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by hwestiii 4y ago
Oh noes, too much democracy…
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by hwestiii 5y ago
This is me. This sounds like the worst designed algorithm ever. When I read it the other night I uncontrollably moved to shout “WTF?!?!” I literally can’t imagine the circumstances that would lead to that solution. When is the only opti
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by hwestiii 5y ago
I doubt this is your situation, but about 10 years ago, I discovered a person’s 1Password database on a bookmark sharing service, and it was using a very poorly chosen password. My recollection is that it was a large text file containing J
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by hwestiii 5y ago
When I was in HS, I found Asimov’s “World of Carbon” on a book shelf in my second trimester Chemistry class, read it, and then proceeded to ace Organic Chemistry when it was presented during third trimester.
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by hwestiii 5y ago
This seems very interesting to me, but is it any kind of big deal?
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by hwestiii 5y ago
This is why I come to HN. To be shamed.
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by hwestiii 5y ago
As far as I know, pure vanilla emacs from GNU comes with multiple vi emulations. I’ve been using viper for 20 years. It’s the only reason I use emacs at all. I had a co-worker many years ago who swore by emacs, but I found the key bindi
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by hwestiii 5y ago
The only thing that matters to Facebook is money, and denying this mechanism to the Kazakh government, and the potential loss of the Kazakh audience, is simply a case of leaving money on the table to them.
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by hwestiii 5y ago
Does anyone use it seriously? I guess I need better informational resources. I’m still wondering where the man pages are.
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by hwestiii 5y ago
The title perhaps inspired by the Peter Carey novel “The Chemistry of Tears”?
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by hwestiii 6y ago
I very vaguely recall the Bowie Bond issue being reported somewhere but confess to promptly forgetting it. Would have been interesting to have followed it in real time. It appears to have quickly lost news-worthyness. The future is like t
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by hwestiii 6y ago
I have been a big fan of GNU screen for many years. What makes Tmux better?
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by hwestiii 6y ago
Louis Pasteur figured this out in the 19th century. “Chance favors the prepared mind.”
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by hwestiii 6y ago
I think this is the basis of the "Cat Detector Van" skit on Monty Python's Flying Circus
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by hwestiii 6y ago
The Wire really is a remarkable show in that, unlike a most of TV before it, it literally springs from who the characters are. The closest thing to an imposed narrative is the decision to focus on a specific segment of the phenomenon that
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by hwestiii 6y ago
I think I would have liked this. I had a 6th grade teacher who read aloud to us daily, something more age appropriate, though, and this experience a remarkably large, and fond component of my recollection of those days. Unfortunately I wa
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by hwestiii 6y ago
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. It has a well deserved reputation of impenetrability, and it takes a bit of mental adjustment to shift into the gear necessary to negotiate it. My first time through, at approx 20 was easily my th
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by hwestiii 6y ago
The Illiad. As the foundation of Western literature, it may have received the greatest amount of hype that it is possible to receive. I had attempted to read it and The Odyssey when I was much younger, in middle school, maybe too young, an
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by hwestiii 6y ago
I will be that guy and say that all the discussion around who is allowed to self-designate as a ”founder” is fatuous and fetishistic. It’s an obvious attempt to amplify one’s importance beyond sense in order to provide some level of resume
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by hwestiii 6y ago
The naive assumption about this is that it will be used to rally supporters with suspicious or specious “information”, but it makes me wonder about the opposite. With enough user data and backend analysis, you could probably also use it as
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by hwestiii 6y ago
I feel about Vim the way RMS seems to feel about Linux. Even though, (presumably) everyone knows the relationship of vim to vi, I don’t feel there is enough explicit acknowledgement of that fact. Vim is evidently a wonderful tool, (I say
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by hwestiii 6y ago
We lose a dollar on every unit, and make it up in volume!
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by hwestiii 7y ago
Wasn’t this common knowledge?
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by hwestiii 7y ago
The Dr.Manhattan Project?
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by hwestiii 7y ago
Off topic, but when will we finally dispense with the faux gravitas of the term “founder”? Congratulations, you and your partner started a business. Since this apparently happens thousands of times a day, a frequency likely matched by the
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by hwestiii 7y ago
Shouldn’t that be “C Python Go, Go Python Go”?
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by hwestiii 7y ago
I’ll believe it when I see it. I took the I course (which was excellent) 6 or 7 years ago and gave up on II after the third or fourth cancellation. Should also be goo if it ever actually happens.
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by hwestiii 7y ago
This is more or less what I did, but under my own motivation. I charged myself to do all my CS homework in vi and had a copy of O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell at my side. It didn't take more than a couple of semesters and I
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by hwestiii 7y ago
Seems appropriate to me that he died in the city of Hexham.
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by hwestiii 7y ago
Is this supposed to be _new_? I was subscribed to a service called Daily Lit 10 or 15 years ago that did the same thing.

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