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by olog-hai 3y ago
Spam detection at Twitter is horrendous. Search results for many crypto and stock ticker symbols (or cashtags like $SOFI) are deluged with Discord links for shady trading groups endlessly trying to rope in paid subscribers. If you select &q
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by olog-hai 8y ago
Some ls man pages state the following about the -1 option: "This is the default when the output is not directed to a terminal." I've never needed to use -1 when piping ls's output to another command.
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by olog-hai 8y ago
Re the title, "$" and "dollars" are redundant, and you might want to Google every day vs. everyday .
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by olog-hai 8y ago
There's a newer Bloomberg article with a matching title that's different from the one linked to here. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-13/trump-dru...
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by olog-hai 11y ago
"Divide the number 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 into 1" Isn't this poor wording? The author is dividing 1 by the large number above, not the other way around.
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by olog-hai 12y ago
Corporatese is nothing new on Mozilla's blogs, unfortunately. See this DF post from last year for another example: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/02/16/mozilla
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by olog-hai 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
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by olog-hai 12y ago
> made illegal by the UN The UN is not a government.
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by olog-hai 12y ago
What is the purpose of this site?
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by olog-hai 13y ago
Why is Kai Krause not credited? http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartograph...
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by olog-hai 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7164630
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by olog-hai 13y ago
It's another poorly-written blog post. "The use of centralized exchanges remain a frustrating point-of-failure" should be remains . "Chinese leaders have little issue exploiting as they look to crackdown on the once hig
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by olog-hai 13y ago
>exactly the same as HN One of the first noticeable aspects of the site is how much harsher on the eyes a pure white background is compared to the #f6f6ef used at HN.
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by olog-hai 13y ago
This is incorrect and misleading right off the bat. Ctrl+Z does not "send process to background." You will almost always need to use the bg command for that after suspending the running program.
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by olog-hai 13y ago
Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and pay close attention to the 4th paragraph from the bottom.
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by olog-hai 13y ago
It seems to be impossible to get an uncluttered view of U.S. sports stories. When I clicked on Sports on the left, some U.S. stories did appear, but they were buried among UK-based pieces. To narrow it down, on the right I clicked Countries
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by olog-hai 13y ago
Mac OS X as well as Solaris have been registered as SUS compliant, whereas Linux has not. http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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by olog-hai 13y ago
The stories at http://evening-edition.com/ are much more meaningful.
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by olog-hai 13y ago
Why link to #p3? Let me read the post from the top without making me scroll up.
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by olog-hai 13y ago
> Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win It was possible to do this before the changes rolled out. Shift-compose opened it (still does) in a new window, and you could work with it and your mailbo
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by olog-hai 13y ago
You have many options for improving your reading experience, among them: Evernote Clearly Readability's Read Now feature InstaRead viewtext.org (always extremely slow for me)
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by olog-hai 13y ago
Agreed about the small things. I'll never understand why they decided to put the ctrl+F find dialog at the very bottom of the window. It trips me up almost every time I use Firefox, which isn't often. The vast majority of computer
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by olog-hai 13y ago
There needs to be a way to close the YouTube player, not just hide it. I keep getting "video player is too small" errors after hiding the player so I can scroll down and select another song. Incidentally, if the songs you want are available
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by olog-hai 14y ago
There is little correlation between onehappybird's happiness map and maps of suicide rates in the US.
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by olog-hai 14y ago
A pause button would be nice. Also, parts of Australia light up with activity on the map, but strangely it isn't listed on the dashboard.
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by olog-hai 14y ago
That ?gwh= parameter should be removed from the URL. It will trigger the paywall for some people.
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by olog-hai 14y ago
No feed.
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by olog-hai 14y ago
From the HN Guidelines[0]: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." [0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by olog-hai 14y ago
Another bit of scumminess: When you click to delete a profile, you are taken to a page where you're expected to enter credit card details. Despite the presence of a RapidSSL badge, this page is not encrypted. Even forcing https into the U
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by olog-hai 14y ago
This looks an awful lot like plagiarism. He rewrote Rob Weir's blog post without giving him credit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465098

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