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by chm 11y ago
Here's a table showing the fraction i/n in decimal (white columns) and in dozenal (blue columns) for i=1,12 and n=1,12.[1] There's absolutely no way I can get most people I know to mix the alphabet and numerals. I'll def
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by chm 11y ago
Please give me an example of how base 12 arithmetic is "much friendlier" than base 10. I've just skimmed the PDF... it looks interesting but a bit cranky. I'll edit when I have a better idea. Table 9 is just... ridiculou
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by chm 11y ago
Wouldn't the compression depend on how many symbols you used? I guess you meant "shuffle a deck of 3 billion different cards"?
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by chm 11y ago
This is a really honest question: How do you sleep at night being the founder of a company with half a billion dollars in deficit? How do you go to work everyday? Is this "normal"? Is this expected? I really don't understand
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by chm 11y ago
They're really different points of view, with different goals. There's studying how life works at various levels, and there's designing systems from the ground up. Both complementary!
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by chm 11y ago
And it's only been relatively recently considered as an option. You don't have to go back far to learn that the stated objective was cultural assimilation. The situation seems to have changed for the better in the last 50-60 years
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by chm 11y ago
Indeed, that's why I mentioned I was not going to speculate. It was just surprising, as I never watch TV, or Netflix.
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by chm 11y ago
That would be interesting. But having a completely modular phone with hardware kill switches would be better imo. That way you can just dismantle it when not in use. Put it back together when going out. Switch the mic on when needed etc.
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by chm 11y ago
I had a similar experience. My girlfriend watches a lot of Netflix. She was listening to Gotham when she asked me to look up the name of one of the actors on IMDB. I fired up Chrome on my already opened MBP, typed IMDB in the search bar and
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by chm 11y ago
That's an explanation for one single feature. They never mention if other code in the app has the ability to snoop on conversations.
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by chm 11y ago
That's definitely weekend reading for me. Right after grading these tests...
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by chm 11y ago
What I found the most useful for my use case are the git submodules documentation[1] and this blog post[2]. Read them and you'll have a basic setup in no time. Some people want to automate everything and have modular configurations dep
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by chm 11y ago
I erased my disk before installing El Capitan. I wanted to force myself into good habits. I'm currently learning how to manage all my dotfiles, vim plugins etc with git. I'm not quite there yet however. I read his article before e
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by chm 11y ago
Wow, YC is realizing a dream of mine. Congratulations, it is a great idea!
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by chm 11y ago
I was talking about the "feel", indeed. So for example, if someone wanted to experience what a Lisp is like, I could point them to Scheme. I want to know what "Perl" is like, but the fact that Perl 5 and 6 share the same
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by chm 11y ago
Yes. For me it makes no difference because JS is not enabled. So for my use case, it is acceptable. Visit the Surface Book page without JS. You'll see it renders perfectly fine and all the information is there!
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by chm 11y ago
So, for someone who has never read or written Perl code, where should I start? Perl 5 or 6? I get that they're different languages, but I want to see what "Perl" is like.
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by chm 11y ago
Disable JS on Apple.com and reload the pages. They should render flawlessly and give you back responsiveness, without the animations. (I'm talking about their iPad Pro and Mac Pro product pages, not necessarily the whole site.)
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by chm 11y ago
When I view the iPad Pro page on Firefox latest with NoScript blocking Apple.com, it is much more responsive than when JS is on.
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by chm 11y ago
Thank you for replying. I shared the same feeling as you describe when I sat on these steps [1] last summer! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solvay_conference_1927.jp...
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by chm 11y ago
I think the difference in number of users is partly due to the asking price. I wouldn't use DO if they charged 50$ a month for a VPS to use for mocking up apps. For my use case, 5$-10$ a month is the most I want to pay in such early st
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by chm 11y ago
I'm curious as to what inspired you to follow their trails? Their literature, a particular work, what?
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by chm 11y ago
Thanks, I'll be watching this video. I'm working on a Meteor app in my spare time but had never heard of FlowRouter.
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by chm 11y ago
Why did the author write "RIP IronRouter"?
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by chm 11y ago
Consider this scenario: You're walking down the street and a small woman walks past you and stumbles. You help her up and she says thanks, then gets back on her way. How can you "scientifically" prove whether she was a human
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by chm 11y ago
We can push this further and expect your "reality test" to become practically useless some time in the next 50 years. That is, when no matter how well you analyze a video/picture, you can not tell if it is CG or not. What hap
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by chm 11y ago
This link was posted 4 days ago and made the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141469
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by chm 11y ago
You can also use Egeria as a free and easy-to-use alternative to expansive commercial budgeting and planning software. I assume you meant "expensive", but in this case "expansive" works fine if you cons
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by chm 11y ago
You are completely right, and I should have mentioned that in my comment. It is obvious that the situation is different. However, I was concerned with the act of killing itself. And it seems more acceptable to kill cows than seals because t
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by chm 11y ago
The final paragraphs are really the most important, in my opinion. Why stop seal hunting and not mass slaughters of cows?

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