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by Elrac 7y ago
I'm guessing that what you're saying implicitly applies to the USA. Just for a bit of perspective, I'd like to describe what this experience looks like for me as a resident of Germany, a developed and prosperous country that
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by Elrac 7y ago
Can confirm: This also works with non-parental residence. For me, this is the key to surviving hay fever season.
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by Elrac 8y ago
I don't think that was nattmatt's intention. It sounded like a genuine interested question to me, and I for one would also love to hear someone expound on this topic.
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by Elrac 8y ago
For clarification and in Tesla's defense: If I've correctly read some of the descriptions of his idea, it didn't involve "energy from nothing" and hence no obvious violation of thermodynamics. Rather, it involved (r
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by Elrac 8y ago
My own intro to FP happened via Ruby and Clojure. I wrote a rinky-dink Web application while teaching myself Ruby and Ruby on Rails. It turned out most of the pages were constructed from a database query returning a batch of results which t
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by Elrac 8y ago
Here's a "me too:" I'm working on a small-ish Java application with a couple of former FORTRAN developers. Last Thursday we got a bug report from our integration testers saying that some data from earlier messages was sh
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by Elrac 8y ago
Around the time of the article (1996) I was faced with learning either C++ or Java. When I picked up any C++ book, chances are half the text would be about how to wrestle with memory. I decided C++ wasn't for me. Java was (and still is
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by Elrac 8y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I was and am a Microsoft hater. I bought and play-tested VB, decided it was garbage and never used it again. Delphi allowed me to "do" Windows GUIs elegantly, without all that Petzold garbage and t
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by Elrac 8y ago
Will try, thanks!
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Ask HN: What happened to browser scrolling via PgDn?
1 points by Elrac 8y ago|2 comments
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by Elrac 8y ago
I also think Excel is great; but not because it's Excel or heavens forbid, because it's a Microsoft product, but because it's a spreadsheet. The ability to throw data in a grid and massage it with operations the average human
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by Elrac 8y ago
I'd like to join the chorus of complaints about this article. I haven't read it, but I have a good excuse: My provider's virus filter is warning me not to open it. It's almost amazing how many problems this page seems to
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by Elrac 8y ago
I was expecting to see a Solitaire solver.
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by Elrac 8y ago
That's from the gospel of the Libertarian Church of the Invisible Hand. This approach doesn't work in the real world because Google's consumers are neither perfectly informed nor perfectly rational. It also ignores the fact t
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by Elrac 8y ago
I don't think anyone is seriously promoting that idea. The implication, rather, is a more modest proposal: That, of a company's staff, the bean counters and executives are at least on average more bottom-line-motivated and hence m
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by Elrac 8y ago
Could be; I'm at work. Your link works! Many thanks.
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by Elrac 8y ago
I would have liked to see the slides, and I see a paragraph headed "Slides" but no link. Am I blind or is it my browser? Would appreciate a pointer.
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by Elrac 8y ago
The parent poster didn't suggest otherwise. Thanks for making me aware that the author is a prof! But I'm afraid that makes things even worse. As I see it, the writing quality is barely acceptable for an intern: it's so collo
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by Elrac 8y ago
I think the word "unmanned" in the title is a bit misleading. I wanted to read the article because I was curious about what I thought would be an AI project. "ATC? How do they pull that off without human operators?"
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by Elrac 8y ago
I would have liked to read this article, but the page refuses to load in my bog-standard Mozilla browser. Ironically, there's an article in HN today about "The Bullshit Web." This is exactly what that article is about. Appare
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by Elrac 8y ago
Chances are you know more about this than I do, and I'd be interested to learn more. If you're willing to explain, I wonder how an AND gate destroys information. Certainly the output of a 2-input AND gate carries less information
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by Elrac 8y ago
Just what we needed - a Jewish Mother Teresa. I'm empathetic to his suffering and applaud that he's managed to find a way to see a bright side. But when anyone goes from there to claiming that being in constant pain somehow makes
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by Elrac 8y ago
The author's sentence is essentially a truism, because fiddling with information _as such_ and in theory doesn't use up any energy. As practically implemented in current CPU electronics, though, information needs to be communicate
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by Elrac 8y ago
Sheldrake is my go-to example of bad science. In one of his experiments monitored by another scientist, when the dog didn't respond in a way that met Sheldrake's criteria, Sheldrake changed the criteria in mid-experiment. That one
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by Elrac 8y ago
Did you read the article?
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by Elrac 8y ago
As far as I know, the US is the only prosperous country where life expectancies are going down . Makes one sit back and think, no? A lot of factors are probably involved as you say, but if I had to guess at the elephant-in-the-room dominan
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by Elrac 8y ago
> Granted, those companies don't deal with people's health This sentence of yours called to mind a counter-example: Two companies traditionally in the "business consulting" trade, Atos and Capita, were tasked by the B
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by Elrac 8y ago
On the JVM, the most solid contender is Scala. It's "better" than Java in a number of ways. Personally, I'm a bit turned off by the very intrusive role of the type system. You may find a bit less tool support than for Ja
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by Elrac 8y ago
Yep. As a professional developer, I'm way over being excited and enthusiastic about Java; on some days, and having sampled more modern languages, I downright hate it. My guess is that the grandparent poster is mistaking this disillusio
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by Elrac 8y ago
Eclipse is a direct descendant of IBM Visual Age for Java, which branched from VA for Smalltalk. VA was an excellent tool for Smalltalk insofar as it allowed you to work with a big soup of classes, abstracting away source files to the point

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