Jesin

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by Jesin 18y ago
Hmm. It's also worth considering the possibility that the sex of the child could affect the appetite of the mother.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Hey, it goes both ways. Mark section headers with <h%d> tags instead of <font size="foo"> or <div style="foo">, but don't use <h%d> tags where all you want is formatting. In the same way, use <em> i
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by Jesin 18y ago
We're only talking about ditching karma, the running total for each user. We would still be able to upvote/downvote stories and comments, but those votes would only effect the individual story or comment, not the user who posted it.
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by Jesin 18y ago
No, I don't like the karma system. It has too much potential to discourage dissent. I like the upvote/downvote system for comments and stories, but keeping track of karma turns it into a punishment/reward system.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Ahh, but what if you're not the first person to do that? Be careful about overcompensation.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Yes, really. Undo probably wouldn't be too hard to implement (this already keeps track of who has voted on what), and it would be a helpful feature. Why can't we undo upmods/downmods?
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by Jesin 18y ago
The purpose of advertising is to get people look at your product. The product itself is what determines who sticks around as a user and who wanders off to look at something else. I don't seem to have any advice beyond that.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Yes, the ability to undo a vote would be useful. Shouldn't be that hard to implement, either, given that the site already keeps track of who has upvoted what. I have also noticed that pg's comments have unusually high ratings, whether or n
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by Jesin 18y ago
No, FF users are overzealous advocates of FOSS in general and Firefox in particular. Links, Lynx, and w3m users are too proud of their terminals. Netscape users don't realize it's the 21st century, AOL users are idiots. Flock and Seamonk
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by Jesin 18y ago
They're short-lived URLs on this site like the one I'm using to add this reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=D5W545W084
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by Jesin 18y ago
If this is your goal, C isn't the best choice either. I'd suggest Java or C#.
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by Jesin 18y ago
New Math anyone?
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by Jesin 18y ago
Yes, Ubuntu took I think less than an hour to install on my machine. Remember, Gentoo is not the only Linux distro.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Meh. Good points. I and probably a lot of other people are probably feeling pretty stupid right now for falling for this. I think I have a certain combination of gullibility and skepticism that makes me a perfect target for these things.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Yes, it is a blatant troll, but it's also an interesting question. As long as a troll brings interesting discussion and not flame wars, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Hey, troll or not, it's an interesting question. Have you read the other responses? Most are coherent and many are actually quite insightful.
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by Jesin 18y ago
Yes, and 83.47% of statistics are made up on the spot. I know it's a cliche, but it fits here.
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by Jesin 18y ago
I think you may have a point! Gaah! I still have hope that this will never develop into a full-blown personality cult, partly because people keep posting reminders that PG is not perfect and PG is not always right, especially whenever anyo
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by Jesin 18y ago
Here, I think, are some of the reasons: He writes well, far beyond the extent that good writing can be expected from a Harvard student. His writing is at once concise, interesting (at least to this audience), and convincing. Y Combinator s
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by Jesin 18y ago
Hmm. I'd suggest you try dual-booting (if you aren't already). If you think you might want to switch completely but aren't sure, you could try using most of your disk for Ubuntu but keeping a partition just large enough to hold OS X just
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Transfer of Learning(education.calumet.purdue.edu)
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by Jesin 19y ago
Ahh, but would their use of drugs interfere with your freedom of choice more than a flat-out ban would?
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by Jesin 19y ago
The difference between this and the athletic thing is that it gives athletes an unfair advantage in competitions, whereas science is not primarily competitive.
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by Jesin 19y ago
> generalizing is never good. Remember, every rule has exceptions.
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by Jesin 19y ago
"How do you give your name?" "Hopelessly."
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by Jesin 19y ago
How is this Hacker News-worthy? When I saw this on the recent posts page I didn't expect it to end up #3 on the front page. Why so many points?
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by Jesin 19y ago
The real question is, how does "academic performance" correlate with actual proficiency? In AP Computer Science, probably not much. I'm taking the test soon (trying to skip the course and go on to fun stuff). At least half the review b
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by Jesin 19y ago
I don't know Perl, but I've read good things about O'Reilly's Programming Perl (also known as The Camel Book). I am looking forward to a time when O'Reilly's Programming Arc exists. It's still too early for that, though.
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by Jesin 19y ago
You know, I couldn't understand that Lisp code snippet he presented either. He converted this Ruby: code == data to this: (eq (code (data))) What? OK, let's translate that to syntax non-Lispers can understand. That means:
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by Jesin 19y ago
Ugh. Please don't. I don't like Windows either, but this is a bad joke and I've seen too many variations on it. I don't want this sort of stuff cluttering up HN; I thought we were above that.

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