ywecur

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by ywecur 5y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. Just came off as an agry rather pointless rant to me.
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by ywecur 8y ago
None of these DNS blockers have ever worked on YouTube for me, nor any of my other streaming apps. Honestly the only real solution I've found is to use Ublock Origin in Firefox for Android.
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by ywecur 8y ago
Are paper actually better than plastic if the plastic ones are disposed of properly?
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by ywecur 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that only the text server?
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by ywecur 10y ago
How many people still use TVs these days? Everyone I know don't even own one anymore, though my friends circle might not be that representative of society as a whole.
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by ywecur 10y ago
What about the problem that solar also needs batteries?
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by ywecur 10y ago
I have the same problem. If anybody has any good resources, please let me know.
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by ywecur 10y ago
A good alternative to normal news is slow journalism http://www.slow-journalism.com/
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by ywecur 10y ago
Or subscribe to slow journalism http://www.slow-journalism.com/
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by ywecur 10y ago
It doesn't work on Firefox
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by ywecur 10y ago
> Gay marriage is just the final nail in the coffin of marriage, which was already basically dead. Please elaborate.
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by ywecur 10y ago
Orgzly was previously the only alternative on mobile, which was closed source. I'm really happy to see this exist!
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SyncOrg: Open source Org-Mode for Android(github.com)
2 points by ywecur 10y ago|1 comments
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The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem(catb.org)
2 points by ywecur 10y ago|0 comments
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by ywecur 10y ago
Install Virtualbox and try it out. I'd say it's gotten way better.
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by ywecur 10y ago
1. Do games even run better on Steam OS? Last I checked they ran quite noticeably slower. 2. Steam is still a proprietary platform, though I can see how their support would benefit all distros' gaming capabilities.
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by ywecur 10y ago
Who even uses features exclusive to desktops anymore? I do for development, I'm sure video editors and the like do, but which ordinary consumer does? The future of desktops I see is something like: Chrome OS: 70% of computers for ordin
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by ywecur 10y ago
I don't see why you make that comparison. Many distros (Ubuntu comes to mind) certainly cater to the same market as Windows and OS X, and do it very well.
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by ywecur 10y ago
> Google could switch out everything GNU or Linux in Android with BSD or whatever next year. What are you trying to say? You could make the same argument for any piece of software in existence.
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by ywecur 10y ago
I don't think this is the problem at all. Ubuntu, for example, is perfectly usable and a very good alternative to Windows. The main problem, I'd say, is that there really isn't much of a reason to switch. People who buy a com
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by ywecur 10y ago
It's not nearly that straight forward. Many "fixes" would create incompatible blockchains between the different versions. In practise you need to get consensus before your fork can even be used.
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by ywecur 10y ago
Why not open source it? He would still be in control of the vision of the project.
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by ywecur 10y ago
I'm curious as to why nobody here has yet to comment on OPs claims about "Hedonic Adaptation". I've been told by various sources that this is the way the brain works, even in my recent biology class where the teacher wou
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Ask HN: Do you prefer OS X or Linux for development?
3 points by ywecur 10y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?
70 points by ywecur 10y ago|65 comments
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Wikipedia: You don't own Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ywecur 10y ago|0 comments
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by ywecur 10y ago
Your comment touches a lot on how to get an idea of the overall architecture, and I thank you for it. My main problem though is that I can't seem to see the purpose of functions, because more often than not they are written in a, to me
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Ask HN: How do you learn to read source code?
5 points by ywecur 10y ago|7 comments
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by ywecur 10y ago
I'd love to learn this. If anyone has any good resources, please let me know!
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by ywecur 10y ago
>Why isn't there just a plain `brew install task warrior`? That would be `brew install task`. I'm guessing their thinking is that brew isn't part of OS X, though this is silly IMO. Homebrew is basically a requirement if yo

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