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by Lxr 9y ago
What's the motivation for Starbucks to make it this difficult to reverse?
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by Lxr 9y ago
The share bikes in China have stands and the lock is self contained (goes through the back wheel).
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by Lxr 9y ago
Can anyone with experience explain why companies continue to spend money on "level 1 support"? It seems to universally make the support process worse - so why do it? Is anyone honestly helped by scripted responses that would liter
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by Lxr 9y ago
Examples?
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South Australia to announce Tesla as backer of world's largest battery(smh.com.au)
4 points by Lxr 9y ago|0 comments
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by Lxr 9y ago
I never fully understood the Bell experiments. How exactly do they discount hidden variables?
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Ask HN: Hackable wearable with HR monitor?
1 points by Lxr 9y ago|2 comments
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by Lxr 9y ago
Does anyone else find this "feature" really annoying? I always set conceallevel to 0 but vim seems to constantly find a way to replace my code with unicode.
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by Lxr 9y ago
I've been looking for something like this, thanks!
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by Lxr 9y ago
It makes you wonder what current fads will make future generations cringe in the same way...
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by Lxr 9y ago
.NET does this by wrapping things with {'d': data}, I always thought this was the reason.
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by Lxr 9y ago
The root object has to be an array I believe.
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by Lxr 9y ago
Why does it have to be a loop, couldn't you make a reliable syntax error in less than 8 characters?
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by Lxr 9y ago
Julia is better than Python for a lot of things - basically when you can't vectorise your algorithm and don't feel like writing C++.
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by Lxr 10y ago
I like the idea of gamifying language learning, and your first project is cool. Can anyone recommend good 'game' type apps to help learn Chinese?
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by Lxr 10y ago
If a job is complex, multifaceted and involves subtle trade-offs, the best approach is to hire good people, pay them the going rate and tell them to do the job to the best of their ability. Absolutely, could not agree more. This is the on
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by Lxr 10y ago
More relevant than "social media" is the shift in journalism from reporting facts to "get as many pageviews as you can", driven by the fact that we pay with our attention and our data rather than our money.
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by Lxr 10y ago
The typesetting of MS equation editor is awful though. The spacing, fonts, font sizing etc all look wrong to me. LaTeX just looks beautiful. https://image.slidesharecdn.com/latexseminar-130324215215-ph...
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by Lxr 10y ago
I'm sure I'm guilty of the 'fallacy fallacy'. It is easy to assume a position is wrong because the people who believe it make bad arguments.
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by Lxr 10y ago
Why isn't the first Python loop (that does nothing but pass) optimised away completely?
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by Lxr 10y ago
There're limits to the amount of subdomain certs you can request, so I imagine this wouldn't work. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/ > Combined with the above limit, that means you can issue c
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by Lxr 10y ago
Scrolling up seems pretty popular. Why wouldn't you want a half-page menu telling you what to read next when you scroll up to check something?
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by Lxr 10y ago
This is what happens when you mindlessly optimise for metrics like user signups - not surprisingly, you get more signups when you block the content with an obnoxious modal but after a few years, you wonder where all your users went. How muc
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by Lxr 10y ago
I have done a lot of scraping in Python with requests and lxml and never really understood what scrapy offers beyond that. What are the main features that can't be easily implemented manually?
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by Lxr 10y ago
> I'm yet to meet a great coder who wouldn't enjoy coding. Maybe great coders like it so much because they are good at it. It would be reasonable from an evolutionary point of view to focus on what we are better than others
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by Lxr 10y ago
Nice! I admit I don't have a good understanding of the analysis, but if you mean "does repeatedly applying f to some starting point v, like f(f(f(...(v)))) eventually lead to a solution" the answer is definitely not - you can
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by Lxr 10y ago
Right, it is definitely not convex in any way and gradient descent is basically useless (and not very interesting because all it really means here is try perturbing each count by one and look for improvement). I left that there as an initia
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by Lxr 10y ago
Reminds me of a fun problem I encountered as a younger lad: This sentence has three as, one b, two cs, two ds, thirty-six es, three fs, three gs, eleven hs, nine is, one j, one k, three ls, one m, eighteen ns, twelve os, one p, one q, eight
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by Lxr 10y ago
Sorry to be that guy, but I thought you might want to know: it's "piqued" my interest.
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by Lxr 10y ago
When I was a kid I used to say "rash" of bacon because I thought the plural was "rashes", not "rashers".

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