HalcyonMuse

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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
It's kind of a Victorian writer thing, I think. (Getting more verbose with age, I mean.)
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
This strikes me as somewhat misinformed. Try reading Michael Neiburg's "Warfare in World History." It's a great ~100 page summary of the history of warfare. Firearms are a very important component. Not all battles were decided by close comb
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
The people of the Americas had a distinctly different ritual of warfare. Much of the advantage had to do (at least in the beginning) with the natives "honorably" waiting for their opponents to be ready, which for the Europeans involved sett
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
A queue would be cool, a la instapaper.com, but supported by the browser. I notice most of my tabs are "waiting to be read" things opened from Hacker News.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Hint: It's magic.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
What about uranium depletion? Never mind how safe we can make it, or how cost-effective... neither of these things matter if we run out, and I can't find a definite, comprehensive study on how long it could last. Projections range from a de
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Quicksilver, iCal, Thunderbird, Adium, iTunes and OmniFocus.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Quicksilver responds much faster than Spotlight does, even when Spotlight has "indexed" the disk. I only use Quicksilver for launching applications (i.e. I don't do anything even slightly advanced with it) but it's still satisfying because
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Thanks! I was looking for a free alternative to Coda that did editing over sftp just yesterday!
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
"Everyone’s identity is socially created: it’s through your relationships that you understand yourself as a mother or a father, a teacher or an accountant, a hero or a villain." This drew my attention in particular. Is this true for all peo
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
This article was not of the caliber I expect at HN. Much more useful would be recommendations for cheap, robust home firewall options that surpass the average consumer-grade without being ridiculously expensive.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Er, isn't this a valid concern? I don't own an iPhone, so I don't REALLY know what I'm talking about here, but as a college student, I know quite a few people with iPhones who pirate ALL of their applications. I get the impression that they
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Etherpad is pretty cool, too.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Other than the usual? -Buy new domain -Point new domain at server -Notify users of the change -Surrender old domain I've never dealt with this sort of thing before, but I'm not aware of special mechanics for the situation.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Judging by the rest of Mr. Marinich's content, I'd be surprised if you're very far off the mark. Here's what I found particularly ironic: most of the online stuff of his I read (well, skimmed) was pretty negative, hostile and generally invo
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
I, for one, do not notice the number of votes next to a story. As long as it's in the top 150, if it looks interesting, I'll read it, if not, I'll skip it.
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
It's not a different version... it's the same thing on the same site. Saying it's a different version is like pointing at a page in which an image is embedded and linking to the image itself and saying they're different versions.
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
Better diets = ?
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
So... how long until it gets hacked?
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
Better yet, send one of the counselors/advisers an e-mail and ask them about a track you might be interested in. Or, e-mail a professor and ask them. Or both.
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
This is all great advice that I, as a CS undergrad, am going to take to heart. Something along a similar vein that bubbled up on HN a long while ago is the Programmer Competency Matrix: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programm
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
It sounds to me like he's less interested in what a CS degree involves and more interested in what a good understanding of Computer Science involves, regardless of what one college decides is good for a curriculum, and so he wants to go bey
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
http://www.economist.com/ and http://seedmagazine.com/ have great reputations... at least in my book. They have a very high ratio of signal to noise, in my opinion. I often enjoy http://www.physorg.com/ , though it's frequently a littl
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
Tuition-free tufts? I'd jump at it. Anything close to Boston would be pretty cool. I hear there's a pretty strong hacker scene there... but I've never been there myself.
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
That would be a respectable April First project.
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
There are other concerns, though, like what the botnet is going to do. You may be using Linux, but you're on the internet, and you use internet services.
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
How do you recommend altering it for leaner muscle?
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
I can't fathom any use for this, but it looks incredibly cool. I can intuitively grasp what the code must look like - detecting window size and positioning - but it still looks impressive once it's implemented.
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
Citation?
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by HalcyonMuse 18y ago
Sweet! My first thought was actually, "This would be much more effective as a plug-in; I never use bookmarks to navigate." I appreciate your contribution.

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