preavy | 3 months ago | on: Claude Opus 4.5
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preavy | 8 years ago | on: How some people stay motivated at work when they don’t love their jobs
“Listen. You don’t live there. You live here. With your people. Go to work. Get your money. And come on home.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-work-you-do...
preavy | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp?
Why do you think data-handling is unrelated to the level of freedom in a country?
Please don't be so naive as to equate the UK and USA with Putin's Russia.
preavy | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp?
You are wrong to be ambivalent. Russia is a vastly less free country than the United States.
For example, please see https://freedomhouse.org
preavy | 11 years ago | on: Emacs Is My New Window Manager
I agree that you should use the same Emacs version. On the Mac I recommend http://emacsformacosx.com/.
I have my .emacs.d symlinked to a folder in Dropbox. So to set up on a new machine I just have to install Dropbox and make a new symlink.
This also worked for me in Ubuntu.
I was concerned when package management came in as a lot more stuff seems to get downloaded, but it just seems to look after itself.
preavy | 11 years ago | on: Emacs Is My New Window Manager
I disagree. I have been using the same init.el across Windows and Mac for several years. Hardly anything needs to be tailored but you can inspect the system-type variable if it is really necessary.
preavy | 12 years ago | on: Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Without going too far off-topic, does anyone know anything about a SQL Server driver for Node.js? There was this, but it hasn't been updated in a while.
https://github.com/Azure/node-sqlserver
preavy | 13 years ago | on: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners
I prefer Emacs, but sometimes think Vim works better on laptops as everything is right under your fingers. Emacs is much more comfortable on a full-size keyboard. So I wonder whether there's any correlation between Emacs/desktop and Vim/laptop.
preavy | 13 years ago | on: Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs
BBC Programme pages with embedded iPlayer change the title of the page to contain a ▶ (play symbol) when the content is playing.
E.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qrn4y
Perhaps this is common but I hadn't seen it until recently.
EDIT: wanted to add that this means you can see that the page is 'playing', but it doesn't work if you pin the tab in Chrome.
preavy | 13 years ago | on: From Imperative to Functional: how to make the leap
I have a possible correction. Might dbl-all not be better named sqr-all? Thanks for the article by the way.
preavy | 13 years ago | on: Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview
In Chrome I'm used to being able to right-click on part of the page and go straight into Inspect Element. IE 10 still doesn't have that. As far as I can see, there's no autocomplete in the console.
I would also really miss one or two extensions, and bookmark sync across machines. So I don't think IE 10 is a contender for my main browser. Very taken with the text rendering though.
preavy | 13 years ago | on: Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview
On one aspect, font rendering, they have overtaken Firefox and Chrome. HN for example is way more readable on IE10.
preavy | 13 years ago | on: Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview
After using it for a few minutes on W7, it feels at least as snappy as my normal browser, Chrome. More surprising for me is that the font rendering looks better than Chrome. Hmmm.
preavy | 13 years ago | on: Why Google Chrome on iOS stands a chance
Not only does Chrome on iOS sync bookmarks, but it allows you to see what tabs are open on Chrome on all your other devices and what tabs were last open on devices which are currently switched off.
preavy | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc
I would miss caps lock. As soon as I see >2 upper-case letters in a row, I use it. I don't know how people bother to type long acronyms and other words in caps without it.
preavy | 14 years ago | on: Sinclair's ZX Spectrum turns 30
Since my dad had built a ZX81 from kit, we were on the Sinclair mailing list. I remember reading the promotional leaflet announcing the Spectrum. I could hardly believe what it could do. This leaflet would have been classic Uncle Clive hyperbole. Yet, the reality of this little machine was even more magical.
preavy | 14 years ago | on: Dear "Landlord"
Posterous took investment not only from venture capital, but also from users who believed and trusted that the service would find a way to make money and stick around. It hasn't repaid that investment. This feels like a turning point to me as I have no incentive to start investing as a user with the next hot startup that comes along.
preavy | 14 years ago | on: Kevin Fox on recent Google UX changes: from strange-to-me to just-plain-crazy
I was more annoyed by the little head to the left of the tabs in Chrome which indicates the current profile. I don't use profiles. But I've just discovered that the head goes away if you delete the sample profiles that they created when they added the feature. Duh.
preavy | 14 years ago | on: Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry
The story is on the front page of this morning's Financial Times (UK edition): http://www.politicshome.com/timthumb.php?w=450&src=%2Fim...
Story here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9aac5f80-b924-11e0-bd87-00144feabd...
preavy | 15 years ago | on: "Uh-oh. I didn't know conversation had rules."
"I HAVE observed few obvious subjects to have been so seldom, or, at least, so slightly handled as this; and, indeed, I know few so difficult to be treated as it ought, nor yet upon which there seemeth so much to be said." - Jonathan Swift, Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation.
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