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by S4M 11y ago
That, and the fact that it's very easy to extend it with Emacs Lisp. I know that it's possible to write extensions for most of the IDEs or text editors out there, but the degree of customization is higher with emacs, mainly becaus
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by S4M 11y ago
I use emacs with jedi too, but the auto-completion is not so good. For example, if my code is: def function1(x): variable1 = x+1 return variable1**2 def function2(x): variable2 = 2*x return 5+v... And I g
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by S4M 11y ago
Patio11 seems to be the perfect example of what you describe - he's on HN and that's his handle.
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by S4M 11y ago
I think you are massively underestimating the difficulties to get published in a decent journal.
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by S4M 11y ago
Yes, that's a good explanation (I suspect your first paragraph is at the core of Fermat's little theorem's demonstration), it's just a shame it was left out of the video - but maybe because this part would require its ow
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by S4M 11y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't get it? My background is in maths and I am (was) able to prove formally Fermat's little theorem, but I got lost around minute 3:08, and am not clear why the fact that 5 is prime means that any combina
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by S4M 11y ago
Brilliant! I have been planning to do the same with youtube (in combination with youtube-dl) but kept postponing it. Your comment might give me the final motivation I need.
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Oolu (YC S15) Is Bringing Solar Energy to West Africa’s Off-Grid Population(techcrunch.com)
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by S4M 11y ago
> U.S. Facebook engagement was actually dropping in 2011 and the Zynga games were the reason why. People hated those games. That doesn't make any sense. Facebook goal is to have people staying connected to Facebook as much time as p
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by S4M 11y ago
So, why hasn't anybody raised millions for a company making flying cars or other crazy but wonderful technology like that?
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by S4M 11y ago
As Project Euler is completely free and has a positive impact on the programming community, it would be very sad if the reasons for the hacking were 3) or 4).
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by S4M 11y ago
I wonder how was life for people living in one of those enclaves. Were there actually passport controls at the frontiers? My guess is that the Indians living there were actually living just as if they were citizen from Bangladesh, but I cou
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by S4M 11y ago
That man is so down to Earth, very inspiring. For those who wonder like I did why the probability of picking a square-free number is 6/Pi^2, it's explained on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-fr
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by S4M 11y ago
I don't get why this requires a special purpose library. Why not create a css class highlighted where the borders of an elements would be in fluorescent green and modify the class of the elements of the DOM one wants to highlight wit
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by S4M 11y ago
Yes, Homejoy could have developed and provided to its cleaners tools to make the cleaning faster (for example: something that would be to a toilet brush what a hoover is to a mop - I have no idea how to develop such a thing), making the ove
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by S4M 11y ago
May I ask, where do you generally go to get clients' interest on reddit?
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Georgia sues man for posting annotated state laws online(engadget.com)
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by S4M 11y ago
> That's because FT had the government as their shareholder and they were trying to protect their investment. I remember in 2002, when my family, and all my friends' families had an unlimited internet connection, having to use
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by S4M 11y ago
I had a brief look at your article about gauss-distributed number range, and I am sorry to say that I don't find it particularly interesting, it's just some basic probabilities notion.
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by S4M 11y ago
I always thought a Rock Star Developer was a developer who plays in a rock band during his free time. I never got why employers were so adamant in hiring them.
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by S4M 11y ago
I'd suggest to find a/the subreddit that corresponds the most to your side project. In the case of the OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditCarpool
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by S4M 11y ago
Please do! It would be a place where people go, hack and network with like-minded people, and move on. You would have lots of screening to do though.
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by S4M 11y ago
Yep, I remember reading on another article posted on HN that North Korea's economy depends a lot on the black market, which means that North Koreans must be cunning in their every day lives to get the basic things they need.
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by S4M 11y ago
How about a very low end tablet that one would put on his/her wall and that would update itself each week with a different picture?
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by S4M 11y ago
Each time I read a sad story like that in the comfort of my flat, I wonder: what can I do to help them? Then, I can't think of anything, and my mind tries to forget this cruelty being inflicted to others, and I move on with my life...
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by S4M 11y ago
What convinced me that avoiding mutations as much as possible was having to deal with code like that (in java): public class MyBigClass() { private int a; private int b; //hundreds of lines of code
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by S4M 11y ago
On the other hand, it's fairly possible for an engineer to take some time off to build something he believes in. In the worse case, what would have been lost is the salary from that time spent on building something that didn't tak
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by S4M 11y ago
sama (Sam Altman, president of YC) did an AMA here couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238839
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by S4M 11y ago
The OP says several time that Saigon has lots of startups, but doesn't mention any. What are they? Also, he says the Vietnamese use the English alphabet. That's not quite right, because the Vietnamese words tend to have many acc
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by S4M 11y ago
I think PeterWhittaker is saying that Nomad List's version that was running on Google Spreadsheet was a suboptimal one (a prototype if you prefer). It doesn't mean that Google spreadsheets is low-tech or suboptimal (it's not)

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