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by finnh 11y ago
I'd actually prefer to keep timezones out of the time library itself, and have them only part of string <=> time conversion. Basically move all TZ handling to the parse/format phase of input & output, with the understand
572.
by finnh 11y ago
Such a personal choice. I don't mind the reflections, and I strongly dislike matte - everything looks dead & second-rate to me on a matte screen, so much so that I just gave away a matte 4k monitor rather than use it.
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by finnh 11y ago
I love the examples of turbulence and laminar flow in Fantastic Mr Fox - hard to find on youtube but this clip[0] has about 3 seconds of what I'm talking about [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vjMc_HlNic @ 1:22-1:2
574.
by finnh 11y ago
I really appreciate the thinking behind the post & convox itself. What's the business model for you guys? Just commercial support?
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by finnh 11y ago
Agreed. I majored in Symbolic Systems, with a concentration in AI, and it was fairly CS-heavy. We skipped some topics I would have later found useful (compilers, database, operating systems) but in exchange I did a lot of AI CS work that
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by finnh 11y ago
not to be too snarky, but perhaps "looking backward" would be a better title =) (don't get me wrong, I love my ssh and am glad to see msft supporting it for real)
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Ask HN: What is your favorite power of 2, and why?
1 points by finnh 12y ago|2 comments
578.
by finnh 12y ago
Yup. I find fight scenes with a bunch of cuts to be boring - and a bit disrespectful, even, of me as a viewer. Watching a fight with only one or two takes, however, is fantastic. If I recall, the Soderbergh movie "Haywire" was g
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by finnh 12y ago
"v" just opens your $EDITOR, btw, not necessarily vim-in-terminal. It's basically the same as the bash built-in "fc" command, but operates on the current line instead of the last one.
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by finnh 12y ago
Not really apples-to-apples, though. The Rand Paul cover is a sliding bit of plastic, vs just an adhesive strip.
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by finnh 12y ago
Yes, the summary was helpful. I think GP is merely saying "please make it clear that you are cutting-and-pasting from the post itself"
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by finnh 12y ago
InsideSales - Salt Lake City and Provo, UT http://www.insidesales.com/careers Raised $160M in the past year at a billion-plus valuation, most recently with a round led by Salesforce Ventures and Microsoft. Growing like cra
583.
by finnh 12y ago
@matthewn (can't reply directly to you) - hah! You're right, Anthony Lane is hilarious. And the opera reviews can be boring if you (like me) are not into opera. But you know what I mean =)
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by finnh 12y ago
The New Yorker is an amazingly humane publication. Not snarky, not haughty, not what many people (who do not read it) think it is. This piece is a representative sample of their journalism. The New Yorker is like Burning Man - people who&
585.
by finnh 12y ago
But 12 is evenly divisible in thirds and quarters. Actually pretty useful for a bunch of things. Really it's just too bad we have 10 fingers instead of 12.
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by finnh 12y ago
Didn't they recently realize that huge swaths of "junk" DNA are actually use to regulate RNA expression? So, uh, not junk? Not the original article I'm thinking of, but related: https://www.uam.es/person
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by finnh 12y ago
uh, thanks? I'd prefer they remain ignorant
588.
by finnh 12y ago
To be clear, GitHub is not being sued. GitHub is being served a subpoena. Big difference. The third party being sued is the (as yet unidentified) person who used the key to obtain & leak the data.
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by finnh 12y ago
Hmmm re-reading that it sounds kind of prosaic and press-releasey. here's what I really want to say: Dori is a great guy, the perfect person to find these records. Mike's artwork has reached such a wide audience only because Dor
590.
by finnh 12y ago
I'm friends with Dori Hadar, the DJ & record collector who found Mike's albums at the flea market. It's an amazing story and it's been great to see Mike get the attention his art deserves, all the way to inclusion i
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Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video](news.microsoft.com)
117 points by finnh 12y ago|176 comments
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by finnh 12y ago
I've always found this fish-is-holier-than-red-meat take a bit confusing. Overfishing is a huge problem worldwide. Eating responsibly farmed beef, while expensive, seems less impactful than eating many (most?) types of commonly consu
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by finnh 12y ago
> Once we can travel anywhere in about 24 hours or less, it's hard to justify the cost of better. Clearly you've never travelled with a two year old =) There are many cases where travel just isn't worth it, and the limitin
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by finnh 12y ago
I am dismayed that Connect Four has a below-average rating. Still a great game in my book ... I burned many hours in Thailand playing this on the beach, Beer Chang in hand.
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by finnh 12y ago
Questions from someone who doesn't use Go: 1. Won't this leave the parent process running until the child completes? And, if you do this again & again, won't that stack up a bunch of basically dead parent processes? Ma
596.
by finnh 12y ago
Sadly not quite as cool as I was hoping. It's really a "push from the sides w/ the right angle against an appropriately shaped object such that net momentum is toward some putative 'source' of the beam when in fact
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by finnh 12y ago
InsideSales.com - Provo, UT (I commute from Park City, which is a fantastic place to live). We need Senior engineers w/ varied skillsets: APIs in PHP, APIs in C#, Perl mail wrangling, Angular front-end, big-data / hadoop / sp
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by finnh 12y ago
Not to be the negative nancy, but the inline thumbnails are awfully pixelated =( Why not just reference the full-size images and set their width/height to 25% or whatever?
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by finnh 12y ago
At first I thought "how does this improve over consistent hashing?" Then I read it & saw the pretty pictures and realized they address many more concerns that just consistent hashing would ... and, even in that case, moving th
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by finnh 12y ago
> (3) not every streak is a hot streak, so the real infrequent, but persistent hot hands get diluted; no true scotsman would have a not-hot streak.

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