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by hyp0 12y ago
nice point! mammal territorial anger is cooperative - go away or else. it can avoid an expensive fight. fear is backing down - i'll go. this communication is a kind of cooperation. this explains the exhibition of some emotion, a
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by hyp0 12y ago
Me too. And not entering anything gives normal arrow up, so there's no loss. BTW: ^r is a little more powerful: it is /string/ while this one is /^string/ BTW ^r annoyance: you can't type and then hit ^
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by hyp0 12y ago
> Biologists believe that human emotions evolved because they aided co-operation ... fear, anger, anxiety and sadness Mammals exhibit emotions such as fear and anger.
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by hyp0 12y ago
The adverse reactions came from sensory deprivation. For social isolation, reactions varied. Love that guy who just Gump-kept sailing.
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Request HN: maintenance messages of form "when this post is $n hours old"
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by hyp0 12y ago
I timed it, and it took 0.5 seconds!!! So our program now runs twice as fast, minor typo above: time is later stated as 0.25. super neat!
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by hyp0 12y ago
Do not think the compiler is wrong. That's impossible. Instead... try to realize the truth. What truth? There is no compiler. (for non-compiled languages) For compiler authors, it's the other compiler that's right. I have
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by hyp0 12y ago
redhat's revenue is from service/support. Agreed it's rare. dual-licensing works, but a problem is getting customers to pay in a timely fashion - we already have it, what's the rush? However, to be fair, this may be du
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by hyp0 12y ago
Well... wikipedia. The essential idea is revertability.
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by hyp0 12y ago
That sounds way professional! ZX81 game programmer here. A game shop said they'd stock it, but I was too exhausted from finishing the game to deal with the "business side" of arranging duplicating tapes, professional labels e
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by hyp0 12y ago
smaller devices will provide the economic drive, just as they did when 14" HDDs had enough performance.
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by hyp0 12y ago
The obvious solution here is a reboot civilization wiki . There could even be fun discussions about what to put first, the assumed technological level of the target audience, etc. I think many people would find this extremely engaging...
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by hyp0 12y ago
Niven used a similar idea for the Library on the Pak Protector homeworld ( Protector ) for persisting knowledge through constant warfare. And with David Gerrold (who wrote The Trouble with Tribbles Star Trek episode), The Flying Sorcerer
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by hyp0 12y ago
+1 for markdown inline docs. A simple, obvious, useful idea I hadn't seen before.
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by hyp0 12y ago
17% is hardly dying. I walk 2 hours almost every day. The trick to avoiding suspicious looks is to do it around 3am (programmer sleep pattern). Then, it's even more suspicious, but no one sees you to form that opinion...
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by hyp0 12y ago
WTF/m theshold exceeded
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by hyp0 12y ago
NOT AN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, but the chromebooks seem the best value-for-money laptops - and already have a linux distribution installed (ChromeOS). The Acer C720 has a Haswell dual-core and 2GB RAM - lower speced than your needs. Ther
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by hyp0 12y ago
from complex sugars to simpler molecules Are they saying they've found non-cell metabolic pathways... but that require cell-created complex sugars as starting points? OK, so not enough to start life; but filling in each link in
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by hyp0 12y ago
a tangent on the example of parsers that happened to be used: I found imperative mutable state made experimenting with different kinds of parsing algorithms tremendously easier. You can just say what you mean. Now, I'm sure there is
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by hyp0 12y ago
Redefine the problem. A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. - Alan Kay
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by hyp0 12y ago
I've long been surprised that real-world places weren't modelled more often in minecraft (and fps games). My tentative conclusion was it might be too helpful for e.g. actual shooting. Though, height data is generally available any
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by hyp0 12y ago
Inventors might not want fame. The entrepreneurial, publicity-seeking ones are unusual; but the ones we hear about. If he patented it, he'd get licensing fees (I'd go royalties myself). Usually, anyone called an "inventor&qu
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by hyp0 12y ago
The original sounds more suitable for me, personally: in effect, a larger display, without larger/heavier/mAh device. Bonuses: you don't have to hold it; get the angle right; block sunlight reflections; clean fingermarks. I&#
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by hyp0 12y ago
I thought you had meant that Go was "easier to maintain" than python - most of these don't apply to Python: Python has faster compilation times (0); interfaces without recompiling; formatting conventions; and numeric conver
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by hyp0 12y ago
Wouldn't java be the natural rewrite, for performance speed up? Java is betwen Python and C, in terms of ease-of-use and performance. They mention a C rewrite, but not a java one... I guess the concept here is that Go is between Python
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by hyp0 12y ago
There's also an intro mentioning him, plus a big photo of him, and he's listed in the topics. But I think you're substantially right: the article text proper doesn't mention him at all... as if it's been link-baited
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by hyp0 12y ago
More like glorious documentation: verified to be up to date... and has examples. As others mentioned, regression testing is about the only really useful correctness step. There's also motivation, to keep on track for what is actual
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by hyp0 12y ago
Thanks for the link! Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. Maybe the paywall is because I'm not in the US (Australia).
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by hyp0 12y ago
Does everyone else have an FT subscription? I'm hitting a paywall...
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by hyp0 12y ago
You're being a bit parochial, specificially anthropocentric. Why a human brain? If you consider it's possible that other intelligences exist in the universe, they probably won't have human brains... Or, consider other animals

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