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by ctrager 11y ago
I don't know what the Japanese felt, but I think the US maybe was about as hegemonic as Japan, Britain, Russia, Germany, France. It wouldn't hurt for US citizens to know these bullet points in their history that relate to Japan&#x
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by ctrager 11y ago
The plan notes that the percentage of people who commute by car is about 51%. By bike, about 2.5%.
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by ctrager 11y ago
I live one block north of the northern Evanston border. I bike through Evanston frequently to ride into Chicago. For a biker, the connections from Evanston to Chicago are not great. They feel risky, especially at busy times. Specifically, y
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by ctrager 11y ago
With regards to learning Spanish, here's a free resource I like: https://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/ Short, graded videos with transcripts and translations.
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by ctrager 12y ago
I lived in Detroit until the mid 80's, now Chicago, but just went back for the first time with a touristic mindset. I met software developers from New York, Boston, and San Francisco who had moved TO Detroit and liked it. Detroit over
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by ctrager 12y ago
And about 300 years before him, Thucydides
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by ctrager 12y ago
My wife is Japanese. We chose "Haruki" as the middle name for our son.
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by ctrager 13y ago
I have a decent amount of experience coding in big codebases using C#/Java - compiled, strongly typed languages - on the one hand, and Ruby/Javascript - interpreted, loosely typed - on the other. When I'm working in a big,
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by ctrager 13y ago
You all might enjoy "Terminally Blonde" at about the 6 minute mark: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/664-re-sound-27-th...
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by ctrager 13y ago
The designer of a string class in any language. C++ and Java - has to deal with the same issue - that heap allocations are slower than stack allocations. But to do a stack allocation means reserving some fixed length memory which is a was
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by ctrager 13y ago
Have you read any Kim Stanley Robinson? He's written novels set in Antarctica and Mars. I love the "Red Mars" triology.
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by ctrager 13y ago
Also, for tourists versus locals, this is fantastic, using geocoded tweets. It confirms what I tell out-of-town visitors to Chicago: Locals don't go to Navy Pier. http://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/local
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by ctrager 13y ago
Here's something similar I recently created. http://ifdefined.com/hack_week.html It uses a collection of keywords that you choose and then uses Nokia's HERE.com APIs to create a heatmap. The fun is coming up with
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by ctrager 13y ago
Just adding my experience: My wife and I are in our fifties. We don't say yes to everybody who wants to visit, and our profile is certainly not very attractive to the element that is being complained about here. So far we've hoste
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by ctrager 13y ago
One datapoint from Chicago: Got laid off at age 56 last year and had two offers within two weeks. But I interviewed at several other places without receiving an offer whereas in the past I almost always got an offer if I got an interview (
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by ctrager 13y ago
Even if the data isn't big, there can be a benefit from the Hadoop infrastructure. Say you have just 86,400 rows of data but each row takes 1 second. That adds up to 24 hours of elapsed time, and waiting for that run can be painful, espec
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by ctrager 14y ago
Sigh...My "Hacker News Reader" Android app, with 7,000 active installs, depended on a piece of Sinatra/Heroku code to do the screen-scraping. My app is dead for now. I'm going to port the code to Java and get rid of the idea of having an
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Ask HN: Where to buy men's suits?
5 points by ctrager 14y ago|25 comments
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by ctrager 14y ago
I've been programming a couple dozen years for a dozen companies, with side projects too. Some of that time I've been a 501 developer, and some of that time not. I think my natural tendency is to go beyond 501, and I'm happiest when the co
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by ctrager 15y ago
Right. Understood.
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by ctrager 15y ago
Right, I understand that. At this point, they haven't responded to me at all.
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Ask HN: Following up on GPL violation of my own software?
7 points by ctrager 15y ago|9 comments
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by ctrager 15y ago
Two thoughts: 1) The operative pieces of wood here are the nut, the bridge, and the fingerboard. These pieces are all non-integral, relatively easily, cheaply replaceable parts of the violin. I can see how a nut or bridge that's too high wo
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by ctrager 15y ago
Re-reading what I wrote, I guess I made it sound like a negative experience, but actually it was a fun adventure. All the buying experiences on eBay were positive. I never felt like I got ripped off. It was fun learning how to fiddle with f
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by ctrager 15y ago
I've bought a couple dozen $200 violins on eBay. If you are looking for a cheap student violin, and you don't have much experience yourself with violins, I would not recommend buying on eBay. It's too hit or miss. For that student, spend a
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by ctrager 15y ago
You CAN get a great sounding violin on eBay for $200, but you might have to buy and return a couple dozen violins to end up with one you like. My story is, that for my kid, I bought a $5,000 violin from a dealer after doing blind testing a
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by ctrager 15y ago
Sorry, about staying in tune, I don't physics, mechanics, can support that teacher's belief. Do the pegs slip? That's adjustable. Are the strings crappy? Replace them. My experience is that there is a lot of false belief and superstiti
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by ctrager 15y ago
I've bought and sold a couple dozen pre-WWII violins on eBay. The violin I play (which I suck at) is labelled "Antonio Curatoli", which sounds old and Italian, but that name was just marketing by the German workshop that made the violin in
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Ask HN: ASP.Net shared hosting alternative to GoDaddy?
2 points by ctrager 15y ago|1 comments
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Tell HN:If you are using the Android HN reader I wrote, upgrade to 2.2
4 points by ctrager 15y ago|1 comments

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