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by 1arity 11y ago
There's actually a trestle with a top bar. I got a pair in Dublin last year. Here : https://goo.gl/c8hAoB The pinewood trestle near the top. You can see the adjustable height work table with dowel pins. http:/&#x
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Ask HN: Does anyone else feel insufferable pressure as YCF announcements near?
2 points by 1arity 11y ago|5 comments
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by 1arity 11y ago
pushl INHIBITIONS It did. It's called culture. You just didn't realize all the ways it programmed your biases and perceptions. Why? Because it was so successful. Computer programming, by contrast, is so explicit and obviou
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by 1arity 11y ago
I know this is crazy but I want there to be a service where I can subscribe to a number of websites, and every week I get a printed hardcopy of all the content that I can leaf through. Eco-greenie-ologists be damned, I want my degradable, e
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by 1arity 11y ago
I like the trestles you can get at IKEA and putting a large table top from IKEA on top of them. The trestles look very DIY / workshop / cave like and you can adjust the height. I'm not so tall so if you are more than 6 ft som
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by 1arity 11y ago
I did a market sizing on "programmers" ( not just freelance ) about a year ago, and came up with around 20 million worldwide. If you take the statistic that 40% ( by 2020, or 35% today ) of US workforce is freelance and apply that
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by 1arity 11y ago
See the history as a tree, not as a list, so branch points can be preserved and you can navigate back over everywhere you've already been. A detailed development roadmap. Privileged browser Apps and Extensions working on mobile. C&#x27
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Ask HN: Betting on the number of YC Fellowships
3 points by 1arity 11y ago|5 comments
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by 1arity 11y ago
> Why do this ? Preventative measure. > violate sacred principles Algorithmic blacklisting is a standard of proof. Some others are : Reasonable suspicion Probable cause for arrest Beyond reasonable doubt Any preventative (
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Show HN: PolySearch – search HN and 9 other sites with hotkeys [ chrome canary ](chrome.google.com)
1 points by 1arity 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Methods and guides for engineering a great project name?
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by 1arity 11y ago
is your goal to contribute to the effort or get mega rich by birthing general intelligence? if it's the former, work anywhere you feel you are making an impact. if it's the latter, work in secret until you have the money to protec
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by 1arity 11y ago
if you dont want to incent them to work as maintainers, make it clear the project is one off, and calibrate a portion of the pay on how maintainable the code is. if you assess maintainability when you see the code, make what you pay them de
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by 1arity 11y ago
it would be cool to have new CompoundExpression( "x^2 - xy + 5" ) or even new PolishSquarefree("+")("+")("^")("x")(2)("-xy")(5) or even new Polish("+")(
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US Admits It Uses Predictions to Blacklist Flyers(wired.com)
4 points by 1arity 11y ago|3 comments
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by 1arity 11y ago
Hardware : much better batteries, much lower power processors, devices that are just like plates of glass, featureless and see through. Personal mobility devices ( electric skateboards ), exoskeletons for manual work. Robotic helpers in nex
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by 1arity 11y ago
Separate the negative or positive aspect of a piece of feedback ( its polarity ) from its content. Any feedback that is content-free ( purely positive or negative ) gives you no inspiration for an opportunity to create an improvement. Any f
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Show HN: Symbol Quote API(nextquote.appspot.com)
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by 1arity 11y ago
> I believe if you were correct then the joke would not be funny. if the joke were not funny it would not have been upvoted. if it had not been upvoted it would not now be at the top. because it is now at the top, it had to have been fun
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by 1arity 11y ago
On the plans page the copy is pretty clear, except for "come with a 30 day trial, could be unset anytime" probably works to say "free trial" and "cancelled" at any time, to match common usage if that's wha
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by 1arity 11y ago
Maybe do the Alphabet thing and subsume them all under a parent project name! A is for Algebra :) ( Whiteboard ? A place to do math, obviously, and you did say you go to it when bored of other projects. )
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by 1arity 11y ago
the API is really clear and aesthetic. the whole work seems self contained. it is just awesome. im excited to think about an addition for matrices and combinatorics and calculus as well. this deserves to become like a Magma for js. unlike q
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by 1arity 11y ago
Stick with Murakami, he's pretty much absorbed the entire Western canon and now left us with his charming "shuffling" of it. Hopefully you also read Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball 1973. They were his first two and recently re
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by 1arity 11y ago
Perhaps it is already complete. Inspiration: A manager went to the Master Programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the Master: "How long will it take to design this system if I assign
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by 1arity 11y ago
Thank you, it is done.
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by 1arity 11y ago
Version 4 UUIDs. [ being those with bits 48-52 set to 0100 and bits 64-66 set to 10 ]. This uses python 2.7's os.urandom ( on GAE ). Change /16 to /64 to get a padded base64 encoded GUID/UUID. In the seemingly unlikely e
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Show HN: GUID API(nextguid.appspot.com)
1 points by 1arity 11y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: The biggest shift in tech was a few days ago, what does it really mean?
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by 1arity 11y ago
This post is now at number 14 on the Ask Page. This comment will be at number 24 on this post. No one will ever know it is here.
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by 1arity 11y ago
I use: vim on Darwin. javascript es6. chrome canary chromestatus.com chrome apps apis. gae managed vm docker gce python brain

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