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by b0rsuk 9y ago
It may be just me, but the tracks that distract me the most are the ones with a solid melody line. Such as Willow's Song, easily the most beautiful song about milking a bull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOtscTCJBk
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Okay, I'm posting. I've been afraid to do so because I might violate some unspoken Hacker News rule and be smitten with downvotes. I think my adventure started with very generic youtube queries for 'afro' or something li
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I haven't downvoted you, but I wouldn't recommend Vim either, and it's my favourite editor. Vim is notorious for trapping users, they don't even know how to exit the program! Nano really gets the job done for people who
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I used to be interested in such things, but then I found a really nice Funk/Acid Jazz/House/Soul playlist on Youtube (50 videos). Some of them I don't like, but overall - very enjoyable and puts me in a good mood when pr
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Flash has the "advantage" that it's used almost exclusively for advertisments. Mostly pretentious people (artists, photographers etc) have websites made of flash. So, by turning off Flash, you block the bulk of annoying ads.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Some good points for reST instead of markdown: * Markdown has many flavors, reST is standarized * reST is extensible * reST is semantic, Markdown is just text. http://ericholscher.com/blog/2016/mar/
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I feel offended by the omission of my personal favorite, reStructuredText (reST). It's a very robust and readable markup language, and can easily generate documents in HTML, Linux man, latex, pdf, odt and more. If readability of LaTeX
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Sounds suspiciously like Embrace, Extend...
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Okay, I'll take it at face value. Can you name a few competent programmers who are also competent book / story writers ?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
These are merely extreme cases. Javascript is full of less mind-boggling inconveniences. It's not like they only kept the really bad features for laughs and fixed the rest.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
You might trip on one of these misfeatures when a variable doesn't contain what you think it does. Or when you make a typo. In those cases, you're generally grateful for a strongly-typed language or a strict compiler.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I get the kick out of: True, False = False, True # fixed in Python3
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
$python Python 2.7.9 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:08:31) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2 >>> True + True 2 >>> okay... python3 Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 10:45:20) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux Type "
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
There's an implicit fallacy that MS Paint did a lot of good and the world would be a sad place without it. No, something else would fill that niche. The same nostalgia argument has been used for MS Windows, Internet Explorer, etc.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I would use a similar app for something inconsequential, like bird voices. However, mushrooms are often identified to determine whether they can be eaten. The penalty for mistake may be death. So I think I'll pass. For the record, I&#x
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
For Polish speakers, there's "Ważniak". http://wazniak.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?title=Algorytmy_i_stru... But wait, it's a whole goddamn curriculum from IT studies (Bachelor's + Master's), incl
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
What the article doesn't mention is remote workers are less often promoted. It's psychological - out of sight, out of mind. By default coworkers don't see you, only when you say something. In an office a manager will often pa
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
It's interesting that almost all choices in "Choose your own adventure" are binary. They are, with few exceptions, binary trees. There can only be more than 2 choices if children of the node are leaf nodes (endings). A very s
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
You're justifying company behavior, but my post was in response to the one who wondered how could a person pass exams but fail job interviews. I pointed out there are valid reasons that are not the candidate's fault. I'm in
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I think "find the bug in this code piece" questions are dumb! When you program, you don't get a helpful fairy (or Clippy for you Windows users) telling you the code is wrong and needs fixing. The bug manifests itself in produ
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Last but not least, after you fail an exam you can usually see it with errors underlined and often have the teacher explain them for you. If you answer interview questions in a suboptimal way, you get no feedback. You don't know what w
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Same results in and out of incognito mode :-|
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
The article displays his autocomplete hints: google amp pages google amp annoying google amp sucks google amp conference My equivalents in google.com are: test cache disable maps Both bing.com and duckduckgo.com (w
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Is this something very American to hunt for all quotes and stories of a famous person once he's dead ? Happened with Hunter, happened with Steve Jobs. Successful people seem to reach some kind of cult status in America. Even quite vagu
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Although brain development is subject to significant individual variation, most experts suggest that the brain is fully developed by age 25. http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-b... A
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
It looks cool, but would probably be better served with a propeller. Fall recovery is great until you realize you can push it away by going Boo! . Out of the applications, dancing looks most convincing to me. It could serve as a toy /
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
You make it sound like uranium nuclear reactors vs thorium nuclear reactors. Because of the arms race, uranium ones were developed first even though they are merely a (as one HN commenter put it) local optimum . And I remember I was one of
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Most schools around the world teach you maths, even though vast majority of people doesn't use maths at work - not directly. So why bother ? Surely primary school math would be enough for everyone except specialists ? While I'm sk
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Moreover, if I did use a high-level language, what language should it be? In the 1960s I would probably have chosen Algol W; in the 1970s, I would then have had to rewrite my books using Pascal; in the 1980s, I would surely have changed ev
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
More people should be aware of static blog generators. It's a kind of software used to make websites where you write your posts in a markup language like reStructuredText or Markdown, and once done a script transforms it into HTML and

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