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Why We Hate Ruby(c2.com)
8 points by gnosis 14y ago|6 comments
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XML Sucks(c2.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Two years of Guile 2.0(savannah.gnu.org)
39 points by gnosis 14y ago|1 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
From the HN Guidelines:[1] "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users
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Fermi's Paradox: A Real Howler(rfreitas.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Resources Between the Stars(centauri-dreams.org)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Storing nuclear waste is a very technically solvable problem. Politically, it is difficult to solve because most people are terrified of it and have "not in my backyard" syndrome." There are very good reasons why people don't want nuclea
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by gnosis 14y ago
Wow. That music is incredibly annoying.
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Scheme was/is seen as a teaching tool/research platform while CL was/is the language to actually make something in." Scheme is great for both, and it's very unfortunate that the impression most people have of it is that it's an education
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by gnosis 14y ago
"I lived through the era of Windows trouncing Unix." On servers? There was no such era! Windows never dominated the server market. Sure, there were some companies that were Windows shops, but most servers were and still are unix/linu
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Being a nice person will not only earn you any affection you crave but the opposite, contempt for being an agreeable person." This has not been my experience. I like nice people, and dislike assholes. I know plenty of other people who
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by gnosis 14y ago
"This is the US government we're talking about, so I bet they will never get far" Oh? You mean the US government that was the first to create nuclear weapons and land men on the moon?
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by gnosis 14y ago
Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KbuE1z9_k
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by gnosis 14y ago
"If you want that level whiz-bang, use Coda or Sublime Text 2 or Eclipse or whatever. I don't recall where I saw this, but someone advised disabling syntax coloring in your editor to remove a crutch (and, secondarily, to visually simplify
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by gnosis 14y ago
You can easily split panes (called windows in vim) within vim. You can also create new tabs within vim for related things you need to do. I still use tmux or screen to do other things which aren't convenient or elegant to do within vim, bu
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by gnosis 14y ago
It would be interesting to see how the results would differ were this method used with groups of adjacent words instead of just individual words. Analysis based on idividual words might miss a lot of subtle context, especially since English
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by gnosis 14y ago
More info: [1][2] [1] - http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/10/how-dutch-got-t... [2] - http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/09/how-the-du...
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How the Dutch got their cycle paths [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|1 comments
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Near-Misses and their Uses(centauri-dreams.org)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Why cyclists enrage car drivers(mindhacks.com)
35 points by gnosis 14y ago|87 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
"The argument wouldn't be that everyone would test foods with handheld chemo whatever's, but rather that private analogs to the FDA would exist." What's stopping these "private analogs to the FDA" from existing now? If the FDA is doing s
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Can we finally replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?(autonomo.us)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Khat out of the bag(mindhacks.com)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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The Tropeless Tale(tvtropes.org)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
"it's well known that minority students are admitted to prestigious universities with far lower SAT and GPA's that their white/Asian counterparts" SATs have been criticised for having inherent socioeconomic bias. The validity of both SAT
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by gnosis 14y ago
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation. -- James Boswell I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. -- Marlen
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Cultural Diffusion and SETI(centauri-dreams.org)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
Which vision therapy are you referring to? It's not the Bates Method,[1] is it? [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method
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Session Games People Play: A Manual for the Use of LSD [1967](luminist.org)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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The Psychedelics and Religion (1970)(erowid.org)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments

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