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mrtimukon Computer codes that transformed science

Exactly. The title sounds like CPU instructions; but the article reads as "pieces of software".

mrtimukon Colibri: A Browser Without Tabs

It does - long tap a link and you can open in a new tab.

mrtimukon Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?

In FAQ: "Why does Google Books only provide feedback on 5 tokens or less?"

You mean "..feedback only for 5 tokens or FEWER?" Use your app! ;) //runs away

mrtimukon The Problem with Mobile Phones

I'm surprised A-GPS didn't get a mention. There must be data leaked when your phone uses MSA to obtain higher resolution for the rough GPS location that it has. (less so with MSB)

mrtimukon Show HN: Treev – Search Bar for Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and Trello (Chrome)

Looks good. Could you make sure all your requests go over TLS please? The javascript console has pages of mixed content warnings.

mrtimukon Wire – Modern Communications Network

..and please let there be decent keyboard shortcuts (I'm looking at you, Skype)

mrtimukon Show HN: Codementor Office Hours

Are the "8 spaces" just for participants in the Q&A? Ie: can I just watch without signing up and 'participating'?

mrtimukon Ask HN: Personal Server Recommendations

I use OVH and Ubiquity for dev'ing; with servers in Europe and the US. Both very cheap and cheerful; my aim is to sync/load balance. Just looked at Cloudatcost - sounds great, I'll have to get one of those too!

I don't know about storage.

mrtimukon PostgreSQL partitioning explained

Could you use a check constraint of FALSE on the parent table to prevent rows from being erroneously inserted there instead of the actual partition tables?

mrtimukon Microsoft Office Online

Someone just skyped me and the office.com tab is now flashing with their name in my browser. I'm not sure how to acknowledge the notification or read the message - any ideas?

mrtimukon Ask HN: What would Excel's formula language look like if you invented it today?

I think Excel language is great: It's fantastic that so many people in the world are unwittingly gaining experience in using a pure functional language, and its conciseness really lends itself to writing in relatively small cells. There are no side effects, it's hard to shoot yourself in the foot.

I do find myself writing fold-like functions by creating a column to hold the accumulator; whereas it might be nice to have that syntax built-in.

It's an intuitive functional language. Well played.