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by NAFV_P 13y ago
One of the ones that got away? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch'ing-yang_event
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I think there have been a shift from hacking the technology to hacking the finance. I'd rather have finance hacking (I was thinking bitcoin) than yet another article on the NSA.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> ... and the apparent WTFyness of the code. That's what ID Software thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overvi...
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Seriously, please don't waste your time this way. If you are really bored, create something lasting by editing Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap instead. How much time have you wasted on HN over the last few years?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
The article inspired a spin-off idea in my head: "online crocodile feeding". No machines are involved, instead a fearless human is hired to dangle those raw, bloody wildebeest steaks in front of their noses.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Yeah, almost all words for meat in English come from the word for the same animal in French. That doesn't apply to doner kebabs .
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
You can see round the back of a neutron star: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#Properties
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_13iPg6DY || http://www.discogs.com/Siah-And-Yeshua-Dapo-ED-Siah-And-Yesh...
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> You fancy DOOM I take it? Whoops, mis-parsed your comment initially. I thought you meant the video game, not MF-DOOM. Yes, to both.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
In double entry this could be termed an error of commission , four entries are required for correction.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Talking about sought after hip-hop, the article reminded me of this: http://www.discogs.com/KMD-Black-Bastards/release/4762758
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Whereas about a dozen years ago I accidentally dropped my girlfriend's phone in a glass of coke... it was fucked. It's great technology has advanced so much we can do underwater selfies.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A few weeks ago my mate grabbed his Sony smartphone (I cannot recall the actual model since I'm clueless about smartphones), started recording a video, then threw it in the dog's water bowl. Great ten second video, including disto
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Not particularly smart I would say. Frameworks exist partially to make the process of creating programs easier and quicker. Very persistent I would say. I have a lot of persistence, but I don't think that I have enough. For now, put th
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> At least in Germany it's like that. I am not sure of it's different in other countries. I get the impression it is the same situation in the UK. It's nice knowing I can do a dozen rounds with a CS graduate.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> This semester I used function pointers in an assignment and later heard them described as “Quinn’s magic C voodoo”. I still think I have to polish up on 'em: #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> //
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Re points (1) and (2): Ha, that sounds like bootstrapping would be necessary. > So my feeling is that, by all means, we should be teaching anyone and everyone how to code, to lay the groundwork for teaching computer science. Yeah, but
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'm neither a coder or a programmer, I'm a code-monkey and proud of it.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I think only certain types of humour are suitable for this site, geared more to the interests of HN readers. Having a giggle does not have to be a frivolous activity.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I don't know what to say about not teaching children computing. There's a better case for teaching computing than any other science, if you judge usefulness by daily opportunity to use your skills to understand and improve y
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Its difficult and inefficient to just google every term/acronym I don't know. Hackers love acronyms, I don't mind them unless there is ambiguity (I haven't yet come across any). A couple of years back I was in the
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I think I mentioned something similar on /. ... IMO all kids at school should be taught an ugly, difficult language like x86 assembly. Hardly any of them will understand it to a significant degree, but they will appreciate how diffic
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Sounds sort of like a quine e-mail .
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I think something needs to be done about that. But, humour is almost universally subjective. There are some aspects of Obama-Care that I thought were highly amusing, especially the "500 million lines of code" gag. Here is a very s
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Wow, much coincidence... I'll go and hide in the corner while all onlooking HN readers facepalm.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Nice picture of a young and sprightly looking Bill at the top of the page... looks like it was created on MacPaint.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Sounds more plausible than this tripe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth Some idiots still believe it.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
The article mentioned "w3m", never come across it before, although I do have "lynx" and "elinks". Really impressive.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only d
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Reminds me of the time that Sting sang "Message in a klein bottle". Of course, as soon as the bottle was thrown into the sea, the water seeped in destroying the message on the paper. "Bollocks", said Sting. "There g

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