LucaDuval

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by LucaDuval 16y ago
I would say that the following comment is at least as good as the one provided by Quora: "Here are some tips: Most guys have problems approaching strangers and seeming creepy. If you can strike up a conversation with girls, just drop a few
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Google useful: Quora Vs. Reddit(reddit.com)
1 points by LucaDuval 16y ago|1 comments
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by LucaDuval 16y ago
I did an experiment. I put the same question in a sensible subreddit. I would say that the answers are pretty good. http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/cg6zq/what_...
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by LucaDuval 16y ago
It probably also helps to be a talented public speaker and he is reputed to be a very good one. http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco... Generally speaking lot of bestsellers, fiction or non fiction, can be synthesi
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by LucaDuval 16y ago
I need a little more from my e-assistant. A few tasks: - answer appropriately my e-mail - selecting the events that I'm interested in and booking the tickets. - calling at home to tell that I'll be late or out for dinner.
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by LucaDuval 16y ago
Conclusion: "We managed to get a healthy 1.2MB download speed, and 281Kbps upload in the office, certainly fast enough to power mobile web."
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Enjoy my e-books, The Burgomeister.(truly-free.org)
1 points by LucaDuval 16y ago|0 comments
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
It is true that Italians don't care much about privacy but old and backward? Italy is neither old (Italy was born as a state in 1861) nor backward. The problem is that our prime minister has a personal interest in shutting down as much as p
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
Every time somebody express an opinion somebody else can call it a tautology if he decides that the speaker is willing to tweak the definition as he likes. To point it out is pleonastic. The following sentence is tautological. The previous
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
I didn't explained myself well then. My point is that, in my opinion, there is no progress in art exactly for the reason you have just given that there is no objective "better" to measure progress with. About TV..., if you are talking about
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
I believe that you can hope to find innovation in the arts but I doubt that you'll find any progress. Joyce is not better than Shakespeare and Prince is not better than Mozart. This is even truer for painting, would anybody say that we are
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
There is a point that I don't see mentioned in any other comments, maybe because it applies only in my country (Italy). The main benefit of not watching TV here is that you avoid the relentless, hidden or explicit, endorsement of our right-
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
Thank you, I couldn't remember the title. Here it is if anybody want to read it: http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm It is strange the way in which a random quote stays in our mind for years, I still remembered the fol
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
I remember reading a sci-fi novel that impressed me as a child about the wife of a recently deceased composer corrupting a politician to not vote for a proposal to extend the copyright on the basis that there are only a limitited number of
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
It seems that PLT Scheme it is still twice as fast, at least according to this language shootout. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
It is also personal. Berlusconi has a huge, and still growing, number of legal problems. He successfully hides them on the media he owns or controls (6 tv channels out of 7). The few newspapers that are not aligned to his policy are read by
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
From the FACTOR's FAQ: "Forth is untyped, not garbage collected, and close to the machine. For flow control, Forth code tends to use immediate words. Variables and arrays tend to be global, and programs aren't usually written in a functiona
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
Sorry, but as another EU citizen, I have to say that applying your criteria lot of countries (beginning with mine - Italy) should not have been accepted either. I'm afraid that EU simply can't be that much selective without losing any chan
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I read it ten years ago and it answered a few questions I had been asking myself for many years. It is (in a healthy way) humbling for a western citizen as it implies that our (declining?) dominant position in the mo
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
He's not talking about fast typing. He is saying that is a big effort for his students to try out an idea because they have to struggle to find the correct syntax and keywords to express it.
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
I don't read the article this way. He candidly admits his bias towards functional languages and he says that Ruby and Clojure could have been his choice if not for reasons related to the specific time-frame in which he took the decision.
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
Overpopulation is a menace and family planning is the only viable solution. Two or three billions of healthy, nourished, educated human beings are more than enough to substain our economical, social and scientific structure.
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
As usual the single most important advice is missing: * Don't have (more than one) child. * We could build an everlasting eden for humankind if we could persuade everybody to limit themselves to one child for couple for the next two or
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
You are right. I was wrong.
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
I'm inclined to believe that lack of common sense is an exception and not the rule among geniuses, despite popular beliefs, but I could be wrong. Care to offer a few counterexamples?
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
Not an HN type but I like the Economist daily news. http://www.economist.com/daily/news/
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
I can name without any effort a few geniuses that didn't lack neither common sense nor social skills (Feynman, Darwin, Newton, Da Vinci, Leibniz, Pitagora). I'm sure that there are scores of them. I would say that the equation "Super-High
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by LucaDuval 17y ago
A lot less. $ 1,283,305,580,313,390