Hacker News: hernan7

Tony Blair: Dos and don'ts for religion and democracy

hernan7 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:45:29 +0000

Article URL: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/11/my-take-10-dos-and-donts-for-religion-and-democracy/?hpt=hp_c2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3225416

Points: 1

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New comment by hernan7 in "Shapecatcher - draw the unicode character you want"

hernan7 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:35:51 +0000

Couldn't get it to recognize the "look of disapproval" character :-(

New comment by hernan7 in "Show HN: Scroll Reddit"

hernan7 — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:11:49 +0000

Great job. Needs a "pause" button IMO.

New comment by hernan7 in "[dead]"

hernan7 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:59:04 +0000

Very true. I still have a cheap USB hub in translucent plastic from the Imac First Generation era.

New comment by hernan7 in "Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?"

hernan7 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:18:10 +0000

Slow programming languages battle across time: http://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering: http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

New comment by hernan7 in "Serving at the Pleasure of the King"

hernan7 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:05:24 +0000

Back in the 90's they also included a TCP/IP stack into Win95, which used to be a (horrible) 3rd party app on Win3.1.

New comment by hernan7 in "Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)"

hernan7 — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:32:06 +0000

Hi Mike, thanks for your kind offer!

We have an old Windows XP machine that I would like to replace with a newer Windows 7 one. However, my wife is used to the old machine; in particular she has Internet Explorer manage all her auto-complete's and username/passwords for different sites she uses.

I looked around for tools to at least copy the passwords to the new machine but 1) Microsoft says it's not supported 2) the unofficial tools all look super-sketchy.

Any ideas of how to transplant the auto-completes and passwords to a new machine?

New comment by hernan7 in "IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior "

hernan7 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:52:59 +0000

I wouldn't say that the articles' metadata (URL, title, date of download, maybe thumbnail of the 1st page) is downloaded content. It's clearly user-generated, and should be in the "home" of the app IMHO.

The articles themselves, yes, send them to the cache. If the user needs to reclaim the storage used up by the articles, let the OS delete them. Then, when the user needs to read the article again, it will take some time to download. But don't get into an "all articles gone" situation. Just my 2 cents.

New comment by hernan7 in "The last time I saw Steve Jobs"

hernan7 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:43:04 +0000

I can totally believe it, we went with the family once to visit/snoop around the Google campus, but if Eric Schmidt or Larry Page had showed up, I don't think I would have recognized them. (And we use Google products every day.)

New comment by hernan7 in "I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea."

hernan7 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:27:58 +0000

My recommendation is to take your lumps and move on.

Can you convince your parents to support you for a couple of years until you get your high school diploma and start college? Go into some money-making career that they approve of if needed. Once in college, you can start networking and planning your next move.

Just make them feel like you are back to being a good citizen and that you will go back to earn your keep once you have your college degree.

Oh, and tell your so-called "friends" to go pound sand.

New comment by hernan7 in "Missed"

hernan7 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:14:52 +0000

Thanks. I thought it was some Buddhist syllable.

Like the blog post says, "poor design ruins lives"... that silly font already costed me 3 downvotes.

New comment by hernan7 in "Missed"

hernan7 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:50:34 +0000

Please enlighten an uninitiated: what does "mo" mean in the last panel?

New comment by hernan7 in "Netflix reverts from Qwikster split"

hernan7 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:45:23 +0000

Or maybe they underestimated the cost of the loss of customer goodwill the split would cause vs the cost of the "underlying cause".

Ask HN: how to start making "real world" objects?

hernan7 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:51:55 +0000

Hi, I have some ideas for gizmos that I would like to make, but no idea where to start. For example, machining metal, or molding plastic... the properties of different types of plastics... all the problems that come along with working with those pesky atoms.

I'm sure some of the forum members are wicked garage tinkerers -- how did you get started?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084798

Points: 1

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New comment by hernan7 in "Why the iPhone 5 never arrived"

hernan7 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:44:38 +0000

I think you misspelled 'amirite'. Also, yesterday's APPL fall was like 6%. Right on all remaining points.

New comment by hernan7 in "Ask HN: We dreamed, we shipped, we are stuck "

hernan7 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:45:08 +0000

Number 3 looks interesting. Maybe become a cloud-based competitor to VBulletin.

(Make sure that transitioning from the old forum to the new one is as painless as possible, though. Forum members usually hate any changes to their forums.)

New comment by hernan7 in "Ubuntu launches appstore"

hernan7 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:26:35 +0000

You could also try selling the Latin-America version (Spanish only) cheaper than the USA-English version.

New comment by hernan7 in "All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook..."

hernan7 — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:40:29 +0000

    "It's not pretending if they've muted you, you're being ignored."

But does FB tell you when somebody mutes you?

New comment by hernan7 in "CERN press release regarding neutrino experiment"

hernan7 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:07:53 +0000

Do they at any time say how much faster than light are those neutrinos moving? 1% faster? 100 times faster? I couldn't see that info anywhere.

John C. Dvorak: Windows8 should drop the tiles or will fail

hernan7 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:54:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393269,00.asp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3023005

Points: 5

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