RevRal

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   by RevRal 17y ago

   Welcome to hacker news :). A part of me still wants to call it a planet, especially since I grew up where Pluto was discovered, in Flagstaff at Lowell observatory.
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_of_Aachen Have a very happy un-April Fool's day.
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   That was creepy. The commentary is pretty priceless, though. That "millions of years" wrecking ball thing does seem kind of backward.
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   I did, and I also looked at similar products. I found this (not software): http://www.vth.biz/driver/imusic/products . They have three different products under "Relax, Sleep": ZenMeditate, DeepSleep Suite, MaxRelax. The samples for DeepSl
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   I used to like working with MathCad, but I haven't needed it since ~1995.
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   Seeing that gave me goosebumps and a little bit of nostalgia.
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   I upvoted it because it was my exact sentiment. When I saw the submission title, I thought "oh no." And then I felt relief that it was not about the CF platform. Coldfusion was pretty bad when it was first introduced, and it hasn't improved
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   Dudebro wiki: http://dudebro.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The acronym for the game is amusing: Dudebro: MSIFUSIGTS/SY II: ISUDT
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   by RevRal 17y ago

   >When the author of the linked article says, "it'll probably have the taste and texture of sugar", you should know they're either blissfully ignorant or pissing themselves laughing. The author did go on to say that piracetam tastes like
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    I've been interested in piracetam for a while. Anybody with personal experience? Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    <raises eyebrow> Umm, what are you talking about? This is one of the least intelligent comments I've read on HN, and I've really tried to make sense of it. You know what they say about Finnegan's Wake? That you can start from an
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Is this the Deep series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_of_Reflections ? If it is, it looks really interesting.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Sorry, I should to be downvoted for my critical answer. DDG saves me time and I like its privacy policy. And I do like the duck, as compared to google's logo or google chrome's "evil watching-you robot eye." Pretty much everything described
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    >Is there not one good benefit of this search engine that you can put in to words? It has a duck. Just use it for a week.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    I use DDG along with googlesharing ( http://www.googlesharing.net ) for when I need to use google. This submission might end up dead, but at least it'll introduce this great search engine to some new users.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Although it's fake, the Wyoming incident is pretty interesting: (Possibly NSFW and a little creepy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHkW0aKHRc It's like an internet campfire ghost story about a hijacked broadcast.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Once as a kid I attempted to make an "electro-magnet." It made perfect sense to take my huge speaker magnet, trim an AC cord, then tape each exposed wire to a side of the speaker magnet. Before plugging my awesome whatever-the-hell-I-was-tr
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    I used to have a watch from the future. You could synchronize the data on your computer and your watch by facing the watch's screen toward your monitor's, starting some epilepsy program, then witnessing your invisible data fly into the watc
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    Why most people don't like jazz(dyske.com)

    181 points by RevRal 17y ago|225 comments
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Though, not something I did directly.... Two teachers have named their children after me, is what I'm most proud of.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    a failure of a hacker who doesn't have the energy to do much of anything anymore :( Sorry, brother. I don't know how bad it is, but I've been in similar situations. I do know it takes a lot of energy to get going again, and that a minus
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    I'm not sure what a confident creep would be like. Confidence is confidence. A confident man knows restraint, and as long as he's good with restraint, he's not in danger of being a creep. It is good to play with expectations, to acknowledge
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Position 21,786,098 Who can get closest to zero?
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Go to http://duckduckgo.com and click "Add To Firefox" at the bottom. *Edit: Just kidding, that's not what you meant. Leaving this comment for those who don't know where to add DDG to their Firefox search engines.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    I have a dishwasher and I live in a house. . . . Great advice though.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    For me, it is all about tricking myself into getting the work done. Into creating systems to follow for various tasks. For example, the dishes. I hate doing them. And I don't mind a few days of accumulation of dirty dished. So, I don't beat
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    :) I mostly mean downvotes without an explanation, which you discerned. Technically, a drive-by downvote would be a subset of "downvoting without an explanation," since you're not always drive-by downvoting if you're not giving an explanati
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    . . . ironic. (Downvoted. And others too. Did somebody just spam downvote as a joke?)
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    I don't like drive-by downvotes, is basically how I feel about it.
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    by RevRal 17y ago

    Full paged, not framed, not cluttered with hyperlinks, and non-annoying version of the article: http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_printable.html?id=11907