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by fsck--off 12y ago
> It's tricky stuff... Feynman was (is?) a hero of mine, and I struggle to put this stuff in context. The context is that there was no such thing as no-fault divorce in the United States until 1969, and as a result, it was not uncom
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by fsck--off 12y ago
Yes, it can. Start the video and put the iPhone to sleep. When you wake the iPhone up a moment later the music controls on the lock screen allow you to resume playing the audio. You can then turn the screen off and the audio will still play
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by fsck--off 12y ago
What about Standard Oil? Exxon Mobil is still the 3rd largest company by revenue in the world. If it was combined with another baby Standard Oil, Chevron, it would be the largest company in the world.
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by fsck--off 12y ago
According to a YouTube comment made 8 months ago by Kalman Reti — the 'last Symbolics developer'— Symbolics IP is owned by John Mallery. "The problem is that the Symbolics IP is now owned by John Mallery; he has stated he has
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by fsck--off 12y ago
Thanks for listening! I actually don't mind the fixed header on the current version because it is much smaller and less obtrusive than the header on the redesign. I dislike fixed headers on news sites like the New York Times, because I
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by fsck--off 12y ago
I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have had a positive experience using it. This redesign incorporates two of the worst design trends today: very low contrast text and gratuitously, obnoxiously large fixed headers. I dislike f
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by fsck--off 12y ago
English words derived from French are usually longer then similar words derived from Anglo-Saxon. Bad or insecure writers and speakers, especially when they are members of the middle class, will often assume that using words with many sylla
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Keep in mind that there was no such thing as a no-fault divorce in the U.S until 1969. So the listed reasons for divorce — which in this case included violence — are not reliable because they were often invented out of necessity.
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by fsck--off 13y ago
I'm posting this for posterity because this thread has long since fallen off the front page. I was wrong about the pronunciation of "Ye Olde". When it is used as a spurious indication of antiquity, the Oxford English Dictiona
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Second person used to be: Singular----|----Plural Thou Ye, You Thee You Thine Yours Thy Your Which correspond to the nominative, objective, and possessive cases accordingly. By the way, the "Ye&q
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by fsck--off 13y ago
I think it's great that YCombinator is "eating its own dogfood" and the new site has some cool features, like instant search results. I have a few concerns, though. I think that there is too much whitespace, which makes conte
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by fsck--off 13y ago
The market isn't small enough for these tactics to work. It's much more likely that this was a response to the very real and well documented problem of illegal exports. Another Japanese company, Mitutoyo, was caught several times
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Actually, normal production hybrid vehicles have innovations that are banned in F1. Specifically, continuously variable transmissions. F1 rules that specify 8 forward gears and 1 reverse gear are written to make sure that CVTs can't be
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Asymmetric warfare with multiple adversaries doesn't work that way. For example, Stuxnet did not make U.S power plants safe from malicious attackers. I recommend reading Ralph Langner's op-ed in the New York Times. http:/&#x
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> The Unix approach to syscalls worked, and Unix is alive and well. The MIT approach was quite possibly impossible to implement, and the system they were building is extinct. The "MIT approach" in Worse is Better discussed th
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by fsck--off 13y ago
> Considering things in this perspective, is it so far-fetched to at least consider the possibility that 9/11 was a false-flag attack? Yes, it would be completely far fetched and cretinous. You would have to completely ignore the hi
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Pierre was killed in an accident in 1906. In 1910-11 she had an affair with one of Pierre's former students, Paul Langevin, who was estranged from his wife but still technically married. The Wikipedia entry links to this page: http:&#
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by fsck--off 13y ago
A Mozilla coder gave an explanation for this several months ago: "In case you wonder, the reason for which Firefox doesn't merge url and search bar is to protect user's privacy. If you prefer a Chrome-style UI, there are a co
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Here's a pretty good explanation from The Complete Manual of Typography , by James Felici: "No two words in typography are as commonly misused as font and typeface. A typeface is a collection of characters—letters, numbers, symbo
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by fsck--off 13y ago
The story told to you was clearly an adaptation of Richard Gabriel's "Worse is Better". Amusingly, in "Worse in Better" Stanford and MIT are actually on the same side while the "get X out quickly" mentalit
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by fsck--off 13y ago
My favorite story, written in 1992, about the quality of AT&T's customer service is: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Fo...
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Here's my favorite SICP related quote: Somebody mailed me a copy of SICP. Now what would they mean by that...? - Guido van Rossum, May 18 2009 https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1838308947
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by fsck--off 13y ago
If it was 2007, then it was probably the Heart Disease Education, Analysis and Research, and Treatment for Women Act (acronym HEART). The bill died in the House. Identical bills were passed by the House in 2008 and 2009 but were not voted u
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Anecdotally, I've found that "non-technical users" have trouble adjusting to any new UI, including Apple laptops, phones and tablets. For them the choice is between keeping an old computer, on which they already know how to s
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by fsck--off 13y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean. By "rewind execution" do you mean something similar to Interlisp's "undo" function? http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp-...
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Racket isn't a Lisp. All of the Lisps have "Lisp" in their name, e.g MacLisp, Common Lisp, ZetaLisp, Interlisp, EuLisp, Elisp, etc. Look at the conversation between kragen and lispm here [1]. Of course you can almost always
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by fsck--off 13y ago
I posted this quote from a Foreign Policy article [1] on another NSA related discussion two weeks ago. In short, this isn't the first time Alexander has run a program that used large networking charts, and it also isn't the first
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Look at the HN thread about this article [1], specifically the top comment. Among other things, that study failed to take into account the "plateau effect" that occurs in all types of exercise regimens after several weeks of the s
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Oops! Thanks for catching that. I was multitasking when I made that edit and there is a pretty big difference between a fab and a factory!
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by fsck--off 13y ago
Oh no, not this again. This account is highly biased and inaccurate in many places. Please read Dan Weinreb's rebuttal to this. http://web.archive.org/web/20110719154038/http://danweinreb.... Edit (

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