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Ask HN: Bicycle hacks?
3 points by ANH 16y ago|1 comments
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by ANH 16y ago
This is technological Aikido, the Japanese martial art that can be roughly translated as "the way of harmonious energy". One of its more well-known practitioners wrote a book called 'Aikido in Everyday Life: Giving In to Get Your Way'. This
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by ANH 16y ago
I'll probably get downvoted, but just a friendly PSA: "successful" does not mean "has lots of money". I might ask the community members what they perceive success to be, if it hasn't been asked already. And if I didn't already have my own d
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by ANH 16y ago
For those interested, an example of the trouble cosmic rays cause the Hubble Space Telescope: http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/mastpreview?mission=hst&#38... Of course, this is cosmic rays hitting the focal plane and not a memory corrupti
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by ANH 16y ago
And there's more to the angle brackets than enclosing typenames. I'm thinking stream operators, for which a shorter angle bracket seems more appropriate. Like the rest, though.
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by ANH 16y ago
Just a warning: the hat-tip link at the end of the blog entry is NSFW.
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by ANH 16y ago
Speak for yourself. I am a programmer, and to me 'random' is a characterization of any variable drawn from a probability distribution, and it need not be uniform . In fact, most of the random time series I generate are produced by drawing
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by ANH 16y ago
Okay, I admit this is the first time I've seen the word 'currying'. I've heard it spoken and thought it was a neologism derived from "courier", but it's apparently named after a man called Haskell: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying?w
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by ANH 16y ago
I'm not sure if it's the book to which the author was referring (he doesn't give any references), but I've found Bicycling Science by David Gordon Wilson [MIT Press] to have a very informative treatment of human power generation. It also
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by ANH 16y ago
This is one reason why idioms and patterns are important. I don't think there are many reasonable C++ coders out there who would override operator-> in such a way as to introduce such ambiguity.
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by ANH 16y ago
Anecdotal, but: My wife was born with limited forward vision in one eye and it has become "lazy" as a result. She always seemed to have a knack for representing physical objects on the 2D plane. She's recently begun spending serious amounts
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by ANH 16y ago
On several occasions, I have seen and heard of RFPs written so specifically as to rule out all but one bidder. The receiver of one of the contracts admitted as much to me; the request was written for him, because the civil servant in contro
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by ANH 16y ago
The analysis as reported didn't include a statement about the environmental impact of a larger spill. Any environmental scientists in the audience?
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by ANH 16y ago
Worth a chuckle, but yes, not really fair.
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by ANH 16y ago
I think the most likely explanation is The Flying Spaghetti Monster is surreptitiously slipping him meatballs when nobody's looking.
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by ANH 17y ago
I'm guessing you're doing self-parody. If not, see Godwin's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by ANH 17y ago
The Administration has also given NASA the go ahead to start reorganizing and reprioritizing Earth science missions in a sane manner. I happen to work on one, and the proposed changes we're seeing at the program level are like a breath of f
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by ANH 17y ago
There's nothing like cycling every day through a cloud of cicadas for a couple of weeks, as I did in Virginia in 2004. Not only are they noisy before mating, but they make a very loud thwack when hitting a bicycle helmet.
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by ANH 17y ago
Why is it a good thing to have hundreds of layouts to choose from? The paradox of choice is real: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
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by ANH 17y ago
Over the past four weeks my Macbook Pro battery's performance declined precipitously, and I think this is the cause. I tended to leave it plugged in whenever I was at my desk, which is most of the time. Got to the point where the MBP wouldn
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by ANH 17y ago
Nice work. How about having all skills that registrants list accessible in the 'Browse by Skill' box? I would expect the 'View All' link to show me all skills people had tagged themselves with, e.g. 'C++', 'Python', etc.
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by ANH 17y ago
Voted this up because I don't recall saying 'yes' to Buzz, yet somehow I'm following people I never wanted to follow, and people are following me who are completely unfamiliar to me. And apparently I've shared some items I "shared" only due
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by ANH 17y ago
Andrew Warner (founder of Mixergy) has a great interviewing style. Should be good.
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In college, my wife was told this sentence by a metaphysics professor. He also used to have acid flashbacks during class.
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I work with the folks who calibrate the data from the instrument (MODIS) that acquired that image. They do good work!
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by ANH 17y ago
Yeah, building a population of contributors is hard, as I'm discovering ( http://payload42.com ). There might be some decent suggestions at http://meta.stackexchange.com where folks are trying to figure out better ways to seed Q&A s
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by ANH 17y ago
I can dig it. The functionality is right there as soon as you arrive. Fun to compare movies I'm familiar with, but also kinda cool to see juxtapositions of movies I have seen with ones I haven't. Suggestions? I dunno, maybe a big fat arrow
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by ANH 17y ago
Causes a human to wonder how these protective stellar bubbles' interactions with the galactic environment affect the development of (possible) life in star systems.
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Interested in space? Help me populate Payload42.com.(payload42.com)
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