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by hobin 14y ago
More reasons why both 'SLEEP MOAR!' and 'SLEEP LESS!' are misguided: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/12698511
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Ask HN: Critique my custom hardware solutions idea
2 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
Unresolved anger issues much? Hint: the internet is big. If you don't like something, ignore it.
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by hobin 14y ago
Agreed. I don't compliment people very often, but countering the suit by raising money for charity - combined with his usual humor and quick wit - was a masterstroke.
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by hobin 14y ago
I thought that, too. 'Bad publicity is still publicity'?
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by hobin 14y ago
Surprised? ESR has been doing this for years, even though he now only has a very small group of devout followers who consider his ramblings significant. It has been years since he could actually be said to speak for open source hackers ever
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by hobin 14y ago
I have no love for ESR, but of course it doesn't. It's about the reaction of RMS to ESR's essay in which he addresses that particular point.
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"We're public now, so could you please click an ad or two?"(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
Here's a tip: don't try to be productive all the time . This leads to mediocre performance, which is generally a bad thing. Instead, give your 100% in everything you do, then when you're tired, RELAX! No articles. No small stuff for work.
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by hobin 14y ago
<raises hand /> I don't have a cellphone either. I can't think of anything to add to the annoyances you already mentioned, but I would just like to point out that in terms of not being interrupted, ditching my cellphone is about the
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by hobin 14y ago
"Lifehacking isn't about optimizing an annoying task, its about not doing it." I would argue that most of us don't have personal assistants and lawyers to deal with our petty problems 24/7.
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by hobin 14y ago
:| I always cringe when I see lists like these. These books aren't even interesting! Pretty much everything you need to know about becoming an entrepreneur can be found on PG's site, and the rest can easily be found by searching the web. Th
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by hobin 14y ago
Huh. I half expected it to just say in big letters "PREPARE YER OWN FRAKKIN' FOOD." (Pronounce with a Scottish accent.) A shame it doesn't.
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by hobin 14y ago
The author completely missed the point. Never did anyone say "don't learn to code, even if you want to". Rather, what Jeff said could much better be interpreted as "don't just learn to code because it's the newest hype." That's really all t
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by hobin 14y ago
I think that's nonsense. I don't like Ballmer, either, but nowhere have I seen any evidence that he's hurting Microsoft because of it. Look at NASDAG:MSFT, and you'll see that Microsoft is actually an incredibly stable company. This is very
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by hobin 14y ago
On the other hand, maybe its just me (which I don't think), but has anyone else noticed that when you get >8.5h of sleep, you're actually less productive the next day? I always feel sluggish the whole day when I get that much sleep.
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by hobin 14y ago
Clickables: http://www.isharestuff.net/?page=asdf and http://www.isharestuff.net/?page=Classical%20Mechanics
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Ask HN: Beating Wikipedia and Google with Science
4 points by hobin 14y ago|2 comments
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"We will see the collapse of Moore's Law" - Michio Kaku(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
Err... No, they won't. Switching ISPs is the most time-consuming thing to do when all you want to do is visit a site that is being blocked. There are many more practical approaches.
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Oracle v Google round-up: The show so far(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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Hamburg court: Google must police YouTube content(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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Compulsory coding in school: The new Nerd Tourism(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
You should preferably not use a computer you don't have complete control over for sensitive stuff at all. Even with two-factor authentication, a computer you don't control can still store the emails you access, etc. etc. It's email, people.
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by hobin 14y ago
(See also my response to gaius.) As you noted, the x86_64 sorted out some of the mess. Personally, I think a big issue is the whole backwards-compatibility thing. It causes all sorts of nastiness, and a complete overhaul of the architecture
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by hobin 14y ago
As a matter of fact, I agree. The fact that x86 won the consumer market is, IMHO, very much one of those clever-marketing-and-quick-standardization-cases.
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by hobin 14y ago
The x86 is actually fairly straightforward, as long as you don't try messing around with A20-gates, GDTs and legacy modes (i.e. not staying in protected/long mode the OS has given you). It's only when you try to build things such as bootloa
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by hobin 14y ago
I think it's a rather misleading post. He cites a paper from PLoS Medicine, and I suspect that those without a good background in research would rather quickly jump to the conclusion that "it's in a science journal, so it must be (very like
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by hobin 14y ago
The content of such a course also varies by university. I recently came across some university that did offer a compiler course, but it was all theory. Being a geek, I didn't really like that.
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by hobin 14y ago
This is quite obviously untrue. There is no reason to assume that if people need a technical solution for problem X, X can involve house-kitchen-'n-garden solutions but can't involve solutions for cultural or political problems.

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