dtbx

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by dtbx 5y ago
They had to destroy Homer because he was not german but greek. Had Homer been german, they would never have questioned a national hero.
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by dtbx 5y ago
Less than 100 people were killed by the Inquisition in Spain, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Number_of_alleged_witches...
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by dtbx 6y ago
http://archive.is/yi0OS
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by dtbx 6y ago
They want to define happiness as the ultimate goal in life. For me it is not happiness, but intelligence. Two weeks ago, the economist asked: Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? [1] Yes. It is dangerous. For them. They want to
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by dtbx 6y ago
You can use camomile library to handle unicode strings, count code points, perform locale aware lowercase / uppercase, etc For utf8 regexes, you can use Pcre in ocaml, which is faster than camomile regexes.
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by dtbx 12y ago
Make a html, embed the images in base64 using mhtifier.py, and rename the html as doc. Word will open it without problems. Further instructions: http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=word_document_generat...
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by dtbx 12y ago
There is a novel about that. "Schild's Ladder", by Greg Egan. But in that novel, the sphere of destruction expands only at c/2.
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by dtbx 14y ago
How to disable the super key overview manually: Edit /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js Comment this line: global.display.connect('overlay-key', Lang.bind(overview, overview.toggle)); Restart gnome-shell with this command: gnome-shell --r
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by dtbx 14y ago
I like M+, a font designed by a japanese. In particular, I use M+ 1m regular. I like it because I'm shortsighted, so when I put it in 14pt, I can see very clearly.
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by dtbx 14y ago
To help the FBI track you. I support Richard O'Dwyer, but I'm concerned about my own anonymity. These people are crazy, i'm not signing this petition.
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by dtbx 14y ago
The right tool for the job is anything that gives you the power to get shit done. Maintainability is secondary if you can't do the job in the first place. Think about it. I think that using Haskell in the industry is somewhat irresponsible
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by dtbx 14y ago
Certainly, I couldn't have done what I did without Haskell, or with more traditional languages, like C++. The most challenging task I've done with Haskell, was to find the right combination of parameters in orden to sum an array of satellit
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by dtbx 14y ago
Agrosatchile
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by dtbx 14y ago
I was not confortable with D and C++, and I was curious about Haskell.
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by dtbx 14y ago
No, it's totally unknown here in Chile. Even professors don't know anything about a language named Haskell.
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by dtbx 14y ago
It never occurs to me that a company could be "powered" by Haskell. In my old job, I used haskell for everything from satellital image analysis to the web frontend, but I didn't tell anyone. Specially I didn't tell my bosses. When they disc
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by dtbx 14y ago
Thanks, will do something about it. I must.
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by dtbx 14y ago
I think she is a little bit neurotic, and she missed all the evolutionary stuff - that we are hardwired for social interaction. I live an overly solitary life, and I crave for company. My social circle is nearly empty, no GF, and almost all
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by dtbx 14y ago
I think that ESR should employ a more radical license for his programs: the "do what the fuck you want to" public license. If RMS want to dress like St Ignacious, do what the fuck you want. If RMS wants to be the new Che Guevara, do what th
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by dtbx 14y ago
The Game, by Neil Strauss.
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by dtbx 15y ago
It's called the Pygmalion effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
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by dtbx 15y ago
Yeah, but the syntax and the verbosity hides your aim. In the obscure years previous to c++11, meta-programming in c++ would have required a language lawyer. In haskell, the syntax is so nice that is easily readable, and it doesn't get in y
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by dtbx 15y ago
It's a matter of time. If we're all going to live 400 years or more, we could all be super persons. Nobody will rush to achieve multiple things in no time. One thing after another. Slowly and deep. The people that read HN at least have the
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by dtbx 15y ago
But this is what we have, and I am Candid, so I believe that this is the best possible world. What does the author of this essay wants? A mind-reading machine? I RTFM, so I don't complain. In my archlinux netbook there is plenty of room for
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by dtbx 15y ago
Just try to imagine something so awful, so harmful to <X>, and your horrible generalisation would make sense :) In particular, what happens when the genre is sci fi and the noun is god? Clearly, that noun is not to be adored. Religi
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by dtbx 15y ago
The first half of "Stranger in a Strange Land" is wonderful, but the second... God in that novel actually exists. For a truly atheist like me, sometimes I want to read a fanfiction of the Stranger, but without god and the religion bullshit.