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Pirate Bay Anti-Paypal ad(thepiratebay.org)
1 points by blintson 16y ago|0 comments
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by blintson 16y ago
I think that's as close to "fuck off Arrington" as pg's gonna get.
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by blintson 16y ago
While we're talking about currency, why hasn't anybody in the US(to my knowledge) made a payment processor that works by generating transaction numbers, and then sending those numbers instead of sending people payment authentication credent
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by blintson 16y ago
Yes. Yes it is. Just because they have lots of fancy candy packaging doesn't mean that Japanese kids eat tons of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity#Japan Just look at photos of what the Jap kids eat for lunch: http:
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by blintson 16y ago
This "rebranding" is obnoxious. If I was kid I'd be pissed. Kids can tell when you're bs'ing them. They're exposed to enough propaganda already. The path to healthy food isn't in telling kids what to do, but exposing them to something bette
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by blintson 16y ago
No, no it wouldn't. It would be more effective to stop subsidizing unhealthy food. The long-term effects of such legislation are almost guaranteed to be a net-negative because of edge cases. There are already way too many laws. You should a
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by blintson 16y ago
Towards the end of his entry he mentioned something about readability. I believe postfix notation is superior in both read & write-ability for FP. Take: (reduce (lambda (x y) ...) (map (lambda (x) ...) data-set)) When you actually read
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by blintson 16y ago
Depending on where you live, the hottest hours of the day are usually between 12 - 5. Maybe it's instinctual for predators to not want to do stuff during those hours?
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by blintson 16y ago
Growing up with cellphones was bad enough. Kids need their space. Whereoscope has made the lives of lots of kids slightly worse.
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by blintson 16y ago
FTA: "Let’s begin with the Perry Preschool Experiment, which consisted of 123 low income African-American children from Yspilanti, Michigan." and three sentences later... "The differences, even decades after the intervention, were stark: Ad
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by blintson 16y ago
I lived in Japan for two months. I've been to China for a week. I'm fluent in Japanese and I've taken a Mandarin class. There is no doubt in my mind that English is the superior language and we'd all be better off if the Chinese would learn
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by blintson 16y ago
Bill Gates was well-connected from the birth. You can't learn to have a rich lawyer as a father. Microsoft didn't build an OS for IBM. The group that actually built the OS probably turned down IBM's offer because they couldn't get away with
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by blintson 16y ago
Bill Gates dad is the co-founder of one of the largest law firms in Seattle, and his mom knew IBM's CEO. Being well connected is not a skill*. If somebody with fewer connections tried to pull off what he did it'd probably bite'm in the ass.
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by blintson 16y ago
This is awesome!! I'm gonna try running a dinner party in my area. Proposed menu: Hickory-smoked pork ribs Yam Champloo (yams w/nuts&fruit&otherstuff) Coconut-Squash Soup Stir-fry & brown rice Fried spicy banana peppers
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by blintson 16y ago
If conveying that information in your voice is useful, it's also very useful to be able to fake it. I lifted weights in high school, went wakeboarding with people and (briefly) went to an MMA gym. I've met skinny people with deep voices and
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Ask HN: Feature Idea: Make upvote receiver anonymous
1 points by blintson 16y ago|2 comments
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by blintson 16y ago
Single quoting lets you pass a list without evaluating it. (car (eval '(a b c))) vs. (car (a b c)) Do the same thing. Have you read SICP? Somewhere in the 1st-3rd chapter there's an explanation of first-order evaluation that scheme uses. On
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by blintson 16y ago
FTA: “With the Internet it has exploded, but a lot of chief and command officers didn’t understand and chose to put their resources in things like burglary or homicides.” This is probably the most egregious example of justifying something "
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by blintson 16y ago
I'm not a troll. I don't think the law should have anything to do with this. He didn't do anything hard. He was only able to get away with what he did because Harvard was to lazy to verify his documents. Harvard charges $33k/semester, at th
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by blintson 16y ago
I always thought that a pair of video-glasses would be great for coding -- Any HNers here who've used a Heads-Up-Display? Do you think they're good enough for coding yet?
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by blintson 16y ago
I don't think grades/school should be used for employment at all.* Grades may coincide with good skills but they are _COMPLETELY_ orthogonal. 1. Most programmers in the US go through 16 years of school. The final 8 have an effect on where y
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by blintson 16y ago
This could easily be worse than ACTA. This is basically the first step to making anonymous communication illegal.
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by blintson 16y ago
I'd like to know PG's development setup was when he was building Viaweb. I heard it mentioned somewhere that PG used vim, I'd like to see his .vimrc, etc. etc. from the time.
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by blintson 16y ago
Most of my school's funding is and was not dependent on their student's skills, schools get funding for attendance. When I went to school they checked attendance 6 times every day (once for every class), and gave you 3 bathroom breaks/year/
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Steve Wozniak likes to do everything on his Segway.(edibleapple.com)
2 points by blintson 16y ago|1 comments
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Google's started offering a physical objects storage service(google.com)
2 points by blintson 17y ago|0 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
That's a good thing. If you can say the same thing using simpler, or fewer terms you should. It's not hard to make something simple seem complicated, it's hard to make something complex seem simple. Look at lisp.
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by blintson 17y ago
I wrote that wrong, my bad. I was copying from a call-by-value example from memory. Changed the following: *(int *foo)pointer_param /*changed to*/ *(int*)pointer_param = bar
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Ask HN: In C, why is the * operator both reference and type casting?
7 points by blintson 17y ago|6 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
Absolutely not. Highschool was by far the least productive time of my life. I'd have shot a few teachers if I had to put up with them six days a week.

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