asclepiades

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Brazilian bureaucracy with Apple holding back Angry Birds maker Rovio(bnamericas.com)
1 points by asclepiades 15y ago|0 comments
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by asclepiades 15y ago
Well, I was thinking more about the contrast between the supposed permanence of tattoo and a programming language construct. Now that you have pointed it, however, it might give a certain feeling of "old school" ("self modifying code in COB
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by asclepiades 15y ago
And in 2060 developers will probably think something like what would think today, if shown a tattoo of "ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y" in the flaccid forearm of a 70-year-old. Still, much, much better than those at Hanzi Smatter [ http://hanzism
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Delightful Puzzles (gurmeet.net)
1 points by asclepiades 15y ago|0 comments
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by asclepiades 15y ago
I think we should also discuss two widely recognized fears which, in my experience, are frequently related to procrastination: fear of failure and fear of success. Both usually go, somewhat amusingly, hand in hand, but I think they should b
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by asclepiades 15y ago
Good, if you are interested be sure to check Silva Rhetoricae [ http://rhetoric.byu.edu ] too.
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by asclepiades 15y ago
Without wanting to sound harsh, but we knew it existed and that one could not live without it.
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by asclepiades 16y ago
Reading what I wrote, I now understand that it both sounded too harsh and completely lost the sarcasm in "snob western" (I should have added a [;)]). Believe me, as an Italian living in Brazil I have too often been accused of "western imper
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by asclepiades 16y ago
Hugo Chavez rules Venezuela, not Colombia. In fact, under his leadership Venezuela has been at times close to going at war with Colombia. I think you have a point, but using such an example makes you sound a snob western who divides the wor
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by asclepiades 16y ago
Ditto for Brazil... In my case, most apps are not for sale in AppStore, for example (not even Angry Birds).
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by asclepiades 16y ago
The Gambit Scheme wiki probably has most of what Hacker News readers want: http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Main_P...
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by asclepiades 16y ago
I use LaTeX for something people usually never think about: critical editions of ancient and medieval texts. A good critical edition has many typographic details (say: parallel and aligned text, apparatus, typefaces & styles, footnotes,
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by asclepiades 16y ago
I am an Italian, living in Brazil, my girlfriend is Brazilian. The only minor hassle she had was once in Portugal, when the officer asked her three times in a row what she was planning to do in Europe (probably because, from his point of vi
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by asclepiades 16y ago
Short answer, it depends. Long answer, it can run some parts of it if you join them (e.g., separating tokens, counting probabilities, some tagging and even some more advanced stuff). You cannot however, run everything (for exemple, modules