mmacaulay

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by mmacaulay 14y ago
You can configure Gmail to not display certain folders in IMAP.
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by mmacaulay 15y ago
Yes, but what better metaphor for new beginnings than a "new line"? :-)
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
A little while ago they tweaked the way questions appear on the home page, might have something to do with it. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/stack-overflow-homepag...
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
As a Rally user, I must agree.
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
People on the main wikipedia site aren't going to tell you to go post your Star Wars article on the Star Wars-specific spinoff wiki site though are they?
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Considering HN's minimalist design (a good thing IMO), and the readership, it should be no surprise that we're seeing these "redesigns". There are a few mobile apps for reading HN - also not made by Ycombinator.
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Thought the same thing when they mentioned scrum master.
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Great post. I've been "bored" of Facebook for some time now (as I suspect many are). There's another thread on the main page where people are discussing whether or not Facebook is on the way out - I think it is, we're just waiting for somet
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
...go to http://j.mp/a11K0t [Etisalat site] > This site requires Internet Explorer ! If you were looking for more reasons to dislike these guys I guess...
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
"I wasn't invited to Apple's event" This is an important sentence.
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Except for HN I guess?
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
As someone who just recently bought his first house, it seems unrealistic to have saved up that entire amount within any kind of reasonable timeframe. Obviously, you should buy a house (and other things) that is within your means, which i
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Is there inflation in the user permissions you get with rep? Yes. http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Reputation and other points systems are designed to attract people because it's like a game - in fact, this very site uses it! Obviously there's the problem of people "gaming the system" to earn more reputation and you do whatever is possib
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Right on the money. I was there in the (relatively) early days where it was exciting to ask and answer questions and contribute to the site, while scoring points(!) Nowadays I often encounter SO links while googling things, and it has certa
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Only somewhat related, but first thing that came to mind: http://xkcd.com/327/
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Yeah, my first thought was: "oh, well, most families can certainly relate to this - it's a replacement for your KITCHEN computer!"
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
That's the first of the translate feature I've seen (trying Chrome 5 beta as my primary), didn't work for me on that page though - internal server error.
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
I've never heard of fossil before. There's a lot of noise around Git and Mercurial these days (I just recently transitioned to Mercurial from SVN), but fossil sounds like an interesting concept - and indeed, once I've got an SCM, the next t
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
You can only ad-hoc install apps that have been signed for your device specifically. So if Alice and Bob want to exchange apps in this way, they can, but it prevents them from distributing their apps to just anyone. "Dangerous geek warrior
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by mmacaulay 16y ago
Yep. Not even available in Canadian iTunes store.