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Comment on Programming: We can do Science by Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:51:53 +0000

I would rather be embarrassed for saying something stupid than to continue walking around with an incorrect idea in my head. This explains why say a lot of stupid things. I have learned a lot from giving incorrect advice or saying incorrect things and then being corrected.

These kinds of experiments are great to make. On the front-end we often just try things out in the console.

Comment on The Silver Searcher: Better than Ack by Hank

Hank — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:31:43 +0000

Pretty cool, Geoff.

Comment on Super-something-tard by michael

michael — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:02:00 +0000

This doesn’t seem consistent with your desire to live longer. Have you checked out statistics of motorcycle deaths? I completely understand your desire to have fun, but at least wait until you have a backup copy!

Comment on Insert Frozen Food Joke Here by Kennita Watson

Kennita Watson — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:18:27 +0000

Excellent writeup — persuasive enough, I hope, to convince some people to take this step to save their own lives. Hope to see you soon on this side _and_ later on the other! Live long and prosper.

Comment on Expensive Computers are Worth the Price by Geoff Greer

Geoff Greer — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:45:53 +0000

I agree that the Air could use more RAM, although the tradeoff isn't as clear-cut as you make it sound. My previous laptop was a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2nd generation Intel X25-M SSD. Except for boot time, it was slightly faster than my Air. But a slightly slower computer that you take everywhere is better than a slightly faster computer that you leave at home. The trivial inconvenience of a larger, heavier laptop can significantly reduce your productivity. Like in photography, the best device is the one you have with you. An iPhone or iPad is even smaller, but neither of those have a full-size physical keyboard (AKA the fastest brain-machine interface currently available). Of course, not everyone needs the same size-performance tradeoff as me. I don't care if you get a MacBook Air or not. I simply want to stress that expensive computers are worth it.

Comment on Expensive Computers are Worth the Price by Michael Anissimov

Michael Anissimov — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:15:51 +0000

MacBook Air suffers from insufficient memory. It was made to be small, not to handle programs. Why do people think that the thinnest, lightest possible computer is going to handle the needs of a power user?

Comment on Five Years of Progress in Laptops by Jamie Knight

Jamie Knight — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:59:33 +0000

Hiya.

I also have a 11″ Air and i completely echo your points. The advances than have been made are astounding. While the changes generation to generation are tiny, they add up to alot!

I got my first MacBook in 2006 (first gen MacBook ) and its still running now, i’m expecting the Air i have today to still be running in at least 3 years time.

Jamie

Comment on Five Years of Progress in Laptops by Dan Absalonson

Dan Absalonson — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:37:49 +0000

The profile picture of the two stacked on top of each other is great! Shows how far the tech has come, pretty astonishing. My first laptop was an iBook G3 back in 2002. At the time it seemed really fast to me. It’s pretty amazing how fast things change. Honestly I use my Blackberry smart-phone for most laptop type things I used to do these days. Social media, reading blogs, even word processing. I love having a computer in my pocket.

Comment on Information Dieting with a Kindle by Dan Absalonson

Dan Absalonson — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:33:06 +0000

Hi Geoff,

You might not remember me, but I went to high school with you and ran cross country and track. Anyway, great post. eReading is a topic I love to read and talk about. I love reading, and I’ve even started writing my own fiction. I picked up the Sony eReader when it first came out. I love books, the smell, the feel, but I’ve found that I love reading on an eReader even more. It’s great having multiple titles in a device that weighs less than most of my paperback books. That Instapaper site looks like exactly what I’ve been looking for. I read a lot of author’s blogs and stuff, and this will be a great tool. thanks for sharing it in this post. Anyways, hope all is well and it’s cool to see that you have a site going. I’ll have to read through your old posts. Have a good one Mead distance running teammate! :)

Comment on Information Dieting with a Kindle by AJ

AJ — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:51:06 +0000

http://hnrecap.com/weekly

is a decent filter for HN.

Comment on Ubuntu Annoyances by David

David — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:52:11 +0000

Windows has far less issues than Ubuntu for the average user. The average user can’t play his games on it for starters, and there are probably issues with playing mp3 files because of licences or something.

Comment on LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad by Geoff Greer

Geoff Greer — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:51:34 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about this.

I found out that Dreamhost recently added a rootkit detector, which is incorrectly flagging my lscolors generator. It should be fixed tomorrow.

Edit: It’s fixed now.

Comment on LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad by Tim

Tim — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:30:38 +0000

This generator seems broken? It just redirects back to this page. Is it broken or just plain decommissioned? It’s hard to tell.

I’ve searched all over Google and this seems to be the only generator/preview tool for LSCOLORS available.

Comment on LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad by Geoff's Site › LSCOLORS/LS_COLORS: Now with Linux Support

Geoff's Site › LSCOLORS/LS_COLORS: Now with Linux Support — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:35:30 +0000

[...] while back I made a little web page to spruce up ls output. Of course I completely forgot about it until recently. Some of Ubuntu’s default colors were [...]

Comment on Hostnames by Martijn van Steenbergen

Martijn van Steenbergen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:50:03 +0000

This is a cool and old idea. :-) It is used e.g. in The Art of Automounting (1991).

Comment on Hostnames by Cristi

Cristi — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:13:20 +0000

Another place if you are looking for naming your devices http://namingschemes.com

Comment on Is My Credit Card Stolen? by Vilhelm S

Vilhelm S — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:59:26 +0000

I think Firefox adding it to the blacklist is fair enough. After all, as you post-submit message states, “this was a test”. It makes sense to run the test under real-world conditions: when a user is evaluating whether a site in the wild is a phishing-site or not, they have the various cues presented by the browser available to help them.

If Firefox didn’t blacklist it, and a user fell for the ploy, then that user could complaint to Mozilla that “your built-in phishing protection can’t be very good if it protect me from this”! They would be underselling their feature.

Comment on Insert Frozen Food Joke Here by Paul Crowley

Paul Crowley — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:17:33 +0000

Congratulations! I handed over my signed contracts to Ben Best on Friday. See you on the other side, if we’re lucky :-)

Comment on Hostnames by ted kekatos

ted kekatos — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:16:52 +0000

I’ve been using this method for more than 10 years. I stick to eletrical conducting elements. GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM, COPPER, CARBON, LEAD, etc. etc. It’s a great naming convention..

Comment on Hostnames by Ash

Ash — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:09:47 +0000

I personally use mythical weapons. My cell is always Grungnir, my iPod is Mjonir, My computer is Excalibur etc.