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by gruseom 13y ago
Reminds me of Heidegger's concept of the "they self" as an inauthentic way of being.
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The Philosopher and the Thief: Trespassing in the library of a dead genius(harpers.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Could be, especially when you combine that with its immense emotional power.
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is superb! Pity it fell through the cracks.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I think that for many people music is deeply connected with ideas about identity, such as "this is the kind of music I like" and "I am the kind of person who likes this kind of music". This is very visible in popular mus
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by gruseom 13y ago
But the hard parts are all political.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Wow, that is a great idea. I wonder how such a thing could ever get started. Perhaps as an experiment in one of the smaller states?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Anybody care to chip in on the best way to do FF add-ons? I wrote a Chrome extension that I use daily. Unfortunately, Chrome has become so bloated that I now have to wait a second or two (on OS X Mavericks) for the simplest things to happen
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Some Tips for Developing Firefox Extensions in Emacs(beatofthegeek.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
When you hear the same quote attributed to two different famous people, that's usually a strong sign that it actually came from somebody obscure. Obscure people's quotes hop to famous people, and not always the same ones. I have n
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by gruseom 13y ago
CSS does feel a lot more complex than it ought to be, but it's dominated in every variable of badness by XSLT. That's the one language that defeated my efforts to learn it (mainly by killing all desire to do so).
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by gruseom 13y ago
Ok, clearly not everybody. But I'm surprised to hear that. You're the first person I've heard say anything like it.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Interesting piece. This line: More powerful programming languages rely less heavily on naming ... reminds me of section 1.1. of Compiling With Continuations: The beauty of FORTRAN—and the reason it was an improvement over assembly langua
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by gruseom 13y ago
I apologize to the cat for my slander.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I can understand why you'd say poorly designed, because the tradition it comes out of is so austere. But "terribly implemented"? That detracts from what you're saying. The thing achieves performance everybody else dreams
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by gruseom 13y ago
Lots of things on HN have to do with neither hacking nor news. That's part of its charm, always has been. If PG can post about the margins of medieval manuscripts, then anything goes, so long as it isn't dumb. The only sin is to b
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by gruseom 13y ago
Just like a cat to save itself after years with the crew. I like that touch. It adds credibility.
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by gruseom 13y ago
It is probably the most astonishing combination of simplicity, efficiency, and beauty that I've seen in computing. Unfortunately, it's so out-there that nearly everyone dismisses it as unreadable and daft. In a better world, it wo
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Ambedkar, Gandhi and the battle against caste(caravanmagazine.in)
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Share HN: Rilke on how to be an artist (1903)
27 points by gruseom 13y ago|1 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've noticed two interesting things about Emacs over the years. One is that it's an order of magnitude easier to write tools in Emacs than in other environments. It's also more satisfying, because Emacs lacks the arbitrary ho
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's fascinating. What did you leave science to do?
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's a really good name.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Depends on the neighbor. In any case, filters that happen to be shared don't thereby become the "true nature of reality".
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by gruseom 13y ago
"True nature of reality"? Highly debatable! Maybe in legal offices. :) Everybody sees that concept through their own filter. I suppose to a cobbler the true nature of reality is surfaces that wear out over time.
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by gruseom 13y ago
You speak only of the letter and not of the spirit of the thing. This has nothing in common with the mentality that created the internet in the first place, which was cosmic and adventurous and poetic. It reminds me rather of cutting the pe
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Starlog Magazine: Free Texts(archive.org)
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N.Y. Becomes Largest U.S. Prison System To Curb Solitary Confinement(npr.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Hey, you just solved my dread problem. If Canada gets rid of the time switch they won't do it in a way that forces Saskatchewan to change. (I'm in Alberta.) Thanks!
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by gruseom 13y ago
That explanation isn't very convincing. People in other relatively poor countries didn't develop that distinctive pattern.

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