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by astine 14y ago
It was commissioned by Koryo, the NK tourist agency as a promotional tool. It's not for Koreans to play, but for foreigners who might want to visit North Korea.
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by astine 14y ago
On the front page of his website: http://www.mattbors.com/
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by astine 14y ago
I love the idea behind this site and if I get some useful feedback on my website, I'll be ecstatic. Anyway, your site not really a success yet. You've just been Hacker Newsed. Traffic will probably go back down after today. It's happened to
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by astine 14y ago
There's no reason you wouldn't get repeat customers. That would eliminate the Ponzi scheme angle.
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by astine 14y ago
That's ridiculous. RTFM isn't an attitude that arrose apropos of nothing. It comes from situations where newbies asking the same basic questions over and over again exhausting a community's patience with simple questions that can be easily
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by astine 14y ago
It's actually not rhetoric - it's a play on Bradbury's comment about e-readers "smelling like burned fuel" (read Fahrenheit 451 for the background of this). That's almost the definition of rhetoric.
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by astine 14y ago
He's referencing the Austrian Business Cycle theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory The argument is that inflationary spending is what causes the boom bust cycle. Inflation creates an initial perspective of pr
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by astine 14y ago
It should read something like: 9. Letting your love of your work blind you This is really true in any creative field. Publishers receive manuscripts all the time from authors who demand that nothing in it be changed, some going so far as
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by astine 14y ago
I was going to say something to the effect of "Who is this guy and why do we care what he thinks? He seems like an idiot." But it turns out that he's actually a respected thinker and has published some respected books so maybe I'm not allow
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by astine 14y ago
Wow. the Cliki has gotten a makeover since the last time I checked it.
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by astine 14y ago
I use nanoc rather than jekyll for my blog for reasons I give here: http://theatticlight.net/posts/nanoc3/
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In the former case, yes that's racist but there were probably fewer of them this election than the last. Also, there were probably fewer of them than voted against him because he's black. WRT the latter, you don't have to reveal who you vot
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by astine 14y ago
"Affirmative action means that equally qualified workers are then selected to be as representative of the population as possible." Maybe this is what Affirmative Action means to you , but not to everyone. In fact, the University of Texas i
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by astine 14y ago
That strikes me as terrible reasoning. People living in these communities (as well as others in the deep south) have generally lived in these communities for generations and will likely continue to do so even no matter how much affirmative
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by astine 14y ago
My understanding is that Uber drivers don't have medalions. They compete with the protected taxis.
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by astine 14y ago
Funny, the opposite lesson is sometimes true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royal In fact, there aren't a lot of paper homes in the United States (There are none.) Most Americans prefer brick homes but they're relatively expensive and
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by astine 14y ago
Maybe there should be an "x" for hide. The comment's would disappear and it would register as a downvote.
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by astine 14y ago
It's not and it never was.
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by astine 14y ago
Many people, including the primary demographic of HN, like to also learn and have insightful discussions. We can get our competitiveness and tribalism out at sporting events We can have nice discussions here.
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by astine 14y ago
Think of HSM as a more convenient alternative to a traditional tape system, rather than a cheaper alternative to a disk system. I think the benefits outweight the costs, but only if you understand the limitations. Have a guy on staff who un
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by astine 14y ago
It would still be too slow simulate a HDD system. You generally have two bottlenecks in tape seek performance. The first is the fetch from the robot, which can take seconds . The other is spindle rate on the tape drive itself which is limi
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by astine 14y ago
> LTFS offers an abstraction layer so that software can treat a tape drive like a hard drive. That makes programming easier, but it will not have any effect on performance. Ugh. You're more right than you know. This is a misconception t
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by astine 14y ago
So to sum up: "It's not just inspiration, it's followthrough which makes all the difference." And it's not just a little followthrough, but you have to continually renew your enthusiasm and continue to improve even beyond your original visi
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by astine 14y ago
In any other country, the American left/right spectrum would not make sense.
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by astine 14y ago
It's worth mentioning that Uriel was one of the major contributors to http://suckless.org/ software. Things like wmii, dwm, dmenu, and other minimalist bits of software for Linux were partly his doing. He will be missed.
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by astine 14y ago
Occam's Razor says that we should prefer simpler explanations to more complex ones with the same explanatory power. That is, we should prefer explanations which don't raise more questions than they answer. This has nothing to do with the en
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by astine 14y ago
I'd suggest that at the very least it creates extra pressure to perform and that pressure by itself can help to generate better results.
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by astine 14y ago
The phrase "similar to you," is vague enough to possibly connote an actual scientific bases of measurement. Eg you could be measuring people according to their intelligence percentile as opposed to their racial group. The term "stereotype
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by astine 14y ago
I have a friend who lived in a Honda Accord for three months. He says his goal was to save money but his friends (including myself) are convinced that he was just too lazy to look for an apartment.
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by astine 14y ago
"Finally, a Geek is a Circus worker who bites the heads off of live chickens. For decades it was used as a severe insult, often preceding a beatdown by jocks. The term has been reclaimed by creative intellectuals among themselves, but is al

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