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by aroman 11y ago
Why does this sentiment always get downvoted? (Not just here on HN, but on other forums and in the real world as well) Edit: to those downvoting me (classic), when I left this comment the parent was at -2 or -3 votes and at the bottom of
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by aroman 11y ago
Am I the only one bothered that they didn't include the space between the "OS" and the "X"? More importantly, this is huge, but as a Linux developer/user I still have no desire to use .NET on my platform. Maybe
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by aroman 11y ago
Man, that's just embarrassing.
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Elementary OS Freya Released(elementary.io)
137 points by aroman 12y ago|87 comments
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by aroman 12y ago
I haven't looked at the MIT course in detail, but doesn't it seem like Concepts would be more similar to this than 251?
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by aroman 12y ago
Not sure if you were being cheeky or not, but that's not an April Fool's joke.
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by aroman 12y ago
Are you suggesting that the strategy you describe above wouldn't just as well if the names were reversed?
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The End of Full Disclosure(seclists.org)
3 points by aroman 12y ago|1 comments
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by aroman 12y ago
As a member of the team that "won" that hackathon, I agree. Interestingly, one of my least-favorite parts about "doing well" at hackathons like these is that I don't get the opportunity to go around to other tables
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by aroman 12y ago
Wow, that's crazy! I've always wondered if something like that would be feasible... had no idea it had actually been done on a grand-scale before. Thanks for that.
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by aroman 12y ago
I often ask myself these same questions.
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by aroman 12y ago
See my comment to the other reply. Ordinarily I'd agree, but these were all graduated undergrad math majors in a course about how to teach math (specifically prime numbers) to high schoolers.
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by aroman 12y ago
From what my professor told me, they were almost exclusively in their mid-20s, having just finished undergrad degrees in math. You're right — knowing if 1 is prime is kind of a trivial point, but this was a course for would-be math tea
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by aroman 12y ago
Oh my god — I can't believe it. A professor of mine in college (I'm currently a freshman — this happened a few months ago) told me a story _exactly_ like this — just at the University of Pittsburgh Masters in Education program and
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by aroman 12y ago
One word: cost.
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by aroman 12y ago
i think his answer was that all the magic numbers and heuristics that make the physics and animations and whatnot feel perfectly native are black boxes. if you want to make a "native" iOS/Android experience on the mobile web,
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by aroman 12y ago
the article says this in the first few sentences
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by aroman 12y ago
It the source were available, I could compile it into a binary myself and calculate a file checksum and compare it against the binary downloaded from the App Store. Obviously not the case here, but i don't think you'd need to &quo
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by aroman 12y ago
IANAS/D but it seems that it is, in fact, effectively harmless (in people without severe pre-existing mental disorders, which is to say most people). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#
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by aroman 12y ago
wow, derp! the screenshot looked like Ruby to me; I assumed "Elixir" was the name of some code-intelligence plugin. Finally, well-deserved down votes, I suppose.
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by aroman 12y ago
I assume OP shared this after watching Bret Victor's recent talk, "The Humane Representation of Thought"?
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by aroman 12y ago
Does this support JavaScript as well?
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by aroman 12y ago
I really really do not think that IBM is "becoming strategically irrelevant to the future of computing". Maybe the IBM of the early 1990s, but not the IBM of the mid 2010's. Watson and its related technologies are practically
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by aroman 12y ago
Archaic?
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by aroman 12y ago
from the article itself: "Finally, we know IMAP, SMTP and the DAVs aren’t going away any time soon. No protocol will succeed unless it provides an upgrade path from where we are now, and a compelling reason to switch. We will provide
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by aroman 12y ago
As another current student... you are very mistaken. See: http://oli.cmu.edu
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by aroman 12y ago
I didn't mean to suggest they were literally disowning him — that's why i said "functionally" and "temporarily".
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by aroman 12y ago
One thing I'm still confused about: if the parents have literally excommunicated him/functionally (temporarily) disowned him, who's idea was the PR firm, and moreover, who is paying for it?
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by aroman 12y ago
This looks like a fantastic resource, but I was off put by the (albeit tongue-in-cheek) 'RMUVI - Real Men Use VI' line in the article.
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by aroman 12y ago
Given they linked to that repo from the article, I think it's safe to say they've seen it. :-)

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