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thunderbong

118,641karma·18,324submissions·May 20, 2012
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Thank you for giving such a fair overview. I feel there's a lot of chest beating in both countries because of whatever they see in the other. However, I do feel that Kashmir needs peace and as yo…
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Besides the fact that OBS is not open source, why is this comment being down voted? It's also free, isn't it? And therefore a very viable alternative to the vat majority of users
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Probably because the keyboard can be plugged in and has to be recognized even before the operating system boots?
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Can't stress this enough. After upgrades, moving computers and installing and configuring everything multiple times, I went the portable route. Now, for every application I install the portable v…
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I came across this today and honestly it's quite good. But the documentation is sorely lacking. I located a previous HN submission on this [0] which had some tips. But I wish I could modify the s…
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That's a really good series of blog posts. Thanks.
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I'm a newbie to background jobs and I have a question - Whenever a user's action gets pushed to a background job how do you go about notifying the user about the status of the job? Do you r…
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Thanks. Didn't know about this.
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I had added this comment just yesterday [0] - >> All I'm wondering is how this would play out in a dystopian future where I'm recognised by everyone wherever I go. >> >> A…
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I think you've put that very well. All I'm wondering is how this would play out in a dystopian future where I'm recognised by everyone wherever I go. And in some cases they might even …
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I do use Syncthing as a Dropbox replacement because that was my original use case. My original user case was to sync files between my computers at work and home and it worked perfectly for that. Extre…
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Dang, I think you've summarised the difference between news and 'news' in three paragraphs wonderfully. Everyone keeps saying that moderation is a thankless job and I thank you out for…
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That's really interesting! SQLite never ceases to amaze. Have to look into that kind of implementation
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Shout out to fossil too. It's hands down the best DVCS I've ever used
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Adabas brought back memories. And now when I see all the hype about NoSQL, I'm remember Shirley Bassey's fantastic song - 'History Repeating'
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That is really beautiful. In today's internet, very, very rarely, do you get to read something that really makes you aware of this big humanity that we're all a part of. I'll save your …
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I don't think that paying for content would have stopped the tracking. Or the advertising. In my opinion, there is no limit to man's greed. Whether that's a good or a bad thing for huma…
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This is a pure clickbait article. Why bother submitting crap like this?
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This looks really interesting! Wasn't this the intention behind the older .mhtml format? I wonder what happened to that. Also, do you have an option to choose to not save javascript?
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I'm seriously thinking of switching to Vivaldi as my default development browser. It has incredible keyboard support and feature wise closest to the old Opera browser, which till date is the firs…
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This is really good advice. Not many devs think about themselves when discussing their managers. >> The really difficult thing about this question is that it's not a 1 way street. If you do…
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Have a table for Types The types table have references among them Types Table id name parent_id 1 Animal null 2 Pet 1 3 Dog 2 4 Cat 2 Have the actual animals reference the Types id name typ…
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From all the comments, I see that arguments are there both ways. I also understand that we should follow a process that bets suits the business. I would really like to know how we could set up an Agil…
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Thank you. That is indeed insightful. I've also held the same opinion as the parent comment and this helps me understand the intricacies of economics a little better
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That Blub paradox was insightful. However, you do realize that people using Emacs might be Blub programmers as well!
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The book is a real joy https://www.amazon.com/507-Mechanical-Movements-Henry-Brown/... …
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