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by delhanty 7y ago
>Japanese phone numbers have 11 digits 10 digit numbers are still in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Japan#10_...
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by delhanty 7y ago
Presumably by HN readers, saved to archive already 7 times today! https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://raw.githubusercontent....
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by delhanty 7y ago
Steven Wolfram claims (credibly IMO) that none of it would have existed if it was FLOSS.
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by delhanty 7y ago
>That can't be solved with the parametric form alone. That's not strictly true - you could choose a numerical algorithm like Newton-Raphson. 3D B-rep modelers will typically solve x,y,z on curve that way because many of the cur
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by delhanty 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification Angus - appreciated.
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by delhanty 7y ago
Totally agree with that sentiment. It's all the other stuff too. What I'm saying is that a syntax compatible Mathematica clone, with all the other stuff too, ever took off, then Wolfram Research's playbook would be: 1. try a
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by delhanty 7y ago
I'm confused. The lead developer up until 2 years ago, Angus Griffith's LinkedIn says he's at Google. [0] In April 2016, Angus replied to a comment of mine "Mathics is still maintained. There are currently two of us work
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by delhanty 8y ago
>However, there is a loophole. In a country of nearly 132 million people, there is only one shop that sells firearms, which is located in Mexico City. ... This high level of unregistered firearms has been attributed to Mexico’s proximity
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by delhanty 8y ago
A counter-example: https://www.gov.uk/ works pretty well. * In fact, it's less user-hostile than most commercial sites. Why is that? * Disclaimer - I'm British
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by delhanty 8y ago
>You need to setup presence in all the countries you have employees in. For that reason, many non-US remote workers are technically contractors.
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by delhanty 8y ago
>that got flagged that ended up with a ton of upvotes after it was clear it a genuine comment. That happened to me too! I'm happy that HN has the flagging feature, but I suspect that feature is being abused in an organized way by ri
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by delhanty 8y ago
>To add insult to injury, WhatsApp permits rekeying to take place without any indication to the conversation's participants [in the default settings]. Agreed. A nice Twitter thread [0] by Mustafa Al-Bassam back at the end of Novembe
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by delhanty 8y ago
Just me maybe, but I'd rather we didn't compare any people at all to cancer here.
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by delhanty 8y ago
From the linked Wikipedia article: >The basic concept of MagSafe is copied from the magnetic power connectors that are part of many deep fryers and Japanese countertop cooking appliances since the early 2000s in order to avoid spilling t
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by delhanty 8y ago
>Devexpress Winforms and ASP.net component suite (best Windows component suite on the market - leaves free alternatives in the dust) Question (for the Mac people here): what's the Mac equivalent of that?
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by delhanty 8y ago
Korea and China - not spent long in either, but can quite believe that larger phones would play better culturally in those countries than in Japan. Japan - small does generally play very well here - think back to how small some of the Toshi
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by delhanty 8y ago
>People who want a smaller phone in 2019 are a very small yet very vocal minority. Really? Here in Japan, there are a lot of ladies with small hands, not particularly vocal on HN, and they seem to find small phones more comfortable to ho
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by delhanty 8y ago
>Of course antivaxxers are irrational lunatics, ... Why is that "of course"? It looks to me you haven't got the point of what #ReedX wrote at all: >Remind yourself of the times you were confident about X and turned out
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by delhanty 8y ago
>seek the best form of the opposing viewpoint Strongly agree with this. Let's try a specific example on HN: Seek the best form of the view that the anti-vaccine people may have a point.
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by delhanty 8y ago
Because it's a transparently self-serving article perhaps? YC combinator is in the startup business, so of course PG is going to oversell the case for startups. PG's stuff is hit and miss. Here's an example of a much better
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by delhanty 8y ago
Exactly! Very far from a floating point expert here, but what I do is to scale-down by a few odd prime-power factors as appropriate: Scaling down by powers of 5 is obviously appropriate for decimals, currency etc. Scaling down by powers of
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by delhanty 8y ago
FreeCAD is nowhere close to the quality level of Fusion. Sketch-Up and OpenSCAD are just very different from Fusion. The closest cloud competitor is OnShape: starts at $1500 per year - only free option is public storage. https:/&#x2
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by delhanty 8y ago
>If I could buy fusion 360 for $1000 Why would it be that cheap? Fusion 360 is competing with SolidWorks. A standalone license for SolidWorks probably starts at $4000. For any comparable commercial 3D parametric mechanical CAD system ju
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by delhanty 8y ago
"The USA is the IHME index’s biggest loser among high-income countries falling from 43rd in 2016 to 64th in 2040, due to an increase of just 1.1 year – from 78.7 to 78.9 years." I would have made that the headline.
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by delhanty 8y ago
Read this and wondered, what estimates are there on the density of the Mersenne primes as n grows? Google told me that, surprisingly, it's not even known that they are infinite! I found this nice page on the Wagstaff Mersenne Conjectur
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by delhanty 8y ago
I do pay for stuff on the internet. IMO the NY Times simply isn't good enough or original enough to be worth paying for though, so I choose not to subscribe to it. Also, I'm not very interested in being informed about the endless
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by delhanty 8y ago
>Please disable your ad blocker > >Advertising helps fund Times journalism. No I don't think so - uBlock Origin all the way. Internet advertising fuels the Facebook problem. The smaller we can make internet adverti
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by delhanty 8y ago
Thank you. >it would certainly be possible to share 90% or more of your core code. It sounds like maintaining parallel code bases in Ocaml and F# with the same basic design and file layout might work quite well for the core.
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by delhanty 8y ago
Thanks very much for that perspective and the link. It certainly sounds more attractive than writing everything in Javascript and using Node! I'm interested in writing a portable, commercial 3D CAD modeling library. F# has already bee
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by delhanty 8y ago
I'm looking at Ocaml again because of the existence (and quality) of the Bucklescript backend for Javscript. That makes Ocaml sound pretty attractive on the portability front. A question for anybody here regarding portability: Is it vi

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