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by dbbolton 14y ago
Why on earth did you imagine that it is a problem for me? I simply wanted to know what its function was.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
If you really want your scripts to be portable, you should probably write them in POSIX sh. There might be a high probability that any given machine with a Unix-like operating system will have bash installed, but it is essentially guarantee
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by dbbolton 14y ago
There's one of these "why you should convert from X to Y" posts every week or so. I understand that a person can be somewhat excited about finding a better application to replace their old stand-by and might feel the need to evangelize. I d
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by dbbolton 14y ago
What's with the `?tag=codihorr-20` at the end of the Amazon link?
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by dbbolton 14y ago
It's been awhile since I've seen the movie, so maybe Ozymandius did show traits of Hare's definition of the psychopathy. However, the article seemed to imply that the only thing that separates a psychopath from a narcissist is empathy level
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Once again, I feel the need to point out that the term "psychopathy" is not used clinically (and neither is 'sociopathy'). Robert Hare et al. do have a rigorous definition that distinguishes psychopathy from ASPD, but this definition does n
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Some company in China stole my game(reddit.com)
3 points by dbbolton 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Considering how hot my laptop gets just running mupen64plus, and how slow anything with webgl is, I can't imagine this being playable for quite some time. I imagine it was just a proof of concept.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
He predicted me pretty well: spirals, functional, vi. But even though I have a decent amount of upper-level math experience, I can't say whether I really prefer analysis over algebra. I think it just depends on the problem at hand.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Honestly, I felt like linear algebra was the low point in my math career-- even behind axiomatic set theory. I still have nightmares about determining whether a set of vectors is linearly independent.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
>We need to take it This was one of the main themes in Lem's Solaris (ignore the subpar George Clooney knock-off). Really a great read for sci-fi fans.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
It's always bothered me how (even state-funded) universities tend to act as autonomous legal bodies. It's especially disheartening to see them trample on the bill of rights (e.g. most universities will have a "policy" that you basically can
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a5o1K7r... (at least I think that's the right page)
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Leonard Mlodinow touches on this issue in The Drunkard's Walk [1]. If I remember correctly, his explanation was something along the lines of this: a truly random playlist is not desirable to most users, which challenges the claim "I do bel
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by dbbolton 14y ago
I feel his pain to an extent. However, rather than learn to cope with an inferior but pervasive alternative, I just use a simple shell script[1] to configure zsh for me. I have it on my personal server with a short and mnemonic URL, so I on
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by dbbolton 14y ago
I spent about an hour building and decided to save using my Google account. Unfortunately, it's broken. You'd think if they supported one platform, it would be Chrome on Windows. Go figure.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
I'd be really interested in reading a comment-annotated version of the nimue script.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
All I have to say about this post is "Thank goodness for Readable."
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Does anyone know the full story behind the "suicidal" reference?
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by dbbolton 14y ago
I can't help but think of the Postmodernism Generator ( http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ ).
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Before this, I had never thought of Gist as a legitimate blogging platform.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
I'm assuming that they only tracked mouse usage, but I would assume many "advanced" users would make extensive use of the default keyboard shortcuts. I wonder if it could skew the data.
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Ask HN: why do Twitter and Youtube use mottled/noisy background images?
3 points by dbbolton 14y ago|6 comments
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by dbbolton 14y ago
I am sympathetic to the fact that it was quite inconvenient for him, but it seems to me that this is only news because it happened to a celebrity. It seems that his laptop was also stolen, which led to the cancelling of some lectures. Tha
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by dbbolton 14y ago
I understand that Stallman is an important figure in the software community, but this really doesn't qualify as news in my opinion. To be fair, the server went down so I can't access the article, but unless he had something really important
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by dbbolton 14y ago
To be perfectly frank, I did not find this article informative, and I would not consider myself a vim expert by any stretch of the imagination. I suppose it was aimed at beginners, so maybe some people will find it helpful. See also `:help
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Sorry for the off-topic remark, but I really couldn't believe that this website uses what amounts to ads to separate paragraphs. I was honestly too irritated and distracted to finish reading the article.
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Personally, I watch shows based on their content, not when they air. Fortunately episode X will still have the same content if I download it tonight or buy it a year from now on a DVD. I won't enjoy it any less just because people aren't ta
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Not watching the show is absolutely an option. Not one human being is obligated to watch any television show. I think what you mean is "these people really want to watch the show", and that's true. I know some people who really want to ta
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by dbbolton 14y ago
Of course it would lower the pressure temporarily, until the body restored blood volume to normal levels. But hypertension is defined medically as a chronic condition.

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