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571.
by clicks 14y ago
http://www.linkedin.com/in/drzacharyharris Wow, the guy's a monster. Fluent in classical (and Levantine) Arabic, Chinese, Greek; Top Putnam score (twice), teacher, Christian missionary. Sounds like he's got drive.
572.
by clicks 14y ago
I would have loved to ask him if he maybe wishes (or regrets) that he'd been more entrepreneurial and raked in billions on some project. Certainly he has the technical talent for it. I recall reading that when he received the MacArthur priz
573.
by clicks 14y ago
Your account is 40 minutes old. The way HN works nowadays (per my observations) your comment will almost indubitably get deleted and your account banned, because you've made a worthless comment (void of any reasonable argument or explanatio
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by clicks 14y ago
Will it be geared towards Django operating on Python 3? Or will that subject be treated lightly?
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by clicks 14y ago
> ... zits, bad hair, body odor, bad clothes, bad table manners also hurt you. I wasn't born in America (I'm Indian -- I'm used to eating rice with my bare hands) -- never ate American food, thus I have no table manners. Where/how do I
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by clicks 14y ago
> ... the dry vocal track is typically dead center in the mix. What do you mean by 'dead center in the mix'?
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by clicks 14y ago
Great, I'll be looking forward to it. Cheers!
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by clicks 14y ago
Sure, write on a generalized approach for deploying a Flask app with Fabric, virtualsenvs, and whatever else you use.
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Ask HN: Amazon Kindle inventor is trying to get a friend arrested, advice wanted
10 points by clicks 14y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: (Python) Web framework of the future?
30 points by clicks 14y ago|6 comments
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by clicks 14y ago
For those who don't know 'losethos': he's a guy who has been hellbanned from HN for a few years now. Linked is a submission of his from quite a while back -- soliciting help. Do you think I should seek investors? The fact that there is abs
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As seen on Hacker News: A poignant tragedy(i.imgur.com)
6 points by clicks 14y ago|3 comments
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by clicks 14y ago
I know I know, it's not good etiquette here to make short, emotional comments, but - By thinking about moving her own paralyzed arm, one woman in the experiment used an artificial limb to serve herself coffee for the first time in 15 years
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SOURCE Boston 2012: Building a better Anonymous(youtube.com)
1 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 15y ago
Lots more discussions and explanations over at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/rkudd/mastercard_vis...
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by clicks 15y ago
Okay, I have to ask this now: why is it then that I keep hearing from my friends at CMU and MIT that it's totally normal for them to go on 2 hour sleep/night? I hear this from professors too, " Oh, when I was your age I was working x many h
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by clicks 16y ago
That's good advice -- to start laying the foundation for a good transition from a limerent relationship to a companionate one, but isn't it very possible to have another limerent object while you're already in a companionate relationship wi
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by clicks 16y ago
I understand what you're getting at, but limerence certainly can be a bad thing, as msluyter pointed out (" Like a lot of things, it lies on a spectrum from pleasurable to pathological or dangerous."). Here's a good example of one in action
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by clicks 17y ago
I'm extremely happy to see this. This is a great day for http://en.wikinews.org/ Oh, and guys -- you perhaps ought to consider writing for it. :) The HN crowd is very educated, so many of you are the ideal candidates to be writing the new
590.
by clicks 17y ago
It is ironic that you point that out. I would not have corrected him had he misused 'who' (i.e., if he had used it for the objective case) -- that would have been a little 'less wrong' than using the supposedly dated 'whom' for the subjecti
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by clicks 17y ago
(whoever*; 'whomever' would be used if it was on the receiving end of the action, e.g., 'I will vote for whomever they endorse')
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by clicks 17y ago
My uncle from Germany who visited me last month showed me his Garmin GPS -- it reported speed limits instantaneously. Anyway, tagging speed limits with roads is one of the less difficult things in computing turn-by-turn directions, I would
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by clicks 17y ago
Here you are: http://www.ece.cornell.edu/ugradhndbk/#CommonCurriculum http://www.ee.duke.edu/undergrad-education http://www.ele.uri.edu/ugprog/computer/curriculum/ Computer Engineering (CE) also sometimes at some institutions goes by
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by clicks 17y ago
> They have lots of example configurations you can just copy. Sure, you can do that. But then you also have to take the time to understand THAT config (which, isn't even optimized for _YOU_, to begin with) and get USED to that . . . &#6
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by clicks 17y ago
Many kudos to dons for creating an awesome twm, but I don't think it's a good investment of time for the HN userbase (i.e., the young start-ups who just want to get their thing working and up, whatever be that 'thing'). Xmonad is hard to co
596.
by clicks 17y ago
What are your thoughts on Computer Engineering? ErrantX: I'd like to hear your thoughts on this as well (you mentioned you were an EE)
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by clicks 17y ago
Then it's settled. Just having read all of the comments made, I'm happy to see that there is somewhat of a consensus here- along the lines of what you yourself said: "I wouldn't even consider nootropics until you're already getting plenty o
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Ask HN: Thoughts on performance-enhancing drugs?
36 points by clicks 17y ago|66 comments