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by jboy 13y ago
I type many, many more semicolons in C or C++ than I type line-continuation backslashes in Python, so I prefer the option that requires fewer keypresses and less syntactic noise. Or to put it another way, I'd much rather have to syntactical
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Captive lions and tigers can mate to produce non-sterile offspring(boingboing.net)
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by jboy 14y ago
I realise I'm ignoring about two levels of irony here, but "Wear something people want." would actually be a great front for an Official HN T. Inside enough that you need to know about YC to recognize that slogan, but general enough that ju
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by jboy 14y ago
I doubt that docking with the ISS is the end-goal of SpaceX. Musk talks about missions to Mars, and even helping to establish a human presence there. The latter certainly hasn't been done before. My point was that, even at the 10-year mar
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by jboy 14y ago
There are some fantastic insights in this talk. I particularly liked: What appeared at first to me as a defect forced me into automatic programming very early. What appears to be a fault, often, by a change of viewpoint, turns out to be o
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by jboy 14y ago
> Entrepreneurs are not interested in starting programs that will yield results only after 10-20 years What about the SpaceX's of the world? Founded in 2002; docked with the ISS in 2012.
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by jboy 14y ago
Giving Tesla credit as a brilliant and prolific inventor -- and in particular, giving him credit for electricity and related electrical technology -- is a new meme. Twenty years ago it was all about Edison in science textbooks and in popula