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by hsmyers 15y ago
I'd love to try the Vibrams, but is so far as I know they don't come in size 13 :)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
If memory serves, IBM's PL1 used to insert missing punctuation that it (the compiler) felt was missing. This wasn't particularly well thought out and often caused problems that were very difficult to debug. I used to think of it as 'doing m
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Can LiberWriter satisfy both LuLu, Amazon and iWhatever with the push of a button (I'll allow 3 pushes here :) )? I've never used it and am curious...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Only people with money think that 10.00 is not a lot of money. 120.00 a year could be a significant chunk of the target's disposable funds. If don't have money then it might as well be 400.00. On the other hand, 12.00 or 24.00 a year might
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by hsmyers 15y ago
A little more effort and patience to wait for paper made from newsprint. It isn't white, but who cares about that. Otherwise works just as well. Typically thinner, but lasts just as long as any of the other offerings. Watch out for paper th
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by hsmyers 15y ago
As a diabetic (something few of the posters seem to be) I find this discussion quite interesting if a little wrong in some of its assumptions. The first is the idea that turning off the pump will cause the wearer to expire. In most cases, n
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I have no problem with targeted ads excepting one. Many of the categories have no product! Lots of software related thingys, but nothing I can look at :( Many of the magazines that I still subscribe to at least have adds that allow me to fa
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Lots and lots of talk about 'good', very, very little talk about elegant. Not to mention the ridiculous remarks about XOR. I find more often than not that those who have never at lest dabbled their hands in assembler tend to miss a number o
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Interesting take---not at all what I expected from the title. The notion seems to be to preserve competition rather than running from one side of the boat to the other. I'm not sure that 2 makes for sufficient competition, but it certainly
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Would have liked to have seen some sort of indicator of gross subject---tech this way pop-culture this way etc. Don't know if the data lends itself to an axial arrangement, but if so, that would be useful. Interesting none the less...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Most of my work in the last 8 years or so involves 'glue' or 'connections'. That is take two (or more) boxes and hook them together into a pipeline. Not sure if that qualifies one way or the other. The work certainly didn't exist before but
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I kept think of Hardy's 'Mathematicians Apology' as I read this. Clearly one is a book the other is a blog, but they felt much the same to me. Enjoyed both.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Since the financial state of the country lies firmly in the hands of congress, maybe what they should do is get off of there posteriors and take care of business. They look funny on the floor rolling about and screaming---as they have since
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I'm not sure about Stanford, but much of the information that MIT would impart is available on-line for free. Cherry-pick the course offerings and fold them into what ever program you are currently attending. Ultimately none of the 'paper'
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I love it when a post on HN shows up a day after a mid-morning brunch based rant about the subject at hand. It was my observation during the discussion that if you take away all of the shiny toys that attend what passes for web development
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I understand that age (lower in this case) is not a barrier to talent and that we in general seek talent. That said, why do we allow misogynist behavior? If these wunderkind were our children (of any age) these sort of actions would be curb
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Now had the Lucas camp thought to negotiate a license with royalty (smallish) then all this time they would have been making money instead of paying for one loss after another. Not to mention damage to their fan base.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Don't know how widespread this sort of approach is, but I applaud it!
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Stories like this make me wish for a button that says 'Go Viral'---so that I could push it and take the information to everyone. Idiots who create laws without regard to consequence and those 'who just follow orders' are a part of the probl
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by hsmyers 15y ago
He is just retired, not dead---hard to say when his real 'last airplane' will be. It is not like he is just going to stop thinking about flight...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Have to like this---it is a requirement if you own all of their T-shirts...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Don't know---haven't finished and I won't until I understand the damn thing ;)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Current reports (see BBC online) mention amounts in the 100s of millions, not billions. That said the latest today was that they had to stop when they forced a door only to find an all iron door just behind it. They are taking a break so th
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Be sad. Until these over reaching idiots get taken down and taken down hard, they will continue to prop up the entertainment industry even though it is the public that is both paying the freight and the penalty.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I prefer headlines with content available on click. Likewise no point without access to comments...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Try approaching from the side---Silversmithing and Woodworking have a number of good sites. These may lead to at least some equipment that you want. Don't know as I'm not a knifesmith, silver is good enough for me :)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Given the title, not at all what I expected. He keeps hitting home on 'this is just the beginning' and I can't think of a phrase that is more correct for our time. I likewise agree very strongly with prediction as a fools game. Sir Clarke s
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by hsmyers 15y ago
This is either a typo or you meant something that I did not understand---explain?
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by hsmyers 15y ago
All of the contemporary languages (and at least one quite old [lisp]) are capable of re-working the output of CLang, so why the extra work to build an undocumented lib wrapper/implementation? This is the kind of text manipulation that '=bre

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