borkabrak

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by borkabrak 11y ago
I have generally found that a random user on Hacker News is much less likely to be a troll than, say, Reddit. In light of that consideration, I'm left with a belief that the most likely cause of comments like these is simple misunders
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by borkabrak 11y ago
"five best selling items" I assume he meant the five that were the best-sellers at his own store.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
..aand it's gone. I just got: "–This post has been temporarily removed at the request of Zillow. We are collaborating with them to write a more complete version of the story, and will have an updated version posted on October 7th.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I don't disagree with your thesis here. I'd like to observe that a course of training such as you describe seems outside the scope of the article. Perhaps it does some small good, anyway, by suggesting that acquiring such trainin
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by borkabrak 11y ago
This is a bit philosophical, but I'd say the thing you're disdaining here is the ability to handle difficult concepts. It's tough to acquire, because it requires practice failing at it for a while until we begin to succeed a
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by borkabrak 11y ago
This reminds me of something I'm still working to figure out -- the 'negative capability' referenced by Keats. In one sense, it's the ability to accept an answer of 'unknown'. Maybe it's the ability to ch
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by borkabrak 11y ago
And now I'm dying to know what percentage of violent crimes involve police.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
The text of the article is designed to respond to exactly this familiar argument. If you're reading this, angdis, you may be interested in reading the article.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I love the ambition. But when you stated your next goals, I'm afraid I thought of this: http://xkcd.com/1425/ I may very well be wrong, and I'd love it if you showed me I am. Good luck. As I said, I really
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean? I'm not arguing; just curious.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Ouch. This one landed. If this is true, then I think it would turn me off the deal. Unless I wanted to try what someone else mentioned and flash it with CyanogenMod or something. Never done that before, but this might be a good way to s
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Maybe I'm not sufficiently hardware-savvy, but what's the downside here? I am more or less in the market for a modest tablet, but I'm indifferent to whether it comes from Amazon. Can someone recommend a better deal?
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by borkabrak 11y ago
You need to drop the space after the 'script' element up there, but otherwise this is a great little tool. Thanks!
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I can't think of a reason to agree with this. Would you like to provide some?
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by borkabrak 11y ago
He didn't seem to be arguing against the principle of charging for the service. But, from a user's viewpoint, having to pay for something is rarely an argument in its favor.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I wrote a simpler version of very nearly the same thing not long ago. But this one is much nicer. The animations, in particular, add a lot of flash.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Well, I think at least one intended reason is: because it's fun. I get to play games/solve interesting puzzles, and I might get contacted about a job that some person in a position to know thinks I might like and do well at? Cou
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I know you're kidding, but wasn't that sort of the plot of "The Last Starfighter"? Now I know why you call it that. Heh.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I'm personally excited to see if I can get this to allow me to persist tmux sessions over a reboot. Thoughts?
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by borkabrak 11y ago
This is exactly the reason I've never switched to using `less +F`, as well. When I tail a log, I'm usually looking for sections of it corresponding to particular test runs. Adding blank lines or even rows of dashes/equal
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by borkabrak 11y ago
Efficient, but less flexible. And much more difficult to read.
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by borkabrak 11y ago
I live on the command line, so I really dig this sort of thing. And this one in particular looks very nice. I'm a fan! If you're open to bug reports/feature requests: * The image for clear weather is a bright sun, which is
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by borkabrak 12y ago
"Allowing some individuals to make the decision for lots of other people" is the purpose of a representative democracy. It may not be ideal, but it's necessary because of the size of the group and the logistical nightmare of
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by borkabrak 12y ago
Sorry for what amounts to a trivial comment, but I would love to see that on a t-shirt.
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by borkabrak 12y ago
That got me at first, too. If you'll notice, the slides are 'chapters' that you can click on to try the challenges therein contained.
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by borkabrak 12y ago
This page is itself a poor example of the principle it's trying to expound. Unfortunate, and especially disappointing as its an idea that I agree with.
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by borkabrak 12y ago
I'm a humanist, and it has made my worldview much, much brighter . I don't walk around with a load of guilt anymore. The things that happen to me are not "God" punishing me for something my great^n grandparents did, b
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by borkabrak 12y ago
The page itself can't tell what color the squares(links) are rendered as to the user. That's what the clicking is for. Mwaahaha...
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by borkabrak 12y ago
You cleared your browser history recently?
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by borkabrak 12y ago
The #1 guess for me was Norweigian, while English was #2. I've spent all my life in the American South.

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