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by TFrancis 18y ago
Seriously Robert Anton Wilson's books changed the way I look at the world. I started with "Prometheus Rising" and followed that with "Quantum Psychology." Honestly the two best books I've ever read (Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is close).
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I think making forking cheap and easy is a good idea. Sure, bad forks will be made but, Git would make it easy to merge the fork's changes into a trusted stream.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
If portability is a concern, I recommend you check out Bazaar.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I appreciate the effort you've expended to setup a new news site but, I'm unlikely to ever venture there. If in fact, this act betters Hacker News, I'm even less likely to venture there.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Would love to see something like this for Django. Hmmm...new weekend project!
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I have a similar work flow to yours and I experience many of the same problems you do with DVCS. I'm currently thinking about just using rsync to keep my development environments the same. I haven't made this move yet but, I can't think w
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by TFrancis 18y ago
A good question to be sure but, I don't think that we should consider that disk as a backup intended for us. FSM forbid that something terrible should happen to us, perhaps another intelligent species may find it long after we're gone.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
As people generating entertainment for their readers, you're right. It was a good story. But, as "journalist" they, in my opinion, are lazy. They failed to fully research the issue and present it as clearly as possible.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Why the link to the comments anchor?
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I don't think we ought to excuse Cuil and provide them more time before we judge the search engine. They've had all the time they needed and put out a press release saying so.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Canonical doesn't give back? What about Debian? Do their changes propagate through those channels?
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Cell phones?
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Nor, is it that funny.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I'm curious why no one is asking if this is hacker related news? An article like this seems very similar to the article posted about Obama winning the Democratic nomination and that posting received a significant amount of criticism. Is it
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Pardon the brevity of my previous post. I'm sorry if it appears that I'm arguing for it's own sake. I only meant to indicate that we currently have an implemented definition of "better" between posts--the HN ranking algorithm. I believe
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by TFrancis 18y ago
You didn't provide a definition of better.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I then argue that "better" as defined by the HN heuristic is exactly defined as an article with more points.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Even without the ability to downvote, doesn't the position of the article indicate that there isn't a better article?
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Given the position of this article, it appears that the rest of the community disagrees.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Right, let's reduce education! Ignore the order of magnitude more funding provided to the Department of Defense. This never made any sense to me. I target my voting like I optimize my code. Look for the biggest inefficiencies and start t
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Democracy is the greatest hack.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Does anyone else think that PLT Scheme dialect is moving closer to Common Lisp?
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by TFrancis 18y ago
4) learn a framework other than CakePHP.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I do believe that this is a move in the right direction but, why require registration at all?
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by TFrancis 18y ago
After reading this: "While working at I.B.M.’s Thomas J. Watson Jr. Research Laboratory in New York, Mr. Gray asked his boss if he could relocate to an I.B.M. laboratory in San Jose. When he was told that he couldn’t, he said, “All right, t
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by TFrancis 18y ago
Though they aren't always possible to avoid, I consider "emergencies" examples of poor business decisions and try to avoid them.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
I don't think that I would ever hire a insert language programmer. When looking for someone to program, I'm just looking for a programmer; language isn't important.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
There is a high ration of signal/noise on Reddit and PBS alike. This may very well succeed but, it might just be preaching to the choir. I was about to comment that I was happy that the information on Reddiit was going to reach a larger au
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by TFrancis 18y ago
They post it because it resonates with them. Personally, I'm always happy to XKCD pop up on HN or reddit.
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by TFrancis 18y ago
There was almost no information related to Provigil in that article. Sure, we got the standard, "Drugs are bad. Mmmmm...K?" But, that's just more noise. Why is is so hard to get signal on this topic? Besides, I think that it's clear that

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