andos · HackerTrans

    > Americans drink a ton of it. It is one 
    > of the very few foods in the US which 
    > Europe simply cannot approach.

Just like coffee, I presume.

andos

13년 전discuss

Portuguese, "puxe": http://translate.google.com/#pt/en/puxe

X sounds like SH.

andos

14년 전discuss

That’s accurate. Articles are peppered with first person pronouns. Minimalist on presentation AND content, sadly.

andos

14년 전discuss

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses [1][2] is long-overdue. “There is a current, established format for international addresses” is probably one of them.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

[2] http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

andos

14년 전discuss

Tada!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_token

Guess what? Even worse usability.

andos

14년 전discuss

A millimeter (which I rather often call “milímetro” or “millimètre”) is also too late. By the way, the SI uses powers of ten.

andos

14년 전discuss

An inch is too big. A centimeter is too late.

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14년 전discuss

I was reading this like any other ordinary story. Then I got to this part:

    Amazingly, he doesn't do transplants anymore. 
    Tracheas, he has decided, can be regenerated 
    from scratch, using stem cells.

It brought tears to my eyes. No amount of bad news can weaken the beauty contained in that little paragraph. This made my day, really.

andos

14년 전discuss

Pro: tab bars are modeless. Con: less content, more chrome.

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14년 전discuss

The same blog post in Chinese is provided as a 10 MB PDF [1]. My PDF reader simply gives up while loading it and prints insane amounts of error messages. I'm guessing they converted all the text to curves to avoid being censored?

[1] http://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/google_chinasearch...

andos

14년 전discuss

Certainly. In my opinion an explicit quote of part of the original article would have been better than paraphrasing. Quoting reinforces the value of the source (“we couldn't write it any better”), paraphrasing does the opposite.

andos

14년 전discuss

Hence the "drama".

andos

14년 전discuss

Real life needs some serious mutexing.

andos

14년 전discuss

A case of poor timing, I think. TNW posts a non-attributed version of the article [1]. Author complains on twitter. Meanwhile, TNW notices the error and ninja-edits the post with proper attribution [2]. You check the updated post. Drama ensues on twitter.

Edit. Oi, I'm not saying TNW is in the right, people. Just pointing out something that their CEO seems to have missed.

[1]. http://cl.ly/0q1C3n1j323R3C131X0d/o [2]. http://cl.ly/1a0c2y2p291H1u2T2s3S/o

andos

14년 전discuss

I really need something like this. However, I watched the video and came back unconvinced. You don't show me how to manipulate data. How do I get it into the canvas? Can I get it from APIs? from Google Docs? Can I bind data to attributes of the objects I drag and drop into the canvas? Can I filter and aggregate my data or must I preprocess it offline? We really need a web app that brings infovis to the masses — like a Garageband-ified Tableau. There's nothing like that yet. But if you are just a themed clipart canvas, you'll find a formidable competitor in PowerPoint.

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14년 전discuss

The comparison to a football coach is very accurate, but I think it's unfair to put Linus Torvalds and Ulrich Drepper in the same bucket.

While Drepper is pure asshole, Linus just uses insults in the same situations the rest of us would use bold text. I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of one such email, of course, but most of his tirades are actually very constructive.

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14년 전discuss

So, you are saying that if you were the maintainer of a project which required a feature such that the Github implementation was inadequate but the official git implementation was OK, you'd use the Github implementation anyway?

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14년 전discuss

My Spanish is rusty, but the article says that:

- Stallman felt ill halfway through a lecture he was offering in Barcelona, probably due to a blood pressure spike;

- he asked the staff for medical assistance;

- meanwhile, he continued the lecture with some difficulty, but in a good mood;

- the lecture was suspended when the ambulance arrived, and was eventually cancelled;

- after being attended by the medical staff, he was well enough to walk out of the building;

- no further details on his health.

andos

14년 전discuss

The OP are not comparing cars to software. They are comparing the natures of the commercial relationship between the owner and the car manufacturer and between the user and Adobe. Expecting free "recalls" from Adobe is not unreasonable.

andos

14년 전discuss

Just bought it! Skipped the trial because the video demo was enough. You should really be proud. Works like a charm, somehow feels like a UNIX tool. Hope you get rich in exponentially faster increments of five bucks.

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