DerekL

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by DerekL 5y ago
The title needs (2000).
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by DerekL 5y ago
Paid , not payed .
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by DerekL 5y ago
No, much of Kroger is not unionized. This is about The Kroger Company, which owns many chains besides Kroger. Remember, the title says “Kroger-Owned Grocery Stores”, and the first paragraph mentions Fred Meyer.
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by DerekL 5y ago
The title should have (1982), because that's when the article was first published.
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by DerekL 5y ago
By the way, David Crane and others are making Atari 2600 games again! https://adgm.us/portal/index.html
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by DerekL 5y ago
I don't think that matters. It sounds like Google Stream is a service for businesses, not a consumer product.
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by DerekL 5y ago
By the way, most Atari 8-bits had BASIC built-in, but the earliest machines, the 400, 800 and 1200XL, did not.
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by DerekL 5y ago
I think you mean “Arrival”. “The Arrival” is a 1996 film starring Charlie Sheen, which is also about aliens coming to earth.
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by DerekL 5y ago
The NYT Crossword isn't dominant in its industry, unless you define their industry to be ridiculously small. I'd say their industry is video games, or maybe just puzzle video games. For instance, this article, https://w
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by DerekL 5y ago
Note Sega is divesting from arcades (the places of business), but they still make machines that go into arcades.
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by DerekL 5y ago
The car tried to hit the barrier. The driver had to hit the brake pedal.
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by DerekL 5y ago
Also, Pink Floyd released two albums in 1969, and they sold well, but it was nothing like the success they had starting in 1973 with The Dark Side of the Moon .
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by DerekL 5y ago
Actual title is “How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?”. Also, it's from 2016.
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by DerekL 5y ago
Title should say “loses”, not “looses”.
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by DerekL 5y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728594
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by DerekL 5y ago
> Be Inc fell apart and sold to 3Com, which sold to HP eventually and there it was neglected and mothballed. No. 3Com spun off Palm in 2000. Palm bought Be in 2001. Palm then spun off its software division as PalmSource, which was later
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by DerekL 5y ago
Interesting! I tried to write an Ogre game for my high school programming class in 1987. It was in Pascal, building and running on a TRS-80 Model 3. But it didn't have time to finish the display and interface, and I didn't even ge
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by DerekL 5y ago
The first paragraph: > When the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, stranding the USA without access to orbit, it took a retirement tour around the country. As it was carted from city to city the images played out nation-wide in funereal Amer
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by DerekL 5y ago
That's pretty common, actually. For instance, Malt-O-Meal Tootie Fruities. https://www.maltomeal.com/products/tootie-fruities/ Also, both Kellogg's and Post make shredded wheat and Raisin Bran.
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by DerekL 5y ago
The actual title is “Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)”. It seems like HN believes that the word why is clickbait, even though removing it changes the meaning of the title.
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by DerekL 5y ago
No, it seems like it was always “Visa”. See the scanned advertisement https://clickamericana.com/topics/money-work/visa-card-debut... . I'm just talking about the name in text. The logo has always been in all
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by DerekL 5y ago
The title uses the spelling “VISA”. It's actually “Visa”, not all-caps.
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by DerekL 5y ago
According to https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21102078-flint-settl... , linked in the article, Judith E. Levy is the judge in the case. The article should have explained that.
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by DerekL 5y ago
* copyrighted
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by DerekL 5y ago
> Is SETI really the top research priority? The article talks about searching for life, not intelligence.
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by DerekL 5y ago
TIL there's a spyware company called Candiru. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(spyware_company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)
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by DerekL 5y ago
That sounds like one of the bits performed by Mummenschanz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Mummenschanz
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by DerekL 5y ago
Who's Buffet?
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by DerekL 5y ago
That's probably because they wanted to use juxtaposition for multiplication. Otherwise, “f(x)” could mean either f applied to x or f times x in parentheses.
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by DerekL 5y ago
No, Blue Origin really does go into space. But it's good to point out the huge difference between going to space and staying there.

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