like a hard-to-solve problem. I would really appreciate if you guys could give an explanation without m
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by bk 17y ago
Not to nitpick too much, but HN has a policy of not editorializing titles. Shortening is fine, but "serverfault.com FTW" doesn't really belong there. PS: It's nothing personal, (I use stackoverflow all the time, it and serverfault are treme
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by bk 17y ago
> I wonder if it is possible to have a human learn the key sequences of the dominant frequency bands and make a piano speak a word or two. I was wondering that too. Imagine if a composer in pre-digital history had figured out something
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by bk 17y ago
"Have you ever noticed how other people's stuff is shit, and your own shit is stuff?" - George Carlin
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by bk 17y ago
Holding ctrl-w should close the tabs very quickly, if Thunderbird has the same shortcuts as Firefox.
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by bk 17y ago
This post triggers one of my major statistics peeves: A rank order list without variance is meaningless. The differences between the categories are very small. They are most likely not statistically significant.
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by bk 17y ago
Personally, I would never trust facebook with my deep personal conversations.

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