alayne

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   by alayne 11y ago

   That Toronto guy bothered that woman and her acquaintances for months and months and made ongoing personal comments. If that's not a form of harassment, I don't know what is. Christie Blatchford isn't exactly an impartial new
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   by alayne 11y ago

   Harassment is usually defined as some repetitive unwanted targetted behavior, particularly where it has been made clear that the behavior is unwanted. I don't think a single comment is going to be considered harassment.
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   by alayne 11y ago

   As long as people continue this Greeks are reckless good for nothings myth it is going to be hard to find solutions.
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   by alayne 11y ago

   I find it very helpful to know if a news source has some kind of agenda. They may be more likely to use statements out of context or to suppress facts, biased towards one side of a dispute. I'm not saying that is the case here, but we
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   by alayne 11y ago

   More than 200k signed, so you're off by a factor of 10. I think that's too many to dismiss it as a vocal minority. I think a lot of things were incorrectly attributed to Pao. It doesn't really matter though. I don't thin
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   by alayne 11y ago

   I think it got a bit toxic here for him, though he didn't say that. pg still communicates via twitter like the sibling post mentions and writes essays. Maybe he just found that to be a healthier communication mechanism for him which is
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   by alayne 11y ago

   I wish Paul would give posting on hn another shot. I'm sure he's busy, but I always thought he had interesting perspectives even if I didn't always agree.
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   by alayne 11y ago

   Just make sure you stick to alt.*, because of those fascists who control RFDs.
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   by alayne 11y ago

   Numerous subreddits were closed on Yishan Wong's watch.
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    by alayne 11y ago

    Nope, by eight different organizations. Your intellectual dishonesty here is sad.
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    by alayne 11y ago

    "Climate Gate" was investigated and turned up "no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...
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    by alayne 11y ago

    Reminds me of http://everything2.com/title/POSIX_ME_HARDER
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    by alayne 11y ago

    Like others, I'm not sure that Apple has spawned few startups. The evidence here is weak. Apple's innovations have been primarily about hardware design. I would think there are many fewer hardware startups than software startups d
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    by alayne 11y ago

    I really liked Zapf's work. Here's a clip from the documentary Helvetica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjaepids2Q0
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    by alayne 11y ago

    Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9290332
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    by alayne 11y ago

    As a long time Emacs user, I would recommend using the real documentation too. Learn how to use the built in info and help, and study some of the elisp.
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    by alayne 11y ago

    Perl is not bytecode based. It compiles to a data structure, essentially an AST. I've never seen anything close to C-like performance from Perl, not in anything computational.
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    by alayne 11y ago

    I can't be the only one who thinks that implementing a toy function in one line of terse code doesn't demonstrate anything useful. What about programming in the large? What about efficiency of naive implementations? What about mai
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    by alayne 11y ago

    Unfortunately it was algebraic. Another sought after calculator watch is the Casio scientific watch CFX-400. The only RPN calculator watch I'm aware of is the uWatch which is out of production apparently http://www.calcwatch
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    by alayne 11y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8812724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188
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    by alayne 11y ago

    This seems like a normal result of post buyout restructuring by Stratasys. Does anyone have sales numbers to know if they are actually having issues?
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    by alayne 12y ago

    I really enjoyed seeing No. 14 at SFMOMA. Rothko's canvases are huge and there is a real warmth to them due to being hand-painted oil on canvas. These murals must have been a sight to see when they were in good condition. A lot of abst
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    by alayne 12y ago

    Ms. Trujillo is also a woman. 6 men. 6 women. What do you think the distribution should be?
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    by alayne 12y ago

    I worked with a lot of K&R C in the early 1990s, getting software to run on newer compilers and Solaris. I actually learned C++ before I learned C. It still looks strange to me. I believe the parameter declaration style comes from ALGOL
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    by alayne 12y ago

    This isn't an article about software. You're hijacking the discussion.
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    by alayne 12y ago

    Don't send your iDevice to a landfill. Apple stores accept any of their products for recycling at no charge and you can also mail them in.
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    by alayne 12y ago

    Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813937
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    by alayne 12y ago

    Powershell is nothing like a Unix shell. It uses a completely different model of operation that is object based.
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    by alayne 12y ago

    Really? A whole blog post like this? Crap.
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    by alayne 12y ago

    LEGO bricks are commonly called legos in the U.S. This is not a new development.