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by graywh 19y ago
I always say prices have no more than 2 significant digits.
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by graywh 19y ago
Sold.
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by graywh 19y ago
The chair of my department at a research hospital is a big open source advocate (actually, it's more like a big hatred for Microsoft). Most of the staff does great, professors, programmers, but the admins struggle because they have to inte
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by graywh 19y ago
No, not strange at all. Plain text is the storage format for that markup language. The number of tools that can work with plain text may be "uncountable", but for something like rich text there's not as many. The idea is that even if the
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by graywh 19y ago
FastMail.fm also has a similar service. You can use <something>@<username>.<domain>.<tld> and messages are automatically put into folder <something> in your account.
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by graywh 19y ago
Will this mean the end of those annoying security updates and the nagging reminders to install them? Excellent.
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by graywh 19y ago
In the first session of the famous SICP lectures, Hal Abelson likens computer science to magic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA
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by graywh 19y ago
"not found"
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by graywh 19y ago
Computing started off with mainframes and terminals. Then we got to workstations. Now with the web and your prediction, we're going back to the server/thin-client model. Isn't progress cool?
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by graywh 19y ago
Google Reader, too.
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by graywh 19y ago
Try ViewSourceWith. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/394 You can set Vi/Vim as the default editor and use it to edit text boxes and view the page source. You can also set up other editors (e.g. Gimp for images).
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by graywh 19y ago
The concept of wiki wasn't stolen, but given.
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Has anyone not read most or parts of this yet?
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Time and patience. Also, it's not totally recursive since the top level is different from subsequent levels.
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spam
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by graywh 19y ago
The CS professors at small schools can make about half that.
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by graywh 19y ago
Used to use a microwave with only 3 buttons, start (that performed similarly), defrost, and cancel. The cancel button worked as you expect and the defrost wasn't hard to use. The start button added 30 seconds until it got to 3.5 minutes,
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by graywh 19y ago
How many reviews and commentaries on one study can we read?
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by graywh 19y ago
But everyone will have a different opinion on which ones ARE good. Even this one.
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I'm sure the best Vim users on HN could fill pages and pages with "favorite tips". Seems like I learn something new and/or cool about Vim every week.
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by graywh 19y ago
I'm surprised there aren't any good comments about the photo.
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Any statistician would tell you the mean is biased and the median is less biased.
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The first several comments to the article are definitely worth reading.
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I don't see it.
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Poor title, but great descriptions and examples. Bonus for harmonic mean.
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I might have read the whole thing if the text had more than 25% of the horizontal space.
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I can't tell if this is real or just a joke.
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I've used http://www.easyvmx.com to create new blank machines instead of downloading the appliances and installed my own system from scratch.
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by graywh 19y ago
This is the minimalist extreme, but it's definitely better than the opposite end of the spectrum--total chaos. My workspace certainly doesn't look like that, but I try to clean up and organize often.
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by graywh 19y ago
Who says the geeks on HN need fashion help, anyway?

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