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by Pitarou 13y ago
If you see a headline that asks a yes-no question, the answer is almost always, "No."
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Suits me. I've always wanted a second passport to play with. Of course, I don't actually live there. I just happened to be born there. jus solis 'n' all that.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
In other words, these are NOT technology companies. They are regular product / service companies whose founders use their technology know-how to disrupt the marketplace.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Asymmetric encryption (public-key cryptography) was developed in the 1970s. The internet would be very different without it.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
No. That wouldn't be sufficient. Here's why. Imagine that I built a machine and told you, "Press this button here. If P=NP, the lamp will turn on. If P!=NP, the lamp will not turn on." What would you make of it? So what
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by Pitarou 13y ago
$ tail ~/.bash_history open http://news.ycombinator.com pip install term2048 term2048 term2048 term2048 term2048 term2048 term2048 term2048 pip uninstall term2048 Do you see w
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by Pitarou 13y ago
What are the engineering trade-offs here? Metric were migrating from CouchDB, so using a JSON field is the obvious solution, but what about for new projects? Compare it to say, Django-CMS, which achieves pretty much the same thing by stori
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Dear Mr. Graham, It has come to our attention that the commenter "viggity" on your "Hacker News" internet discussion forum has suggested that the practising partners at the Law Office of Mark B Williams, PLC are, and I q
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Shh! Don't tell them that. You'll hurt their feelings.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That's right, The Four Color Theorem was the first such proof. Mathematicians weren't so much "upset" as "not sure what to make of it". Technically, the "proof" wasn't really a proof at all, beca
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by Pitarou 13y ago
My god! Is this as good as it looks? Because it looks like my chances of living to be 100 have just gone up significantly.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Do NOT try this with a microwave oven. If you do, there will be a bad smell, and lots of sounds and lights, and you will not read Hacker News today.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
This makes perfect sense. Sony and Panasonic need to do something with their lead in optical disk technology, but there's no demand for a Blu-ray successor. Heck, there isn't even much demand for Blu-ray. So archiving is the wa
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Warning to all females experiencing nausea gravidarum (morning sickness), and their cohabitants: be VERY careful about where you rent your DVDs from. Or, at the very least, keep a bucket to hand.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Either some people think it's funny, or somebody's cheating.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. Ling is awesome.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I want that as my screensaver. It may shorten my screen's life, but it will be a life well lived.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> one has a moral obligation to annoy prescriptivists anyway. Challenge accepted! (See above.)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Use of the subjunctive mood is slowly declining, especially in the UK. We often smooth out the difference by inserting a "should" or "might". E.g. "It's important that you (should) be on time."
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by Pitarou 13y ago
No disrespect intended, but this is yet another example of the inverse correlation between grammatical knowledge and enthusiasm for pouncing on grammar mistakes. In Standard English, this use of the subjunctive mood is optional, not require
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I think the writer was comparing Mt. Gox to certain US financial institutions, not Greece. And this isn't "high-minded free market idealism". It's a practical observation. The state has given unconditional support to lar
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That's because you're a pussy. I'm a teacher. My colleague is a former marine sergeant with a Computer Science degree. We'd soon make a ma(thematicia)n out of you.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Nice title. I'm hoping for a Math textbook written like its an abusive drill sergeant. "You think matrix inversion is hard, huh? We're still just laying the mothafuckin groundwork, you halfwit. You ain't BEGUN to see har
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by Pitarou 13y ago
And not before she's got her mom safely out of Pakistan.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
No. It's not that simple. Of course, money can solve a lot of problems, but if she openly defies and (in their eyes) dishonours her family, she can expect retaliation. And they will use the people she loves and cares about the most to
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by Pitarou 13y ago
There is extensive academic research showing that people's perceptions of an accent stem entirely from their perceptions of the social group who use that accent.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Me three.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I wondered about that. I thought "Guru Meditation" was an AmigaOS only thing.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Oh! They're back up again. I'm grabbing _Nginx HTTP Server Second Edition_ now. :-)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
"Down for maintenance." I guess it's the Hacker News effect.

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