PieSquared

Heh, I think it has something to do with where you are. I don't know a single person with a hotmail account, know 2 with a yahoo account, and everyone else has a gmail account. (So, what? 100+:2:0?)

Behind how? I've been using it for a while and have missed nothing; am I missing out on something I don't even know about?

Also: What is up with the umlaut in LÖVE?

We can't really say that we're making love, now can we? Plus, adding an umlaut makes anything awesome, just look at Motörhead.

Edit: simultaneous post with nuclear_eclipse... hahah.

Heh, the last one has a well-done photoshop effect, even including the reflection on the sunglasses!

Very relevant, I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220878

He's confusing Java with the JVM.

What I'd like to see is innovation in the UI field. Trying new, interesting ideas. Maybe even doing away with some of the old ideas - like the way KDE got rid of the desktop as a file-storage place. (Instead, allowing a widget to display any folder)

They're just portable desktops, no surprise that they're huge.

I am highly amused by how the first two comments on the page are, at the time of writing, "This is pure drivel," and "Brilliant writing," respectively.

Oops. Guess I should've made that clearer.

Stylesheets (called CSS) are the ways of changing the way HTML is presented with a browser. The idea was that HTML would be for document mark-up, while CSS would be for how that mark-up would be formatted (although that idea isn't ever really followed).

You seem to have a news.css, though, so I guess you must've just missed the terminology? That's a stylesheet.

You can just create a separate one which will be used whenever the browser is the iPhone browser, and that would change the entire page such that it's easily viewable and usable on an iPhone. (Change the margins, the view-port, the font sizes, maybe colors if necessary, etc).

You assume keyboards will be still around then! Who knows... maybe they'll be obsolete in a decade.

I coded at first a few years ago with the normal Eclipse-type scheme, but then when I switched to Linux+Vim and later Linux+Emacs I've always used a black background with light gray text. I'm probably just not used to coding on light backgrounds, since I haven't done it in a long while - if I did it for a few hours, I'd probably adjust. I just haven't really had the need to do so.

Oh. Thanks. Didn't know to do that.

I was thinking about switching, so googled up on it a bit, and found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455525/is-the-switch-to-d...

What do people here think? Is it worth the time investment to switch?

Do you know of any meeting groups around here? I'd love to meet a few fellow HNers.

Meh... gives me the 'register to see the article' screen...

Same experience here. I start having difficulty coding when the background is too bright, or even when the text is too bright on a black background (I had the text be a light gray for nearly a year, and I never really realized it wasn't white. Then when I looked at white on black code, it looked very bright and unpleasant to read.)

Wait, Google Video is being discontinued? Google Video? Wow, I thought that was here to stay.

Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone at HN was from there too... we have quite a number of computer-interested people. Anyone?

One of the comments is good. Basically, it asks, why the need for semicolons at all?

It's slightly sad that racism still has a part in world-wide culture. In some countries, it's even pretty much accepted - I read a Russian newspaper recently saying, "Well, the Americans have finally got themselves what they deserved", implying that nothing is lower than having a black president.

And I was just thinking this was the 21st century.

Now just to figure out how to make yourself stop doing that...

And a lot of teachers. (Heh, I've even had some who hate you using Google instead of their paid database subscription)

Eh. It's shiny and nice, but in the end, it's pretty useless. I lived with it for a month, then figured that it didn't do much good, and disabled it.

(I still enable it to show off to friends about how cool Linux is though, sometimes :D)

Sadly it doesn't work for chat... I use a lot of gmail chat, and there is no known way to download a chat archive or anything such.

...'gentle'?

Don't forget the most important and IMO best option: 3) Do just enough busy work to get a decent grade, and don't whine about it too much.

That's my method. If I have a 100% in CS, what's the point of doing all the pointless busywork? Just relax for a month until your grade drops to a 92%, then you have to start working a bit.

It's hard to tell without being in both. I think it's both busywork and just whining combined.

It used to be funny when the things it said weren't applicable or related to the real world? Huh.