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by gamache 17y ago
There is a difference though; those of us who complain about inane CodingHorror submissions don't submit CodingHorror links . We're trying to Just Not Look already. If the CodingHorror links disappeared from HN, I don't think you'd see C
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by gamache 17y ago
Lua is meant for embedding in C programs; that is different from running on embdedded systems. The latter typically features drastically less RAM and CPU cycles, so most interpreted languages (which are not shy about trading away some perf
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by gamache 17y ago
No, CSS is not "perfectly fine for what it was designed for", even if we disregard that it sucks at layout. It's only better than what came before it. It's been over a decade, and we don't even have good layout features or named constant
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by gamache 17y ago
I disagree that luxury meals are enhanced by their high price. I eat for the food, and superlative, exquisitely prepared food tends to cost more. Overall experience, most notably accomodating and non-intrusive service, is important as wel
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by gamache 17y ago
This was an example to show pathos . He had covered logos earlier. And this isn't a quote from his daughter, it's a quote from a theoretical daughter who employed pathos to get what she wanted.
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by gamache 17y ago
Damascus steel blades were forged out of small pure cakes of steel containing around 1.6-1.7 per cent carbon, called wootz. Produced in India, wootz cakes were shipped to Damascus where expert sword smiths fashioned them into blades.
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by gamache 17y ago
I don't know if I agree. Getting around in C++ depends on having not just a sharp mind, but a fairly broad knowledge of computer science concepts. Java is quite similar, requiring a familiarity with many (OO-centric) CS ideas. For a nov
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by gamache 17y ago
The fastest math libs are in Fortran. You can get close in C/C++, but the everything-is-a-pointer philosophy of C gets in the way of some compiler optimizations that are available in Fortran. (Wasn't there something posted to HN about thi
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by gamache 17y ago
With a background in physics and math, she might do well in a functional language, or in a language which supports functional development well. Python is a good choice due to its math libraries and ease of learning. I was also going to su
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by gamache 17y ago
Hacker News. I flagged it as well, incidentally.
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by gamache 17y ago
Yeah, how often do you create screens anyway? For me it's roughly once per reboot...
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by gamache 17y ago
The remarks you complain about in eleventh-grade Debate Club format are expressed more eloquently in the article itself: And here, one feels, lies the paradox about Richard Dawkins. For a committed atheist, he can also be fervently evangel
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by gamache 17y ago
Preventing it entirely would be difficult, but given a list of IPs belonging to Google and TrueSwitch, it would not be very hard to put some serious brakes on the feature. Even reverse DNS could mostly work.
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by gamache 17y ago
Oh, certainly Facebook has the right to turn the Holocaust-deniers away. But that implies that they do not support free speech -- at least not enough to support it materially. That's the call that's being made -- whether Facebook supports
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by gamache 17y ago
Hate speech is speech. If you favor free speech, you favor free hate speech. I don't get what's such a tough call about it, aside from the business/legal implications of Facebook operating in countries which restrict speech.
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by gamache 17y ago
http://github.com That good enough for you?
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by gamache 17y ago
I find it non-obvious that a newline isn't an acceptable delimiter between relationships, and I need to also include a comma at EOL.
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by gamache 17y ago
Blogspam: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-be-free-or-not-to-... And a repeat at that.
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by gamache 17y ago
Two. Then myself, for lunch for a few days.
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by gamache 17y ago
I made this a few times recently. Goat curry: ~2lbs cut up goat meat, browned in a small amount of oil 4-6 potatoes, peeled and cubed 2 onions, diced 5-10 dried red chilis, crumbled Lots of curry, garam masala, coriander,
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by gamache 17y ago
Stephen Wolfram 'as self-important as all get-out'. Wolf has been cried; A New Kind of Science left little doubt that "expert opinions" of Wolfram's work are worth a piss-hole in the snow.
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by gamache 18y ago
I'd wager the .gif is that old. Running strings(1) on it turned up 'NETSCAPE2.0'.
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by gamache 18y ago
I think that was his point.
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by gamache 18y ago
I modded you down because you told me to, twice.
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by gamache 18y ago
A few months back, I wanted to get some orphaned files from my ancient Geocities page. I remembered my username (now of the form username.geo ) but the password wasn't coming to me. I tried to recover my password but none of the 20 email
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by gamache 18y ago
The founders claim that they do not make money off the site; what they take in is just enough to cover server and bandwidth costs. See the 12th paragraph down at: http://torrentfreak.com/news-from-the-pirate-bay-press-confe...
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by gamache 18y ago
The widespread "piracy" of the Spirit Of Christmas short is what made South Park as popular as it was, early on.
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by gamache 18y ago
It's not an article, it's a lecture transcription.
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by gamache 18y ago
For me, the big win of Passenger is freeing myself from manual administration of Rails apps. Any performance gain is secondary to the fact that I can drink beer while I rest assured my apps are being served.
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by gamache 18y ago
I was wary too... then in the space of about ten minutes, I had Apache and Passenger set up and I never had to worry about babysitting my Rails apps again. I can't wait to try Passenger on Nginx.

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