Typhon

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by Typhon 11y ago
This seems yet another example of web professionals not understanding HTTP. Much like webpages that say "404 not found" with a "200 OK" header.
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by Typhon 11y ago
I remember when Paul Graham pointed out that, « internally, most companies are run like communist states » (in http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html ) The picture he paints here of postwar-America as a bland, uniform countr
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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans(otherhand.org)
14 points by Typhon 11y ago|1 comments
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by Typhon 12y ago
I've already read that somewhere... http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mnewman/LockhartsLament.pdf EDIT : Oops, I hadn't seen that he already linked to this text. That'll learn me to post too quickly. Oh w
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by Typhon 13y ago
Or maybe it's an existing language in a yet unknown script. they don't really get how much people in the past and in other cultures are just like us, they like funny, silly and fun things too Thank you for your condescension. Ob
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by Typhon 13y ago
Does that mean you will start working on Arc as well ?
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by Typhon 13y ago
then handwave away the 80% of the manuscript that has to be gibberish because the information density is too low to be some kind of natural language Well, if you'd read more carefully, you'd know that Stephen Bax is precisely cl
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by Typhon 13y ago
I am puzzled by your comment. Do you mean to imply that the Voynich manuscript is "obviously" a joke ? Do you mean to imply that, in your view, the invention of a new alphabet to write an hitherto unwritten language, which would t
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by Typhon 13y ago
I read the paper and found it to be intelligible and interesting, making reasonable attempts to justify sound, plausible hypothesis. Obviously he may not be right, but his explanations are well worth reading.
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by Typhon 13y ago
If Haskell is the C++ of functional languages, what, in your opinion, is the C of functional languages ?
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by Typhon 13y ago
I originally included "short" as a criterion, but I removed it as subjective. And PG's essays are chronologically organized : the topmost are the most recent.
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by Typhon 13y ago
Interestingly, my own definition of blogging is not tied to a specific medium. To me, the defining characteristics of the blog are as follows : A collection of texts which are : 1 - Published incrementally as they are written, and chronolo
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by Typhon 13y ago
I just tried it on bash 4.2.25, and it worked, even though I just learned about it. Maybe not every OS enables the same default options for Bash (I'm using Lubuntu 12.10 at the moment)
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by Typhon 14y ago
Oh, right. It doesn't change the fact that the US is very culturally homogenous. because a language is not much spoken, it doesn't count? A langage that isn't much spoken is one you're much less likely to encounter. I neglected them becau
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by Typhon 14y ago
as if the U.S. is a homogenous culture Compared to Europe, it certainly is. From a merely linguistic viewpoint, in North America there's English and Spanish (Ok, and native american languages, but they're really not much spoken). In West
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by Typhon 14y ago
If I ever found a company, the only posters on the office walls will have a white background and black letters, for example the word "OBEY". The dresscode will be sunglasses.
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by Typhon 14y ago
Monty Python ? In my days, we were happy watching 'At last the 1948 show !'
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by Typhon 15y ago
What we have here is a list of trite, mostly useless if not wrong, observations, followed by an explanation that "religious people were right all along", without anything to back this up. The essence of religion is not "finding meaning by a
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by Typhon 15y ago
In the context of a replacement for Hollywood by something new, most likely something new on the internet, why would anyone bother to restrict the market to a specific region ? My comment wasn't about technical feasibility, it was more abou
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by Typhon 15y ago
It's obvious that many new forms of entertainment will use the web as a medium which, barring dictatorships, is worldwide, so you don't have to worry about it, insofar as you have enough bandwidth.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Which means it's a PR victory for anonymous ; it makes them appear stronger than they are.
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Journey into Kimland : a tourist's experience in North Korea(1stopkorea.com)
1 points by Typhon 15y ago|0 comments
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by Typhon 15y ago
Some lighter weight Linux, I'd say. See : http://tuxradar.com/content/whats-best-lightweight-linux-dis...
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by Typhon 15y ago
It's both, really.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Actually, Arc Lisp now allows for any kind of unicode madness. Øþ@ßðđŋħjłĸŝ¢łµæ¶ŧ←↓→ΩŁ§ÐªŊĦJ See : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100
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by Typhon 15y ago
The disappearance of blue collar jobs is most probably due to the fact that it is cheaper to put them in faraway countries where minimum wages either don't exist, or are ridiculously lower.
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by Typhon 15y ago
See http://landoflisp.com/
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by Typhon 15y ago
Maybe language shapes thought. Or maybe thought shapes language. Or maybe they both influence each other. Actually, that last one, I think, is the most likely, since it's less simplistic than the previous two. Now, much has been written abo
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by Typhon 15y ago
« In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. » Andy Warhol was right, and here we are. Indeed, capitalising on those 15 minutes, and making money out of it while you can is a good idea.
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by Typhon 15y ago
There goes the arc forum search, until, maybe, we get our version of HNsearch.

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