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by hernan7 16y ago
Some years ago, a relative of my wife bought a new PC and gave her old one to the doorman in her building. She then asked my brother-in-law to "put the data back" in the new machine. She apparently hadn't realized that "the data" was now at
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Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal singers(invisibleoranges.com)
186 points by hernan7 16y ago|70 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
I wonder if those solid colors were just the base of the paint, and some shading effect was applied on top to make the statues look more realistic. I mean, I have a hard time imagining that artists like the Ancient Greeks, who got the human
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by hernan7 16y ago
Notice the shutter lag in #27... a century-old annoyance still with us courtesy of digital cameras.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look to see if I find a color scheme that I can live with :)
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by hernan7 16y ago
I still remember my "rm -fr /" episode after almost 20 years. It was slightly different, something related to chmod'ing some files under /etc on an AIX server: $ cd /etc $ chmod 600 some_file * # instead of some_file.* oops... Th
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Wealth anorexia a.k.a. hating yourself because you're not Larry Ellison(chrisyeh.blogspot.com)
58 points by hernan7 16y ago|36 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Am I the only one that goes ":syntax off" most of the time when using vim? Maybe I'm too old and used to the black on white (or green on black). But whenever I use syntax highlighting, it's like the different colored parts of the code are p
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by hernan7 16y ago
Just one request from this old Perl hack: please make it easier to learn than Ancient Perl. If you need to be an expert on Vanilla Perl to be able to "get" Modern Perl, then it's going to have a hard time getting traction. Like those Java w
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by hernan7 16y ago
"Usted" is alive and well in Argentinian Spanish. Divided by a common language indeed...
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by hernan7 16y ago
I watched it on (black-and-white) over-the-air TV growing up in Argentina at the tail end of the military dictatorship. I'm not exaggerating when I say it changed my life -- and many of my friends' too.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Heck, even The Flintstones had to kill the bad guy.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Except for "How to Get Rich". That one is great.
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by hernan7 16y ago
I suspect they stopped teaching calligraphy drills in elementary school.
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by hernan7 16y ago
... and we are talking about "market", that is about usage of Linux that involve exchange of money, no? So that's even more impressive.
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by hernan7 16y ago
The REPL-like development style is what does it for me... I always end up having to re-write it in Haskell.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Maybe I'm old-fashined, but "a site for making friends" sounds a bit creepy to me. I would expect it to be populated by crazies mostly, so not very attractive. A slightly different approach could be to have a site or sites for people with s
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by hernan7 16y ago
Why not use ImageMagick? I have used it to create thumbnails for a demo website and they looked OK. Does it have any performance/ aliasing/ whatever issues I'm not aware of?
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Dilbertesque robot boss coming to a cubicle near you(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
So basically you think mastery of C++ is always 1 year away?
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by hernan7 16y ago
For some reason this brings back memories of the "austral", the Argentinian currency from the eighties. Had its own symbol and everything - too bad it wasn't available in any computer or typewriter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_p
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3D TV destined to fall flat on its face(conversation.which.co.uk)
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Rupert Murdoch's Big Brother management style(rickyvanveen.com)
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Failure of a 46-cent chip almost caused a nuclear war(foreignpolicy.com)
8 points by hernan7 16y ago|1 comments
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Would you bet $100M on your pet language?(prog21.dadgum.com)
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by hernan7 16y ago
Reminded me of that Mark Twain quote (apocriphal?) "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
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Toyota, Tesla working on prototype EV(money.cnn.com)
3 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't like inline responses? Most of the time they feel awkward to me. I do use them when responding email from a couple of co-workers that are inlining fans; and when I need to add a point-by-point reply to some te
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Varnish guy's hatred for autoconf(varnish-cache.org)
137 points by hernan7 16y ago|74 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
They think they know what the Dunning-Kruger effect is, those fools...

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