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by frevd 13y ago
Wikipedia's picture is way more instantly intuitive (for non-americans who don't care much about parties, seinfeld or baseball) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simpson%27s_paradox_contin...
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by frevd 13y ago
I'm a C# veteran and have programmed for more than a decade. I started PHP last year for a project, and I must say 5.4 is quite rich in features (it's also very weird, agreed, but nothing beyond any control, the docs are great).
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by frevd 13y ago
Make it a Javascript (just put into Favorites an icon that links to javascript:(function(){...})() which creates and inserts a script block into the currently open site (Yale site in this case) which loads the big .js from a server. Users
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by frevd 13y ago
I'd rather like to see an article about the opposite - mutables in math, or better, programming in math. I know iterative algorithms and math do not have much in common, but it would be fascinating to explore some possibilties of open
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by frevd 15y ago
at least they learned from that experience with Vista and didnt chose a name at all for Windows 7 (although they messed up the internal version number).
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by frevd 15y ago
All they really need to do is changing that awful name. BING.. i mean can u choose a more obvious name indicating that you dont understand aesthetics and are only off for the market share? Same for Windows fcking Vista. The only reason I d
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by frevd 15y ago
You are right (I upvoted you :). Given current technology it is not reasonable possible to decrypt strongly encrypted data, however - there is strong evidence that using quantum computers this task is a matter of seconds. This technology i
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by frevd 16y ago
"For X-rays and gamma rays, these are the same units as the sievert (Sv)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_(unit) ADD: "Sievert = Biological effectiveness factor unique to the type of radiation * Gray" http://www.hicare.jp/en/09/hi03.
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by frevd 16y ago
> Maybe that would be an improvement. If it worked. Exactly, that's a very good idea, and easily implemented. Concerning search, which should be integrated nevertheless, I'm not used to do things again and again if I can automat
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by frevd 16y ago
Concerning better objectivity in voting, I'd like to see two separate counters for up and down votes, rather than the aggregated sum which conceals the actual number of votes and is sort of nontransparent since not all members are allowed t
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by frevd 16y ago
No, but if something interesting just pops up you simple don't have the time to search but the first few recent new-pages before someone else will post. EDIT: Well yes, people don't search, it should be done automatically ;]
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by frevd 16y ago
Interesting. Coincidentally I just wondered about how to not get in trouble with HN for providing a custom live feed (I decided to make my own rather than relying on unknown services or learning how to use searchyc). My solution to that pro
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by frevd 16y ago
Nevermind, I'll create one myself.. I always wanted a better feed view of HN. I guess grouped by automatically derived tags and instant live-update could improve on that matter.
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by frevd 16y ago
Unlikely, without an automated duplicate-check this will pop up every time it pops up somewhere. I might however delete it, if that's of any help.
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by frevd 16y ago
Thanks, but this is not "live" enough. I'd vote for an integrated search rather than relying on external services with unknown cache intervals.
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by frevd 16y ago
See my remark below. How do you track that?
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by frevd 16y ago
Yeah, just popped up on google news, not more than a rumor, but I thought to post it nevertheless. EDIT: And this is a duplicate ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234776 ) Any chance of getting a search function into HN?
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Steve Jobs has six weeks to live(tgdaily.com)
4 points by frevd 16y ago|16 comments
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by frevd 16y ago
There is also a really interesting (scarifying-wise) discussion about apathy, existentialism and generally missing purpose in America's daily life, in the later comments to check out (scroll down 1/3, i.e. a mile).
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by frevd 16y ago
That's the point - it can do whatever you can do, all technical prerequisites are available (threads, background-requests, runtime-dynamic code etc). Once the proper tools are available providing diverse standard functions, it will spread
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by frevd 16y ago
To all of you - I'm used to capitalization (very much since I'm German and we capitalize every Noun), much less though do I know what to capitalize in English (I got so much angry comment in my phase of capitalizing everything i deemed impo
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by frevd 16y ago
Wouldn't it be more informative if we had separate up & down vote stats here instead of the collapsing aggregate function?
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by frevd 16y ago
Sure, pick that one mistake of mine.. I remember that, and I wanted to directly express the low-quality of that particular post, which of course must have been of value for some people but me, nevertheless. For my defence, I immediately reg
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by frevd 16y ago
Well.. wow, I take that as a compliment. I should definitely read more HN comments though, to improve on my writing style (sorry, I got all my early English from coding and the rest from chats &c. (barely speaking a word even today), a
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by frevd 16y ago
not fair - they don't add that here in Germany afaik. Vitamin D is critical for the mood, but it requires sun for the body to produce it, and sun is rare in all northern areas, especially in the winter. Thanks for the hint.
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by frevd 16y ago
I recently bought this book and it might be of help since it is explaining exactly the causes (and treatment) of negative self-talk. Not sure whether I can post recommendations here (I'm not affiliated), but since it was already recommended
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by frevd 16y ago
Given the topic of this discussion any type of answer counts, right? But by the way, interesting concept of anti-value. I'm sure Information Theory has got something to say about creation ex nihilo.
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by frevd 16y ago
Thanks for the flowers. I'm even using my broken shift-key for you're reading pleasure (I'm particular too about all that although I also like the style of all-lower-case, but I understand that might not be obvious and seen as an insult). I
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by frevd 16y ago
Ah, I get it. Thank you. (replying to myself since reply function is deactivated at that level (as a feature))
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by frevd 16y ago
It seems all my comments appear as a blob, despite me adding line breaks. I'm not doing that on purpose, do I have to use a different system or editor in order to get more visual structure into it?

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