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by Adrock 14y ago
No, this was with the default and it persists even after zooming back and forth.
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by Adrock 14y ago
Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...
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Fifty Important Lessons New York City Taught Me(forbes.com)
2 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 14y ago
The thing I think your assumption ignores is that there are infinite things that we encounter on a daily basis that have interesting explanations. Different people, even different "hackers", are going to be attracted to different topics to
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Becoming the Boss(whilefalse.blogspot.com)
5 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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Do We Need Mysticism in Theory?(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
2 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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Going Dynamic on JVM: JRuby vs. Groovy(rubysource.com)
2 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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The Linux Graphics Stack(blog.mecheye.net)
284 points by Adrock 14y ago|38 comments
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Tech companies: Open allocation is your only real option(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
6 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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Why it is no longer a good idea to be in the investment industry [pdf](fooledbyrandomness.com)
3 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 14y ago
Note that this could be caused by a number of things. A couple thoughts: It gives equal weight to submissions and comments. There could be a lot more vim submissions from a handful of contributors, but they may be less likely to get the v
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by Adrock 14y ago
Yes, and for completeness I'd like to point out that this doesn't just apply to the right-hand side of the equation you gave. The "=" is just syntactic sugar to let you do variable assignment using infix notation: In[1]:= FullForm[Hold[a={
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Build Your Own Medieval Catapult(blog.wolfram.com)
3 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 14y ago
The syntax is heavily influenced by M-expressions, which were used for the original version of Lisp in McCarthy's papers [1]. I believe the purity and power of the syntax is a major factor in the stability of the language. I spent the summ
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by Adrock 14y ago
If you're interested in a more rigorous analysis of the problem, I highly recommend reading the paper "How to Count Thumb-Ups and Thumb-Downs: User-Rating based Ranking of Items from an Axiomatic Perspective": http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~del
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A note on null pointers(beust.com)
4 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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Being Right(whilefalse.blogspot.com)
2 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 14y ago
I use it frequently enough that I've aliased "lt" to it. Any other flags people use with it?
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The origin of the name "Posix"(stallman.org)
2 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 14y ago
Maybe he's selling bikes because that's what he believes, instead of the other way around.
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Six languages to master(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
5 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 14y ago
Your comment would be more valuable if you said what about them makes you suspect they are fake.
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by Adrock 14y ago
If you like Anonymous Pro and are obsessive, I have a minor tweak that fixes an issue with the bitmap version of "/": http://1overn.com/2011/02/02/tweaking-my-favorite-programmin... I named the modified version "Nameless Amateur," which w
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by Adrock 14y ago
I love Inconsolata on the printed page and it's my go-to font for code listings in LaTeX, but it wasn't really designed for display. On the screen, I prefer something with nice bitmaps at smaller sizes, like Anonymous Pro.
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by Adrock 14y ago
I included Inconsolata in my programmatic comparison of programming fonts: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis... Consolas vs. Inconsolata: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis... Droid S
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by Adrock 14y ago
It never showed up in the HN RSS feed, either.
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Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
160 points by Adrock 14y ago|19 comments
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Why I Love Code Reviews(code.dblock.org)
3 points by Adrock 14y ago|0 comments
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Letter to the FSF(newartisans.com)
17 points by Adrock 14y ago|12 comments
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by Adrock 14y ago
If you don't mean to be rude, just say that his presentation skills were poor and you couldn't maintain focus. If you do mean to be rude, mock him as you did.

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