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New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Careless People"

CrystalCuckoo — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 02:09:19 +0000

The author of the post tries to use this as an example of Kaplan being an idiot but (having read the books) struck me as a rare case of him being the only sane man in the room - Facebook pivoting from "we have to give free internet to refugees" to "we have to sell it" smacks of broader leadership not considering the wider context.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub"

CrystalCuckoo — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:19:36 +0000

Enabling/disabling systemd services is done via managing symlinks. Unfortunately, when disabling a service in systemd, it follows and remove symlinks which can remove your symlinked service files.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Google Internal Comics"

CrystalCuckoo — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 15:20:31 +0000

There are arrows on each side of the comic. They're transparent, but they're there.

What do the numbers in a man page mean?

CrystalCuckoo — Sun, 30 May 2021 14:57:30 +0000

Article URL: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3586/what-do-the-numbers-in-a-man-page-mean

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27333698

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science"

CrystalCuckoo — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:55:27 +0000

> > Shitty sexist comments on a daily basis. A real toxic work environment

> That's also a price of equality, sometimes you just eat shit at a certain job.

You can't be serious. Not only is sexism the opposite of your supposed equality, it should never be tolerated in the workplace.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake"

CrystalCuckoo — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:51:25 +0000

This is the company that bragged about having 18,000 classes for their iOS app [1] and having to patch the Dalvik Virtual Machine to support new features in their Android app [2]; they are not infallible.

[1] http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Spacemacs 0.105.0 released"

CrystalCuckoo — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:56:13 +0000

Probably modal editing and plugins that aren't constrained by Vimscript.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "How I develop with Nix"

CrystalCuckoo — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 06:43:37 +0000

I love Nix, but I wish there were a way to easily install packages without having sudo access. Programs like pip only need a '--user' flag, while Nix requires you to use chroot magic[1] to be able to install packages in your home directory.

[1] https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_(on_anothe...

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Steam Discovery Update"

CrystalCuckoo — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:36:22 +0000

A long-overdue update, IMO. With Greenlight Steam has been cluttered with far too many games for the average user to delve into and gauge their worth.

I am intrigued by displaying the overall rating (even if it is overwhelmingly negative) next to the title on the deal pages; at those prices people are willing to take a chance on less polished titles, and in these showing the community's opinion will only serve to hinder purchases. As a consumer, however, I am indifferent as I (and I hope everyone else) read reviews before making a purchase.

The addition of having curators is an interesting development. Not having to read reviews but instead click a curator's page to see what is worth playing will give enormous power to these personalities which will be shifted away from the companies that produce them; no longer can publishers withhold games on launch since diehard fans of say, Totalbiscuit, may only purchase games with his seal of approval. However, these curators may lose hits on their original videos (like the aforementioned "WTF is...?" series) as it is so much easier to scroll through a list than pay attention to a video for thirty minutes.

EDIT: One UI complaint, though: when hovering over a game, a bubble with information (with user tags) shows up. It would be great if I could click these tags (as well as everything else displayed) and go to the related page.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Vim Plug – A minimalist Vim plugin manager"

CrystalCuckoo — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:20:35 +0000

Don't forget neobundle [1], which I find more useful than either as it allows loading for specific filetypes and asynchronous plugin installation.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice"

CrystalCuckoo — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:20:12 +0000

I had a similar experience with Chrome (or rather, Chromium) on my netbook. It consumed so much memory with normal usage that I had to switch to Midori[1] so I could do other things while browsing.

[1] http://midori-browser.org/

Kim Dotcom faces massive lawsuit by big-name Hollywood studios

CrystalCuckoo — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:36:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/kim-dotcom-faces-massive-lawsuit-by-big-name-hollywood-studios

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551449

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why should you use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript?

CrystalCuckoo — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:58:11 +0000

Article URL: http://maori.geek.nz/post/why_should_you_use_coffeescript_instead_of_javascript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550989

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Why Warren Buffett doesn't invest in technology – or Bitcoin

CrystalCuckoo — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:45:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-buffett-doesnt-invest-in-technology-2014-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7479725

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

RPCS3: An open-source PlayStation 3 emulator for Windows written in C++

CrystalCuckoo — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:15:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DHrpcs3/rpcs3/wiki/FAQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457764

Points: 164

# Comments: 48

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "SQLite now supports recursive CTEs"

CrystalCuckoo — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:20:30 +0000

Fantastic news! My major gripe with SQLite was that it didn't support recursion (and subsequently had to move to a different database despite filling all of my other requirements); I'm glad to see this is no longer the case.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary"

CrystalCuckoo — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:24:56 +0000

Piracy doesn't offer automatic updates, cloud saves, (usually) multiplayer, support when the game breaks, and a guarantee of not containing malware. I'm obviously using Steam as an example here, given the context.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "`three = 1` in the linux sourcecode"

CrystalCuckoo — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:50:53 +0000

Not really, the problem lies in its naming. Comments that explain what the variables represent signify that they should have been better named in the first place to avoid any confusion.

New comment by CrystalCuckoo in "Humble Indie Bundle 9 released"

CrystalCuckoo — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:57:58 +0000

Are you talking about the Special Edition DLC? It's already out: http://store.steampowered.com/app/239570/

Hopefully it will be included in the bundle as the week progresses.