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by andyn 18y ago
It was an entertaining article, granted, but I disagree that greasing palms to get a table at a restaurant is a hack. Maybe I'm just bitter at the overuse of the word nowadays. "Dude! I totally hacked that cereal into my mouth with a spoon!
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by andyn 18y ago
The connexions site mentioned in the article is at http://cnx.org/ - I found it recently while looking up some maths, looks like some good stuff in there.
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by andyn 18y ago
I suspect there's not much more over what Django-admin provides already but I reckon it would be good for people to maintain their own simple site without having to do any programming.
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by andyn 18y ago
They must be very patient, trying to bring down western civilisation one stolen fare at a time could take a while.
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by andyn 18y ago
I like ack better for searching code: http://petdance.com/ack/
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by andyn 18y ago
I gave up caring. It seems there's some sort of irresistable force that compels people to post articles about the government or the man. I suppose it appeals to this sort of audience, there's always the comment afterwards that "well I found
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by andyn 18y ago
It's on the front page of slashdot now.
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Aspect Oriented Programming With JavaScript(lazutkin.com)
1 points by andyn 18y ago|0 comments
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by andyn 18y ago
I've found personally I don't need to block the whole internet - just the top few procrastination websites - facebook, reddit, slashdot, bbc news etc. that I'd otherwise be tempted to read. There's a Firefox extension called LeechBlock ( h
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by andyn 18y ago
How would it tell the difference between desired and non-desired behavior?
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by andyn 19y ago
Okay, you may be named stcredzero and it may be April fools day, but that sounds like interesting stuff. Do you have anything to show yet?
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by andyn 19y ago
So did I, but then it was a chance to use http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ - told me it was down for everyone.
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by andyn 19y ago
They had an earlier article covering the Apple fall: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA... I assumed this Vista one was just a continuation rather than a "VISTA HACKED (oh by the way the mac went too)".
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by andyn 19y ago
There are quite a few Lisp/Scheme interpreters out there, just google "scheme in javascript" or "lisp in javascript". Here's two; http://www.joeganley.com/code/jslisp.html http://www.crockford.com/javascript/scheme.html They look very e
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by andyn 19y ago
I feel like there's been a slight creep in people posting articles about recession, polictics, current events because they believe that these things are important to this audience. It all still falls within "Hacker News". I think people m
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by andyn 19y ago
> Can we please move on? I wish. But the next weekly angry rant/controversy isn't here yet for people to get excited over.
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by andyn 19y ago
I recommend that book as well.
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by andyn 19y ago
I can't get off level 1 - do I have to have cookies enabled or something?
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by andyn 19y ago
Looks like a lot of fun - a pity it only has a flight time of ~75 seconds at the moment (it does say they'll get it up to 35 minutes ... we'll see how that pans out).
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by andyn 19y ago
Yes, going back and reading the relevant articles on Wikipedia [1][2], my original post is a bit of a simplistic summary of his argument. I agree that there could be quantum effects that are involved in the operation of the brain somehow. (
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by andyn 19y ago
I've enjoyed Penrose's books, but "The Emperor's New Mind" (where all this started) wasn't as good as some of his other work. I just came away with the impression that the train of thought was: (Brain == Mysterious & Complex) and (Q
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by andyn 19y ago
You make a good point. My problem is that I'm tired of all these articles proclaiming "Skub considered harmful"[1], "Why Skub sucks", "Skub on rails sucks!" or "Skub ruining CS degrees". But it just goes round and round and round. Someone s
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by andyn 19y ago
I don't think hack is quite the right word - to me it implies that people actually sat down and came up with this whereas I think it just grew organically, incrementally. We've been busy killing each other for thousands of years and I think
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by andyn 19y ago
There's also a free program that does that, along with various other background noises: http://www.peterhirschberg.com/mysoftware.html (Aire Freshener)
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by andyn 19y ago
Well... it would be nice to be able to download things and keep them on my hard-drive instead of buying physical media that has to be kept somewhere and fiddling around with DVD cases and bending down to open the tray. But as a lot of the c
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by andyn 19y ago
I'm sure you could make them self contained (i.e. no contacts on the outside) - some sort of coil around the edge maybe to pick up signals and power for the LEDs.
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by andyn 19y ago
Arcology
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by andyn 19y ago
I was hoping it was referring to the real old school BBS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS
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by andyn 19y ago
And that's another shark jumped.
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by andyn 19y ago
Perhaps you want to look into the object databases that are available for your language. For example ZODB[1] or Durus[2] for Python. [1] http://www.zope.org/Products/StandaloneZODB [2] http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/durus/

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