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by hugh3 15y ago
Or at least, they used to only have one button. I've just acquired a new mac with Lion and a Mighty Mouse, and the number of functions built into that apparently-buttonless mouse is slightly overwhelming. I don't think I've discovered them
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not an emacs user, I take it? Otherwise you'd have a nonstop twitch in your left hand for all possible situations.
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by hugh3 15y ago
OK, now I'm curious. > cd /usr/bin/ > grep grep grep Binary file grep matches It's nice to know that there is indeed a grep in grep when you grep grep for grep.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Ah, now I understand why you mentioned Nebraska. My US geography is still a little iffy. I've never understood why that bit is "midwest". To me "midwest" looks like, y'know, Montana.
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by hugh3 15y ago
We are expanding, it is all voluntary I'm glad you mentioned it was voluntary. You had me worried there for a moment.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm still not 100% sure on the point. So I get an email once a day offering me a random discount on a random product. I have to decide whether I want to buy that product. And then, when it comes time to do my weekly grocery shopping I have
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by hugh3 15y ago
The Bible is written in three different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek) so running any sort of analysis would be difficult, and in any case I'm not sure what it'd tell us. Running an analysis on the translation into English would rath
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by hugh3 15y ago
There's some interesting gems in here: One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the h
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by hugh3 15y ago
If you can honestly spend 75% of your office time doing actual development, and divide the rest evenly between breaks and meetings, I'd like to see how. I've recently got into pomodoro timing. I set the timer for 45 minutes, focus totall
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by hugh3 15y ago
Fabulous. Can we shut down the Paris Metro for revenge?
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by hugh3 15y ago
At the risk of getting seriously offtopic, my map shows bits of Ohio being closer to the Atlantic than parts of Oregon and Washington are to the Pacific, so perhaps we should say "Ohio is the East Coast only if Spokane is the West Coast".
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by hugh3 15y ago
That confused me. Am I overlooking something that makes the problem non-trivial? On further reading I'm pretty sure I'm not , but perhaps the very triviality of the problem confuses people enough that they have difficulty with it. ("Is the
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't think I actually mentioned iPhone or Android in my comment -- did you mean to reply to someone else? However, I think you're excessively conflating different types of fanaticism here. Fanaticism about personal electronics, or TV sho
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by hugh3 15y ago
Dear ideamonger, You keep submitting links from the same site. They rarely get any votes. You might consider stopping doing what you're doing. HN isn't intended as a platform for the submission of every goddamn article you write.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Only 5% last time I talked to one in the US (and 5.5% for my place in Australia).
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by hugh3 15y ago
Roughly speaking, if you save the difference between the rent and mortgage price, you should end up with the same upside that a purchase would have netted (although if rent > mortgage, then renting only makes sense for a short term sta
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by hugh3 15y ago
Another important point which makes buying cheap US houses unattractive is that being a landlord is a much less attractive prospect in the US. Being a landlord in Australia is just a matter of wandering down to your local LJ Hooker, handing
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's not a meta-comment. This is a meta-comment. Sorry, that wasn't supposed to be a joke. A meta-comment is a comment about comments, though, and your comment is on the graphics.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I have nothing to add to all the other comments on this subject, except personal experience: I'm an Australian landlord myself and have a non-citizen (a Pom, iirc) as a tenant. Legally there weren't any barriers, and I don't give a damn whe
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by hugh3 15y ago
I never suffer from impostor syndrome. I'm not sure what this indicates.
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by hugh3 15y ago
* It seems to me that passions flare when people are forced to make an expensive, difficult to reverse choice based on insufficient evidence between similar but highly incompatible products. E.g. which car is going to be better? I don't kno
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by hugh3 15y ago
Under certain circumstances, having brand fanboys can be a bad thing for the brand, since they can ghetto-ize the brand to the point where the casual buyer won't buy it, to avoid being associated with those people. Comic books are the fir
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by hugh3 15y ago
... don't take this the wrong way, but you really need to change your relationship with life in general.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not necessarily. Not all humans. Perhaps insecure humans, or humans without enough going on in their lives. For instance, if I tell you my favourite breakfast cereal is Raisin Bran, and you tell me that Raisin Bran suxx0rs and Rice Krispies
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by hugh3 15y ago
That sentence needs to lose the "admittedly", and everything after and including "but". one month isn't necessarily a long enough period to make any sweeping statements Yup! We're done here.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Really? You're a non-violent, non-rioting good person because of the law? I think you meant "civility loses its grip for a moment." I'm not a non-violent non-rioting good person because of the law, and I'm prepared to give the grandparent
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well if anything, immigrants, who choose to move their whole lives to Britain, should love Britain and its traditions even more than random British folks who happen to be born there.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Wow, you ain't kidding. http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/ There was a three-day spike above thirty dollars in early June and it's been sliding slowly ever since (with a recent small panic in line with the stockmarket). Currently slightly u
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by hugh3 15y ago
Are you sure? I thought the nice clean knockout was a TV myth, and that any blow to the head strong enough to knock someone out is just as likely to kill them or give them serious brain damage. Basically, don't hit someone on the head with
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by hugh3 15y ago
Good question. Has Donald Knuth ever written a web app? Mobile app? Embedded app?

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