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by cschmidt 11y ago
Looks nice. I do find the headlines drawing themselves a letter at a time to be kind of distracting. I makes it hard to scan down the page, as the headlines aren't there.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
I thought Hackers and Soul of a New Machine were both fantastic.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
You could argue that something like Sublime Text is Shareware, even though they don't use the term. You can download it, and the trial period never expires. So you use it without paying if you are a lame person, much like in the shar
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by cschmidt 11y ago
I think it is a browser specific bug. I use Firefox, and it doesn't work.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
Do you know about http://www.jetpens.com ? They import lots of stuff from Japan. It is a fun place to get interesting pens, etc.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
Wow, I'm impressed with your Google skills. Gopher? That's so funny. Now I just have to figure out how to convert it to something usable.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
Actually, while on nostalgia lane, does anyone else remember the font called Boston II? It was a shareware font that was the best ImageWriter bitmap font ever. It was a thing of beauty. I've looked for it occasionally, but I haven&#x
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by cschmidt 11y ago
There was a brief era when the Mac came out in 1984 when bitmap fonts were the thing. I had a lovely ImageWriter printer that could print them all out. Emigre was one of the early people to push design in that area. They still have a sectio
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by cschmidt 11y ago
I wonder how many HN readers are too young to remember the original San Francisco font on the original Mac. It was the "ransom note" font. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_%281984_typeface...
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by cschmidt 11y ago
That is just the analysis I think about doing every time I play Chutes and Ladders with my daughter. I think "I should just simulate this game, it would be much more fun."
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by cschmidt 11y ago
He appealed to FIFA advertisers to help him go away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr6ar3xJL_Q&t=12m20s
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by cschmidt 11y ago
Isn't this also one of the goals of NeoVim? That you can script from any language.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
Nope. Although I'd rather not say exactly who.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
I did feel like it has been a waste of time. He just mixed it in with a bunch of textbook problems. It wasn't a particularly elegant or insightful, just something technical he wanted the answer to. I don't think anyone in the cla
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by cschmidt 11y ago
In grad school, I had a graph theory professor who assigned a research problem he was stuck on as homework. He didn't tell us that until later, after I had a wasted a lot of time trying to solve it. It wasn't very cool.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
They have carefully left out certain key capabilities in the Matlab compiler, that renders it not very useful for some applications. So it is cool, but check the list of compilable functions.
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by cschmidt 11y ago
Nope, the website still says: > Linux version coming mid-2015
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by cschmidt 11y ago
If you're interested in this point, you should read Gary Taubes' book Why We Get Fat. http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259 The third chapter is all about why exercise isn't a goo
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by cschmidt 12y ago
That's a weird article. Khachian's Algorithm is very famous as the first polynomial time algorithm for linear programming. The simplex algorithm works fantastically well in practice, but there are problems (such as http:/&
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by cschmidt 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd like much at $20. For ~$30 you might start to get drinkable bourbon. Something like Evan Williams Single Barrel is good bang for the buck.
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by cschmidt 12y ago
Interesting this is a reprint from Quanta magazine, from March 12. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150312-mathematicians-chase... The original version has some photographs missing from the Scientific American verison.
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by cschmidt 12y ago
> Sounds like an interesting guy. I think his twitter feed @tomstandage is very interesting. He's kind of the cool uncle who knows about lots of fun things going on. He's written a number of books like "History of the Wo
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by cschmidt 12y ago
But that's daily. I do agree that the FT and probably the NYT are of the same quality. But it takes as lot more time to wade through a daily.
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by cschmidt 12y ago
Ted Kooser. http://tedkooser.net/ He was the US Poet Laureate for a few years. He is from Nebraska, and writes about Midwestern life, among other things. His most recent volume just came out, and I thought it was great. h
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by cschmidt 12y ago
Last night on NPR they were talking about the future of malls, and hence talked some about Apple stores. One of the guest mentioned that they thought Apple would have a "by appointment" shopping process that was more of a luxury
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Wearable technology: The wear, why and how(economist.com)
2 points by cschmidt 12y ago|0 comments
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Is there a writeup on how to access it via linux?
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Automatic Topic-Modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation(engineering.intenthq.com)
44 points by cschmidt 12y ago|7 comments
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I've found mechanical keyboards start to give me a touch of RSI, where the slim Apple keyboards don't. Maybe I'm just hitting the keys too hard or something. I always give up using them, which is a shame because they feel n
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by cschmidt 12y ago
I just checked, and Jerry Pournelle is still around: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/ All those columns about him messing around to get his machines to work.

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