elcapitan

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by elcapitan 11y ago
Unfortunately the part of modern laptops that breaks first is rarely a case, be it wooden or metal, even plastic, but usually the battery, keyboard, screen, or just some random small part of the mainboard.
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by elcapitan 11y ago
It's a grid in my Chrome, but only after loading js for another 15 years. ;)
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by elcapitan 11y ago
I don't completely understand why the unique three word combination has to be different per language. While this makes it easier to communicate intra language, it makes it a lot harder for international helpers from different backgroun
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Three words for every location on the planet(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by elcapitan 11y ago|1 comments
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by elcapitan 11y ago
Thanks to the great efforts of the human race, we will soon be able to visit all the hidden beauty of Antarctica :)
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by elcapitan 11y ago
That's a great resource, I often find out about interesting talks on youtube quite some time after they have been uploaded, the rss feed of this will bring all that to me without actively checking. Edit: There are feeds for tags as wel
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by elcapitan 11y ago
I find myself calculating a lot in my head for example when discussing surveys, statistics etc, just to make some quick calc where certain numbers come from etc. Of course you could take out a calculator, but that's cumbersome in the m
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by elcapitan 11y ago
Axel Springer is a newspaper corporation that is not related to the scientific publishing house Springer.
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by elcapitan 11y ago
+1
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by elcapitan 11y ago
What would be the difference between inheritance and just giving your children money as long as you are alive? Would you be barred from that as well? So you could spend your money on whatever you want, but not give it to a very particular g
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by elcapitan 11y ago
"Dijkstra’s quote is quite apt: “The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.” " Read more Dijkstra!
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by elcapitan 11y ago
Wow. It's actually a miracle that this works most of the time. That suitcase is pretty standard, I could imagine a million ways how some backpack or other unusually formed piece of baggage would jam that thing. And how on earth do they
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Ask HN: Why are there so few logic programming languages like Prolog?
6 points by elcapitan 11y ago|7 comments
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by elcapitan 11y ago
This is a good addition to the original Bitcoin paper ( https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf [pdf]), which is already very concise and readable. The contribution of the post is going into the details of how the concepts actually
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by elcapitan 11y ago
This is similar in some parts of the Eastern German countryside, where population is going down and the pragmatic solution for transport is to have buttons in regional trains (like in busses in cities) that you can use to stop at old statio
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by elcapitan 11y ago
Is there a similar post on the developer side? I could imagine that you could already start with the equivalent version of point 1: "I have a great service/app/whatever, where can I find a business person to get it to the mar
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by elcapitan 11y ago
I agree. With many stories posted on hacker news, in particular economical ones, I first read the headline, then have a look at the comments, then the actual article. Usually the top commenters easily outsmart the original idea of the artic
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by elcapitan 11y ago
I would say: HN is about technology startups. Technology startups use technology to change human context. To understand new developments there, you need reports about three things: Startups, technology and human context.
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by elcapitan 11y ago
On a meta level, this is probably a good example to study for the impact of grouping data into classes (most likely the truck driver is just a job that is more easily groupable than the different types of office jobs etc).
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by elcapitan 11y ago
"Nike - Just do it." :D scnr
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by elcapitan 11y ago
Why doesn't Webkit on the Mac just set the respective system font as value for "sans-serif"?