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by err4nt 8y ago
I'd love to hear more about why intellectual property is an oxymoron - you have piqued my interest :D
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by err4nt 8y ago
Leasing is a bad arrangement, if you have a car you get get rid of it, but if you are leasing a car they can make it near impo$$ible for you to get out of it. I know one guy who had his own vehicle. But right before breaking up with his gir
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by err4nt 8y ago
Asthma is one of the medical conditions cannabis is known to treat - it acts as a bronchodilator!
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by err4nt 8y ago
It's called a 'rhetorical question', and that's any question that's asked by the writer/speaker that is not intended to have a response from the reader/listener.
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Wow, thank you so much Guido for the many years of leadership. I'm sure the community will make you proud in the years to come!
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by err4nt 8y ago
Since WAT -> WASM is already easy to do, compiling <otherlanguage> to WAT makes it really easy for people to create their own abstractions for writing WebAssembly in nearly _any_ other programming language, not just those that can
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by err4nt 8y ago
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that WASM has two formats: a text-based format called WAT, and a binary format called WASM. In order to run the code in the browser, the code will have to be compiled to the binary format. So
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Show HN: Cheq - a command-line checklist app (for mac/win/lin/node)(github.com)
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by err4nt 8y ago
I've got a plugin[1] I use for something similar when it's a horizontal scrollable area. Scroll the boxes in the demo[2] to see the shadows appear/disappear when there is overflowed text on the left or right edge! 1: https:&
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by err4nt 8y ago
I have a lot of questions about how it might work, but above all else I'm absolutely in awe of what MechanicalChef can already do! Truly amazing automation, and I can see how this could directly benefit…nearly everyone. I wish your fri
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by err4nt 8y ago
Love seeing LordHavoc mentioned. I collaborated a little bit with LordHavoc while helping build the open source shooter game Nexuiz (~2004-2005) and he is truly a brilliant game engine programmer!
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by err4nt 8y ago
Does Facebook just grab everything they can? Does anybody know if they grab your device's battery status, or gyroscopic data about how you are tilting/holding your device?
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by err4nt 8y ago
Wow TIL. I even looked it up and $13 buys you enough cold-patch to fill in a few holes it looks like. Thanks for sharing, if I'm ever bothered by a pothole I'll just fill it myself now that I know!
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by err4nt 8y ago
I think it really depends on what you are building, and it may be the case that a frontend framework is overkill for what you need!
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Show HN: Tweet Cruncher – substitute characters for unicode lookalikes(tweetcruncher.com)
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by err4nt 8y ago
I created an animation of the Arecibo message in less than 1kb of Javascript: https://js1k.com/2017-magic/demo/2843 Here's a video of the animation playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMz
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by err4nt 8y ago
> Roman numerals (for a different example) make all kinds of arithmetic much harder than in Arabic notation. Definitely not for simple addition or subtraction, the kind you're likely to do every day haggling over prices or counting
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by err4nt 9y ago
Hi! Thanks for the service you do for others by mirroring this content - what's involved with being a mirror? I'm not sure if it's something I have the means or skills to do, but Project Gutenberg (and information projects li
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by err4nt 9y ago
This is so sad to me, but my experiences volunteering as a male have been the same. Even though women are statistically more likely to be a child murderer, it's fine for women to be alone with children, where men are viewed as a liabil
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by err4nt 9y ago
Any time a principle is applied to a culture at a specific point in time, when you look back from an even better place the original improvement can look barbaric. An example: killing animals to eat them. In the ancient world I heard that it
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by err4nt 9y ago
Hey! This really piqued my interest, could you explain more about the makefile part of this? I currently use Pandoc to convert a folder of .MD files into .HTML files with the same name, and have begun modifying the templates and making use
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by err4nt 9y ago
Ah see what I end up doing is solving the problem and thinking deeply about what I need our solution to do, and more importantly, figuring out exactly what we don't need our solution to do. Once I've solved the same problem about
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by err4nt 9y ago
Here in Canada I've seen caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis in the office, all seem generally well tolerated. I have heard of people taking narcolepsy drugs for productivity, but that was just one person I knew and I have never r
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by err4nt 9y ago
I used to match patchwork quilts out of plugins, different HTML widgets, and try to make use of pre-made frameworks for CSS in the past. I always felt like I was 80% of the way finished before I started.....but the hard part was building th
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by err4nt 9y ago
I mean, it sounds nice, there's nothing wrong with the description, but as a remote worker with a self-employed wife…why would I go there? I am living like that already where I am.
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by err4nt 9y ago
I am a Canadian Citizen who owns my own business (registered as a Sole Proprietorship) and I do contract work and consulting for US clients sometimes. I am living outside the US as well so thankfully I don't have US tax, the biggest di
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by err4nt 9y ago
I can guarantee that it's not. I first heard the term 'social justice warrior' as a label from people who were fighting human trafficking (freeing modern day slaves) and they were proud to label themselves 'social justic
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I have been self employed, working from wherever, for just shy of 7 years now. Overall the experience has been life-changing in a positive way, and I would highly recommend people try this arrangement at least once in their careers to see i
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by err4nt 9y ago
That example was great - I've been inspired by LISP and have been playing around with my own idea of an HTML-building set of functions already this week: http://staticresource.com/html-js-4.html It's great to see
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by err4nt 9y ago
In english 'Doctor' is a word that at one time exclusively did refer only to males. A word used for females was 'Doctress' http://doctordoctress.org

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