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Perhaps: autoscroll the pages (of the "new" pages), a-la duckduckgo.com ?

I'm pretty sure I would want things to happen more or less only when I take some action with my hands (gaze AND click/keypress). Things opening, closing, raising, lowering, or otherwise flying around purely on the basis of my gaze would probably be disorienting, or there would be a lot of false positives. ("I don't WANT that window to raise!")

Thank you. I asked for this in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1194757

Just tried this in Opera. Having never visited the site before, I opened it in a "New Private Tab". Set Opera to reject all [normal] cookies from that domain. Saw an ID number on the page; recorded it. Opened another private tab. Saw a different ID number. Refreshed page; got yet another (different) ID number. Revisited page within same [private] tab (pressed Enter in address bar): got yet another (different) ID number. Did the same in Chrome (regular tabs): saw same behaviour.

Using two different private tabs in Opera, I get two different IDs to start with, but when using the "click to rediscover" buttons, both allegedly private tabs [eventually] end up with the same ID.

Or perhaps:

    kill -s HUP <pid>

Here are a few reasons why traditional musical notation is far superior to timed falling bars (such as this Synthesia thing, or Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc). These are elements which provide important and useful information and detail to the performer.

- key signature

- chord shape

- exact relative duration (whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc.)

- dynamics

- phrasing

- articulation

- time signature

- measures

... and on and on. Traditional notation has worked really well for hundreds of years. Once learned, it is not so mystical or difficult, and actually makes a lot of sense.

Can anyone provide examples or references that discuss the importance (or unimportance) of site speed for sites that aren't search engines?

More involved HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1696396

I've found multiple instances of text in more or less official places containing general English problems (spelling, grammar). I'm assuming for the time being it isn't due to outright lack of fluency in English, and so that leads me to think that they just aren't putting in the [little] extra effort to proofread before publishing. It's not that big a deal, but I think it would help for them to look more polished as far as official text goes.

This appears to be heavily geared towards guitar music. I'd like to be able to write out piano music (or perhaps just any music in general).

This doesn't work at all for me in Opera. Has anyone else had success in Opera?

edit: Apparently Opera is not among the browsers listed here: http://www.google.com/instant/

Perhaps: "click-averse audience"?

I love git, and I love github, but I honestly have not found any of the "mangle your repos through our website" features of github compelling. Perhaps it's because I don't have projects with hundreds of watchers, a couple dozen forks, and a pull request coming in every day. I just feel a lot more comfortable working with my repos on my own machine(s), with the CLI git commands. I can do what I want locally, and I have full control over any mangling or bungling, as well as whether or not said bungling gets pushed to what is often the official repo for the project (namely, the github repo of the project).

I've tried (and continue to try) several programming fonts, but always stick with Terminus. In my opinion, it is the most readable font at 8px, and I like being able to fit as much as possible in a screenful without losing readability. Most of the other fonts I've tried seem more suited for sizes 10pt and larger, and that's fine, I would consider them for usage in my web browser, or some other place. But my console windows are all Terminus.

Chopin is my absolutely favourite composer. I hope I am not out of place in wishing for more such submissions (links) from HN (music-related ones, that is).

In my opinion, excellence in the arts* is among the highest goals toward which humanity can strive. In music, a composer (and performer) can deliver to the listener great beauty and wonder. Through music, a window into the very fabric of the universe can be opened. Music is one of those things that makes us distinct from animals; to encounter, to appreciate and to experience music is to more intimately apprehend what it means to be human.

* By "the arts", I mean to include: acting/drama, poetry, music, visual arts, literary arts, dance, and so on.

How about Chopin's Mazurkas? For me, many of them have tear-inducingly beautiful melodies.

I use RVM for all Ruby installations now. I can't think of a distro or UNIX flavour whose Ruby packages are so good that I would use them instead of RVM. That includes Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, BSD, OSX.

For those developing Ruby libraries, RVM makes multi-version testing a breeze.

It's easier to adjust than to create from scratch. Find an open source project you admire or use a lot, and try to tackle some minor task. Or, search a source code site (e.g. github) for a project with a relatively small codebase, and just play around with the code, to see how changing something in the code brings about a change in behaviour or output. You could begin by changing hard-coded data first (such as strings, or initialization values), then move on to change actual logic.

Make it a point to explore more than one language -- hopefully at least three. It's easier to work with higher level languages; I recommend that your list of languages to try includes Ruby or Python.

I recommend Ramaze. As simple as possible, and no simpler. Clean, clear, concise, straightforward. Modular and flexible. Pair with your choice of database and ORM (if any).

A while back I increased my MUA's mail download interval to one hour. The decrease in focus disturbance was immediately tangible, and very refreshing. Coworkers would ask "don't people complain that you don't respond quickly?" to which I reply: It hasn't happened yet. :) At worst, the boss walks over to ask if I've received such-and-such email he sent, but that has been rare.

I'm thinking of increasing to an even larger interval.

That may be true, but I suppose the strategy is not to spend much more time on an item yourself once you've jotted it down on a list, especially when you're confident Joe Sysadmin would know the answer straight away.

In Canada, it's common to start with 10 days.

Could someone explain or expand on that particular point, for those of us who are just plain inexperienced or ignorant?

When I tried it (earlier this year), it wasn't quite like RVM. RVM is very versatile, powerful and polished. Perlbrew is getting there, but seems good only for particular limited ranges of use. Things I got used to with RVM weren't ready yet in Perlbrew. Various Perl versions wouldn't compile for me successfully. You can also compare the Synopsis of Perlbrew with the range of rvm commands and switches to get a feel for how much is missing in Perlbrew. I really wish Perlbrew gave me a good out-of-the-box experience, because it would be very handy for me, but that wasn't the case.

I did Comp Sci at a major Canadian university. I used OSAP or a bank loan for each year of study. I've never put in a lump sum. Paying only regular monthly payments got me finishing maybe 10 or 11 years after graduation.

In my opinion, nothing should pop up without explicit user action (keypress, mouse click). Every would-be pop-up should be pop-under, with some cue (visual or otherwise) to inform the user that something may deserve attention (e.g. flashing taskbar entry or tray icon).

Note also that this is a general problem not restricted to Windows.

I have been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for a few months now, after having given it a second chance. At this rate, I find the result sets good enough that I only turn to Google for maybe 1 in 40 searches.

The number one reason to use DDG: The developer is friendly and accessible. I don't expect you could get a personal response to a feature request or comment from Bing or Google.

Mailwise, I recently set up my own mail server, so that has let me begin phasing my GMail account out. As far as spam control goes, Bogofilter has served me extremely well for years.

I find that extremely hard to believe. Do you have some very anomalous usage patterns, such as never using that address to register on websites, and never having it posted anywhere spider-crawlable on the Internet?

I'd wager that an address that is bot-scrapable would soon see dozens of spam messages a day, if not much more.

I recently sent a payment from my Paypal account to someone else's. I thought I specified that the payment should be taken out of the credit card source, and not the bank account source. I saw a success page, closed my browser tab, and thought nothing more of it. Later, I received an email indicating that the recent payment I made "failed" to get funded by the bank account, and that the credit card was used as a fallback.