I like the additional filtering in the experimental interface, for example to switch between "All" and "Hot". I could see that being quite useful. Though the experimental page has too much whitespace for my liking - I can see 5-6 stories on a page vs. 10 or so on the HN style page.
It would be great if it saved my preferences (Sort by, date range) since I usually end up flipping those values to the same thing.
One minor annoyance is "JavaScript" being picked up when I search for "java". Would be nice to have the option to search for whole words.
A very minor annoyance is usernames are treated the same as text in stories. If I search for 'IBM' for example, I'll get all stories submitted by user 'IBM'.
Yes "prefixed" search is enabled by default as-you-type. Just press "Enter", it will disable it. Being able to totally remove the "prefixed" search makes sense however.
Does this work in the background, or do you have to have that app running?
For a while I was using an iOS app called BuzzClock. I liked the feature that it would give a different # of buzzes as you went through the hour. I found this helped reduce the need to check the time when I was heads-down on some work, or give a subtle reminder that I might be lingering too long on something.
But having to keep the app in the foreground ultimately killed it for me.
Waterloo does have a strong Math tradition. But further to that, for a long time the Computer Science degree at Waterloo was a specialization under their Bachelor of Mathematics degree. So you had to fulfill all of the requirements of the Math program and graduated with a "BMath". You were also offered interesting minors like "Combinatorics and Optimization" where you would get deep into Cryptography, Graph Theory and so on.
I can't say how it compares to other schools, but certainly many of my memories of CS at Waterloo were working feverishly through difficult math assignments so I could get back to the lab. ;)
As a car nut I look forward to their videos and rewatch them regularly. They really do a better job of capturing "automotive enthusiasm" than any other series I've seen. They videos have a very positive energy and as a result the comments on these videos are also almost entirely positive - never seen this on YouTube before!
So any removal instructions which don't include clearing out Firefox's certificates are incomplete. This includes Lenovo's published instructions.
[1] - https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/568600661534875648