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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Using a camera obscura or other such device is how you make photorealistic paintings. Photorealism refers to a specific period and set of artists, post Pop-Art. They used photographs very extensively, Richard Estes is one of the bett
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> For example if you look at a portrait done by one of the old dutch masters, you often see so much expression and emotion and character in the face. Not one of the old Dutch masters, one of the old Dutch masters and their apprentices,
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Being a 100000 year old lycanthropic C coder things like lazy evaluation, garbage collection etcetera make my head spin (a full 1440 degrees) .. But I have come across Milewski before since I started on C++, he has a clever way of explainin
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I came across this a few weeks ago, I think the first example is to do with arrays being second class. On the other hand, if you give data to a C-programmer, they can locate its position in RAM. Give an assembly-programmer a simple data-typ
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The problem with saying "static typing" without further precision is on one axis it ranges from C where the steatbelt is made of paper to ATS or Idris where the "steabelt" is a zero-zero ejection seat, and on an ot
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Maybe they could add a reservation queue to the bathroom as new functionality. The FIFO system does not take urgency into account. When making a query, it would be good to give an urgency rating on a scale of 0 to some_number.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
This is a comment in the HN comments section on a news website article about a scientific paper. In this paragraph I will mention a link to a Wikipedia article that may or may not be related to the article in question [0], accompanied by so
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> What if the rocket fails before it gets to space, and falls back to Earth? Excellent point, there are many things that could go wrong in the short time to low Earth orbit. Not only that, it is incredibly expensive.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Why don't they just eject those chemical weapons into outer space? What if it falls back to Earth?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
The first link you posted mentions the USS Iowa Gun Turret explosion, another shocking tale of negligence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I found an article related to this, [0]. Apparently they dumped stuff in the North Sea as well. The dumping locations that are known of are mostly the deeper parts. The Baltic is 459m at maximum depth while the North stacks a chilling 700m.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> This is nothing new. IT consulting companies have been doing this for years. I was at Avanade briefly and the a lot of people hired are fresh grads who work with more sr. devs on client project. From my experience with IT in general
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> The reality is that someone is going to tell you they’re bored quietly and when you least expect it. They’ll tell you halfway through your 1:1 and they won’t use the word bored. They’ll say something innocuous like, “…and I really don
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
An enlightening article, it reminded me of an article from the Guardian on ammonia synthesis and its environmental and social impact: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/03/fritz-haber-f...
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I like this, but rather than "hardcore", targeted at pre-CS, and possibly 1st year CS students. Apologies, I should have explained myself better. Being aimed at people with only their own wits to guide them, their knowledge
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Online resource for hardcore computer science and other "headbanging" subjects, collaboratively written by, and for, people who haven't had a formal background in computer science or the equivalent "headbangology".
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Another thing is that there is something of a cultural identity crisis going on. We cannot match the enormous cultural influence of the US, and so a lot of our culture is American. I don't think that applies to music genres. I l
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> But in the end, everyone ends up reasoning with drawings. That is a big generalisation, I have solved problems without using visualisation. How would you interpret your comment if someone was congenitally blind?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I remember the example that explains how to derive the area of a circle from several years ago, but there is also an analogue for the surface area of a sphere provided you know the volume... The volume is 4/3*pi*radius^3 the sur
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Cat • cannot speak or program A caption for a picture from chapter 5, preceding a look at the grammar of Doge - DogeLisp anyone?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Its popular to dismiss the AGC as simple and uninteresting, but it was a challenging engineering task, and it never once had a failure in flight. Stating it never failed in flight is jumping the gun a bit, it didn't fly enough t
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
$ If that's a 60fps camera (I think it is?), that's 180 f/s speed or 122mph. That seems really slow for a rock flying into the atmosphere from space, and far slower than a rock would have to be going for it to "cut him
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> such woof much foo bar bat What next, the International Obfuscated DogeScript Contest?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
This reminds me of trying to explain how left handed scissors function. Give 'em a piece of paper with a straight line down the middle and a pair of right handed scissors, then instruct them to cut accurately along the line using their
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
One Day Doge Talk is going to be a programming language.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Did anyone notice the cheeky ascii art in the website source?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
You know that really annoying problem where you can't think of a certain term, but doing a web search is fairly useless because you don't know what to look for (chicken and egg ?)... Googled "binary search find nth node"
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I hope he doesn't read Hacker News. I hope he does, it's a good measure of the average hacker.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Writing a program is an error-prone exercise in translation. Even math, from which our programming languages are born, has to be translated into something like this: The article then compares some verbose C++ with a mathematical equa
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Sorry, here you go. http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

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