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by jckt 13y ago
Do you dislike global menus just because it reminds you of a Mac? Is it actually a bad thing, and why? Have you ever tried actually using Unity for more than a few days? I understand that old habits stay strong, but sometimes breaking out o
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by jckt 13y ago
Can the moderator please change the URL to the first page? It current directs to the second. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/world/asia/exposes-of-chin...
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by jckt 13y ago
A lot of people still use a yahoo email. I suppose when they first got their email, it was supposedly better than hotmail (gmail hasn't even come out yet), and they haven't bothered to change since because, really, it's good enough . Yahoo
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by jckt 13y ago
Is there any widespread stigma surrounding the lower-ranks (academic/intellectual ability, etc), or is the system just widely acknowledged as simply some sort of salary structure?
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by jckt 13y ago
Not bad for the first half of 2013!
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by jckt 13y ago
@ your second question, the article notes that "Without communicating with the field’s experts, Zhang started thinking about the problem", so maybe he just worked on it in his free time? Not that it means he hasn't published much, but there
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by jckt 13y ago
Edit: Admittedly only skimmed the article, let alone the paper. Obviously there are an infinite number of primes and we've proved that ages ago. Do not read this comment, read the replies if you want a more accurate answer. Leaving it here
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by jckt 13y ago
Also, he's Japanese and Nelson thinks Nakamoto is actually Japanese because everyone who says he isn't Japanese is falling for committing "ethnocentric cluckery". Dumb indeed.
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by jckt 13y ago
What's HN's opinions on Nelson himself? Barring this article, I've mostly read about his ideas about Xanadu, etc, and while they're not bad per se, they seem rather unfocused and on the whole rather vague -- almost like, engineering/techn
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by jckt 13y ago
holy crap, I was writing a very similar app months ago, based on very similar premises, but I sorta gave up (actually got too busy as well, etc) once I read that actually the whole world is going 3g, even most developing countries are exper
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by jckt 13y ago
I realised that on HN it's quite acceptable to do this (although normally posts from the past would be prepended/appended with a (YEAR). I believe the reasoning is that not everyone has seen these articles, and as they are more than just ne
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by jckt 13y ago
Wow, all this time I've been on HN, I have never, ever noticed those numbers. I must be blind or something.
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by jckt 13y ago
Very cluttered UI, but then again many other IDEs come close, no? Still quite bad though... I don't think startup time or even close-time are particularly important. If you're using an IDE, you shouldn't expect to open it up and close it ti
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by jckt 13y ago
Same here. Well, it can't be any-old tiling mechanism, but nonetheless I'd be willing to try. Currently use awesome, though, which by and large is quite good. Do you use a tiling UI right now? I do somehow prefer a more "mainstream" UI thou
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by jckt 13y ago
Not actively disagreeing, but would you care to elaborate on why you think social-psychology is a psuedo-science?
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by jckt 13y ago
As you said, inflation occurs when the money supply goes up, and dangerously so if it happens for no good reason (in your example). I suppose it is not in the interest of banks to have hyperinflation either?
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by jckt 13y ago
"braveheart" is part of his handle
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by jckt 13y ago
Yes, that was actually unfair of me to say that it's almost like every other lightbox. At the time I was thinking about something like this http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/ , which I've used before. It too doesn't require
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by jckt 13y ago
By your metric Windows is not the most popular OS on the Desktop, and that each year since 2000 has indeed been Year Of Linux On The Desktop.
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by jckt 13y ago
To be fair it's one of the better ones. But yes, I have no idea how this reached the front page. This is like every other lightbox I've seen.
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by jckt 13y ago
Nice note about the meat-orientated culture. To add to that, though, historically (and I find this, as you pointed out, a mostly Western thing, since coming from a southern Chinese culture I know that meats aren't elevated above other foods
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by jckt 13y ago
I'm also all for quality and flavour as well. It's like saying that a nespresso machine can't ever beat a professional barista, let alone best barista in the world. But whenever the coffee connoisseurs make their judgement, machines come ou
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by jckt 13y ago
Do you mind explaining why you don't find meat particularly exciting? I personally have nothing much against vegetarians -- in all honesty my current diet (cheaper) is probably closer to that of a vegetarian's -- but whenever they dismiss m
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by jckt 13y ago
Way better read than the OP. You seem to be pretty well-versed in the field. What readings would you recommend to someone interested in historical linguistics?
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by jckt 13y ago
Wasn't it Kodak's focus to sell film? And, by extension, enabling its customers to share their pictures? In a sense Instagram would be a modern day analogue of such a company -- just that it doesn't need a hardware division anymore. But I s
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by jckt 13y ago
I guess not at all, except that algorithms are probably more powerful in a certain way that controllers/mixers/etc cannot achieve. Of course, "algorithms" (to be honest I don't really know what is happening in the video) and using "traditio
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Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor’s eyes (m.washingtonpost.com)
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Not exactly a place to ask questions, but this (to me at least) serves as a pretty good Q&A resource: http://www.tricki.org/ "a Wiki-style site that is intended to develop into a large store of useful mathematical problem-solving tech
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by jckt 13y ago
I'm aware of that. Not sure about Zenwalk, though (admittedly, I've never heard of that distro till today).
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by jckt 13y ago
It's an interesting fact I suppose. It's interesting to see why certain distros chose certain kernel versions.

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