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by pattern 12y ago
I really like this snippet from the justification for the symbol chosen: "APL apparently used +.×, which by combining a multi-character token, confusing attribute-access-like . syntax, and a unicode character, ranks somewhere below U+2
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by pattern 13y ago
A meta-comment to your unrelated comment - there is a Chrome extension called "WhatFont"[1] that gives you a button you can click, which adds a tooltip to your cursor telling you what font it is hovering over! It's useful to
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by pattern 13y ago
Nothing an Amazon-Prime-Air-follower-and-grabber drone couldn't handle!
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by pattern 13y ago
The parent wasn't claiming this; they were merely adding a single data point about a relevant topic! I for one had not thought about pre-filling the coupon code box before, and I'm glad the parent brought it to my attention.
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by pattern 13y ago
To expand on your comment "rare diseases are actually quite common", I was struck by this in the article: More than 7,000 such diseases exist, afflicting a total of 25 million to 30 million Americans That's almost 10% of Americans!
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by pattern 13y ago
> A sense of wonder (sometimes jocularly or cynically > abbreviated to 'sensawunda') is an emotional reaction > to the reader suddenly confronting, understanding, or > seeing a concept anew in the context of new > inform
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by pattern 13y ago
Since I had to look it up: FTFF = Fix The &$%#ing Finder[1], a blanket term for OS X Finder woes! [1]: http://www.applematters.com/article/ftff/
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by pattern 13y ago
In TextMate (OS X), a Cmd+/ does the same thing as well! To the author's credit, he does mention his hack has "no tool dependencies".
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by pattern 13y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a short post on this exact subject two days ago[1]! I also describe how to display the '{{' and '}}' strings in Jinja2, which is comically non-trivial :D [1]: http://www.verdantrefuge.com/writing/2013/angularjs-cus
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by pattern 13y ago
My absolute favorite is Białowieża Forest [1] - I died laughing many many times, and I even learned a thing or two along the way. For me, nothing beats enlightening educational entertainment such as this. [1]: http://idlewords.com/2012/02
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by pattern 13y ago
The navigation was so poorly executed that I didn't even realize there was more than one page! I admire people experimenting, but this feels like taking the idea 80% of the way there, and just kind of leaving things unrefined/unusable.
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by pattern 13y ago
I love these kind of interactions; both listening and explaining equally! I find I can elicit these kinds of explanations from others by being actively interested, reading how they react and what they emphasize, and asking the right questi
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Show HN: Song Dedications, Connect Through Music(songed.com)
1 points by pattern 14y ago|1 comments
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by pattern 14y ago
I understand your point, but just because we all love Miyazaki films (the objective truth :D) doesn't mean we each don't have our own unique traits/interests/hobbies/etc. that provide a well-rounded cultural outlook. I agree with your notio
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by pattern 14y ago
What percentage of 20-30 year old males do you believe have played Portal (2), saw this posting, had the inclination to download the mod, and the inquisitiveness and persistance to actually complete the puzzle/test? Rarely is a filter perfe
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by pattern 14y ago
My main takeaway was the following: Z-index only works on positioned elements. If you try to set a z-index on an element with no position specified, it will do nothing. I know I have scratched my head in the past trying to
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by pattern 14y ago
I love seeing how other people express and communicate the things they are passionate about. I fully support people geeking out about whatever they please, as long as it makes them happy :)
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by pattern 14y ago
The first time I have seen the word "fellatious" in the wild - thank you for bringing this gem to my attention :)
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by pattern 14y ago
You begin your sentence with "Except" -- however you and the parent are saying the same thing :)
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by pattern 14y ago
I would guess a lot of the initial customers for the iPad Mini won't be too sensitive to the price difference between the iPad Mini and a comparable Android device. They may base their purchase decision on other factors such as aesthetics,
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by pattern 14y ago
As another datapoint, I have been using a crappy old Linksys WRT54GL plus another $20 router to do every single thing you mention (except for handling large numbers of clients - although I would guess it would handle at least 20+ no sweat).
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by pattern 14y ago
I enjoy finding out what I like, and exploring why I like it. I posit that this is an inherent property of appreciation which allows one get more out of something. The "meta-HN" stuff is an incarnation of this, and shows that HN is appre
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by pattern 14y ago
I don't think the parent was claiming that Spotify would necessarily outlive the record labels, but rather some new paradigm for music recording/distribution would disrupt the label's current stranglehold.
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by pattern 14y ago
Would you mind elaborating on what you use for static generation, and how you get it into S3? Any links to your work? I feel this solution has a lot of merit, and I would like to see how others are doing it :)
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by pattern 14y ago
My first reading of this interpreted it as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "Static websites are resilient enough to last for years, for better or worse!" I do agree with the premise in that most dynamic solutions will in relatively short o
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by pattern 14y ago
For those such as myself that didn't catch the reference, nor hear about this the first time around: "Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle" [1]. [1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
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by pattern 14y ago
To the parent and anyone else who hasn't experienced the wonders of `pip`, check out the article "Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip" [1]. All three of these tools are invaluable for even the most trivial of Pyth
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by pattern 14y ago
I agree with this. I like knowing exactly what all the pieces of my stack are, and how they mesh together. If someone is churning out websites right and left I could see this being a more interesting tool, as it seems to be more powerful t
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by pattern 14y ago
For myself, I would broaden this and say that almost every link I visit on HN, or every forum post I read leads to more than 1 additional link. Thus three windows of Chrome open with 10+ tabs each :) I find this drill-down effect to be qui
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by pattern 14y ago
This isn't too far from the truth! I make extensive use of dotjs[1] to inject my own CSS rules into web sites that I use frequently. ~65% of what I do is simply hiding useless divs/ads/flash and removing background colors, with the other

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