RevRal

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by RevRal 17y ago
Thanks for all the helpful information. It all actually got me going on the process, which is the hardest part for me.
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by RevRal 17y ago
Vim is actually next my list of productivity tools to learn -- I just got done learning the Colemak keyboard layout. How painful can I expect this experience to be? Vim doesn't seem fun at all.
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by RevRal 17y ago
I have to point out, it is a great domain name.
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by RevRal 17y ago
In a time long past, I found that coffee could take the place of a meal. This probably doesn't actually work. But it still saved me the time of making a meal.
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by RevRal 17y ago
Thank you.
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by RevRal 17y ago
I've had this question since a child: if you have a strobe light, which flickers at the same frequency that your eyes capture information, will you see the light as on or off? As usual, it's good to see that my questions weren't crazy (slas
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by RevRal 17y ago
I was going to post this because it is the specific reason I never bought Crocs. Also, I liked telling people how ugly their Crocs were, and his page helped.
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by RevRal 17y ago
> Jives true to me as well. Most of the people who have identities based on being smart far underperform their intelligence. Best example, William James Sidis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sidis ). Someone I think we all can
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by RevRal 17y ago
I've seen this guy in Flagstaff; I had no idea he was so cool!
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by RevRal 17y ago
Pretty sweet way to streamline your wall!
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by RevRal 17y ago
"Mutating virus" just sounds bad.
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by RevRal 17y ago
I see. I misunderstood you then. Yeah, it's a little like when taxes are raised (not sales tax). The consumer pays for it.
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by RevRal 17y ago
Paul Gowder isn't complaining about Amazon forgetting to tell him that his coffee is hot. Good for him, flexing his rights over something reasonable. *E: I hereby disown this comment :)
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by RevRal 17y ago
PayPal took it all, but they probably ended up losing money on most of those transactions ($0.01) as well, they’re not the bad guy. Heh, Paypal... I could say I don't care so much about them losing money.... Anyway, I'm glad this is going
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by RevRal 17y ago
> "Mathematicians are always right." A math professor once complained to me that all the cars in line should just go when the light turns green. I could tell this had been bugging him for a while.... Besides that example (that wasn't
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by RevRal 17y ago
I'm curious, as I have only recently started contributing here -- how tolerant is HN with reposts?
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by RevRal 17y ago
Okay, try getting through Shakespeare without the discipline of being an active reader and you'll get nothing out of it but boredom. Listen to jazz and classical without actively listening, and you'll mistake the music as being relaxing. An
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by RevRal 17y ago
I was a jackass child. Too arrogant for my own good. I remember figuring out how to go from the number one, to a hundred, before knowing the names of the numbers. This was before I set foot in a school. I was ahead of the game before I was
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by RevRal 17y ago
I'm still new here, so thank you for taking the time to respond.
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by RevRal 17y ago
> Perhaps the same percentage that care their grammar and proofreading? I have an excuse though. This is my fourth day on the colemak keyboard layout, so every word I type is extremely painful. That particular error came from shorteni
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by RevRal 17y ago
...also extending their vocabulary. My brain completely skipped that when I started thinking about this.
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by RevRal 17y ago
We have spell checkers in everything now. Even my instant messenger has one. I asked someone this question and their response was "what if there is no electricity." I don't see how that's valid unless there is an immanent Malthusian catastr
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HN: Were spelling tests worthwhile?
3 points by RevRal 17y ago|8 comments
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by RevRal 17y ago
Hmm, they're pretty. But they look like things I'd have designed eight years ago if I wasn't concerned with user bandwidth.
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by RevRal 17y ago
The only reason I kept from switching to Opera was that I would have to re-learn some keyboard shortcuts. But you know what? I don't care anymore. Firefox has become too bloated anyway, and this just seals the deal.
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by RevRal 17y ago
A truly great confirmation. I wish I could use something similar for myself.
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HN: Strange Loops vs Dualism [of the mind]
1 points by RevRal 17y ago|0 comments
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by RevRal 17y ago
Alone, not worth the price.
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by RevRal 17y ago
Nice. I see another problem. The bright are bored, school is tedious, and they go unrecognized. Then the less intelligent "excel." Good thing AI research will need more and more intelligent people.
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by RevRal 17y ago
If what you're saying is legitimate, then you need to extrapolate more. There are too many loose ends in your post....

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