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roopeshv··on Mypy 0.900 Released
FTA: For security reasons, the suggested stubs are limited to only a small subset of manually selected packages that have been verified by the typeshed team. These packages include only stub files and no executable code.
roopeshv··on Losing faith in UX
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/18539?co=GENIE.Platfo...

Get the coordinates of a place

    On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
    Touch and hold an area of the map that isn't labeled. You'll see a red pin appear.
    You'll see the coordinates in the search box at the top.
roopeshv··on Metaprogramming in ES6: Symbols and why they're awesome
url doesn't work (Forbidden, You do not have permission to access the requested address (URL)).

In any case, I think the book parent is referring to: http://www.amazon.com/Common-LISP-Introduction-Computation-E...

roopeshv··on My Struggle with the Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary
Read all that and I still have no clue what the author is making now.
roopeshv··on Ask HN: What are the most useful Firefox addons?
ublock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

pentadactyl http://5digits.org/nightlies

greasemonkey http://www.greasespot.net/

pentadactyl has a bit of learning curve to use it well. But after having using it for many years, it is the only addon that is keeping me away from chrome. No other vim style addon for chrome or firefox has come close, for me.

roopeshv··on RadioShack store closures
pdf from radioshack: http://radioshackcorporation.com/pdfs/RS-Store-Closure-List_...
roopeshv··on Show HN: It's Thyme - for cheaper, faster, better timetracking.
yes, it's the easiest way if no one else is doing the same thing.

But if there are a bunch of websites like these, which do the same thing and no one ever receives as no communication any time soon, no one's going to believe this has better chances than other.

At which point it's just a pain in the neck to signup for these.

roopeshv··on Vimium - the hacker's browser
if you like vimium, you should be swooning over what pentadactyl can do
roopeshv··on An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow
can someone verify user id davidsegal?
roopeshv··on Crowdsourced Censorship: The irony of HN
since the author himself has asked for downvoting/flagging, please consider doing it.
roopeshv··on Can you walk on water? (Non-Newtonian fluid pool) [video]
corn starch + water. it's simple physics
roopeshv··on HN needs categories
you need categories.
roopeshv··on What I Didn't Say
you should see his current tweets
roopeshv··on PG ValleyWag Article: why not on front page of Hacker News?
c) there is flamewar detector on HN

and the correct option is c)

roopeshv··on Ask HN: What Linux distribution do you use?
debian stable
roopeshv··on Why Pushing People to Code Will Widen the Gap Between Rich and Poor
adding to your point, i can actually make a point "teach kids finance so they earn more and can pay someone to do programming for them", actually more useful in real life. actually let's extend it and say "teach kids finance"
roopeshv··on What happened to sublimetext?
may be you are looking for sublime text 3 http://www.sublimetext.com/3

If that's not your issue, please state clearly what your issue is. Not many people here are clairvoyant.

roopeshv··on Is This What It’s Like For Women At Every Conference?
> Just like the Supreme Court should be representative, and Congress should be representative.

in that case people who have not studied law would be on supreme court bench along with people who did. and people who have not won the election would be representing people with people who have won the election.

> that you can hire X without sacrificing quality, because there are thousands of eminently qualified candidates.

generalizing women with X above, implies there are equal number of qualified people in all groups, no matter whatever the ratio of the groups are.

roopeshv··on Why You Shouldn’t Use Ergonomic Keyboards
i don't get how "Contoured and perpendicular keyboards make you tilt your fingers (need photo), hands, and forearms, which throws them off balance,". I use one. My hands are more relaxed with this keyboard.
roopeshv··on To my daughter's high school programming teacher
high school students taking CS class != programmers. I would have thought person talking about logic would be more logical.
roopeshv··on Show HN: BroEats – A collection of Bro food
ohh yeahh, just like 'girls who code' means boys will never code. shut up.
roopeshv··on Ask HN: How do I deal with forearm tightness in my mousing hand?
I can't give you any advice but I can tell you how my setup changed my wrist and elbow pain

This is the current setup I have; (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e7NziCicKmw/UipPp8ZC4qI/A...)

Freestyle2 keyboard with ascent setup. Basically a vertical keyboard, with a distance of 36cm between the two splits (about my width)

regular mouse. (always thought a vertical mouse would be good, but I don't want to shell out $100 for that)

distance between my hand: 6cm, at most.

This seems to work for me and has taken lot of pain away from my wrists and elbows

I switch between standing desk and sitting on a chair. My wrists are never twisted and that seems to have had the most effect. My typing speed never took a hit (probably because I touch type)

Also the biggest thing for me is I use a lot less mouse in anycase because I do most of the stuff with keyboard shortcuts. Pentadactyl for firefox is a lot more useful because I can pretty much avoid using the mouse even when I'm browsing the web.

Emacs is a little problematic but I remapped the ctrl key to caps lock and that took out half the issues

So, even when I use the mouse (very rarely) I don't have to reach out a big distance, it's at most 6cms away.

Also get a mechanical keyboard, or any keyboard which will give you tactile feedback of keys being registered. Also which require lot less force to actuate the keys (cherry mx brown, blue, clear keys or some topre switches)

I also got a kbt pure keyboard (a 60% keyboard), so even with that the travel between the jkl; row and mouse is short.

roopeshv··on Teach, Don't Tell
I think this is a wonderful class for someone starting out and a good outline for people who want to get into practice of doing systematic design. https://class.coursera.org/programdesign-001/class
roopeshv··on Starving, Thirsty People With Malaria To Finally Get Internet
damn, same thing happened when they sent that rocket to moon. why do they do all these stuff when there are immediate problems people are facing?

/channeling kurtybot

roopeshv··on Vim powered browsing with Firefox
I use pentadactyl (fork of vimperator). How different is it from pentadactyl?
roopeshv··on Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns
and the flipside is it's unfair to those who want to earn skills even if it means they don't get paid.
roopeshv··on An Open Letter to David Cameron and the IOC
probably because it's too political and not of interest to most of people on hn; even if it was, still mostly political.
roopeshv··on EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5
Here's a radical idea: If you don't want DRM on your website, don't put DRM on your website.

They are not making anyone use DRM against their will.

roopeshv··on Google Boss: We Follow The Law On Tax
https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4U2mpZ6hazU I 'll leave it here again. do no evil is not don't be evil
roopeshv··on Google Boss: We Follow The Law On Tax
let me introduce you to: https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4U2mpZ6hazU

don't be evil is not the same as do no evil

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