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by critic 18y ago
Now that this information is public none of us will give out our usernames to external websites, thus ending the problem. Correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm NOT a web guru, but I think there are three ways to get the user n
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by critic 18y ago
Click on the bond button before adding an atom. It cycles from 1 to 3.
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by critic 18y ago
The results are rather wrong, i.e offensive to the eye (try creating aromatic compounds), but as a GUI prototype, it's pretty neat.
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by critic 18y ago
For the record, I'm not xach. I just saw this on Programming Reddit. Edit: link http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/854w0/faking_vo...
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Faking votes on Hacker News(xach.livejournal.com)
66 points by critic 18y ago|58 comments
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by critic 18y ago
> It can be looked at both as metahumor and as a piece of postmodern art. I think this is more of a recursive humor than metahumor.
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by critic 18y ago
> myth of business journalism in his "submarine" essay Fascinating article! Thanks for the tip. Submitted :-)
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The Submarine(paulgraham.com)
2 points by critic 18y ago|0 comments
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by critic 18y ago
I suspect that math is hard for bozos, but I actually know tenured CS professors who are total bozos at programming, and probably shouldn't be listened to even regarding minor issues. Publishing fluff papers, going to conferences, writing g
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by critic 18y ago
It's pretty hard (even if you are a great programmer). If you are looking to find a great programmer who's available long-term, hire someone who's PROVABLY great and available short-term to do the interviews/search for you. Think Stroustrup
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by critic 18y ago
Well written article, but it would be more relevant, IMHO if it compared Haskell and Clojure, not CL.
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by critic 18y ago
> it's why he maintains hundreds of Made For AdSense sites But doesn't Google know who the owner of each AdSense site is? Eventually, they have to send him a check, after all. And if someone owns a lot of these AdSense sites, doesn't th
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by critic 18y ago
4 gebruikers?! It has to be worth reading!
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by critic 18y ago
If the number of CPU cores increases significantly, with the individual cores getting much simpler, I wonder if bit twiddling will be back.
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by critic 18y ago
Because of its excellent ActiveX control support, of course.
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by critic 18y ago
IMHO, you should move to RWH after SICP http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
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by critic 18y ago
Kitten. I hate voice mail.
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by critic 18y ago
I don't know about "modern" and "expressive", but it's definitely faster, and I really like the fact that the compiler catches 95% of the silly errors I'd make in a dynamically typed language.
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by critic 18y ago
> without a database Why? I can understand not using a database if this was improving the performance.
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by critic 18y ago
Haskell for me.
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by critic 18y ago
I'm curious, where does a site like HN have its bottleneck: SQL accesses, server bandwidth, CPU or memory consumption by PLT?
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by critic 18y ago
> Reddit commanded at least a few million. I wonder how much that is per site regular. A typical reddit user probably won't click on ads more than a couple of times per year.
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by critic 18y ago
> I know more than a few people who spend no money on "music" but several hundred a year on iPods Does one have to buy a new iPod every year?
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by critic 18y ago
I had no idea that only 85.5% of the population had normal color vision.
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You want to be less hapless? You may need happs(happs.org)
2 points by critic 18y ago|0 comments
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by critic 18y ago
I think more specific advice and tips would be useful.
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by critic 18y ago
What if more people used drugs and the related crime and accidents went up?
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by critic 18y ago
But that's a redditism too. Ironic, isn't it?
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by critic 18y ago
good point, but still drug use would likely go up
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by critic 18y ago
I didn't RTFA, but the answer seems obvious: cat > file_to_be_rewritten HTH

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