PeterWhittaker

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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
12 years I've been on my own and this is still the best part. Well, that, and just-walk-away-from-bullshit. That's pretty nice too.
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
Fourscore and nineteen, actually. Well, not literally actually. Figuratively actually, like all good translations.
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
The same people who buy towers to lift their cables from the floor, perchance? Unless that $5000 rig is a perfectly engineered house (which it may well be, I admit), it don't make a diff. Especially if the furniture moves, a dog comes into
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
Your self-description resonated with me: good at physics and math, never really programmed much outside of school, saw some coolness in it, sort of enjoy doing it, a little, from time to time, but not enough to really do it as a career. Nea
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
Ageing users are not the problem, UI racing to the bottom is. As noted in another reply, computers are becoming entertainment appliances for most/many people - so the UI is trending to their skill and interest level. Remember the flashing 1
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
"Cool", I thought, until I checked it out. "Ah, iOS only, too bad", I said to meself.
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
Not this. Unless we have explicitly and fairly advanced education, and are disciplined enough to apply it to all we do, we - the human species, every single one of us - suck at statistics, are terrible at understanding or predicting the beh
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
My favourite brown shirt is green. Normally, I don't like brown, but I like that one. I wore it for years thinking it was brown until I said something to my wife that made her look at me funny (ier than usual). My colour confusion is partic
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
Tags/Categories, and filter-by-tag/category tl;dr: Let any user add any tag/category to any article, allow each user to up/down vote each tag once (to increase categorization quality), and allow all users to filter HN articles by tag - and
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. In 1817, William Hone, a satirist, defended himself against multiple charges under Britain's then-antiquated libel laws. He won, despite all odds. Read Ben Wilson's recent "The Laughter of Triumph:
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by PeterWhittaker 14y ago
Directions for future research: 1. Normalize for key: Express chords as I, ii, iii, IV, etc. This will permit analysis of chord progressions/exceptions (see below) across all keys. 2. Detect common constructs, e.g., 8-12-16 bar Blues, and a
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
I used to think along mcdaid's lines, that because I speak English and French natively German and Spanish were no problem, and because I'd learned Spanish, Italian was easy. Then I learned Turkish, and later Arabic. Now I'm with danmaz74: L
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
We needed a file management paradigm because we couldn't simply say to the filing system "bring me the X file, the one about Y". Now we can. The machines have caught up to our need and we may now be lazy. I am 46. I have worked in IT long e
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
The more I use newsola, the more I like it. Do you have a donation page? I will gladly cough up $$ for features I like. I'd like to be able to get the unique union of two feeds, i.e., the union of www.newsola.com/#/ca/tc and www.newsola.com
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
Any chance of integrating the "Top Stories" section?
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
My first few reactions were "why can't I X" only to discover I could in fact X: Select my country, eliminate categories, etc. The only thing left is to perhaps rearrange the categories (business, then national, then world, e.g., but that's
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
And my log files are 2012-02-21....
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
You may be interested in http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071010132314.ht... tl;dr - infrequently-used irregular verbs get "regularized", frequently-used irregular verbs, e.g., "be", "think", will likely stay irregular forever
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by PeterWhittaker 15y ago
Cool, but one quibble: You need to make it obvious right up front that cookies must be enabled on your domain for this to work (not sure why this is needed, but...). I block all cookies by default and got all the way to the end of the proce
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by PeterWhittaker 16y ago
Polls != me, ever. I chose the second answer because it is the closest, but.... I haven't really used C in years, but I can start programming in C anytime and get operative, robust (I'm a freak about error handling and knowing where lie the
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by PeterWhittaker 16y ago
exist want from to source target
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by PeterWhittaker 16y ago
Years ago, three friends from Poland decided to visit relatives in the US they had not seen for decades. Since this was a once-in-a-lifetime trip, they did in grand style, on the Concorde. Of course, there was trouble on the flight and of c
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by PeterWhittaker 16y ago
So far so good. But my only choices on the hover are "I want to, I don't want to, I have". I'd like to have "Saw and liked" and "Saw and disliked". Or am I missing something?
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by PeterWhittaker 16y ago
I've been married for 20 years and have been through big companies, startups, and consulting. IM(NS)HO, the most important thing between spouses is the ability to communicate. She may be supportive, loving, caring, and willing to learn, but
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by PeterWhittaker 18y ago
In the early '90s there was a trend to something called "ego-less programming". The idea was to leave your ego at the door when coding, and definitely when doing a code review, thereby removing personality - and personality insult or injury