bronson

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   by bronson 12y ago

   A motor is a lot better than a crank but still a little tedious. Make sure you can hit the button once, do something else for a minute, then come back to find the desk at the right height. My favorite so far are the pneumatic/spring d
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   by bronson 12y ago

   "Be aware of the recent state of your (current) health by monitoring your heart's pulse" "Stay fit, keep control of your body" "Please adjust your browser for the optimal service" Guessing this is a transl
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   by bronson 12y ago

   > it's about discoverability, scroll to discover random new things No. Are we talking about a library or a social site? It's about results, not randomly killing time. Also, please explain "wildly scrolling?" Who do
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   by bronson 12y ago

   Interesting, my most downvoted comment is also my highest rated: "Downvoted because enough is enough! The "14 competing standards" comic was really funny the first few hundred times it was snarked into HN comments." ht
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   by bronson 12y ago

   Somehow the newer submission is getting all the upvotes and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8516244
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   by bronson 12y ago

   So what are you complaining about? Do you want to use runtime libs or not? It sounds like you're dissatisfied either way.
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   by bronson 12y ago

   Because it's additional overhead where none is needed.
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   by bronson 12y ago

   C is fully self sufficient without calling into libc. Otherwise all the libc alternatives couldn't exist. Sure, you don't get to call strlen (actually, you do if the compiler treats it as an intrinsic), but that's no big dea
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   by bronson 12y ago

   > Everything you love about computing today ultimately rests on Stallman's hard work. Absolutely, demonstrably, false. Stallman has contributed greatly, yes, but please don't overstate it. It calls into question the other thi
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    by bronson 12y ago

    If you liked that, you might want to listen to the Radiolab on Lonesome George. (I think it's the middle one but it's worth listening to all three for context) http://www.radiolab.org/story/galapagos/
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Sometimes HN is priceless. I can't tell if this brilliant satire or not.
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    by bronson 12y ago

    This is awesome. Flash isn't used for anything anymore, can't wait until this is the default.
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    by bronson 12y ago

    All true, except the 2014 Mini has the RAM soldered down. Buy it with the memory you think you'll need.
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    by bronson 12y ago

    This is correct, the affluent communities have consistently shot Bart down. Caltrain is just as noisy but has the advantage of existing long before any of the housing tracts. San Francisco and San Jose Railroad service started in 1863.
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    by bronson 12y ago

    It's pretty well established that lead was a factor, by multiple studies. I'm guessing it wasn't quite as sound a debunking as you remember?
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Is there any context? Widlar is one of my heroes, right up there with Euler, Archimedes, Newton, etc. But I don't quite see why this is news today?
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Looks like the headline got changed. It was, "Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense" which I thought was both more correct (by HN rules) and more entertaining. The headline is currently "What Shakespeare can teach about language
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    “Shellshock”(dwheeler.com)

    92 points by bronson 12y ago|22 comments
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Agreed, that's a great report. Your results sound encouraging, definitely seems like a good place to find traction.
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    by bronson 12y ago

    The "a-ha" moment for me was concentrating on driving my rear foot into the ground. No matter how you jump or drag your front foot, if you don't get a good solid "pop" on the tail, nothing happens. Felt weird at fi
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Universal expectation? It seems you two are railing against a straw man. Abusive behavior, even on the LKML, even by Linus, is rare. If you feel as strongly as you seem to, please subscribe, form a first-hand opinion, and maybe contribut
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    by bronson 12y ago

    I'm not trying to be pedantic here but, despite your quote marks, Linus never said that. My interpretation of that email chain reads: anyone who is stupid enough to continue reading byte-by-byte after being told that it's a bad id
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    by bronson 12y ago

    This is a fantastic question!
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    by bronson 12y ago

    You're talking about the Linux Kernel, one of the most productive cultures of collaborative support ever created by humans. If you're going to argue against success, you're going to need to bring a lot of evidence.
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    by bronson 12y ago

    "I am upset and angry that you keep making the same mistakes." No, remember the context: you've already used nice, direct words, and Kai has ignored them multiple times. Now you need to shake Kai's cage. Linus might ha
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Given the shitstorm they threw when they caught me carring a small mat to my booth (turns out I need to pay $100 and wait an hour for one of them to carry it), I can imagine what they'd do if they found cables between booths... I don&#
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Isn't it well known that natural selection operates on communities? Doesn't seem very controversial to me. Douglas Adams described it years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCsHuoVABgI
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Saw "Connie Yeh, a former Citibank trader, nows runs an entrepreneurship preschool" and couldn't continue.
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    by bronson 12y ago

    His presentation at Long Now was inspiring: http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/apr/22/helping-revitalize-... (I only listened to the podcast, didn't watch the video) It sounded like everything was co
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    by bronson 12y ago

    Thanks! Waiting with bated breath. It's gonna be awesome once it happens but it's taken a long time...