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by donaq 15y ago
Git was built using said "outdated theory bound knowledge".
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by donaq 15y ago
That was a very inspiring story about your mother, raganwald. Thanks for posting it.
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by donaq 15y ago
Personally, I love Google+. It doesn't replace Facebook for me, but it has definitely replaced Twitter.
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by donaq 15y ago
Minor nitpick: I think for is a special case of while more than while is a special case of for.
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by donaq 15y ago
The more you focus on the computers part, the unhappier you are going to be. Not necessarily true. :)
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by donaq 15y ago
Good luck.
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by donaq 15y ago
If your worth is independent of what he thinks or says, why not listen to him and make decisions based on the merits of his argument instead of letting the emotional content throw you off? I'm not saying I'm capable of doing that, just that
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by donaq 15y ago
Don't be too surprised or confused. There are a lot of very bright people here, but remember that being bright in one area doesn't necessarily mean they'd be bright in other areas, or nice, or humble. I guess someone who spent n years worki
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by donaq 15y ago
I think the post was relevant. I don't mind self-promotion if the thing being promoted has hack value. [Edit] Re dsman's comment: "... if every iphone post here attracted comments by all of us who were building an iphone app then HN would b
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by donaq 15y ago
Haha, I walked right into that one.
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by donaq 15y ago
I suppose the space elevators would be on the higher end of the scale.
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by donaq 15y ago
Ironically, a significant group of Singaporeans want to leave because costs of living here are super high.
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by donaq 15y ago
Well, you sort of have to consider that you already exist (or you wouldn't be reading that chart). P(I exist|I already exist) = 1
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The Sayings of John McCarthy(www-formal.stanford.edu)
2 points by donaq 15y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 15y ago
If something is inherently good/true it will stand by it's own characteristics and not need others who prove them though often they need others to teach others. That sounds pretty naive. At many points in history, what we now consider goo
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Sight Gets Repurposed in Brains of the Blind(wired.com)
3 points by donaq 15y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 15y ago
You're not getting the point. You don't have to respect anyone to be a hacker. All you have to do is hack.
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by donaq 15y ago
Frankly, if Steve Jobs is not one of your heroes, you're not a hacker in my book. That's just silly. Whether you're a hacker or not depends on what you do, not who your heroes are. That's like saying Slash is not a real guitar player if h
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by donaq 15y ago
"A lot of the most talented people are going out and getting funded to start their own company," Talent and ambition tend to go hand in hand, and that is the way it should be. If the most talented among us don't attempt to blaze new trail
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by donaq 15y ago
Both are correct, actually.
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by donaq 15y ago
"git commit -a" actually does not add every file in the directory. It only adds those that are already in the repo.
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by donaq 15y ago
Hmm. I'm not sure how you could view this as an offensive move?
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by donaq 15y ago
Regarding politics, it is interesting to note that the people have not, for their part, also overlearned the game of electing the best man for the job. I wonder why this asymmetry exists?
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The Failure of Liberal Bioethics(douthat.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by donaq 15y ago|0 comments
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by donaq 15y ago
Eh. Weird. Congratulating Gabriel got me -4 votes? Sometimes I just don't know HN anymore.
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by donaq 15y ago
This appeals to me immensely because I absorb information way faster by reading than when someone talks at me. I wonder what percentage of the population is like me as opposed to those who absorb better by listening?
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by donaq 15y ago
Way to go!
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by donaq 15y ago
Making bomb components and missile guidance systems is not evil in itself. If only evil men made and used weapons, the world would be in very bad shape. I'm not arguing that the specific weapons mentioned weren't used for evil, I'm just mak
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by donaq 15y ago
Ooh, I did NOT know that tabbing works in a non-GUI environment! Once again, Hacker News has humbled me. Thanks!
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by donaq 15y ago
I should have been clearer, perhaps. I meant with servers that don't usually run X. However, that remote file syntax thing I did not know about. Thanks!

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