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It's called svbtle and the theme is part of a blog network. https://svbtle.com/

There's Lisp: [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3830867 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151751 [3] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=lis... There'…

> To be clear, your phrasing seems to present this as a novel > approach, though it is not. Obviously, the idea of a strategy game[a] in a browser is as old as web browsers themsel…

> The 'hanging out' part was key, and I am convinced that if > Blizzard could figure out a way for folks to sit down and play > cards or checkers or something it would be popular. …

> I suspect because there just isn't a big enough market for games > of that nature. Maybe there is a handful of us out there. Maybe a > relatively small handful, but one that's wi…

Please do not be a contrarian who buys ZNGA. You will probably lose money. They have 3,000 employees,[1] even though their business model revolves largely around cloning[a] games t…

You can also find out about the important changes from: C-h r m antinews RET This provides a changelog in the opposite direction, which is entertaining: For those users who live ba…

What reference would you recommend instead?

I'm actually surprised by the lack of rigor in many of the sources I checked. It's obvious that b != 0 is necessary because otherwise you can't get results like line segments havin…

> A zero-length line segment is a point. The Wikipedia definition of a line segment says that it is bound by two endpoints.[1] It provides a reference to Planet Math that goes into…

I think that the overall list of 'fastest companies to IPO' might be skewed by the dot-com bubble companies that were fast to IPO but failed soon afterwards thanks to having no rea…

Your link is to blogspot.ca, this link is to blogspot.com.ar. To HN's software, they seem like two entirely different websites even though the content is identical.

> White on solid color is what basic metro tiles look like, though, and > the offenders are the parties who shove their faux-3D logo into the > tile without adapting it to the plat…

It's not even the Windows XP-7 UI paradigm. Cosmetically, the look has been updated over the years, but the same fundamental elements have always been there: a start menu; a panel …

Yes. They should have saved the start button and tried to keep familiar concepts that they could then later slowly phase out in future releases. One way that they could have gradua…

You can hold down Alt and then the Suspend button magically becomes Shutdown in the GNOME 3 shell's menu. Yes, it's not a very discoverable feature. You basically have to find out …

> I am not entirely certain how to shut off an OS X computer either. Open up the terminal and type: sudo halt (NOTE: In Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, the man pages state that 'halt …

They're missing a few languages. For instance, Quicklisp.[1] [1] http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

I haven't had any issues with the multimonitors besides: - The Fedora defaults for background image stretches a 1920x1080 picture across what is effectively 3840x1080 pixels. There…

> It's not: https://extensions.gnome.org/ That's not user friendly customization: (1) When there's something that's called "Remove Accessibility" on the front page that's indicativ…

If you have to wait for a Linux desktop environment to improve over time into something that's fully usable, wait for a desktop other than GNOME 3's shell to improve. I have used F…

If there's a bubble, and it's related to the Facebook IPO, then why did Facebook lose 11% of its value on Monday?