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When I was running i3 I basically used it as a glorified workspace switcher. I ran a terminal with tmux full screen on one workspace and a browser full screen on the other. i3 let me swap between them, run a status bar with a clock and other little helpers and a launcher for when I needed some other app. The only bindings I needed to know where how to switch workspaces and how to navigate tmux and neovim.
I think your point about not feeling the car is a big part of what makes driving a simulator so difficult. Every part of a real car is giving the driver direct feedback into various parts of their body. How hard they are on the brake and throttle. Small changes in lateral g-force let them know how close to the edge of traction they are. The screen isn't going to be the same as the real world. The only feedback you get from an (affordable) at-home sim is through the screen and wheel. It requires you to tune into different sensations.

On the last stream Lando Norris (McLaren F1 driver) was asked if it felt like the real thing. He was response was something like, "Not at all. Nothing is like driving an F1 car."

Re:Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:14AM (#18503253)
I agree that they aren't exactly up-front about their model. They do provide a link to a pricing page that lays out the tiers: https://brain.fm/pricing
Re:The Opposite of a Bloom Filter on Monday July 16, 2012 @09:27PM (#4253655)
This is almost exactly what our use case is. I slightly altered the implementation to be more GC friendly though: http://squishtech.posterous.com/addendum-to-the-opposite-of-...
Re:Twitter spam and motivation to report it on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:36PM (#2779067)
I work on the Trust & Safety team at Twitter and hate spam as much as everyone else. As with any large system the solution is never as simple as "implement this thing, problem solved." As Marco points out, what is or is not spam is a balancing act. Our head of Trust & Safety, Del Harvey, gave an interview to the Guardian earlier this year about this balance: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/07/twitter-int...

If you'd like to help us out we have several open positions on the team: Anti-Spam: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oBPbVfwg,Job Tools: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oSbdVfwV,Job Front End: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=owPbVfwb,Job

Re:⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W on Monday November 08, 2010 @10:27PM (#1885167)
Happens all the time! I'm getting my nose moved though.
Re:⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W on Monday November 08, 2010 @10:06PM (#1885117)
Maybe it's a version thing, but Ctrl+Shift+T doesn't work for me. Cmd+Shift+T does. But will it restore all the tabs you had open when you accidentally quit?
Re:Ask HN: 300 employees, what is Twitter doing with them all? on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @10:45AM (#1838803)
Re:Hacker News, for iPhone and iPod Touch on Friday April 23, 2010 @01:47PM (#1288872)
Please please please add Instapaper support for this.
Re:Express: A Node.js web development framework on Friday March 19, 2010 @12:41PM (#1204511)
Check out CoffeeScript. It does exactly that. http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
Re:XML-RPC client module for Node.js (uses libxml.js) on Sunday December 13, 2009 @12:55PM (#992921)
I've been trying to model libxml.js after Nokogiri. I wanted to get something built and working first. The next step is to expose libxml2's html parser.

Someone else has started working on find-by-CSS a la Nokogiri. I'll merge that into libxml.js when it's ready.

BTW, I'm looking for more help on this project. A new job has diminished the amount of time I can spend on OSS projects.

Re:ShopSavvy Finally Comes To The iPhone on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @04:23PM (#947249)
Agreed, it's a bit sensationalist.
Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @01:15PM (#946890)
Superfeedr has an XMPP API that allows you to subscribe to updates on a blog or really anything with an RSS or Atom feed. It'll provide push notifications when your subscriptions update.
Re:Ask HN: Open Source apps with lots of database tables? on Friday November 13, 2009 @02:40PM (#940615)
OpenMRS is pretty big. I don't know the exact number of tables, but it's up there. http://openmrs.org/wiki/Data_Model
Re:XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time on Thursday October 29, 2009 @03:44PM (#910704)
My interpretation of that joke was scatological. Though, I don't know if that says more about me than Randall.
Re:ABB’s Super Fast Industrial Robots Impress [Videos] on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @11:23AM (#894821)
As impressive as the actual robots are, I'm more impressed with the "dance" they created to show these off.
Re:JavaScript Programming Patterns on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @09:48AM (#866683)
I'm using the Javascript Tools bundle for TextMate. It runs JSLint every time I save a javascript file.

http://github.com/subtleGradient/javascript-tools.tmbundle

Re:JavaScript Programming Patterns on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:07AM (#864112)
I've been burned several times by missing semicolons when minifying my code. Now I make sure they're always there. I'm also running everything through JSLint.
I could play with the low light switch all day. Love the transition effect.
Re:Ask HN: How can I get up early in the morning? on Friday March 20, 2009 @01:03PM (#525181)
My wife is out the door very early in the morning. I make sure I get out of bed when she comes in to say goodbye for the day.

My alarm clock has proven ineffective. I'll wake up an hour after it should have woken me up and realize I turned it off in my sleep

Re:Want your own Github? Check out the open source Gitorious. on Thursday March 19, 2009 @03:52PM (#523893)
Take a look at Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/). We're using it for all our internal projects. The git integration is a bit sparse at the moment. You can't browse around branches. But the basics are there.
Re:Want your own Github? Check out the open source Gitorious. on Thursday March 19, 2009 @01:47PM (#523673)
Nice that you can have your own Gitorious. But Gitorious is not Github. One of the biggest and most useful differences is the fork queue.
Re:TED: Mike Rowe talks about dirty jobs and innovation on Monday March 09, 2009 @07:39PM (#509252)
The Dirty Job's approach to their show is so perfect. No nonsense, no fear, just show it for exactly what it is.
Re:Dropped IE support for Instapaper on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @03:01PM (#501876)
It absolutely is our job as engineers to change the world. We're the experts. We've done the research and have the evidence to support our positions. From there it's our duty to show the rest of the world the best solution for the problem. In this case I think the problem is number of developer cycles that go into IE compatibility. Imagine if all that time went to the actual product.

Often rubbing something in someone's face is the only way to evoke change. To degrade the experience and let the user know why it's been degraded gives them a clearer understanding of the problem. Being struck with the same problem enough times tends to get someone to act to solve it.

Re:Dropped IE support for Instapaper on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @02:57PM (#501871)
I think Marco's point was that he's created this site as a fun side project. Supporting IE isn't fun. The vast majority of the site's users aren't IE users so he wont get a lot of flack from its users.

I agree that developing for IE isn't the worst thing ever, but it's certainly not fun. I have to side with Marco on this, if I were to build a site just for fun, I'd probably never look at it in IE.