DanI-S

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by DanI-S 14y ago
Does it even matter that a portion of the time once stolen away by grinding toil in the fields (for the benefit of kings) is now stolen away by inane cable television (for the benefit of CEOs)? Heart disease is a kinder killer than starvati
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by DanI-S 14y ago
This brings up a sore point, for me. I love to read. At some points in my life I have been able to read two or three books every week. I have spent years of time drifting through the endlessly multiplicating realities of prose. However: sin
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I always liked to think that our perception stays the same - it's just that time is speeding up.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
You could view this as a UX issue. New members don't get enough information from the HN interface to infer how to behave. Now we've got a theory, how can we address it? (a) more recent arrivals don't have as much of whatever quality distin
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by DanI-S 14y ago
That's actually an awesome idea.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I've been wanting to do something like this in the Bay Area - even if on a smaller scale (1 day, no camping, under 50 people). I do a lot of work in the park and would love to spread the fun. Would anyone be interested in helping set it up?
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NASA JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language(everyspec.com)
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I was always told that the thing that makes you irritable and cloudy-minded before eating breakfast in the morning is 'low blood sugar'. Sounds like it's probably just 'being hungry' :)
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Am I the only person who becomes extremely irritable once their blood sugar gets low? I can't imagine fasting for a day - I'd have no friends left by the end of it.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Not to knock Processing, but I don't see how it can be described as 'just as portable' when a WebGL-capable interpreter is already installed on millions of machines worldwide, with zero knowledge required to use it?
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by DanI-S 14y ago
> the exercise of ‘writing the ideal press release’ first, before you even write a line of code That's an interesting idea - Press Driven Development. Has anyone here tried it?
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I think we have to factor in the VAST increases in quality of life that industrialization brings. Increasingly automated car manufacture undoubtedly still involves boring jobs, but it also brought car ownership within the realm of possibili
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by DanI-S 14y ago
But with any luck, the products of fully automated local manufacturing will be so much cheaper that humans won't need to work long hours in monotonous jobs in order to buy them.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
To be fair, that would also be a near-perfect expat description of California.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Why should it be considered morally acceptable by those who vote? When have we had the opportunity to vote on it?
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Wealth Inequality and the Human API(situnayake.tumblr.com)
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by DanI-S 14y ago
It's extremely poor judgement. The article also mentioned filtering content about drugs - since obviously, it's a bad idea to allow the public to educate themselves about the safe use of substances that are encountered on a daily basis in t
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by DanI-S 14y ago
HN likes people who ship.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
A good friend of mine sends out a brief monthly email, summarizing what he's been up to, the movies he's seen and the music he's listened to. It is something I look forward to receiving. There's definitely some merit in the idea.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
That's a really good explanation, and something which I hadn't considered.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I don't think it's as simple as you make it sound. If somebody writes a tool that helps 100 million Chinese people access the unfiltered internet, a percentage of them will be caught and punished in devastating and inhumane ways. Some fract
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by DanI-S 14y ago
> You often see this in, let me cherry pick out of charitability, threads suggesting that the OSS community develop surveillance countermeasures for use by dissidents subject to certifiably evil regimes. > It doesn't really matter w
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by DanI-S 14y ago
If I were asked to make such a device, I would build a flexible mirror whose curve could be adjusted by an array of attached screws. I'd fix said mirror to a car, and adjust the screws until the desired curve was reached. I'd then measure t
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Watching through eclipse glasses, you really do get the sense of Venus hanging there in 3D space, all those miles away. It's pretty humbling.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
That certainly seems to be the case, but I'm not sure that it was the intention.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Speech in conjunction with diagramming is more powerful than either alone. There's a reason most software companies' supply cupboards are stocked with dry-erase markers and notepads. I'd be disappointed if our hypothetical AI was unable to
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Since the dawn of computing, we've seen great increases in programming productivity as we've ramped up our level of abstraction. I'd assume that visual programming is attractive as it appears to be the next rung on this ladder. It may turn
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Perhaps the idea that code can only be read and manipulated by an educated intellectual minority seemed a revoltingly bourgeoisie concept to those in charge at the time.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
That's definitely interesting. Maybe if a random selection of links posted in high volume periods didn't show up until low volume periods, smoothing out the curve?
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by DanI-S 14y ago
To anyone who spends any significant amount of time on here, it is apparent that timing, rather than the quality of the link, decides whether or not something reaches the front page. Is this a feature or a bug?

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