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by gnosis 14y ago
I fully agree. vimtutor is just about the best introduction to vim out there. After mastering it, I recommend hanging out on #vim on freenode. You'll get a great education just from reading the questions/answers others have. And any time
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by gnosis 14y ago
"You could always build upward to house the rich people instead. I'm sure a lot of the incoming startup-types are young and would be happy to live in a high-rise" You have to remember that San Francisco is a prime earthquake zone. I'm no
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by gnosis 14y ago
The gentrification that's happening in SF and that's described in the original article is happening because the rich are pushing out the original residents -- who were indeed poor. From the article: Again and again, you hear of teachers
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by gnosis 14y ago
From what I understand, efforts in other cities to build upwards to house poor people have been a failure. That strategy results in large populations where poverty is highly concentrated. This leads to those areas becoming breeding grounds
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The Countess who would Legalise Drugs(beckleyfoundation.org)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Or, on Linux you could just type: uuidgen
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Are psychedelics useful in the practice of Buddhism? (1999)(ccbs.ntu.edu.tw)
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The First Step Is Admitting You're A Workaholic (1999)(articles.chicagotribune.com)
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Kahlil Gibran on Work(katsandogz.com)
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Korea's amazing writing system(home.vicnet.net.au)
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The Ideographic Myth(pinyin.info)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Were you making jokes at Auschwitz too?
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How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition(slate.com)
147 points by gnosis 14y ago|97 comments
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What percentage of geeks are vegetarian?(innergeek.us)
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The stem cell scammers(mindhacks.com)
39 points by gnosis 14y ago|9 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
Well, with a simple haystack like the one used in the example, there really would be no reason not to grep for "silver needle" in the first place. So it's really not the best or most realistic example of the usefulness of the double grep m
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The Good Teachers Unions Can Do(anurbanteacherseducation.com)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
ack '(?=silver).*needle' haystack is really not the same as: grep needle haystack|grep silver Because with the double grep method, a match will be made whether "silver" is before or after "needle"; while with the single ack c
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Use ack instead of grep to parse text files(stevengharms.com)
24 points by gnosis 14y ago|48 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
It would be nice if the posts on your site had links to the HN posts in question, instead of links only to the original articles.
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Chaining comparisons(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
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Oracles for Random Testing(blog.regehr.org)
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by gnosis 14y ago
NASA had planned a joint mission[1] to Jupiter's moons (including Europa) with the European Space Agency, until NASA pulled out of the mission in 2011. Now it seems NASA wants to go to Europa again. I wonder what changed. [1] - https://en
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Titan: A Vast, Subsurface Ocean?(centauri-dreams.org)
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Oliver Sacks: Seeing God in the Third Millenium(theatlantic.com)
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Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans [by Stanislaw Lem](depauw.edu)
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by gnosis 14y ago
You could try the SecurityFocus forums: http://www.securityfocus.com/ and Wilders Security forums: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
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by gnosis 14y ago
For a method for determining "which academic fields are worthwhile", perhaps it might be wise to start by becoming well familiar with the fields in question -- something that the author of the above essay did not seem to have taken the trou
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by gnosis 14y ago
It's a grave injustice to the vast field of philosophy to judge it by one undergraduate's impression of Plato, Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, and Wittgenstein. By his own admission, he didn't get much out of his experience. Should the entire
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by gnosis 14y ago
On the Analytic side, take a look at Balashov's and Rosenberg's "Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings" On the Continental side, the classic essay is Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology". I'd also recommend Jacques Ellul

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