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by ak39 7y ago
Dan, you know what would be cool for HN comments? The ability for each node of a thread to be annotated with topic names. For example, if the node close to the root node here were to be labelled "Israeli politics", I, a user inter
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by ak39 7y ago
Thanks. Is there a way to detect the infection?
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by ak39 7y ago
Thank you for the video links. I had never heard of Jamie Wheal before - I enjoyed listening to his thoughts. I also enjoy listening to Terence McKenna and Alan Watts every once in a while ... most of what they say often sounds completely i
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by ak39 7y ago
The irony of surprise is misunderstanding in the HN context too. I too pictured the poor bloke got up, cracked open his laptop to do some coding in a hospital bed. LOL. Thought: poor guy can't even get a break from devops on his weddin
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by ak39 7y ago
Developing Thanos snap gimmicks and other region specific Easter eggs?
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by ak39 7y ago
So basically?: “Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth
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by ak39 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LzA1K3Q_5k
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The reason Boeing’s new plane crashed twice [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ak39 8y ago|0 comments
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Chomsky on the arrest of Julian Assange [video](youtube.com)
123 points by ak39 8y ago|51 comments
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by ak39 8y ago
Sorry, my bad - you are 100% right. Firemonkey uses scalable vectors for UI. (It also uses native, but that's not what I had intended to say.)
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by ak39 8y ago
Mostly Windows desktop apps for specific verticals (seen many in insurance, finance etc) - albeit considered legacy. I use it for Windows ISAPI dlls against various backend databases (mostly MS SQL Server). The newer output however from thi
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by ak39 8y ago
"I feel like this is the sweet spot―give me a thin abstraction over SQL and do the gruntwork of converting domain entities to tables and vice-versa, but nothing else, thanks." Something like iBatis/nBatis? (Haven't used
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by ak39 8y ago
Hi Luka, Your presentation was excellent. I'm not attacking you. I agreed with everything you said (at least the parts that I watched). My _rant_ (or attack), instead is with the _phenomenon_ we were so strongly and needlessly gripped
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by ak39 8y ago
Your analogy with fashion is useful, except it doesn't convey the wanton waste of money and time and brain cells this diversion took us through - we have come out poorer and it seems with significant loss of memory (intellectual and ac
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by ak39 8y ago
So in 20 years we've gone from vilifying SQL statements in code, witch-hunted folks who did this and instead invented and propped up clunky ORM implementations, ignored sage advice on the famous "object-relational impedance mismat
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by ak39 8y ago
I think a TLDR here would be: Discipline, not vision. Habit, not motivation. (I wonder often whether discipline is another method my brain tricks me to block out cynicism?)
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Idea vs. Programming Effort (Reddit)(reddit.com)
2 points by ak39 8y ago|0 comments
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The Computer Chronicles – Visual Programming Languages (1993) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ak39 8y ago|3 comments
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by ak39 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5g0kidk3Y (1996 documentary by Cringely. Excellently presented) There's a part 2 too.
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by ak39 8y ago
There is truth in the notion that the saving mindset only heightens financial anxiety. And this, in my experience, can lead to poor financial decisions (the old "penny wise pound foolish" behaviour). I have also experienced an inv
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by ak39 8y ago
Event(Sender: TObject) type of thing is everywhere in C# now. Also, to add to your point: The TDataset MVC architecture was light years ahead of its time: TVisualControl -> TDataSource -> TDatasetDescendant Everything just fits in snu
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by ak39 8y ago
As long as Win32 exists as a supported api from Microsoft, Delphi will survive in that shade. For a long time Borland produced better tooling for dev on Windows than Microsoft did. Eventually Microsoft just poached the best from Borland inc
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by ak39 8y ago
There have been a few syntactic enhancements over the last 10 years or so. Generics for example. Recently they have also added inline variable declaration (you don't need to put all vars in a function at the top anymore). But these don
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by ak39 8y ago
Vit D referenced study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1809944
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by ak39 8y ago
I’m not a millennial but I’m with his kids. Tax the wealthy. Rebalance directly. Any notion of trickledown and secondary effect rebalancing is fraught with complexities and conditionalities. It would also take an entire generation to figure
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by ak39 8y ago
Agreed. This is with any artificial or exogenous stimulant or enhancer. What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts.
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by ak39 8y ago
I don't mind this cultural practice. Mildly amusing and that's what makes this world fascinating to visit. What I do mind about Chinese (and East Asian) culinary culture is the insatiable demand for rhino horn. That's gotta s
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by ak39 8y ago
26 (left most) = 3'500'000'000 (right most) That is one staggering statistic. If I were one of those 26 people, I'd consider myself a superhero. Wake up every morning knowing that I am capable of saving and improving liv
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by ak39 8y ago
I would agree. But think of the logistics for this feature: in order for you to downvote, you have to provide a reason. Should we show the userId for the comment? If so, we defeat the anonymous voting feature. If not, comments can become fe
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by ak39 8y ago
The best part about HN is that you do NOT know who upvoted or downvoted you! I think the makers of this forum are wise also to prevent you from voting on posts that reply to you! That's next level "Grandpa" wisdom (and I am 4

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