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by grimoald 10y ago
Vimwiki maintainer here. Feel free to ask questions.
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by grimoald 10y ago
Funny, I heard remedies for incoming sneezes from several people and it's a different method every time, I'm not exaggerating. Pressing up the tip of your nose, press against the forehead, press your tongue against the palate etc.
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by grimoald 10y ago
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Java". Now they have a ProblemFactory.
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by grimoald 10y ago
> (1) there is no inherent reason why it's wasteful or gross to own a lot of things Really? Maybe I'm a bit naive, but nearly everything you own was produced and transported by using natural resources and energy, and it will ev
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by grimoald 10y ago
> (even native speakers make mistakes) > colloquial diverges from the proper grammar. Since we are here on HN I'll allow myself to jump on your, to the topic of this thread totally unrelated, remarks. A native speaker can't
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by grimoald 10y ago
Don't want to deprecate your personal feeling, but maybe there are rather profane factors that can add to a struck of awe. I imagine that when you come into a big bright hall with that thing right in the middle, which is far bigger tha
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by grimoald 10y ago
See here, for example: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-... BTW, I learned English in school, too, but have never heard of such a rule. Still, I dare say I intuitively would follow this
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by grimoald 10y ago
For me, it's using Linux instead of Windows for coding (at least back then when I was learning to coding). It was so much easier to start a quick C++ project using an editor and g++ than fiddling with VisualStudio. Not to mention Pytho
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by grimoald 10y ago
To simplify the argument in the article a bit: you can, of course, use reason to solve some specific problem, but not as a universal system to solve every problem. That's not circular.
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by grimoald 10y ago
It's only easy to see if you think 'ö' is pronounced like 'o'.
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by grimoald 10y ago
Yes! I have the theory that everybody likes the kind of games they grew up with. I started playing video games around ~2000 and I can't really enjoy these 2D platformers or simple 3D games like Doom. They just look too … ridiculous and
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by grimoald 10y ago
I have always been fascinated how little space of giant ships is actually below the water [0]. [0] https://blog.windfluechter.net/files/uploads/fotos/AIDA/Hamb... BTW: I like how the author uses curly br
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by grimoald 10y ago
> Before I start though, I have to say, if a company is going to hire a developer based solely and entirely on a piece of code the developer wrote in an interview, you probably don’t want to work there. This is something I read many time
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by grimoald 10y ago
As a German, I'm pretty sure most Germans have no idea who invented the computer or think it was someone in America. My parents, and I think the same goes for many others, heard the name of this guy for the first time today, when newsp
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by grimoald 10y ago
A look at the blog mentioned in the article proves you right: http://awfullibrarybooks.net/knapsack-problems/ I don't know the book, but it doesn't seem outdated to me.
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by grimoald 10y ago
My system's language is not English, so I would have to either guess what “Dokumentbetrachter” is called in English or get only results in German, which are probably not that many.
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by grimoald 10y ago
BTW, there is a great music scene among the Tuareg people. I like the slow, groovy and intense sound of bands like Tamikrest or Tinariwen. Desert blues, if you want.
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by grimoald 10y ago
Please not. When I have a problem with a program I want to know what to type into Google. I'm using LXDE and in some apps you won't even see its name in the about window.
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by grimoald 11y ago
Totally unreleated: why is the editor war always Emacs vs. Vi, not Vim? Is anybody using the original Vi these days?
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by grimoald 11y ago
Out of curiosity: is anybody here using a binary clock (or another rather exotic clock design) on a daily basis and is able to read the time as fluent as with a normal clock?
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by grimoald 11y ago
Exactly. I'm guessing the reason is that a funny style implies a more personal and subjective sight on the things it describes, and that means it often distinguishes the important and complicated parts from the trivial ones. Serious te
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by grimoald 11y ago
I'm not a wine drinker, but when I listen to people drinking, I noticed some frequently occurring patterns, for example: > normally, I drink only […] wine but I somehow like this one, too. > The label says this one is very […], b