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by fouc 5y ago
When I see a lot of downvotes I usually ask myself "what do they know that I don't?" I would assume some portion of downvotes are due to a knowledge disparity. And if there's a lot of downvotes against my comment, then
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by fouc 5y ago
Similar threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124
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Startup news link submission site (2007)(news.ycombinator.com)
2 points by fouc 5y ago|1 comments
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by fouc 5y ago
I meant "conversations" and not posts. Kinda like https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments but highlight the ones that have the best overall cluster of comments in a continuous thread
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by fouc 5y ago
I agree about the problem of quality conversations fading too quickly. Perhaps HN could add a /topconversations or /yesterdayconversations link that only highlights the best conversation threads from 24 hours ago. That way attent
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by fouc 5y ago
Minor comment.. I personally find it harder to type < > than : because the < > keys are a lot closer to the shift key and causes more wrist strain. Have you considered borrowing the :emoji: convention that slack/discord&#x2
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Monkeysphere: Using PGP for SSH verification/authentication (2012)(perot.me)
1 points by fouc 5y ago|0 comments
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by fouc 5y ago
> But today, as quantum computers with dozens of qubits are being built, and systems with hundreds or even thousands of qubits are on the horizon, the complexity of programming a quantum computer requires a more structured approach. This
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by fouc 5y ago
I wonder if title should say "in Chromium-based browsers" rather than "in the browser". Especially when it doesn't run in Firefox or Safari.
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by fouc 5y ago
I've seen a lot of love for skeuomorphism on HN
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by fouc 5y ago
It's a bad link, should probably link directly to the pdf. https://www.howtoskate.se/_files/ugd/e11bfe_b783631375f54324...
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by fouc 5y ago
I hear that 95% figure all the time but I wonder if that applies to traders that have been trading as a full-time job for 5 years?
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by fouc 5y ago
I sometimes wonder if mutt is still pg's email client of choice. And if he's still using his bayesian spam filter.
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by fouc 5y ago
I'm not sure that comparing JS to a potentially catastrophic substance with the capability to destroy all life on Earth implies that OP is angry about JS. It could be a tongue-in-cheek comparison.
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by fouc 5y ago
The staying power of Fortran is amazing.
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by fouc 5y ago
I'd be up for collaborating in elixir on something, I have a bunch of ideas and half finished side projects. I'm curious what impossible means to you. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016903
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by fouc 5y ago
This seems interesting to me, I wouldn't mind collaborating on this. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039
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by fouc 5y ago
Yeah, very good point.. I can no longer view https://elliotplant.com/marketing-redirect/ because I'm instantly forced away every time.
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by fouc 5y ago
I would assume the interviewer is potentially under a non-disparagement clause on their employment contract. So the criticism question might not be a good one.
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by fouc 5y ago
> talk to people, do activities and meet lots of people. You missed the rest of the sentence.
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by fouc 5y ago
What I'd like to know is what design or material changes were required to reach this benchmark? The picture of the fusion chamber is still the same torus donut shape as the ones from the 90s.
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by fouc 5y ago
That really depends on the country, the smart move may require relocating to raise kids elsewhere.
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by fouc 5y ago
> Many boys are thus often growing up raised by single mothers, the share more than doubling between 1980 and 2019, from 18 percent to 40 percent. This is surprising to me when the reduction in crime in NY in the 1980s/1990s is ofte
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by fouc 5y ago
French association with "high class" goes a long ways back, including to when Brittania was under Norman rule in the early 1000s. Much of the loan words from Old French are considered classier compared to equivalent words from Old
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by fouc 5y ago
The first time I encountered Kelly Criterion was when I was scouring books on trading. It got mentioned in one chapter in a book that happened to be a collection of interviews of traders, out of about 30 books on trading that I had read. Be
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by fouc 5y ago
The programming language informs the core tech stack, so the programming language is more like the tool box, than the tool itself.
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by fouc 5y ago
I would expect fragment caching to exist.
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by fouc 5y ago
You can't count all the requests wasted on assets when comparing the requests/day metric.
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by fouc 5y ago
It's now deployed to fly.io because edge nodes are important. /s
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by fouc 5y ago
It might be interesting to have some sort of cryptographic identity that costs money to generate, and then gets associated with tor in some anonymity-safe way. But the identity would would need to somehow remain unidentifiable, so maybe th

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