Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
Meanwhile, that user presumably has the impressive track record of 2 days of posting on HN, making him/her a true expert on the HN crowd.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Using Fahrenheit (the degrees column for each city) as a measurement isn't very international .
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by Dewie 12y ago
And Northwest Territories is the richest province per capita, at least according to Wikipedia. (Though with ~40,000 people it won't make for a big overall economy.)
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by Dewie 12y ago
Leveraging the current trend of channelling and fuelling narcissistic tendencies and jealousy on social networks/apps in order to motivate people to get in shape. Effective strategy.
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Ask HN: GitHub journals?
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by Dewie 12y ago
Let's take a concrete example: Say you have a programming language L that has a parser that is implemented in lang. A, and an interpreter implemented in lang. B. Now if you want the interpreter (in B) to interpret the program, you need
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by Dewie 12y ago
Conventional wisdom says that you're not really working out unless you spend 10-25 minutes on warm up, an hour or more on working out, and some stretching to finish off and/or a cool down. That isn't even counting the time to
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I realized that doing a Ph.D. would probably be fruitless. How did I determine this? Well clearly it takes someone going to the best math departments in order to realize that within a hierarchical organizations wherein tenured employee
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That fascination sounds kinda like how many young people where I live relate to the US, though for different reasons.
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I think the points about types are really interesting. It sounds like a worthy project for that alone. Does there exist anything like 'type protocols' across languages? Would it be feasible?
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> It attempts to exploit a facility Shell programmers are very familiar with, but virtually unknown to other programmers - the pipeline. Really? It seems that Unix pipes are the go-to example of what you might call pipeline programming,
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> I think that nice reduction and cancellation is the largest step to a better urban environment. Being able to play guitar, at proper volume, in an apartment, without hearing my neighbor's washing dishes, the cars outside, or the n
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Some languages have a sort-of default variable name for cases like this, namely "it": > put 1 2 3 4 5 | filter > $it 2 | map * 2 $it
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by Dewie 12y ago
He's been living in the US since, what, 1996? He probably understands the cultural severity of the words he uses.
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> Unfortunately, equal opportunity is now a mirage. Indeed, researchers find that there is less economic mobility in America than in class-conscious Europe. Class conscious Europe? Oh sure, broad stroke it up. Meanwhile, when it comes to
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> In less than three days “No Russian” received over 100,000 views. Well it's perfect, isn't it? A Russian-American SC venture capitalist who flat-out says that "Russia was and is a failed state". That Russians are co
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by Dewie 12y ago
That seems like a perfectly bland and normal combination. What on Earth makes it seem fascinating?
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by Dewie 12y ago
I don't like to say that I'm an agnostic or atheist or anything like that, because why would I? If I don't believe in a god, calling myself an atheist is like calling myself a non-Christian if I'm not a Christian, or a n
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by Dewie 12y ago
What makes a person a bigot in people's eyes in these cases is to bring up IQ, a measurement that has a lot of connotations to innate ability. Bringing up lack of innate ability in the context of race will quickly get one labeled a rac
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Do you really want a meaningful discussion, or a discussion where PC opinions are upvoted and critical voices are downvoted/banned by dang? I find it funny. Some controversial or just plain stupid opinion gets posted, dang respond
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by Dewie 12y ago
Maybe they are flagged precisely because those topics don't lead to meaningful debates? Take any slightly controversial (or can be spun to be controversial) gender-and-tech issue, submit it to HN: if it gains traction, it will consis
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by Dewie 12y ago
> What about class? The issue of "class" doesn't have nearly enough political clout in this context in order to get a mention from any important person. Gender does, though, for obvious slightly related historical reasons.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Well, I'd rather be treated with respect than to have a ping pong table in the reception and a mini fridge for beers in the office (I mean, open office plan) if I'd have to choose.
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So how would you envision that the Emacs OS should be structured/used?
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> Do one thing well. Do you really demand that an OS should only 'do one thing well'? :ø)
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Why? You don't really give any reasons.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I use It's All Text! (Firefox) to edit text boxes on the Web with my text editor if what I'm going to write is longer than a paragraph.
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by Dewie 12y ago
It seems that they have chosen a default (internal, though I don't know how to interpret how "most of the time" works) which is similar to the default modifier in Java. It seems, though, that java's default modifier was
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I wonder to what extent this mentality of "just want to code" is related to the (stereotypical) aversion of the developer as anti-social and introvert. Being anti-social is not really a developer stereotype. Being a pedant is
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The Om tutorials iirc are written as tutorials through Light Table What is Om? I can't seem to google it.

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