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by chrisfinne 9y ago
This should be top comment! I gave up the LLC protection after a couple years of this price gouging.
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
Ditto. Sad to say that my 2 Compact Edition(s) of the Oxford English Dictionary have been relegated to a block-of-wood. "What's my purpose?" "You pass butter." -- Rick Sanchez
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
Humans have a long history of misunderstanding the geometry of our world. I don't know jack about astrophysics, but the explanations for dark matter and dark energy seem so complicated that my bullshit meter goes off. Reminds me of the
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
"calling around" started in 1999? I assure you that's how it was for decades prior to 1999 ;-) We just had to sit by the single rotary phone in the kitchen with a 8ft curly cord that was so tangled, it was really only 4ft. Ha
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
I can't recall ever hearing anyone say they "hate Ruby". Ruby is designed to make programmers happy. Ruby and Rails are "boring" because they are mature and do their job extremely well, so the cutting-edge devs that
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
Something like 10x the RDA
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
oh man, i forgot about that place. expensive for a student, so it was a rare treat!
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
So "girl" is a bad word now? I loved the name. It often prompted me to put on one of my favorite Stones songs by the same name. What is a more empowering image than "Rosie the Riveter", the quintessential Factory Girl? M
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
Half as long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRhOdf-6co
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
No mention in this discussion thread yet about the keto diet and ketones being a better fuel source for the brain than glucose. After damage from a couple decades of sugar fueled coding, ketosis killed my brain fog and gave me back the ment
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
Well articulated and very concise. This could have been laboriously drawn out into a 10 page article. "Half as long" writing lesson from "A River Runs Through It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRhOdf-6
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
Potential solution to CME's? Would love to hear a sanity check from a physicist with some back-of-napkin math.
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by chrisfinne 9y ago
How did this link rocket to the front page so quickly and get a bunch of points, but the comments are mostly pointing out aspects/criticisms of this product that show it is not in alignment with the HN community? Astroturfing?
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by chrisfinne 10y ago
This submission is a ploy by the NSA and advertisers to further refine their demographic slot of "old hackers". Kermit, zmodem, bbs, baud. South Park's Member Berries are in full force here. CoCo forever!
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by chrisfinne 10y ago
Agreed, but Finder is joke compared to everything.