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by jimfl 16y ago
Anyone who is familiar with the term "gruntle."
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by jimfl 16y ago
It's the roman orthography of the closest sounds in Japanese to the word "Lisp."
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Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law(laboratorium.net)
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by jimfl 16y ago
You mean Urispu?
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Sending people to Mars would be intentionally creating both an emergency and a rescue operation an order of magnitude more complex than Apollo 13.
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It is very much off topic. However, my interest in what this community has to say about it is of abiding interest.
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There is a significant component of "in the right place at the right time" involved with anyone of any notability. But once the wave crest comes along, one has to be able to get standing on the board.
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"The two just raised $650 million and what they have to say is worth your attention." Then, there's that kind of jerk.
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You are not the customer. You are the product. Google works just fine.
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I have been playing WoW for 4 years, now off and on. My co-workers at the time, some of whom are still my co-workers at a different job, got me into it. I have found that a good way to moderate my play is to refuse to make appointments to p
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The modern corporate structure has evolved to exploit this dynamic, so it ought to come as no shock that most everyone here has experienced it. In fact, my guess is that more than half of HNers who think positively about their current posit
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"The sky is blue." "He's a Bayesian!"
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I have found that making things with those little magnetic balls is both therapeutic and easily recognized as thinking.
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When anyone asks me what I'm doing if I've "come up for air", I just reply "Programming. I'll type it in later." Software development doesn't happen in computers, it happens in our minds. And not just one person's mind, but in the minds of
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Automated testing gives you the confidence to make very invasive changes to code at any stage during the development process. This is especially important in environments with short iterations, where you are not necessarily designing for fe
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I can tell you that the last 10 digits of Graham's number are ...2464195387, how large could it be?
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TREE(3). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_theorem#Friedman.27...
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The boy who cries wolf at 10Hz.
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"Good morning. In WallNet news, the Karma continues its rise against the BitCoin in heavy wagering over whether cloud computing giant Facebook will kill the popular Java language following an acquisition of foundering Internet retailer Orac
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"Labyrinths" by Borges.
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Use caution, however, as vodka can make you drunk if you are able to swallow enough of it.
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by jimfl 16y ago
I voted for iPad app, but I currently use the Hacker News 20 twitter feed (@newsyc20) plus Flipboard. It gives easy access to either the main article or the comments page. My only gripe is that Flipboard forgets my credentials fairly often.
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Photons do not move at all. Light propagates at c in a vacuum. A photon describes the interaction of the propagated light with another phenomenon(such as a detector).
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Workload management refers to PlateSpin, Novell's server virtualization product.
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It is likely that most of the people who worked on it did not know they were working on it, and may still have no idea.
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Genius.
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I just donated $50USD.
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This is very different from software development, which involves a hugely broad diversity of skillsets—only one of which is programming—and the ability to have them all work together without clawing each other's eyes out. Project management
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XKCD has likely inspired more code than any other comic strip.
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by jimfl 16y ago
1. Couching your article as a Top 10 list. 2. Distributing the content of said list across 10 separate page load all with ad impressions. 3. Using a picture of a nerd on an article about geeks.

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