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Re:3D Printers to Save Hermit Crabs on Monday October 24, 2011 @02:06AM (#3148465)
Non of them cite any research so makerbot might as well test the shells if they want to, I don't see any problem with that.
Re:SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5 on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @04:08PM (#3044981)
I have been using latex with beamer for the last year, I don't do many presentations, but really it helps with staying on message that you have to be able to so it in latex.
Re:Lock Down Your .XXX Domain Before The Land Rush Begins on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @07:06PM (#2971914)
I bet all those startups who used their tld as part of their name are all giddy they can't get extorted like this.
Re:Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production on Friday July 29, 2011 @03:00PM (#2823283)
There is a gear on the lower left that will give you the desktop version, but I must say this kind of behaviour by web publishers putting tablets into such a weird format is annoying.
Re:Happy Sysadmin Day on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:18AM (#2821057)
Hey sysadmins, stay awesome.
Re:Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result on Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:01PM (#2819139)
Getting to Facebook is a four step google search: Go to google.com Enter w w w . F a c e b o o k . c o m press enter Click first result. Log in.

Or better yet: Start browser, search in search box for google.com then go on to search for your website.

Re:Stanford's CS 101 course uses Javascript on Saturday July 09, 2011 @05:48PM (#2746410)
I imagine it loops though the full width of the image every time it is called, which is every time the loop reaches the check.

Since storing it will require width-1 less calls to im.getWidth() it is much more efficient no matter how you slice it.

Re:FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python on Saturday July 09, 2011 @05:55AM (#2745385)
It's not often people sell tickets to a yanking of new knees? At least that would be my guess, that they also look for keywords.
So people who want to learn from HN should not?

From what you two are saying a person like myself, who is just starting out and therefore not writing much in the way of code or blogposts, should not be reading HN because I can't join the discussion with anything but questions?

What about likeminded people discussing a topic that interests them? Is there no room for that?

Re:Team Fortress 2 now free forever on Friday June 24, 2011 @10:13AM (#2692271)
Actually, it would seem valve has actually started hosting vanilla servers, which is great for new players.
I should probably look around for a new name then, I'm DanishBacon on twitter, which puts me in the danger area for being deleted outright and replaced by a bacon marketing scheme..
Re:Programming is… on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @08:50PM (#2539081)
All day today was spend configuring a screen to display visual studio in a pleasing manner, turns out it wasn't the screen that was at fault.
It will make it so much easier for vloggers to just record random video and release it whenever, sxphil can take a week off and nobody will notice.
Re:A common bug in published code on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:35AM (#2473697)
Oh, so it always rounds down to zero, that's pretty bad. Casting it to a double would help right?