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Re:Private messages at work can be read by EU employers on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @02:24PM (#10896767)
The entire employment system veers towards these biases. It's shown even in simple things like "you'll need to give us 10 minutes after you're supposed to be finished working this evening, but don't you dare consider taking 10 minutes off tomorrow".
Re:Darktable 2.0 released on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:25AM (#10790730)
I kind of like the idea from a few years ago, where there was a tagline under the logo of some web sites on every page, to explain what the site is.
Re:Ideal Hash Trees (2001) [pdf] on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @07:43AM (#9262269)
The "tree" objects that git uses to track state, are they hash trees?
Re:Introducing Opencall on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:54AM (#7506244)
How would you synchronise between versioning the symlinked assets and the app itself? Or do you just keep all images, for example, until you're simply sure you don't need them anymore?
Re:The Chadwick Chair on Thursday May 02, 2013 @10:23AM (#5644604)
Exactly. You can choose what to put money into, over time.
True. I maintain a Windows virtual machine on Linux just to be able to use banking sites that require Java. the sites don't seem to ever work on Linux, even with the proprietary Java libraries installed.
Re:Effective Email Marketing With Patrick McKenzie on Saturday January 26, 2013 @02:01AM (#5119573)
Jeez, it should have gotten more attention in any case.
Re:Life ToDo on Friday January 11, 2013 @03:21PM (#5044749)
Goalsontrack.com is one, it attempts to link your long-term goals with everyday tasks.
Re:Show HN: My first product. Thoughts? on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @02:24PM (#4993581)
Nice to see a fellow language educator. Very interesting to see your translation and audio outsourcing to Elance.

We've done something for the Irish language, which has its own pronunciation complexities. The site itself is very simple as it is, just wanted to share in any case: http://www.pronounceirish.com/

Re:How to Name your Company on Monday October 22, 2012 @04:53PM (#4685467)
We struggle with our name: Bitesize Irish Gaelic.

It's a language learning tool.

The Irish language is called "Irish" in Ireland, but often "Gaelic" elsewhere (depending on who you're speaking with).

The name we've ended up with is a mouthful of a compromise :)

I don't know if there's a fix for that...

Re:Single page apps in depth (new free book) on Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:08PM (#4678111)
What are the top single page apps that you have?

One close to this implementation that caught my eye this week for its design is http://deploybutton.com/

Re:Jekyll blog on Amazon S3 and CloudFront on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @03:06PM (#4661340)
Even clicking through to the link, it loaded faster than I could Alt-Tab to the next window.
Re:Someone forgot to renew NodeJS.org on Saturday September 29, 2012 @11:10AM (#4589781)
If an email was sent to a mailbox that wasn't being checked, it doesn't matter how many emails were sent. I don't know if it's the case, just guessing as one possibility.
Re:Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @02:58AM (#4473471)
Come to think about it, that's true. Often I'd click back, and the page would fully reload, and not bring me back to the same scroll position.
Re:“Me-too” products are fine on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:04PM (#4470799)
How does this work in the context of the book "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing"?

    > If you have a small market share and you have
    > to do battle with larger, better-financed 
    > competitors, then your marketing strategy was
    > probably faulty in the first place. You violated
    > the first law of marketing.
    >   The basic issue in marketing is creating a
    > category you can be first in.
Re:Birds hold 'funerals' for dead on Saturday September 01, 2012 @11:15AM (#4463917)
I have often wondered: where do dying birds go to die?

Except for roadkill, I don't see dead birds. I'm guessing under some shrubs, where they hide away weakly?

I don't understand the full concept. How does this compare with platforms that allow you to set up affiliates?
Re:Zsh 5.0 released on Monday July 23, 2012 @02:05AM (#4279776)
One thing I have noticed is a delay in tab completion with the `git checkout` command.

In my plain gnome-terminal with git it would instantly autocomplete when I pressed tab.

Here's a (PC-oriented) cheat sheet of some keyboard shortcuts:

https://gist.github.com/1958143

Re:EpicEditor: An Embeddable JavaScript Markdown Editor on Friday July 13, 2012 @10:58AM (#4240058)
I would have the same challenge - TinyMCE gives me a way to link to other pages (the list of other pages is generated by a script).

I wonder how you could add such help on top of a Markdown editor.

Re:40+ voice searches thrown at Google on Jelly Bean on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @08:11AM (#4193680)
On a related note, does the voice get intrepreted on the device, or on Google servers?
Nice!

Too much vim in my browser at once. Vimium didn't like interacting with the window, and interpreted my typing with a back-button action.

Re:A better git log on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @06:17AM (#4131050)
How do you keep track of such changes across machines? In a dotfiles git repository, and making a symbolic link to your git configuration stored there?
Re:Google search parameters in 2012 on Sunday June 10, 2012 @07:51AM (#4090809)
I can't read the content on my small Android screen, zooming in hides the blog content.
Re:I must be crazy on Thursday June 07, 2012 @05:59AM (#4078249)
Amy, Patrick, what's your opinion on working in a fulfilling full-time job while building up revenues, compared with consulting while building up revenues?
Re:After the age of scarcity on Thursday May 24, 2012 @09:56AM (#4018405)
There's scarcity in spending time with a particular person, for example. Meeting their producers sounds like a good "exclusive" bit of interaction, but I agree about non-exclusivity of content.
Re:Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin on Friday April 27, 2012 @06:07AM (#3898358)
So the question is, has 12.04 made a leap in the right direction, enough for it to be at least as good?

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