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by chmaynard 10y ago
Agreed. On Hacker News, it often seems as if everyone has an opinion about everything and feels compelled to share it immediately, without doing any investigative work or deep thinking first. It's a race to the bottom.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
On Hacker News, everyone has an opinion about everything and feels compelled to share it with the world at every opportunity. Sheesh!
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Robert Reich: The Trust Destroyers(robertreich.org)
19 points by chmaynard 10y ago|6 comments
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Review of Beats Solo3 Bluetooth Wireless Headphones(wired.com)
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MRIs for fetal health(news.mit.edu)
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by chmaynard 10y ago
David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Try using the Do Not Disturb feature in combination with your Contacts database. All calls from numbers not in your Contacts are ignored, which is almost as good as blocking them outright. Also, these callers are not inclined to leave a voi
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by chmaynard 10y ago
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Journalists seem to be having a difficult time describing exactly what this prize is about. Bloomberg Radio reported that the scientists discovered/created "molecules that perform tasks when energy is added". Huh?
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, Aho, Johnson, and other seminal figures at Bell Labs explain why they invented Unix. If I had watched this classic film in 1982, it might have altered the direction of my work in software development.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Thank you for this articulate and reasoned comment. This type of information is so much more interesting and thought-provoking than a bleak newspaper story that contributes nothing new to the conversation.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
click·bait (on the Internet): A headline or an article of a sensational or provocative nature whose main purpose is to attract attention and draw visitors to a particular web page.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
That's correct. I realized my remarks were insensitive after several readers downvoted them.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Assuming this email is authentic, I think Cook is hinting that rumors of an October announcement are too optimistic. (I hope I'm wrong, because I'm impatiently waiting to purchase a new MacBook Pro.)
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by chmaynard 10y ago
I was surprised that Palo Alto didn't make the top 10. Then I noticed that this survey is based on the average home price, not the median price.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
> Crap, there's a /Library/Extensions/Dropbox.kext too Now I'm getting paranoid. My /Library/Extensions/ directory contains the following kernel extensions. I purchased Little Snitch so I knew abou
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Recreating Our Galaxy in a Supercomputer(caltech.edu)
173 points by chmaynard 10y ago|66 comments
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by chmaynard 10y ago
I think you're overlooking something. The Gen 2 Prius is classified as a mid-size hatchback. I suspect that had something to do with Toyota's decision to go with the odd shape. The extra space wasn't important to me when I bo
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by chmaynard 10y ago
> “Toyota has put more energy into the mechanics of the [Prius] than the styling.” I'm a happy Toyota hybrid customer. Styling was not an important consideration when I chose the Prius. Gas mileage was much more important, along wi
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QS ranks the world’s top universities for 2016-17(news.mit.edu)
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Tim Cook is challenging the Republican-controlled Congress to change the US tax code so that ALL big corporations must stop using foreign tax shelters, not just Apple. This is probably a safe bet, because Congress wrote the tax code that wa
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by chmaynard 10y ago
This is the funniest article I have ever read on HN. Christopher Null, you are a wonderful humorist and you may be destined for immortality (at least in some circles).
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Why does The New Yorker publish puff pieces like this? It only tarnishes their reputation as a journal for elegant and thoughtful writing.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Interesting spin on the legacy of Steve Jobs. At Apple, design is king. Engineering is an implementation detail.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Well, I guess the Federal Government will just have to step in and underwrite the health insurance for millions of people who purchased new policies last year. Medicare should be able to handle the extra load, after some additional hiring a
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by chmaynard 10y ago
Their first attempt at this was an annoying animated paperclip named Clippit, fondly known as "Clippy" to millions of MS Office users. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant .
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by chmaynard 10y ago
This project is a milestone in our transition from fossil fuels to wind and solar energy in the USA. "Gulf Coast businesses that have long built offshore oil structures see wind power in the Northeast as a potential new market." T
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by chmaynard 10y ago
I'd like to see Elon Musk cut back on his public speaking and focus on his CEO responsibilities. Speaking as a shareholder and a potential customer, I really want Tesla to mass produce the Model 3 next year as promised. Everything else
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by chmaynard 10y ago
So you and Paul Graham both condone downvoting any opinion that you find disagreeable on HN. I respectfully disagree with that policy, and I hope we never cross paths again.
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by chmaynard 10y ago
> "They've been breaking the law," said Larry Meister of the Independent Taxi Operators Association. If so, then the duty of government is to enforce the law (presumably with fines or prosecution). Imposing a new tax is an

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