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Engineering student who enjoys Science Fiction and computers.

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bugs··on Puppy (or, details on Joel Spolsky's retirement from blogging)
I don't really know all that much about Joel but huskies can behave pretty well indoors with supervision as long as those guidelines are met (exercise and training) but if the apartment is small the exercise is going to have to make up for it in time and amount.

I have had huskies that could and would run for hours on end with no sign of slowing (as they should be able to) and currently have a husky akita mix that takes full reign of five acres.

bugs··on Puppy (or, details on Joel Spolsky's retirement from blogging)
In regards to huskies there are a few important things:

- they need a lot of exercise everyday (like a few hours)

- they need training (not good couch potato dogs)

- they need high and secure fencing (many will try to escape if left alone and to their own devices and they are master escape artists)

bugs··on Happy Pi Day
I read that just now and just makes me think how often I would have to use pi/2. (I'm in mechanical engineering.)
bugs··on Been stuck for 3months.. what would you do?
If you're not passionate about it you're not going to get anything done so you need to "man up" one way or the other (ditch or push). Really think about what you want, if you want this project to get done go at it full spin otherwise leave it and take on an easier or more passionate undertaking.
bugs··on California Prius Update: Wear pattern on brakes raises doubt
But isn't shifting into neutral common taught and common knowledge I know my driving instructor, videos, and both my mother and father told me this when I was learning to drive.
bugs··on Poll on Hacker News Brand Awareness
You probably just gaze through the headlines about it because to be honest Duck Duck Go isn't very eye grabbing, but there are plenty of articles about it and most of the duck duck go blog postings seem to make it to the front page and there are plenty of comments about it.
bugs··on Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal
Apple is really starting to subscribe to the competition is bad for business standpoint and it really is starting to get annoying.

You can see that apple really wants to be the smartphone distributor but they really can only do that two ways: create a cheaper phone or remove the cheaper competing phones from competition

For me I put my support into google I have a droid and like it very much and the iphone on the other hand was not meant for me but this fueding between apple and the tech world makes me not want to support apple.

bugs··on IPad thoughts from Ben Fry (creator of Processing)
My favorite criticism of the ipad came from a morning show host who is somewhat tech savvy was asked by his co-host if he wanted one he responded:

"I already have one it is called an iphone."

bugs··on XeTeX: A modern LaTeX with proper OpenType and Unicode support
They should and mactex should basically be the same as texlive as I believe that is what it is created from, if someone wants a gui for the mac I believe http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ is popular
bugs··on Trash Track
I would think there were cheaper options with less sensitivity using something you could order at sparkfun[1].

[1] http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?c=4

bugs··on XeTeX: A modern LaTeX with proper OpenType and Unicode support
Did you try mactex?

http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/

bugs··on Rackspace passwords are visible to customer service
You could use a password scheme for sites you don't really care much about and stronger separate passwords for important and often used sites.

I do this and it works out well and if you use the important sites enough you will and do remember your strong passwords but for the ones you don't you always can reset your password by email which isn't that inconvenient if you think about how often you are accessing the website that you cannot remember your password.

bugs··on Why most companies don’t develop software for Linux
Matlab and Mathematica seem to do pretty well at installing universally (though 64bit can cause some issues).

I think the real reason is there isn't much benefit for making software for linux when the paying userbase for windows or even mac is so much higher. This is why you really only see educational and/or research based software on linux; hopefully if linux starts to get really big we will see this change.

bugs··on How not to write an email opt-out page
Personally I think an opt out page should have an are you sure you want to opt out incase the person accidentally unsubscribed. But yes it should be an easy yes or no button.
bugs··on Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner
Do watch it again as the movie is rather different but good nonetheless. But I must say the book is far better and up on my list of favorites.
bugs··on Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map
I think it was found that people were directly connected or the ip address was forwarded.
bugs··on How to prevent Cylons from taking over your data (or how Zumodrive does it)
NOT RELEVANT TO DISCUSSION:

Here's something for all you people who run blogs for your app or business or something.

Please LINK to your actual app/business/something so I can click my way there.

bugs··on Answer six questions, and see how you affect the climate
I'm very confused by the other section and see no explanation anywhere but it takes up 75% of my pie chart :/

Edit: Even if everything is set at zero everyone still raises the earth by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

If this site wants to educate people they need to give out more information but as of now it looks like they are just gathering data and making a silly pie chart and map.

bugs··on Planned features for Emacs 24
To be honest elpa isn't all that useful right now to get all your emacs plugins and I'm sure if a package manager came out that was integrated into emacs we would see a much larger use of package management in emacs.
bugs··on Ask HN: what sites should use ssl?
I like ssl for logins and signups and if it is something important or sensitive (like say email) for the whole interaction.
bugs··on Proposal: "{" and "}" to be known as openstache, closestache
Interesting, I'm from the US and I do call () parenthesis but the last two are the same from what I've learned and what other people say (usually in math classes).
bugs··on 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
26% aren't necessarily producing though it could be under 10% and the others just tried it for a day or a week and saw no use.
bugs··on Etherpad, resurrected: typewith.me
This was posted a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013563 I don't know how helpful it is though.
bugs··on This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone.
But it requires flash player :P

I think the real point is that the technology is evolving in modern browsers to new points where someday in the future it will be standard and free unlike flash.

bugs··on Online backup to S3 for the Mac
Most definitely, I for one don't try many new programs without some sort of screenshot (if you do a screencast also put screenshots up as not everyone can always watch a video or wants to watch a video).
bugs··on Valve bringing Steam to Mac
It is more like a well established touch typer switching from qwerty to dvorak, it can happen just takes will to change and a good amount of time.
bugs··on ManPacks.com - a different kind of startup
Your site is really slow for me and quite a few times has thrown up error pages for php though I didn't screenshot them.

edit: here you go http://imgur.com/fFQ4G.png

I might have given it a try if these were available as boxers: http://www.hanes.com/Hanes/Products/Men-Hanes/Men_ShopByCate...

some of us just prefer buttons

bugs··on Sites built using the StackOverflow platform
I'm pretty sure it is because it is in beta and free: http://stackexchange.com/pricing
bugs··on What Is It About Restaurant Websites?
For most your hunch is dead wrong the family member or small budget websites are the ones that look like MSFrontpage and other such website designs.

Flash websites are usually payed for and in good amounts to and they are done by people who don't really understand usability but do know marketability (for themselves) and how to make things look pretty.

bugs··on Ask HN: How Can Ads Not Suck?
Some things to consider for me:

- Don't put ads where content should be, I hate when I'm scrolling and there is an ad where I should be reading (unless it is displayed at the end of an article)

- Put ads in a designated area, and stick to that single area

- Only display relevant ads if your site is about web design I don't want to see ads about belly fat or ebay

- No flash or animated ads, this is so annoying and probably makes me leave sites the most because it is just distracting from both your content and my train of thought

- Don't display too many ads, this is also a major problem and just makes me assume that there is no real content and you just want to make money (news sites seem to do this a lot)

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