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by icc97 9y ago
> This has been disproven. "Letting it out" only leads you to be more aggressive. From reading the below article [0] which talks about what you say, the 'letting it out' is e.g. punching a pillow. Perhaps he's wr
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by icc97 9y ago
Perhaps obvious question - but have you tried approaching the Gates foundation? They are more concerned with sorting the issues of inequality. Or, to be slightly obtuse, have you tried approaching Elon Musk for funding? Perhaps he'll b
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by icc97 9y ago
Yes, I had very similar thoughts. I think there's room for both. It's great what fast.ai are doing and they'll benefit me more directly, but Elon Musk is pushing at the other end of the scale. I keep feeling like I'm a t
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by icc97 9y ago
> In the best case of implementation, it's still not even beneficial to the common tax payer. The point of the Hyperloop is to be better for the tax payer than the proposed rail system [0]: > Hyperloop transit system concept whic
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by icc97 9y ago
Perhaps that's one of the points of using text from books. You can compare how people are speaking compared to someone who was specifically tasked with reading the book out loud for the audio book.
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by icc97 9y ago
This seems a pretty irrelevant post, this has nothing to do with "Things I wish", the discussion is linking to a separate HN item [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14781426
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by icc97 9y ago
A book well worth reading about this time is The Dream Machine [0] (all about the people leading up to ARPA and then PARC). Shannon's work had a massive influence on everyone in computers at the time. [0]: https://www.amazon
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by icc97 9y ago
Wow that's the first app from the Windows store that I actually wanted to install.
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by icc97 9y ago
I had a novel revelation yesterday. I needed to buy a new computer for my partner because theirs was being used by our daughter. I like buying old ThinkPad T-series because they're better built, cheaper and the Linux installation hassl
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A blockchain explanation your parents could understand(linkedin.com)
2 points by icc97 9y ago|0 comments
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by icc97 9y ago
Just in case anyone doesn't know, Birkbeck is a London university focussed on part-time study. Central Saint Martins is probably the most famous / prestigous art university in the UK [0] [0]: https://www.businessoffashi
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Launching the first art school MBA(bbk.ac.uk)
2 points by icc97 9y ago|1 comments
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by icc97 9y ago
I love this post - it gets across a fundamental concept that pretty much anyone can understand, which is non-obvious. What I love, that other's here seem to grumble about, is that he's not using any specific terminolgy. He doesn&#
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by icc97 9y ago
Whilst not working with backgrounds, you can colour code the brackets depending on the hierarchy [0] [0]: https://github.com/luochen1990/rainbow
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by icc97 9y ago
I'd say I'm confirming that I use the resource about 7% of the time. I use github stars in a similar fashion to you - just recognition. It's also kind of like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs - it's just a note to sa
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by icc97 9y ago
Sounds like a good idea, I'll put a reminder for myself to ask on 1st Aug.
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by icc97 9y ago
No never, I could never read all that I've bookmarked. It's purely there so that if I have a problem and I vaguely remember that I came across a solution that there's half a chance I can search for it in my bookmarks and find
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by icc97 9y ago
I did try to apply this somewhat - I would by default list all my bookmarks as 'to read'. Then I didn't feel the need to read them, just dump them and get on with my life. Then if I ever came back to them, then I would mark t
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by icc97 9y ago
Yes, I do think that often cold turkey with some alternative is the only way to change.
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by icc97 9y ago
Hi my name's Ian and I'm a digital hoarder. I totally agree on the digital hoarding. Just so happens that my mum is a physical hoarder - and that is much worse than a digital one. I have 10872 links inside pinboard. I think ther
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by icc97 9y ago
Personally I'm just glad I'm not alone. 10872 on pinboard.
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Digital Coins Are So Hot, Startups Are Selling Them Like an IPO(bloomberg.com)
3 points by icc97 9y ago|0 comments
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by icc97 9y ago
Here's the tasteful modernization script [0], it contains a ton of regexs (cause regexs never go wrong) with such tasteful changes as: # pease -> peas (but "pease pudding") # régime -> regime (but "ancien
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by icc97 9y ago
I personally would see this as a disaster. I want the old language warts and all. I want to learn how words were expressed in a historical context. That teaches me more than just the words themselves, that transports you to their time. I di
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by icc97 9y ago
It actually sounded like he was still hurt by it, he was very derogatory about Deepblue, it had no intelligence, just cruching numbers etc. He was finding other faults with it except for the bit that beat him. The quotes I've heard com
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by icc97 9y ago
I eventually gave up on Notepad++ because I became increasingly frustrated with the syntax highlighting inconsistencies. I was trying to get Solarized Markdown highlighting working. Edit: I lie, it was Twilight [0] I just wanted to get that
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by icc97 9y ago
After having struggled a bit with using Vim in the Windows console (8 terminal colours, no bold or italic fonts and other weird unexplainable issues), I switched to GVim which does actually work remarkably well. At least then you can bring
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by icc97 9y ago
> ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’
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by icc97 9y ago
> I mean, nobody who decries polarization ever seems to volunteer to switch their personal beliefs that I've seen. Yes totally agree. I view it as everyone has their own inner religion. I'm wondering in which millenia it will b
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by icc97 9y ago
Does anyone actually use an unconfigured instance of vim for actual development? I can see for people sshing in, editing a file and getting back out without bothering, but you'd have to be a quite a purist to do all your development in

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