SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Wow, didn't expect to see my free book on HN. I'm the author.
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If restaurants haven't signed up, then how are they getting fees from delivery services?
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He should have gotten one for The Mission. Gabriel's Oboe is, I think, his most beautiful theme.
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That's not the point. He said it wasn't possible to improve on the committee. But of course it is. But while we're on the subject: both C and UNIX are actively being updated and improved even now. The Common Lisp standard
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> If your new Lisp is designed by anything less than a committee with people like Kent Pitman, Guy Steele, and Richard P. Gabriel, chances are that you will end up with something worse. Nonsense. It's trivial to design a new Lisp
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I am confused. I thought it was long established that the chicken came from SE Asia. Why is this article a "landmark study"?
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> Abusing monopolistic market power is. Apple doesn't have a monopoly over its "market" any more than Nintendo has a monopoly over its. Because a marketplace is not a market. Regardless, you need to be specific as to what
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> This is going to sound contrived, but they have a monopoly over the Apple App Store. It is contrived. Put aside the fact that the Mac's market share is in the teens. You're saying that Apple has a monopoly over a market fo
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> They are a monopoly, and this is unjust. Over what market does Apple have a monopoly?
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I don't think recumbents (at least high-racers) are necessarily unstable at slow speeds. My understanding was that the fundamental problem with recumbents in racing is that, going uphill, aerodynamics matters less. What really matt
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> Lastly, SeanLuke is probably not familiar with mountain bikes, but modern geometry for XC and enduro bikes is towards slacker headtube angles (resulting in higher trail) for stability when descending. I'm certainly not familiar wi
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Because of draconian UCI rules put in place to satisfy political whims of the 1930s, we are required to consider only positions like these rather than other, much more aerodynamic ones. The danger lies in people starting to think that the
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The description of trail could be a lot better, given how important it is. It's effectively the degree to which the front wheel acts as a caster. When you push a shopping cart the caster wheels automatically straighten out and trail
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
It sounds like he's playing more than two notes simultaneously in many places. How is he accomplishing this?
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Absolutely.
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That is one of the stupidest graphics I have ever seen in an academic journal article.
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Doubtful. The United States is a high immigration priority among the Hong Kong chinese. Vancouver (and Australia) received the bulk of Hong Kong immigrants because, during the handover exodus, the US imposed extraordinary hurdles on immigr
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Yep, Carolina Eyck is the best of the best. Here's the notorious video of her performing the Ecstasy of Gold with voice, theremin, and a looper pedal (that's how she load in multiple sounds and layers them). https://www
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> professor of medicine According to this guy's Wikipedia page, he has claimed many times to be a professor of oncology at Imperial College: but he is not, and Imperial College has sought legal options to stop him from making this c
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> In the case of a published work, a notice may prevent a defendant in a copyright infringement action from attempting to limit his or her liability for damages or injunctive relief based on an innocent infringement defense. I think this
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touche.
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I greatly dislike Snow Crash: it feels like slogging through Leviticus, plus an astronomical amount of suspension of disbelief. However. There is no doubt in my mind that Snow Crash has the finest first chapter I have ever had the pleasure
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??? The very first word I got was a real word (Shmoo).
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> That's plausible but AVID Pro Tools is even more prestigious than Logic and AVID's market cap is only $250 million[0]. In no universe is Pro Tools more prestigious than any of its competition. I think Pro Tools is viewed as T
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Note, this is standard in the academic world, even if there is a single author. This is true. It's awful writing. And there are many other indications of terrible writing in academic papers as well. - The Royal We. We are not a
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Because it's got a frame around it Lit's non-primary button looks like the primary button. To me.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I don't play the guitar: I'm a keyboard person. But I'm very concerned about the future of the guitar market. Over the last three years there have been numerous articles about how the guitar industry is in serious trouble.
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Cyan had already made Myst and Riven. This is close to the opposite of what I was asking for. So once again: you seriously think that J.K. Rowling, a completely unknown author with a manuscript repeatedly rejected by publishing houses, is
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> Her first book was also written without her receiving any money to do so. But she owned the copyright to it, and could trade that copyright for a contract on the book. That is, she had a viable monetization mechanism if her work was
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What would the fee mechanism be for her very first book? Who would pay it? Remember, this book was so risky that she was rejected by quite a number of publishers. Copyright is also the tool of open source code licensing. How exactly woul

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