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I don't know about any HN groups or what not, but reddit has http://www.reddit.com/r/SteamFriend if you're in need of more people.

But isn't that exactly the thing about major releases? That compatibility may be broken. See also http://semver.org/

This argument doesn't fly when you are only taught to write in cursive, as is the case everywhere here in Belgium (and surrounding countries?), as far as I am aware. It still got overused here as well. I remember one teacher in highschool claiming Comic Sans was better (more readable) for people with dyslexia. I never checked that out, but I don't attribute much truth to it.

jgraham explains it in this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5307583

Most likely has to do with not having the font you are expecting (Myriad Pro), as well as different defaults in size in browsers. My sans-serif font that you are falling back to is Droid Sans at 15 font size. The fixed width of the svg you are working with is making the whole area you are trying to fit things in to be too small.

In short: Lack of responsive web design

Eeh, yes and no. I think their ( = Open Source Initiative) main reason for doing so is to give them the right to pursue sites/companies that would use their logo while not actually being open source in some sort of attempt to gain goodwill with the people that would care about it.

You are quite free (http://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines) to use their logo in a lot of cases without the need to contact them at all.

It is not like your average open source advocates are standing on fences wanting the right to put an "endorsed by apple/google/amazon/..." logo on their sites.

It is built in in stable (at least it seems to be in the stable version in the Arch repos), you just have to enable it in about:config. If I remember correctly 'browser.preferences.inContent' has to be set to true and 'pdfjs.disabled' has to be set to false.

He had a minor role (one of the drinkers) in the 5th episode of season 2 and was the villain (German prince) in the 6th episode of season 2.

While the way you express yourself is a bit... silly, I do agree with the idea behind your statement.

Yes, that's mentioned in the first paragraph of the article.

Well, it _does_. The second part is implied to refer to a different incarnation of it. Eg the original use "Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!" ("The king is dead, long live the king") refers to the previous king dying and a new one ascending the throne.

As such, I believe the second part of the title refers to an adapting ("new") form of IRC. As mentioned in the article, projects to add video chat support and the likes. The old IRC is dead (well, dying at least by the looks of it), a new adapted version is the future. [According to the article]

In Belgium, that redirects me to http://baiedespirates.be/, which in turn is a "StopPage"

> You have been redirected to this stop page because the website you are trying to visit offers content that is considered illegal according to Belgian legislation. If you are the owner or administrator of this website and you consider to be wrongly redirected, you can report this by fax at +32(0)2/733.56.16.

I can't speak in grandparent's name, but as a Belgian doing the same thing my main reasons are:

* Consistency 1. Most sites I spend my time on have English content. Same goes for programming, keywords are English, comments end up being English, etc.

* Consistency 2. Not every program I use has a (complete) Dutch version.

* Looks. Not everyone out there seems to take into account different languages when designing. Some English things cannot be said as shortly in Dutch without sounding silly (this works both ways). So pieces of the UI will look either overcrowded or overly empty. (Or the text sounds so odd because it got artificially shortened to fit)

* Convenience 1. When looking up an explanation/details about some programs you are using, the info will almost always be in English. It is easier to use the same language to find back what you need.

* Convenience 2. When reporting problems/bugs/finding out info about it, it is easier to use the English term used to find the info I need.

Those are the main things coming to mind. It's not like I've ever had real trouble understanding English anyway, so it's not a bother to put everything in English.

Keeping all that in mind, I do like my dates/times/... like I am used to them. Weeks start on Monday, times are in 24h clock, 16 Nov instead of Nov 16, 16/11/2012 instead of 11/16/2012, ...

This would be the article (blog post) in question: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

> Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer.

https://www.dropbox.com/about

It's been a year actually, but ye I imagine that had something to do with it as well.

Well it is experimental for a reason.

As quoted from the bug report

> The webkit-font-smoothing css property is, contrary to the summary, still working. It is still respected, as no lcd font smoothing is being applied. However, the bug where it also affected the weight of the text as a side effect has been fixed.

Though it's worth noting they are looking into whether the purpose (and thus the function) of this particular property should be adjusted.

The sequence is enough, you just keep going till your fractions (multiplied by 4) do not change 10^-5 any more. You do not need the actual value of pi.

As soon as 4 * 1/(2n+1) < 0.00001, then you can stop looping. The sequence is the algorithm.

This is the case, this particular news has been reported and HN frontpaged when it came in Aurora and when it came in Beta, iirc.

It was an add-on ("Tilt" iirc) before that too.

I was assuming this guy was some sort of troll, though the website seems too elaborate (and horrible). I think he's actually being serious...

This one made me chuckle

> Ideally, ALL browsers SHOULD support ALL extensions,

I don't think he quite gets it.

Why the "..." ? Am I missing something?

Because, as mentioned in the article, there was more interesting information to be found in the mailing list, which Phoronix combined into their blog post.

> People prefer Bing results to Google's results when they are served in Google's template.

Source? Having compared Bing's results to Google's from time to time, Bing's seem much less relevant to the search term I'm using.

I've had my Acer Aspire 5670 since 2007 now, still serves me nicely.

For the LTS versions, there are "service packs" of sorts. Indicated by the last number. eg later this year you will see 12.04.1

> Movies weren't even dubbed (blasphemy!)

We subtitle everything, it's quite handy. I learned a great part of my English by watching English language shows with Dutch subtitles.

German and French titles: yes definitely. Portuguese (like my aforementioned Cidade de Deus)? No, safe some exceptions nobody knows beforehand what it means. Guess we're just used to finding it out afterwards, eg an article about the film could mention a translation in the body.

Off the off topic: why is the English world so intent on translating everything? (Much like the French world I guess)

In the Dutch speaking part of Belgium we try to refer to most movies in their original language (Das Leben Der Anderen, Cidade De Deus, ...), though we do seem to have trouble with Asian titles where we for some obscure reason default to using the English title. Edit: We do translate children's movies.

For those wondering http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577205 (29 days ago)

Didn't get much attention back then. (+8 at time of writing)