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721.
by Dove 15y ago
Certainly most alternative-geometry building tools could claim to be cooler than Legos. The advantage legos have is that a rectangular geometry is very intuitive and easy to work with. As alternative-geometry building toys go, I think Zome
722.
by Dove 15y ago
Puzzling. Do you think people would be less irate if, instead of a violin destroyed, it had been a starving person?
723.
by Dove 15y ago
I don't think he's contemplating suing Paypal, but rather the fellow who destroyed the violin. I don't know if such an act would be legally viable, but it certainly seems morally reasonable to me.
724.
by Dove 15y ago
Cheap for an antique, perhaps. An everyday playing violin, especially for a student, can be had for one or two hundred dollars. Less, on eBay.
725.
by Dove 15y ago
Isn't that just courtesy? I've found the topic tends to really gross guys out (much as uniquely . . . male things gross out girls), so it's best avoided in mixed company.
726.
by Dove 15y ago
Would you mind explaining what you're referring to? I've never encountered such a taboo, nor can I recall ads prominently featuring blue.
727.
by Dove 15y ago
I'm still reeling from finding out that zero is true.
728.
by Dove 15y ago
Gifted programs really vary. When I was in elementary school, I went to Spokane District 81's Tessera program. That program challenged me, and encouraged creative and self-directed study. I absolutely credit it with a big piece of how I t
729.
by Dove 15y ago
Does he suggest software must be free? If you mean must as in, it should be illegal to do otherwise, I'm not sure. I don't think so, but given that he casts the conversation in terms of human rights, I can't entirely tell. But if you
730.
by Dove 15y ago
I concur. While in most cases, some knowledge of Java or C will let you squint and read the other, when learning openGL for the first time, translating from another language makes it a lot harder. I recently tried to learn it for Android g
731.
by Dove 15y ago
True in other Java spheres as well. Someone writing servlets will have almost nothing in common, knowledge-wise, with someone writing Android apps. And then you have EJB, which is something else entirely. It's like Java is English, and th
732.
by Dove 15y ago
You mean we should be talking about rate of infection in a population, rather than their contribution to the raw infection numbers overall? Yeah. I thought it was implied that we were talking about that, though. I mean, even the casual rea
733.
by Dove 15y ago
Actually, it does. Recent test results aren't useful with HIV; it can remain undetectable for months . It's a question of perspective. You might be certain enough of your and your partner's fidelity over the last year to bet a stranger
734.
by Dove 15y ago
Actually, it's the right one. What you want to reduce is the incidence of infected people in the donor pool. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/incidence.htm CDC estimates MSM represent approximately 2% of the US popu
735.
by Dove 15y ago
It's the same reason they tested me for STDs when I got pregnant, even though I married a virgin as a virgin and we have been faithful forever. It's not about what you believe about yourself and your partner. It's about the statistics. So
736.
by Dove 15y ago
You know how people get really outraged -- not just morally, but legally! -- about things that might maybe possibly be discrimination? I wish they felt the same way about corruption. I wonder if someone could write a meme for that.
737.
by Dove 15y ago
It's insider trading because the information that motivates it isn't public. It's like selling someone a work animal that you (but not they) know has a fatal disease. It's not literally fraud, but it smells the same. I think of the mark
738.
by Dove 15y ago
I'd never thought about that! The whine of TVs used to drive me nuts as a kid, but some time in my late teens, I stopped being able to hear it.
739.
by Dove 15y ago
There is a wonderful PBS series called Carrier about life aboard an aircraft carrier. You can see full episodes (with ads) here: http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/full_episodes.htm , or you can stream it via Netflix. It focuses heavily o
740.
by Dove 15y ago
Wow. I wasn't completely convinced about a grid being an unnatural layout to scan until I visited that site. That's amazing .
741.
by Dove 15y ago
I was curious what they recommended behind the "take action" tab, but it required a signup. Here's what's on the other sign of the registerwall: Make Progress. Get the App. You earn Free World points for spreading the news
742.
by Dove 15y ago
I think you accidentally posted that in the wrong thread. The notice refers to this item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201351
743.
by Dove 15y ago
I bless you from the bottom of my heart.
744.
by Dove 15y ago
I find profanity offensive in general. It's not words themselves that matter. It's what people mean by them. Saying "please", vacuous as it might be, communicates consideration. Profanity communicates the opposite. Of course, it isn't th
745.
by Dove 15y ago
Actually, there is an effect on the reader. Being indirect softens the blow for folks who are offended by it, much like a euphemism does.
746.
by Dove 15y ago
I'm curious what you mean by saying it doesn't hold up to continued scrutiny. I have played and enjoyed it for about a decade, and think it has held up well -- something I can claim for only two other games. Can you be specific about how y
747.
by Dove 15y ago
This is the only metric that matters. Ability to achieve. Everything else is a tool.
748.
by Dove 15y ago
No, they just had a $65 bill. That doesn't imply a smartphone, that could easily be racked up in minutes or text messages. Pay-as-you-go phones are only cheap if you don't use them. I suppose that's true. But I'm also speaking from pract
749.
by Dove 15y ago
Not your fault, actually. That particular quirk may be written down somewhere, but I've not found it in my three years here. I offer you knowledge obtained by sheer trial and error. :)
750.
by Dove 15y ago
why doesnt HN recognise newlines? It treats single newlines as the same paragraph and double newlines as a new one. Alternatively, if you want to post code, you can indent it by four spaces. Like this: par(mfrow = c(3,2)) dat

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