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zalew commented on Boeing #12 flightaware.com/live/flig... · Posted by u/beef3333

jcdavis · 12 years ago

Its a reference to the "12th man", a commonly used phrase to describe Seattle Seahawks fans (Also Texas A&M, but thats another matter) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_%28football%29

zalew · 12 years ago

It's an old common phrase for football fans in general. And by football I mean soccer, I guess american football adapted this term.

zalew commented on Screw your standing desk. How about squatting? bitehype.com/screw-your-s... · Posted by u/freshfey

cLeEOGPw · 12 years ago

Eastern Europeans have been always doing it already http://slavsquat.com/

zalew · 12 years ago

as a Pole it's so obvious for me I didn't realize it was a thing, and reading the article the 1st thing I thought is why they don't do it so.

zalew commented on Down The Rabbit Hole We Go: Mind-Expanding Documentaries diygenius.com/mind-expand... · Posted by u/kaaist

drblast · 12 years ago

Cosmos is wonderful. But I'd mostly rather read to learn, it's faster.

I'm a huge fan of documentaries that aren't mind-expanding and focus on quirky subcultures:

King of Kong - Never cared about professional video gamers, but this film made me care deeply for 90 minutes.

Spellbound - The incredible varied backstories behind the kids in the national spelling bee

Grizzly Man - Don't even know how to describe this one. See Alaska through the eyes of a crazy person.

Monster Camp - About people into live-action roleplaying. The culture clash with the couple on a leisurely stroll through the park that has no idea what's going on around them is one of the all-time great moments in documentaries.

American Movie - Couldn't tell if this was real or Christopher Guest at first. It's real. It's awesome.

zalew · 12 years ago

You will enjoy these then:

Confessions of a Superhero - wannabe actors working on Hollywood streets as costumed superheroes for tips.

The Great Happiness Space - Japanese male prostitutes entertaining girls in pubs. Suprising twist in the end.

Indie Game The Movie, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope - titles say it all. I guess these two are well known around here, like King of Kong you mentioned.

zalew commented on Tortured by the Japanese in WW2, a former POW met his tormentor 50 years later abroadintheyard.com/tortu... · Posted by u/bryanwbh

zalew · 12 years ago

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozmowy_z_katem

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

zalew commented on Ask HN: Let's predict. What's your prediction for 2014? · Posted by u/sideproject

zalew · 12 years ago

The year of Linux desktop.

zalew commented on Spam Comment Generator Script alexking.org/blog/2013/12... · Posted by u/uptown

d0m · 12 years ago

So how come most of the lines don't have a link to their website? I mean most of the lines congratulate the author for their excellent blog post.. Is that really spam?

zalew · 12 years ago

Yes, the comment author links the page in their profile or sig (depending on the platform), posting generic praise comments is a huge chance they won't be deleted.

zalew commented on Pushing code to GitHub as Linus Torvalds jayhuang.org/blog/pushing... · Posted by u/jayhuang

jimmaswell · 12 years ago

Really? In my Linux experience it's a lot more rare for things to 'just work' than on Windows. Windows' homogenous environment contributes to this.

zalew · 12 years ago

If by "things" you mean customer software support then yes, but development environments work consistently and are dead easy to set up. YMMV if you work on MS tech (.net, etc.), I don't. TBH one of my main reasons to move to Linux a few years ago is because I was pissed off by this particular problem (how to do it + ok and now tell me how to do it on windows and why half of what you describe doesn't work).

zalew commented on Pushing code to GitHub as Linus Torvalds jayhuang.org/blog/pushing... · Posted by u/jayhuang

katbyte · 12 years ago

msysgit + tortoise git make it pretty simple, and Visual Studio 2013 has built in git support (however I've not used it very much)

zalew · 12 years ago

I don't use VS, and as it turns out, the crappy console I'm talking about is this msysgit. The lack of a decent consistent terminal is my biggest pain in win7. cmd, powershell, msysgit - they all are total crap and every one works differently. And my Git settings aren't working from Eclipse, basically the only place they work is this git terminal. Sorry, but that's not 'wonderful integration'. On Linux everything just works.

zalew commented on Pushing code to GitHub as Linus Torvalds jayhuang.org/blog/pushing... · Posted by u/jayhuang

MetaCosm · 12 years ago

There are lots of wonderful integrations / applications for windows now. The days of windows being awful with Git are behind us.

Hell of a lot simpler if you don't need ANY branches. Merging is still a goddamn nightmare with SVN.

zalew · 12 years ago

> There are lots of wonderful integrations / applications for windows now. The days of windows being awful with Git are behind us.

Please tell me more, how I can get behind Git being awful on Win7 since I have to use this OS at work (and since I've been on Linux personally for a few years, I have no clue). I have only some crappy git console and my config even doesn't work outside of it. Thank you.