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631.
by herdrick 18y ago
Whatever your dedicated hosting service uses.
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by herdrick 18y ago
He's great. I'm surprised you don't hear more people talking about that book in connection with the current financial panic.
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by herdrick 18y ago
That article is submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336606
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The most innovative coach in college football(nytimes.com)
29 points by herdrick 18y ago|11 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
I tried to do something like this once. If you were to try in the USA, here's what I might tell you: The regulatory burden is immense. This is a project for lawyers. However, keeping ordinary investors away from your exchange would help
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by herdrick 18y ago
They're all crap. On my MPB (mid-2008 model) there's no tactile feedback at the exact point of the key firing its signal. Sure there's a feedback point, but it's about a millimeter too high (early). You have to push a key firmly into its mu
637.
by herdrick 18y ago
And not just Britain.
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by herdrick 18y ago
No, I think the paper just says that the brain can get by with lactic acid, not that it works better with it.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Weights and connections between neurons and "sensory" inputs.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Amazing - nearly all the comments there are from Turkers, former Turkers, or people who are proud to say they will never be a Turk. Of course, all the commenters over here are talking about using the service as employers, or are simply int
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Using evolution of neural nets to get artificial intelligence [video](youtube.com)
12 points by herdrick 18y ago|6 comments
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Applause lights(overcomingbias.com)
1 points by herdrick 18y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
You're doing great. Here's your life path: http://www.suck.com/daily/99/02/10/nc_index5.html (posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=314616 )
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by herdrick 18y ago
The whole thing is pretty insightful: http://www.suck.com/daily/99/02/10/index.html
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"What type of geek were you?" Type 3: The Tinkerer.(suck.com)
3 points by herdrick 18y ago|1 comments
646.
by herdrick 18y ago
I've been doing the "no computer for one day a week) plan for one week now. It's been great so far. (And I was inspired by that very paragraph of that excellent book).
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by herdrick 18y ago
This is oddly over-critical of Scheme. Macros: All the main Scheme implementations offer Common Lisp style macros, so in Scheme you can use either style. (Good thing, because I like the Common Lisp style.) The section on numeric types is
648.
by herdrick 18y ago
This is easily the lamest thing I've seen in the top ten of Hacker News. EDIT: My mistake, it turns out Sarah Palin's emails are also in the top ten right now.
649.
by herdrick 18y ago
I had a Thinkpad in the late 90s - its design wasn't too bad. Things seem to have gotten much worse.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Was it worth it?
651.
by herdrick 18y ago
I hack PLT Scheme and use the DrScheme editor. I've used emacs some, and feel guilty for not using it well.
652.
by herdrick 18y ago
When I worked in Mexico it was that way with beer. In northern Mexico every little pueblo was either all Tecate or all Modelo Especial. The residents would let you know their undying loyalty to the brand. "!Aqui somos tecateros!" The on
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Bluesman B.B. King, the would-be CS student(cs.uni.edu)
13 points by herdrick 18y ago|4 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
Nope.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Sounds interesting. How? "exactly the same expressive power" No, surely it would be less expressive in some cases, more in others.
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DSLs expand the solution space, GUIs limit it to the creator's vision(windley.com)
19 points by herdrick 18y ago|12 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
Nonsense. I started climbing mountains not long ago, and, having lifted weights for many years, was able to go further and faster than most experienced climbers. (Though of course in mountaineering your brain is more important than your l
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by herdrick 18y ago
A good algorithim would be to take a list of Hanse towns and subtract the ones you've heard of. The rest are backwaters that were previously important.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Wow - I missed that. That's actually the much better reference. Except for all the TV antennas screwing it up.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Agreed - in fact I just submitted it as a new HN story.

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