imok20

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by imok20 17y ago
Got it, messing with it now :) There a neat way to use emacs with it?
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by imok20 17y ago
Any chance of a version that works on Snow Leopard being released? Just tried installing – no luck. A shame, I'm about to start typesetting a paper.
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by imok20 17y ago
Interesting to note: Pages.app handles ligatures quite nicely (type "office", for example).
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by imok20 17y ago
I'd prefer not to treat all my customers as morons. (Regardless of how many are...) EDIT: What's with the boom of posts demonstrating how stupid non-computer people are? It's rather elitist...
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by imok20 17y ago
Ah, don't we wish. There's this thing called an "Axiom" that is, ruefully, generally, arbitrary. Definitions, too. e.g. Some say the set of natural numbers contain 0, some say it doesn't. Granted, the kind of math being discussed here isn't
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by imok20 17y ago
BNO (Breaking News Online), the company who posted the news ahead of the NYT, is reputable. I'd say they have a lot riding on their reputation.
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by imok20 17y ago
While I completely agree, and upvoted you for it, I think the implication of this is more along the lines of "whoa, the NYT is no longer the formost producer of breaking news (mostly.)" The NYT should focus more on investigative reportin
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by imok20 17y ago
I, too, do wonder. Right now, it's not clear what those conditions were; my comment was meant to address the only clear-cut part of this vague article: that 15 year-olds were working in a factory. I'm not justifying poor working conditions,
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by imok20 17y ago
I worked at a lab programming for minimum wage when I was 15; this isn't sweatshop work. Children are allowed to work in the US, too. (Though, certainly, not at factories.) The title is is misleading, as well: Apple contracts these oversea
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by imok20 17y ago
That's not quite true – as you zoom in, you're no longer simply taking Re(c) = x pixel on the screen and Im(c) = y pixel on the screen. The more you zoom in, you're moving in on the Re/Im axes, which means you're no longer looking at intege
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by imok20 17y ago
The trouble with that is that the sole purpose of our product is to facilitate connections between people selling or offering goods and services. Without people and the stuff they want to sell, we've got nothing.
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by imok20 17y ago
As additional anecdotal evidence, this is true for me, though I'm still using Python for my next project simply because it's a proven language with proven libraries. But I'm certainly ready and interested in moving toward a more functional
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by imok20 17y ago
X makes you invisible - notice how your opacity changes? Just go invisible and let them zombie walk by you, the continue on your merry way :)
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by imok20 17y ago
Thanks! Google wasn't particularly useful for me, unfortunately. Good for me to know, as a PS3 layman.
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by imok20 17y ago
Could anyone tell me what map_htab and write_htab are?
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by imok20 17y ago
The difference is that this site is called "Hacker News."
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by imok20 17y ago
Really? Let's call this "cracked," not "hacked" – we're only furthering the misunderstanding by using the incorrect term here, too.
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by imok20 17y ago
Make him a language: let me elaborate. Use Python or Ruby and write a library of functions that he can call in particular ways that will make a "game." Let him learn how they work, and let him dive into the source code and figure it out and
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by imok20 17y ago
I've been hoping for this for over a year now. I'm _more_ than happy to support their journalists oversea and at home (USA for me, as for the NYT). Without some sort of support, we wouldn't be getting the same breadth and depth and quality
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by imok20 17y ago
One of the most remarkable parts of the language is that is does not have recursion. Nor does it have ways of explicitly differentiating temporally distant events. This is an old article, but there are new ones a-comin'; the implications of
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by imok20 17y ago
I'll do that – write out a list based on the business plan and try to navigate the fastest way through it to launch. Thanks for that – it gets overwhelming to consider all the project at once.
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by imok20 17y ago
I've checked out Arc before, and it looks pretty neat. Perhaps it could handle some of the "simpler" part of the application, and I let Python handle some of the more intense server-side implementation. Would that be unwise – combining two
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by imok20 17y ago
I'll parse last first. I probably should have mentioned that I am a programmer, mostly Python, but have work experience in Java and am capable with JS/HTML/CSS (and have knowledge of or am somewhat capable in Scheme and C). Problematic is t
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Ask HN: I have an idea for a startup... now what?
5 points by imok20 17y ago|10 comments
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by imok20 17y ago
I'm always looking for sources like these, but I can never find a place that let's me just look at file 1 and move on from there. If anyone's got any resources that might give me an idea of the file progression – from OS to OS with teet
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by imok20 17y ago
I've had some of the best homemade coffee by using (1) fresh beans (2) a French press. My secret to a good roast is http://www.stumptowncoffee.com/ - you can't go wrong with a good roast there. Not only that, but you can order the specifi
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by imok20 17y ago
It should be noted that this isn't new, at all. It was published in 2005.
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by imok20 17y ago
The real key here is Google's efficiency and innovation. They're not simply providing free data for the masses to consume, making nothing off of it and paying to obtain it (as they must, to map the highways and byways of the US). At it's he
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by imok20 17y ago
That was a mistake: Python is QUITE useful. But I wouldn't call it an industry standard. Corrected.
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by imok20 17y ago
I can't imagine a better course than writing a Lisp interpreter in C, and then a Java implementation in Lisp. They're clearly not fads, they're clearly useful, and the kind of knowledge and education that doing such an exercise would requir

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