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Re:Ask HN: What do you hate most about HN? on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:39AM (#18185891)
My main dislike is a technical feature: that every response to a comment does not link back to the parent comment. This often makes discussions difficult to follow. (Indentation helps very little when reponse threads grow over multiple pages.)
Re:A Cornell Scientist’s Downfall on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:34PM (#18079469)
You don't need the extension to get the benefit. Just go to https://outline.com
If you read the article, you will find that they do propose to make daylight saving time (they call it "summer time") permanent.
Re:California's beaches belong to the public on Saturday July 01, 2017 @06:47PM (#14679502)
The only interesting question here is: why isn't he (Khosla) in jail?
Re:Password Rules Are Bullshit on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:49AM (#13838938)
Can anyone explain why all authentication systems don't enforce a (say) 2-second delay on repeated password attempts? Wouldn't this solve nearly all insufficient entropy problems?

Even a 5-character password should suffice in this situation, and a human user would never even notice the 2-second delay. How would malevolent password-crackers get around this?

Re:MacOS could drop below 6% market share this month on Monday January 02, 2017 @08:20PM (#13305895)
Seconded. Their statistics without Chrome OS are of little interest, and a distortion of actual desktop trends.
Re:Some advanced bash scripting on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:36AM (#12932151)
It's not advanced, it's not long enough, and it's not correct either.

> This will set the value of TMP to `/tmp/myproject` only if it has not been set.

This should read "if", not "only if". And it should read: "This will set the value of TMP to `/tmp/myproject` if it has not been set or if it is null."

The form that means 'if it has not been set' has no colon; it is

  TMP=${TMP-/tmp/myproject}
  
See https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Shell-Par...
Re:How To Think About Chess on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:46PM (#9305868)
You'll be glad to know that in GO, the ancient Japanese game which is played with black and white stones on a cross-hatched board, black goes first and has the advantage.
Re:Pandoc Markdown and ReST Compared (2013) on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:11PM (#7374186)
I Looked at the site for z.m.l (http://www.z-m-l.com/). It doesn't seem to do math, so it's a nonstarter.

BTW, Pandoc (which does do LaTeX math) really needs no improvement, only more widespread implementation (e.g., an online site, and/or a chrome extension coded in javascript.) I suppose its being written in Haskell has been an impediment.

Re:Ubuntu Edge funding reaches $10M on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @02:46PM (#6213420)
This thing is dead in the water, IMO. I just tried to contribute (more than enough to get a phone) and discovered a Paypal account is required. (Over my dead body.) I would have been glad to contribute via any of several credit cards I hold. Do NOT understand why that was not an option.
Re:What Bitcoin Is Teaching Us on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @10:26AM (#5525316)
"it does what currency should do, which is increase in value over time."

What utter rubbish. Bitcoin may or may not survive (as a volatile commodity, like gold), but you buy it now at your peril. It is backed by nothing, and generates no earnings. It started at $.10, and to $.10 it might well return.

Re:Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web on Friday March 22, 2013 @11:20AM (#5423465)
Chromebooks out of the box lack any kind of straightforward text editor which will edit local files and/or files on Google Drive. (Google Drive is much more convenient to use on chromebooks than Dropbox.) Writebox looks as if it might be a candidate to fill this void, for it loads and saves files on Google Drive, even though 'distraction-free' tends to be code for 'featureless'.

Unfortunately, it's got a serious bug, fatal for my usage, which the developer promised to fix over a month ago but which has not been fixed yet. If you edit and save a web page (i.e. an .html file) on Google Drive, Chrome OS no longer recognizes the file as a web page to be viewed in the browser, but only as a text file, to be viewed as text or edited.

Eventually, this might be a good app. In the meantime, if you need a text editor for a chromebook, put it in developer mode, install Ubuntu 'cli-extras' with the Crouton script, and 'sudo apt-get install nano'. (Vim is also automatically installed by Crouton.)

You haven't been following Apple's lawsuits against Samsung much, have you?
Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @09:00AM (#4042566)
familiar? have? number? Don't think so...