someone_here

811 karma · joined May 5, 2010

someone_here··on Ask HN: Underperforming, feeling stuck

build something cool on your own time. It will get your juices flowing and you'll be your old self in no time. Of course, you'll want to work on your own project instead of your employer's, but that's another problem.

Another problem that's fixed by having a profitable side project ;)

someone_here··on Poll: Are you using SSDs?

Which model of SSD specifically? How much did you pay?

someone_here··on Poll: Are you using SSDs?

WinXP has a poor I/O implementation that can hang the mouse if the I/O takes too much CPU. Vista and later have that fixed, as well as OSX and Linux.

someone_here··on Little, black, different

How does this compare to a linux-backed roll-your-own media center? Obviously it supports netflix, and you can't install your own applications, but what else?

someone_here··on Hacker Monthly Issue #5 - October 2010

It's not the money that matters to a hacker, it's the accomplishment of surpassing a tangible value that does.

someone_here··on More than 100 people have been arrested as a part of a global cybercrime ring

Can you explain how one misplaces a comment?

(I wasn't the downvoter, I voted you back up)

someone_here··on IE9 beta not enough to keep IE market share over 60% mark

By comparison, Firefox 4.0 beta is 0.26% in the same survey.

someone_here··on Team Fortress 2 getting micro-transactions via Steam Wallet

Demoknight is practically a new class

Huntsman + Jarate sniper is practically a new class

Gunslinger + Fontier Justice (or wrangler) Engineer is practically a new class

Dead Ringer Spy is almost a new class

Many changes in balance and game play have been made. It's not the same game as it was in 2008.

someone_here··on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate

Nifty. I would have been 9 at the time :)

someone_here··on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate

This release uses a new interface font, which is the first major OS (that I know of, anyways) to not use a Helvetica-like font for their GUI. Mark Shuttleworth talks about the decision and impact on his blog: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/537

someone_here··on A clever way to fight IE6

Just keep turning up the dial every time you don't want to do the job. You'll make even more money, and have less jobs. The sky is the limit.

someone_here··on I’m done building Facebook apps for clients

It's up now!

someone_here··on Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either

The author is likely using a high gamma, which is common among designers.

someone_here··on Time Likely To End Within Earth's Lifespan, Say Physicists

Okay, so how about "Given a number generator that produces numbers for an infinite amount of time, it will produce Pi"

This, of course, is impossible.

someone_here··on What Happens At Y Combinator

How much larger can Y Combinator get? 36 start ups is already a huge number.

someone_here··on Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

Oh dear, DNS error on that link.

someone_here··on FCC votes unanimously in favor of using whitespace for 'super WiFi'

Opening up 2.4Ghz was done because of microwaves leaking from appliances.

someone_here··on Ask HN: Many quality articles don't go to the front page. What is the problem?

I'm also finding many are [dead] as soon as they are submitted, for no reason that I can see. Then, a short while later, the [dead] is lifted. See my post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659521

someone_here··on Lucene wins

No, it's the new karma points.

someone_here··on Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

No need for specialty fonts for chess since all chess pieces are in Unicode:

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

someone_here··on Apple Approves VLC For iPad

No, you're right. When someone makes a bad decision let's hate on them for life; even if they do an about-face.

Apple is a corporation, and isn't human. Don't be fooled; they are only responding to market pressure.

someone_here··on Apple Approves VLC For iPad

Yay Microsoft for allowing those on Windows! Yay Google for allowing it on Android! Yay Canonical for allowing it on Ubuntu!

someone_here··on D-Bus in the kernel, faster

I'm surprised it has such an impact on an N900 signing on to Jabber. I had no idea it was so reliant on d-bus.

someone_here··on IOS 4.2 For iPad, iPhone, And iPod Touch Now Available To Developers

If that's what you want, you could have the best of both worlds if printers ran CUPS. Then you could have backwards and forwards compatibility.

someone_here··on IOS 4.2 For iPad, iPhone, And iPod Touch Now Available To Developers

For one: Linux packs them quite small and somehow Ubuntu fits everything in it's 700MB ISO. Second, you could have the more obscure drivers download over the air, or as a package from the app store.

someone_here··on IOS 4.2 For iPad, iPhone, And iPod Touch Now Available To Developers

Why not just use the standard print queues instead of inventing your own print queue standard and calling that standard?

someone_here··on Pricing is weird

It's strange. As a 3D modeller who loves the game, I would adore making the artwork for free for everyone to enjoy. GSB should involve the community more.

someone_here··on Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives

On my Ubuntu machine, I rarely use more than 1GB (apart from the disk cache, of course, which can fill all remaining memory. Note: windows only has an 8MB cache)

someone_here··on HN Puzzler

someone_here··on Mac OS X Public Beta

Compiz actually had all the Windows 7 effects before Windows 7 even came out.

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