I_got_fifty

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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   From the site: "This is a common error of usage", 'the erroneous "modern" usage' This tells me that the author completely misunderstands how language works. It assumes that there is a 'correct' way of using a word, and that a word is someth
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   Or in HN terms: A function that adds 2 to a given number, but is called 'subtractTwo()', compiles without problems. The name and the meaning don't have to match. ps. epic post!!
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   You could save a lot of money, by just asking PG to write a declaration of independence...
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   That page of the comic in the article, reminds me of this video of Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   I'd like to have that scooter. That one looks cool.
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831375
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   No gopher names? Oh, well... my GopherDaddy! empire probably wouldn't have been very successful anyway..
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   How do I get a gopher domain-name?
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   by I_got_fifty 17y ago

   My college costs $-957/month. I hate to be so smug, but Scandinavian-socialism really does rule.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    Possibly. But these are the cool questions that make Hacker News Hacker News and not Digg.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    Is that headline a Jonathan Coulton reference?
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    I'm sorry.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    Insightful. I do wonder what you think of http://www.dimensions-math.org/ it seems to be more math focused, but is it too just techno-babble with pretty pictures?
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    Oh, yeah Knol. Is that still around?
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    And of course inflation.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    I think we already have that here in Denmark. If I understand the concept correctly, that is.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    maaan, I just started doing research into doing something like that... crap.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    The same thing happens with old google.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    How do they do it? Is each frame created with HTML/CSS?
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    No, it's a £10.000 competition.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    It might be the socialist in me, but schools should always be public. No business should be involved in educating the next generation. I think of universities more like a R&D department for the general public. (which also is why I think
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    BRL-CAD. BSD. Bind. There are quite a lot of them, actually.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    At the risk of sounding ignorant, what is zappos? I've never heard of them.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    This wouldn't happen on Digg.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    If the triangle would get the same colour-scheme, then it would be equally obvious. Of course it would be better if it was animated.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    This could actually go well with the CrunchPad.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    Firefox 100% (It's not live yet, I'm the only user :-)
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    I love this one: Seasoned Hacker % cc -o a.out ~/src/misc/hw/hw.c % a.out Hello, world.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    I love this! This is great! But I wonder from which marketing department this one come from.
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    by I_got_fifty 17y ago

    Exactly what I thought! Talk about statistical manipulation...