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The Enticement of Free Wireless(technologyreview.com)
1 points by gsivil 16y ago|0 comments
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United States Frequency Allocations chart.(technologyreview.com)
1 points by gsivil 16y ago|0 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
I would like to see the preference of other HNers and their arguments based only on that sample of the language. If you had only this post to choose a language what would be your preference? And why? C looks always archetypal. Simple, crisp
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Controlling the flow of light with a novel optical transistor(physorg.com)
1 points by gsivil 16y ago|0 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
I think so. It seems more neutral at least. I like facebook for whatever it is but not for professional use.
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by gsivil 16y ago
it seems convenient within Facebook but I would not like using a @facebook.com email address for serious communication. Imagine applying for college with such an address.
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My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002)(gnu.org)
2 points by gsivil 16y ago|0 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
I guess so. But maybe the use of the standard library could be allowed
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by gsivil 16y ago
you could ask the users for the shortest correct solution in any available language this will show the relative power of each language and the flexibility of the user to seek for the best tools
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Ask HN: How do you deal with all these passwords?
3 points by gsivil 16y ago|15 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
I totally agree with that. In general all the posts could be serving as pointers to something deeper and with more content. I guess that is what this post does too. Feynman's contributions to physics, essay writing, teaching could definitel
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Richard Feynman distilled(en.wikiquote.org)
6 points by gsivil 16y ago|2 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
That I did not become proficient in programming during my undergrad in EE and CE About the things that I did not regret is the bold decision to come to the States for PhD: I did not regret that for a second
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by gsivil 16y ago
Thanks for asking to clarify. I was just giving another established measure of performance. One that is currently used in academia. It basically indicates the consistency that someone produces quality posts. If for example some body has o
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H-index for Hacker News
6 points by gsivil 16y ago|5 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
1. I like the orange for the title bar. But I still think that the orange asterisk is not so easy to spot. 2. Receiving emails for the responses it a bit annoying. (We have Facebook playing the "Big Notifier" role in our inboxes I am afraid
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Suggest HN: what do you think about the UX of HN
7 points by gsivil 16y ago|13 comments
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Digital Weapons Help Dissidents Punch Holes in China's Great Firewall(wired.com)
1 points by gsivil 16y ago|0 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
I would guess(not all of them necessary of course): - Build something good enough to be proud to put it online - Maintain a technical blog - Get a job in a small software company and use this as a step and a credibility-maker, after that yo
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by gsivil 16y ago
Thank you very much
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by gsivil 16y ago
Thanks. I've got already the ANSI common LISP to have as first reference and after seeing some posts here I am considering getting the landoflisp some time soon.
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by gsivil 16y ago
I have recently decided learn a bit beyond the basics of two programming languages: Python and Lisp I have already started using Python for something that I truly care about: simple phyics simulations Lisp is for me something that I want t
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Ask HN: any suggestions for a Lisp project to start with?
13 points by gsivil 16y ago|8 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
Thanks. I am on Ubuntu 10.10. I am mostly interested to have fun, to see for my self if indeed LISP can change the way somebody thinks about programming languages, and eventually to see if I could use it for light numerical analysis and dat
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Ask HN: what is the Lisp dialect that you recommend?
4 points by gsivil 16y ago|3 comments
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by gsivil 16y ago
they did it already :)
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by gsivil 16y ago
I am sorry for my ignorance but Avg. of what?
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by gsivil 16y ago
I have noticed that a negative comment(against the main point of the post) tends to be sometime initially down-voted by some superficial prejudice that it should be also mean-spirited. It seems that the community naturally upvotes that comm
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by gsivil 16y ago
cont 3.) I am not so sure what type of mentoring somebody could get there Definitely extremely smart peers At the same time it seems that top programmers are moving to Facebook. Do they see something in the potential of the company that I f
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by gsivil 16y ago
If I may start from your good points: 1.) In a network of 500 million users already are the scaling problems still open? I would suspect that the biggest scaling problems appeared much earlier. If somebody knows what are the scaling proble

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