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by dtf 16y ago
Because everyone who has sacrificed a chunk of their life to chase a dream has secretly thought these thoughts.
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by dtf 16y ago
This is an excellent review of the two technologies from the company that created them both. A few times here on HN, I've seen people attempt to argue that ZeroMQ is a better AMQP or vice-versa. Instead, this document explains their differi
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by dtf 16y ago
I hadn't missed your maybes. You're pondering the subtleties of this argument far more intelligently than my blunt comment does. But perhaps that's because you've had time to mature and reflect on your brush with arrogance, while I am still
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by dtf 16y ago
Arrogance born out of genius is more than tolerable. But arrogance born out of mediocrity, ignorance or insecurity is a more common and toxic blend.
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by dtf 16y ago
It's got absolutely nothing to do with optimization, it just happens to be rather fast. As far as I know, there is know other tool out there, fast or slow, that offers zeromq's level of simplicity. 1) It's a networking library Yes, but on
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by dtf 16y ago
It's not my argument. It's the god-of-the-gaps argument, hitherto to be found sitting lazily on that rather awesome gap called the big-bang, that Hawking is deftly refuting in his book. I'm just noting, with minor repulsion, the cheap t
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by dtf 16y ago
His PR team have already spun this as Hawking throwing down the gauntlet to religion, gleefully canvassing outrage and outright denial from Rabbis and Bishops. Wiser theologians should take a step back, bring out that age old trick, and inq
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by dtf 16y ago
I find OS X makes nice fonts like Envy look bloated, bold and ugly when I switch from Apple-prescribed black-on-white - where they look awesome - to my preferred white-on-black scheme. I have to stick to bitmap fonts like Terminus, SGIScree
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by dtf 16y ago
I think there's more to it than just mouse vs keyboard. The keyboard-centric power interfaces like Emacs, Vim and those tiling window managers have non-intuitive shortcuts and combining sequences that really make things go fast. Compare usi
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by dtf 16y ago
The ACC is important to attentiveness. It's almost a lower-level to the frontal lobe, connecting it to the emotional and reward areas of the brain. George Bush et al saw poor ACC activation in ADHD subjects while performing the counting str
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by dtf 16y ago
That is the precisely the type of "no smoke without fire" thinking that those who consider Wikileaks a gadfly will be delighted to see stick.
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by dtf 16y ago
Sausage, bacon and cheesecake? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100328170243.ht... It's all about the D2 receptors. Cocaine, burgers, prostitutes, Vegas... even WoW: http://www.adventureinterventions.com/pdfs/Dopamine%20Genes
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by dtf 16y ago
This is (pop) evolutionary psychology, not psychoanalysis. Freud's reasoning on why men are driven to become entrepreneurs, magnates, architects, artists is that the boy, sensing that he has been robbed of the organs required to procreate i
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by dtf 16y ago
For the eight years I've been using vim, I have never known about ci". I feel both stupid and in awe.
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by dtf 16y ago
Bill Spitzak - original developer of Nuke (and FLTK) - wrote the following pages on this very subject back in 2002: http://mysite.verizon.net/spitzak/conversion/index.html
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by dtf 16y ago
I don't get these rants. Both C and C++ are such barebone languages that you can take or leave pretty much everything but the common syntax. Zed decides C's string functions are not up to scratch, and so uses bstring. Plenty feel the same a
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by dtf 16y ago
Oh dear. I can see the open-source and pirate communities coming down on these guys like a ton of bricks. I wouldn't be surprised to see a CDDB-style distributed database and server and accompanying mobile apps up by the end of next week. S
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by dtf 16y ago
When you say "bad rendering", do you mean glyph rendering (FreeType) or the layout stack?
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by dtf 16y ago
Interesting instructional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbGvjqEweA
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by dtf 16y ago
They're the bad guys, just like that other non-profit trade association, the MPAA. We can hate on them while still loving our newspapers and movies.
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Extraverts: happy, funny, creative, better suited to high-stress work(brainblogger.com)
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by dtf 16y ago
I found it distasteful. I very much respect the idea of personal meditation, but this essay gave me that belly nausea that I experience reading a religious pamphlet dropped on my doorstep. "Purify the mind"? "Emotional bondage"? Is this any
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by dtf 16y ago
Found this great comment in underneath that particular YouTube video: "He was just a curious kid in a grown up's body." You've only got to watch Feynman's face as he's telling the story, or any story for that matter. His excitement and ent
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by dtf 16y ago
It's worth noting that the term "ecstacy pill" encompasses a huge array of psychoactive and non-psychoactive substances. Go and scare yourself at sites like PillReports: http://www.pillreports.com/ Unless he or one of his friends was an o
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by dtf 16y ago
It's not just the trade unions. Here's a quote from a similar story in the Washington Post: "Users complain that high-efficiency toilets, which use less water than traditional models, require two flushes to do the job. Behind such objection
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by dtf 16y ago
Well that's disenchanting. I've always admired the skill and imagination of comic artists, and now we find out they're just tracing!
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by dtf 16y ago
The cure for limerance is simple: time. Namely, 2 to 3 years.
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by dtf 16y ago
A little to much schadenfreude for my taste. Is it really all about winning?
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by dtf 16y ago
There are a number of web-based options too, eg: http://writer.bighugelabs.com/ And for Linux etc: http://pyroom.org/
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by dtf 16y ago
Rooibos tea?

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