BasDirks

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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   Don't know why you were downvoted, it's a decent point you make. There are people who dedicated their entire life to an idea or ideal, and succeed _that_ way. Perhaps it's useful to distinguish between "entrepreneurial" success-stories and
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   Also a great example of how abuse of the word has made "literally" a very vague term!
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   It does not support our languages. Is there a Ruby module with no C extension? A C# library? Lua? What about that really cool language coming out next week? What about C? Exactly. I love having JSON libraries at my disposal no matter whet
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   This does not tickle my intellectual curiosity. The issue is a very important one, but HackerNews isn't god_damn Oprah. Bring on the downvotes.
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   The way he routinely ties the knot to the bag his kid's in, and then calmly takes off (around the 3 minute mark).. I guess one can get used to anything.
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   I don't see how this makes sense. As demonstrated the drivers have a lot of controls that are traditionally pre-set BY the engineers. The engineer is moving into the car, if anything.
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   The article uses "sexy/sexier" FIVE TIMES. I'm no mormon but what's that all about?
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   Yeah it's wonderful until Annoying Facebook Girl [1] and all her girlfriends find out about these awesome features. 1. http://www.quickmeme.com/Annoying-Facebook-Girl/
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   by BasDirks 15y ago

   They hire the best in the valley to come up with this kind of crap so they can patent it? bring on the downvotes, but f *, what a waste of resources.
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Games by Rybka[1] and Houdini[2] have often been amazingly beautiful. 1. http://www.rybkachess.com/ 2. http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    I find the whole affair disgusting. The internet is not the right medium for every aspect of your life.
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    His writing is terribly mediocre, why is this on HN frontpage?
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Self-confidence is beautiful. Modest genius is beautiful. why choose?
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Based on one of the comments below I couldn't help but wonder: Would trying to program an "ever-expanding" text like this yield any new ideas in NLP?
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    "I'm even having more issues debugging HTML+CSS in Chrome than Internet Explorer these days." I want your Internet Explorer. What kind of issues are you running into with Chrome?
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    On a remote olive farm in Italy my hosts needed help with their website. Armed with win95, notepad and a 56k modem, I hacked up their dreamweaver-generated html and css. I can't offer you more than the cliché "everyone has to find out for t
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    I was once depressed. Now I have life by the balls. How? (this is purely anecdotal and should not be taken as advice). Take Meds. It's no solution, but it's the beginning of a solution. Quit school. Go to the Italian country-side a
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    corrected, thanks
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Human (me) translation. All parentheses mine. KPN uses deep packet inspection on mobile internet communications. In a (Q&A) session with investors, KPN has admitted making use of controversial deep packet inspection technologies. By doi
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    I like the fact that CoffeeScript does some magic for me. I know exactly 'what' the magic does, and I don't mind CoffeeScript taking care of it for me.
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    tl;dr: Linus thinks "the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys"
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Agreed, CoffeeScript is much more extensive, and in most cases (from what I can see) prettier. Kaffeine piping seems cute though. Maybe the author could join forces with the CoffeeScript project? Note on CoffeeScript: it took me _one_ .coff
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    I would make the times more readable thus. http://jsfiddle.net/254EV/
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    What kind of startup would that be?
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Tools like this will force web designers to step up their game, because their magical css powers aren't so magical anymore. I welcome the development.
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Am I the only one thinking this is all just smoke and mirrors?
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Pedro Teixeira's nodetuts[1] have been very helpful, things are explained in a very natural way. If the book is as good, this might get my moneys. [1] - http://nodetuts.com/
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    Fairly random note: I played CoD4 (for moneys) for tek9. We (the people winning moneys / dealing headshots) hated CoD4 for the gameplay, CoD2 was much better.
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    It has been worded, formatted and styled with care. Although said content is not new, it isn't wrong either.
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    by BasDirks 15y ago

    "Demographers predict that by 2030, average life expectancy will have climbed past 80" In most European (and a couple of Asian) countries, average life expectancy is already above 80. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators