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Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code(computationallyendowed.com)
190 points by jayferd 13y ago|138 comments
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by jayferd 13y ago
Yeah, housing. It's the big issue of the day here, and you can see how much it affects our culture. Basically we created a mortgage system that only works as long as property values continue to rise, which created a lot of political will b
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by jayferd 13y ago
The video is down :(
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by jayferd 13y ago
Maybe it's just me, but this seems like a very... convoluted process.
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I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Matlab(slendrmeans.wordpress.com)
1 points by jayferd 13y ago|0 comments
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by jayferd 13y ago
That's actually a great idea. If I were a math teacher, I would teach my class that IFQ is a reasonable answer to a question, and I'd throw in a few plainly ill-formed questions just to keep them on their toes. Actual thinking > corre
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by jayferd 13y ago
In high school geometry, I remember my teacher making some assertion that was plainly false - I think it was that 3 planes always intersect in a line. After arguing with him for like 15 minutes, I walked to the front of the class and wrote
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Show HN: Easy parser combinators for python 3(github.com)
4 points by jayferd 13y ago|0 comments
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by jayferd 13y ago
I've been telling people lately to always fetch and merge --ff-only separately, which is more commands but less confusing behavior. If you've got merge.defaultToUpstream set to true, you can alias ff = merge --ff-only. That way you can be
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by jayferd 13y ago
This is one reason I put my email on my own domain. But yeah, you can't really expect most users to do that.
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by jayferd 13y ago
slight mistranslation: "...sak som Google ikke kan forklare" means "...that Google can't explain", not "...that I can't explain". (my Norwegian isn't that good, but this kind of sticks out...)
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by jayferd 13y ago
Well that's news to me. The last I looked was before November, I guess, and before that it still had the same old crufty UI from like 5 years ago. The userbase had been pretty up-in-arms about it for a while too: http://community.skype.c
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by jayferd 13y ago
Guys, Skype is owned by Microsoft, and the Linux version hasn't been touched in like 2 years. I'm frankly not surprised it's b0rked. So... yes, the user should use software that isn't deprecating support for their platform.
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by jayferd 13y ago
_why, Maybe is better than NULL. You can program without fighting NULL.
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by jayferd 13y ago
Also the redirect to "celebsbukakke.com/thdvl/". wtf. (totally sfw, by the way) (edit: except for everything else on that domain)
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by jayferd 13y ago
here's a transcription of the "trials" sequence: ## TRIALS TRIALS Once a year, I take a month & I read everything I can by one author. This year I read 4 books by Thomas Bernhard in one month. And the year before that, it was everything
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by jayferd 13y ago
Okay, so I've curated it a little bit - flipped everything right-ways-up, and arranged it into what I think are three logical sequences in what i think is the correct order: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r9m1nlo4c7i7umf/cpUb9PU6pJ
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by jayferd 13y ago
1. install ghostpdl - I'm using version 9.07 from here: http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/downloads/detail?name=ghostpdl-9.07.tar.bz2 2. Download all of the things curl whytheluckystiff.net | grep SPOOL | cut -f1 | cut -d
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Coupling in Object-Oriented Programming(mergeconflict.com)
4 points by jayferd 13y ago|1 comments
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Stephen Hawking: Humans must escape Earth or perish(dvice.com)
2 points by jayferd 13y ago|0 comments
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Fantasy-Land: Algebraic Javascript(github.com)
2 points by jayferd 13y ago|0 comments
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Duck Wrapping(brehaut.net)
45 points by jayferd 13y ago|17 comments
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by jayferd 14y ago
My point exactly. No one is ever actually going to read all the code, so you have to start your trust somewhere. Especially if you're going to type `sudo make install` at the end (which is why I advocate things like ~/.local to prevent th
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by jayferd 14y ago
I mean, untarring a downloaded tarball from somewhere and running `make` is just as dangerous, right? Only there you can make sure the checksum matches, but people skip that step all the time.
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by jayferd 14y ago
This is my new response to anyone who wants their design to "pop".
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Half Tau Day(halftauday.com)
2 points by jayferd 14y ago|0 comments
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by jayferd 14y ago
> He assumes religious people reject atheism because of an emotional response to atheists' arguments, so he's trying to provoke the same emotional response in atheists to give them insight into the minds of religious people. This, it sh
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by jayferd 14y ago
Double-take: "Luckily her professor funneled money from an existing NIH grant to fund her side project." But seriously, this is awesome, guys. So much science just doesn't get done because nobody's willing to fund it.
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by jayferd 14y ago
Ooooooooo neat!
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by jayferd 14y ago
I've been waiting for that for a long time ._.

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