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by ilitirit 17y ago
I suppose it depends on how you approach the article. I didn't really expect a concise, scientific piece from The Atlantic, especially one that starts off as a flashback reminiscent of a mild psycho-drama. I didn't expect it to give me th
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I agree, but it was partly the interviewer's fault. He should have just said "assume static pages" and/or "assume everyone speaks the same dialect of english and uses the same vocabulary". In cases like these interviewer should always try
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> justify their dislike of the social sciences. I have no dislike of the social sciences. I just like this piece by Feynman.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I read an interesting study recently (maybe on HN) about an experiment where they swapped people's groceries (or something to that effect) without them knowing. Afterward they were asked to justify their choices and most of them (or a larg
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by ilitirit 17y ago
One of favourite pieces by Feynman is a critique of fields like psychology. http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I'm of the opinion that the average consumer prefers free content. I'm also looking at it from my perspective - I'd have to pay for certain content in each case, and I'm referring to the idea in general, not just as it relates to journalism
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I'd prefer this model to a tiered internet. Not that either are desirable for the average consumer.
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Andrei Alexandrescu: (C++ STL) Iterators must go [pdf](boostcon.com)
4 points by ilitirit 17y ago|0 comments
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> Now back to hacking. Off-topic, but does anyone else think that over the last few days HN started feeling a bit like Reddit?
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by ilitirit 17y ago
It's not about climate change - it's an analogy. It's not a choice between two evils either (you could round them up AND kill them). And of course you could propose a multitude of different solutions beside or in addition to these. My poi
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> What?! He raises a very pertinent issue; it's just not that clear in this context. Here's an extreme, yet simplistic analogy: Suppose scientists discover that green-eyed people are used as transmission vectors by a lethal flu virus.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Researchers once did a study to understand why the French aren't as obese as Americans even though they eat food that have a relatively higher fat content. They based their study on an idea they had about internal and external cues. Appare
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I understand and to an extent agree with the gist of your argument, but I can't agree with this: > Mathematics would be a failure if it wasn't usable to model nature. In fact I don't understand why you would make such a statement, unles
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by ilitirit 17y ago
This was discussed at length a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593020
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I didn't see the point of a good portion of that response because the author kept referring to the past. It was only after 6 paragraphs that he started tackling the current model, and he does that by not only describing the issues surround
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Yes, but I've basically only have one password that shrinks depending on how sensitive the information is. Throw-away password: "ex@mpl3" Email password: "ex@mpl3p@55" Finance password: "ex@mpl3p@55w0rd!"
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> imminent demise Just in case some people don't know, Fravia passed away 2 days ago (2009/05/03)
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Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye(fravia.com)
126 points by ilitirit 17y ago|52 comments
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by ilitirit 17y ago
C is one of the fastest languages and most space-efficient languages out of the box. Other languages get their speed by resource trading (memory, space, time). You could arguably gain these sort of speed ups in C if you invested enough ti
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I'm not really sure what he has to apologize for. He didn't even really need to post this article or the email.
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by ilitirit 18y ago
I was asked this once during an interview. After I gave several lengthy possible explanations, the interviewer was basically speechless. The previous question was much more interesting. I was asked to estimate the number of piano tuners t
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by ilitirit 18y ago
> Well, it didn't work for me. Me neither, and "The Wrestler" was quite a glaring omission. I also agree that the "micro-genres" feature is flawed. For example, I searched for "Gwoemul" and none of the micro-genres it returned matched
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by ilitirit 18y ago
Personally, I'd kill for a 40GB cap. I live in South Africa and I've been paying around $30 per month for a 2GB international cap. I wouldn't at all be surprised if the average user in the US used less than 40GB per month. That said, the
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by ilitirit 18y ago
This data would be much useful if it were coupled with geographic information.
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by ilitirit 18y ago
Cape Town, South Africa
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Microsoft Research Prototype: Vault is safe version of the C programming language(research.microsoft.com)
5 points by ilitirit 18y ago|0 comments
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Secure deletion: a single overwrite will do it(h-online.com)
34 points by ilitirit 18y ago|19 comments
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by ilitirit 19y ago
I love C++ There are so many crooks and nannies, pitfalls and gotchas in the language that most people either give up, or they take the time to learn to do things the "right" way. I fall into the latter group. However, I absolutely despis
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by ilitirit 19y ago
I'm not sick of XML at all, because I hardly have to write it. I work with objects, and let the serializer output the XML. I am sick of having to learn new formats though.
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by ilitirit 19y ago
reader.google.com www.dogsonacid.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=3 thesartorialist.blogspot.com

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