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by aroberge 15y ago
... if you want to take a US-centric view of things, then that last statement is correct I suppose... but not everyone is subject to US laws - including, unless I am grossly mistaken, the person you refer to.
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by aroberge 15y ago
I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good int
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by aroberge 15y ago
This appears to be some sort of phishing site. I first look at it using an iPad with the built-in Safari. Since the font size was too small (can't help it, I'm old!), I tried to pinch and enlarge and the text transformed into a blurry ima
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by aroberge 15y ago
"You've opted out, but you can opt in at any time." I am really surprised that the majority of readers of HN have not opted out from being tracked.
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by aroberge 15y ago
Codecademy appears (for now) to be entirely free - which is not the case at all for Codeschool.com. To me, a free site is "way cooler" (to use your expression) than one that requires a fairly pricey monthly subscription.
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New usb key: dropbox on steroid?(news.slices.ninemsn.com.au)
1 points by aroberge 15y ago|0 comments
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by aroberge 15y ago
Premature launch? Linear algebra: only Khan academy videos. Relativity: nothing. Various other topics in Physics: nothing. Seriously, you have a long way to go before you can even approach Google, not to mention some already existing p
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by aroberge 15y ago
It needs to be installed under Packages not Packages/User. Look at the github source for Soda Theme for further explanation... (I just read that this morning).
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Ask HN: one-year college certificate curriculum
1 points by aroberge 15y ago|0 comments
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by aroberge 15y ago
Sorry for stating the obvious but, Postdoc == Post-doctoral (fellowship). So, of course you can't get one without having doctoral degree. However, it is sometimes possible to work as a research assistant and end up doing very similar wo
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by aroberge 15y ago
What about non-U.S. citizens who will be affected by SOPA and do not have a congressional representative to lobby? This boycott is much larger than you seem to think - and, because of its global scope, should be given more thoughts.
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by aroberge 15y ago
Do you have millions to spend lobbying Congress? If not, you can do the next best thing: protest in any way that can hurt financially (even in a tiny way - it all adds up) companies that CAN and DO lobby Congress.
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by aroberge 15y ago
As a registrar that does business internationally, it may seem (to an American) that it is appropriate for them to be patriotic ... but it is certainly not a good way to continue appealing to international consumers. The Internet should be
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by aroberge 15y ago
HN is solely responsible for this I love HN. But that statement is myopic and over the top. I believe that Reddit started the discussion on a boycott. At the very least, much discussion took place there.
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by aroberge 15y ago
I had no complaints about their service (other than the fact that they send tons of emails trying to sell more...) but, as a Canadian, I felt that was one of the few ways in which I could do something to express my serious concern with and
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by aroberge 15y ago
Alternatively );f=set#
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by aroberge 15y ago
Nice reformulation. It would be right in some contexts ... but, to me (and I am not a programmer by trade nor do I work in the field), the original quote is explicit enough that I would trust the person saying it to know what they are talki
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by aroberge 15y ago
Words like "evil" get thrown around rather too quickly, imo. Paraphrasing the above: I really hate seeing companies charging for door locks. Security of your house is something so essential, forcing people to pay in order to be safe is jus
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by aroberge 15y ago
> One final note on the bioweapon/bioterror angle: if you follow the thinking of the people that actually contemplate the use of bioweapons, you'll find that bioweapons are only ever considered as denial-of-area or knock-down agents.
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by aroberge 15y ago
Any chance (some of) the code for the platform could be shared? I particularly love the exercises (review questions) and the way some questions are embedded in the videos. Thank you and your teammates for some great work.
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by aroberge 15y ago
There's a huge difference between a one-time random tweeting event and constant monitoring. I'm not worried about random recording by strangers - but I am worried at the trend by many (most?) governments in their increasing capacity to rec
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by aroberge 15y ago
What a load of rubbish. I suspect that the author has a very highly opinion of his intelligence and failed Physics. Rather than accepting this, he makes up a tall tale about how the way Physics is taught is deliberately made to make people
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by aroberge 15y ago
This is a duplicate of so many other posts, I do not know where to start. Please use the search feature before posting.
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Body hacking trick: cooling the hands for better performance(stanfordalumni.org)
144 points by aroberge 15y ago|47 comments
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by aroberge 15y ago
From reading the comments, it appears that the article is, at the very least, slightly misleading as customers have the option not to replace their version.
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Cambrian explosion: genetic algorithm experiment(cambrianexplosion.com)
75 points by aroberge 15y ago|24 comments
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by aroberge 15y ago
Giving a link to an article behind a paywall is not very useful.
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by aroberge 15y ago
You might want to add rur-ple ( http://code.google.com/p/rur-ple ); it is similar to Guido van Robot (and was inspired by it). However, 1) it uses Python (instead of a more limited, Python-like inspired language); 2) it has more lessons an
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by aroberge 15y ago
While they may be old, and show their age, I would have thought that the Lensmen series, by E.E. Doc Smith would/should have made the list.
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by aroberge 15y ago
Nice summary. Would you have any recommendation for good, easy to read, online resources on "learn why and how to transform the AST" and "write an interpreter backend for your AST"?

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