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by icc97 9y ago
> through-out the whole history of science most of the really great discoveries which had ultimately proved to be beneficial to mankind had been made by men and women who were driven not by the de-sire to be useful but merely the desire
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by icc97 9y ago
So I'm guessing you were 28-38 when you learned TeX, rather than 60+. If you were over 60 in 1985 and are still posting to HN, that would be really cool.
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by icc97 9y ago
That wikipedia article does contain this: > Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup a computer game which expanded on an abandoned project using contributions from many different coders;
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by icc97 9y ago
I think the point is that it is retiring the full featured v4.3 and replacing it with the Beta version that is missing features - the big one for me was that I couldn't share my screen.
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by icc97 9y ago
It is worth mentioning that the school in the article, Barrowford primary school in the UK, was given a 'Good' (2 on a scale of 1-4) Ofsted report [0] in 2012, then in 2015 (just after the 'heartwarming letter' went vira
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by icc97 9y ago
Parents on the side of sports games seems to be a problem the world over. I've heard of it directly in both Belgium and England with Football (Soccer) games. Parents will subvert the will of the coaches wanting their kid to shine rathe
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by icc97 9y ago
There's a relevant TED talk about this on teaching 'grit' [0] (a mix of passion and perseverance). I find her arguments quite convincing. And I think like a lot of learning and any pathways in the brain - this is something yo
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by icc97 9y ago
> Self-esteem is a byproduct of self-compassion There was a HN article on that recently [0] [0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/05/why-self-...
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by icc97 9y ago
There is also the 99-problems sets, started in Prolog [0], then Lisp [1], Haskell [2], Python [3], and more. [0]: https://sites.google.com/site/prologsite/prolog-problems [1]: http://www.ic.unicamp.br&#
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by icc97 9y ago
I too would get very angry from being bullied. This is actually something that would entertain others at school - seeing how angry I got. What you didn't mention in your original post was that you'd done most of those things out o
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by icc97 9y ago
Yes - I've come across the same breathing suggestions via Headspace.
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by icc97 9y ago
Citibank in the UK sends SMS authentication
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by icc97 9y ago
Yes there are unions involved, from the 3rd and 4th last paragraphs: > Alan Ochoa said long hours repeating the same moves over and over with a drill caused enough hand pain to prevent him from working. He was given an office job but sai
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by icc97 9y ago
black, gray, white + shades of blue That's basically what I was moaning about. It's just BW monochrome + blue monochrome. Bring on the turquoise and fuchsia I say!
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by icc97 9y ago
Yeah - I figured that was as close as Vim came to a prompt It is prompting you to add a !
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by icc97 9y ago
Don't worry, the internet comes in a small box, just make sure you don't drop the box [0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
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by icc97 9y ago
When 90% of the people around you are all wearing some shade of blue jeans, its a bit the same as everybody driving around in cars in some shade of grey (which they do at least in Belgium). That is, it's just really boring. Colour is o
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by icc97 9y ago
As far as I can tell, it's run for employees by employees. If it ever starts doing more harm than good, it will just stop. People have to want to submit and want to read it. So I don't see this as management sponsored spying, just
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by icc97 9y ago
I'm having a go at using Vim full time after years of dabbling. I attribute the weirdness of Vim to it being like learning a completely different actual language similar to learning French if you're an English speaker. With an edi
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by icc97 9y ago
You get a prompt if you try to exit and you haven't written the buffer to file
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by icc97 9y ago
As has been mentioned elsewhere - names aren't mentioned in the list. Also even with anonymity although such a system maybe open for abuse, so that people can implicate innocent people, the potential to allow actual victims to speak up
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by icc97 9y ago
From what I understand from my sister who's a lawyer at a tech firm in LA, firing people in California is harder than firing people in the UK.
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by icc97 9y ago
I think this is excellent, especially seeing as how so often HR's duty is only to the company and not to the employee making the complaint. Tangentially I wonder if a similar system could be used to report bullying in schools. Perhaps
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by icc97 9y ago
So am I. If you check the second map from my previous comment it's of Europe from 2011 [0]. There were 5 >300 km/h trains, and 4 of those are in France. But I think the market they're aiming at is more US - it's more
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by icc97 9y ago
I know very little about this - but casual Googling suggests helicopters aren't necessarily better. This Quora answer from 2015 [0], suggests $6m for the Augusta 109 [1], that has range of 982 km but has a speed of 285 km/h. So t
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by icc97 9y ago
I don't know which land you're from, but in the US (I assume the main market) almost all trains have a max of 177 km/h [0]. There are about 4 lines in western Europe that go faster than 300 km/h [1]. [0]: https:/&#
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by icc97 9y ago
The speed isn't ridiculously low compared to the Phenom is the only point I was making, certainly considering that it's half the price. The range can be extended to 2,200 km if it's just one person flying.
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by icc97 9y ago
I'd imagine you wouldn't buy this plane if that was a concern. So you'd be only looking at flight times of a 2-3 hours. It'll do roughly 700 (2 hours) - 1400 (3.5 hours) miles [0]. Depending on weight and speed. So see
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by icc97 9y ago
I assume it's a last ditch manouvre. Planes are designed to glide if the engine fails [0] - so you'd do your best to get over land / safe and then pull the parachute. But also I assume if it did land on water - you might have
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by icc97 9y ago
The difference doesn't seem huge, not considering the price. Phenom [0] vs Vision [1] Phenom: - Price: $4M - Capacity: 1 pilot, 7 passengers - Cruise Speed: 750 km/h - Range 2,182 km (4 x 200lb people) Vision: - Price: $2M - Capac

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