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My only intent was to present "the other side" of what people see in this, never to prove that you were "wrong" or "irrational" just for disagreeing with others. You're absolutely …

The problem with your original comment[1] is that many people feel it has potential you're not only not giving it credit for, but are actively trying to sabotage its chances of suc…

I'm not an OpenGL expert, but my understanding is that the fixed function pipeline (FFP) is like a set of big, generic shaders and state that everybody had to go through to actuall…

An open memo to Hacker News: Stories like this (e.g. the GitHub and AirBnB incidents) tend to draw out this ugly, mob-like attitude from Hacker News, and I'm sure none of us want t…

Well that's a shame, since it's one of the most easily navigated, comprehensive yet concise HTML and CSS guide and reference sites I've ever used. I come back to it time and time a…

For future reference, you can list all of the files associated with a package using this: dpkg-query --listfiles package-name Or use Synaptic's 'Installed Files' tab in the package…

My habit is to use 'ls' to confirm what I'm deleting, then pressing up and replacing 'ls' with 'rm'.

One of the things I like about Readability is that space bar scrolling puts a blip on the side where my eyes can see where I should continue reading. I've never used the space bar …

I dislike the new layout mostly because it wastes a lot of vertical space, particularly the fixed top part. Here's the user style I use to neutralise it: #top-bar { height: auto; }…

The wavefront-expansion pathing algorithm described in the paper is very similar to the approach in the roguelike game Brogue [1], whose author refers to as using "Dijkstra maps". …

I totally agree. Unity in particular feels like alpha quality software. I like the idea of a sleek, modern, composited desktop, but Unity isn't there yet. Releasing early and often…

Stylish themes are often out of date and/or completely change the layout of the site when all I really want is a small tweak here or there.

I can't wait for those huge margins to waste my screen space.

Beware of selection bias. I saw these submissions when they were posted, but voted in neither, because I didn't mind the status quo of no points, and I'm wary of meta-discussion. I…

Forgive me for being dense, but why not choose the 'classic desktop' option at login, or 'sudo apt-get install gnome-panel' if it stops coming by default? Is it a clash of ideology…

It's easy to lash Sam Odio, but doing so robs us of some really interesting questions and answers. First, why was the idea so popular to begin with? Collective funds aren't new, no…

The correct title for this is "Lua/APR: Apache Portable Runtime binding for Lua". I'm pointing this out because I'm tired of seeing submission titles used to make a point instead o…

See also jsshell[1] for Chrome. Press the button and you can run jQuery-powered JS on the fly, save snippets and run them, even automatically on regex-matched URLs. [1] https://chr…

Strange. For me, Firefox has unresponsive scrolling with background loading, but Chrome doesn't, which is a big reason I use the latter nowadays.

Digging around, I found that the author used the JSON gem, relying on to_json taking an optional generator arg. But, yajl-ruby and ActiveSupport define to_json themselves without t…

Submitter, but not author, here. For the uninitiated, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike that allows online watching and play, but until now, only in ASCII via SSH/Telnet. The…

The main point here seems to be that you can make separate windows with SDL 1.3 and attach OpenGL contexts to them, versus SDL 1.2's approach of single-window-single-OpenGL-context…