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This jersey is not for sale(raganwald.posterous.com)
4 points by galactus 14y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 14y ago
The page rank is high probably because of the people who link nissan.com without checking
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by galactus 14y ago
Of course it has to do with SEO. The reason to write those fake reviews is not (only) to get people reading those before the product is out, but mostly to have better google rankings (page age seems to have some weight).
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by galactus 14y ago
The author implements an inneficient algorithm using python and then a better one using C. He seems to feel python is for dirty brute force and C is for "real" programming...
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by galactus 14y ago
"Rationally there is no point in having children at all" What does that even mean? Is it "rational" to stay alive? (isn't it only "worth it" because your genes order you not to kill yourself?)
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by galactus 15y ago
Exactly, I also find it a bit confusing. I assume they are capturing variables (it would be crazy otherwise!) but they treat loop variables differently (as if a new variable was created every time).
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by galactus 15y ago
The author seems to find that lambdas capturing the same loop variable is counter intuitive, but, honestly, that's the behavior I would expect from it!
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by galactus 15y ago
I "still" use emacs because of SLIME. The most pleasant programming environment I have ever used.
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Scoble: I'll go down with the ship(scripting.com)
18 points by galactus 15y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 15y ago
Was he working 12-16 hours when you were a kid? So did you use to see him only the weekends?
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by galactus 15y ago
I wish people would stop using the word "disruptive" all the time...
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by galactus 15y ago
Excellent read. I specially liked this part: "In fact some people get far more support than others. For example, I’m not going to name any names, but when a top tier VC writes a five million dollar check to a 19 year-old with a barely-beyon
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The End Of The Future(nationalreview.com)
2 points by galactus 15y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 15y ago
Strictly speaking no GUI can be written using only a programming language like perl, java, tcl... I/O has nothing to do in the discussion comparing Turing Complete vs. "supporting some language feature in a way that makes it practical f
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by galactus 15y ago
That's "evil" only because they will compete with a smaller company that you personally happen to like.
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by galactus 15y ago
And probably none of them would find that to be bad in itself.
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by galactus 15y ago
I don't know... I like the message, but a programming language seems to be the wrong medium to convey it. I would at least have used a procedure call to represent input from people, instead of an unbound variable :P
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by galactus 15y ago
I came here to say the same. The ability to drive and connect commands programatically is what makes the CLI so powerful. Sure, some GUIs let you extend them via some embedded scripting language, but nothing beats single-use bash scripts in
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Seasteading: Some Problems on the way to Castle Sovereign(davidbrin.blogspot.com)
3 points by galactus 15y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 15y ago
ah, no love for lisp :(
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by galactus 15y ago
Did the soviet union ever used their nukes offensively?
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by galactus 15y ago
I work in both industries as well, writing software for geophysical data processing for mining companies :)
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by galactus 15y ago
Is this a common practice on other +1-like buttons? (say facebook "like"s, twitter's RTs, digg/reddit upvotes, etc)
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by galactus 15y ago
Where are the API specifications for developing on top of google+?
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by galactus 15y ago
Java servlets? I wonder how the average HNs user (who loves google+ and hates the java platform) feels about it.
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by galactus 15y ago
When I lived in France I loved Free. Best ISP I have ever used
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by galactus 15y ago
Wasn't "the internet" created by the gouvernment too?
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Am I the only one tired of so many Google+ entries hitting HN's front page?
5 points by galactus 15y ago|1 comments
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by galactus 15y ago
It is a bit cynical to mention the role of the internet in the uprise against Mubarak as an example of the internet being "america's greatest weapon" given Mubarak's position as a longtime US ally.
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Page's mistake(scripting.com)
3 points by galactus 15y ago|0 comments

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