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by SandB0x 16y ago
"Every yuppie I knew in New York worked as either a Wall Street guy, a lawyer, or an agent of some sort. Basically, there were all subtly screwing someone else for a living." This is exactly how I feel about London. It feels like the city t
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RIM launches BlackBerry 6 platform(engadget.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Two of my favourite summer books: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland Any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine.
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Useful GCC flags for C(stackoverflow.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Technology is irrelevant. It doesn't happen because there are so many requirements and regulations that even if you had the world's smartest hackers writing in the purest Clojure/Ruby/etc, your software would still have to contain all this
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Massive undersea river discovered flowing on sea bed(telegraph.co.uk)
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In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks(nytimes.com)
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The third stupidest thing in the world(reprog.wordpress.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Good food: Salad, main course and dessert for around £4. Lots of vegetables and other (healthy) perishable ingredients. The thing with perishable food at home is you either have to constantly buy in small quantities, which is time consuming
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Food. I miss the healthy, affordable, sociable dining halls from university. There are people who cook better than I do, and who should be able to make great food at a reasonable price by buying fresh ingredients in bulk. My options for eat
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by SandB0x 16y ago
I'm in the UK, and interested in graphics, image processing and vision. If you're working in anything related, UK or not, I'd love to talk. Get in touch at my.hn.address at gmail.com
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
No need to choose. Create a symbolic link. You can create these via drag and drop in Linux (ctrl+shift in Gnome) and OSX (command+option), and via some other trickery in Windows. http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders
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SIGGRAPH 2010: Sony's 3D display doesn't require glasses(core77.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
If the coefficients of a polynomial add to zero, then (x-1) is a factor. For example, let's try and factorise f(x) = 2x^3 + 9x^2 + 4x - 15 What happens if we set x = 1? Then f(1) = 2 + 9 + 4 - 15 = 0, so (x-1) must be a factor. It's much
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Looks neat. Have only skimmed the paper but I'm surprised they didn't cite Zheng et al.'s Route Panorama work: http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~jzheng/RP/
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by SandB0x 16y ago
A week before Stack Exchange launches their version: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu It would be great if one of these ended up superseding (at least some parts of) the current Ubuntu forums. Too often the "winning"
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Ivy Bean, the oldest person on Twitter, dies at 104(guardian.co.uk)
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Climate Bill, R.I.P.(rollingstone.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Inception was boring. We all knew the basic setup before the movie, which is fine, but it spends ages explaining minor details like how balance/inner ear sensation is propagated down the levels, yet uses them inconsistently - they're not fl
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Ubuntu hardware certification database - "Certified, Ready or Works"(webapps.ubuntu.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
It was always really half-assed. I bought one of the Ubuntu edition laptops a couple of years ago, and on the two occasions I spoke to Dell's tech support (for hardware issues) they had the machine down as having Vista and they had no idea
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by SandB0x 16y ago
There's this one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Productivity-20.aspx where a guy boosts his line count by writing a program convert loops into goto spaghetti (pretty much like the generated assembly, right?). But has anyone here actual
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Microsoft posts record quarterly revenues of $16bn(guardian.co.uk)
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Wonderfl, a free collaborative online Flash IDE(wonderfl.net)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
It's worth having a look through Rosetta-stone tagged questions on Stack Overflow. There's a large overlap with code golf entries. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone
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by SandB0x 16y ago
I know where you're coming from, but I think that's a little judgemental. Most people are either affected by or extremely concerned about poverty and welfare - I don't quite follow how cognitive dissonance comes into it. Maybe people don't
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by SandB0x 16y ago
It's one factor - there are going to be a whole host of influences. But remember even cuteness is an evolutionary response. Nature selects for mothers who care for little things with wide eyes and big heads. If you're interested in evolut
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by SandB0x 16y ago
> How much validity is there in positing the evolution of different contemporary human subgroups when these change at a fairly rapid rate and intermingle quite readily? The article doesn't suggest that subgroups have evolved, rather
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Ground penetrating radar reveals wooden Stonehenge twin(bbc.co.uk)
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