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by kaptain 14y ago
Melinda Gates wasn't talking about economic value. I find it difficult to believe that most HN'rs take her statement to mean economic value since, as most people have been pointing out, all lives don't have equivalent financial worth. The r
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by kaptain 14y ago
Mike, Can you comment on Ben Barreth? I read the article but I don't understand how this could be sustainable. Mortgaging your 401K in the hopes of getting donations on a charity project seems like a no-win situation. And I'm not speaking s
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by kaptain 14y ago
The meta question is: is every human being able to learn and do anything with a reasonable level of competency (subject to your definition of "reasonable"). I would like to think so. I would like to think that my own inability to do X stems
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by kaptain 14y ago
Can you be more specific about what you've tried and why it didn't work? Some obvious solutions come to mind but I suspect I don't understand exactly the parameters if the problem.
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An Interview with Chen Guangcheng(theatlantic.com)
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by kaptain 14y ago
Can someone post a mirror or the content of the article? I'm in China.
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by kaptain 14y ago
I'm not sure what point you're referring to that I'm missing. Here's my point: People don't need to wait for Gruber to make a standard; Gruber doesn't hold enough power to prevent the adoption of a Markdown-like standard. The adoption of th
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by kaptain 14y ago
NYTimes is blocked in Tianjin. I was able to get the article about half an hour ago but now the entire site is blocked.
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by kaptain 14y ago
If consensus-building is one of the goals, then I would agree with you that Gruber's blessing is important. But one of the goals of Markdown is to provided easy-to-use markup for text. Whatever the next iteration of this looks like, I think
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by kaptain 14y ago
Why? Why get all angry at John Gruber? As many have already noted, he created Markdown for himself and released so that others could use it. AFAIK he didn't put any license/restrictions on it outside of calling himself BDFL. Whatever his sk
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by kaptain 14y ago
Rob Pike doesn't want a dumb terminal. He wants a powerful new infrastructure. My dream setup, then, is a computing world where I don't have to carry at least three computers - laptop, tablet, phone, not even counting cameras and iPod a
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Hacking Buffalo Cheese(nytimes.com)
6 points by kaptain 14y ago|0 comments
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Speak-for-Yourself patent lawsuit settled(old.post-gazette.com)
3 points by kaptain 14y ago|0 comments
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by kaptain 14y ago
People are willing to pay a lot for wedding-related /services/. A lot of people that want to save money on a wedding would buy this because they DON'T want to pay for a wedding planner who will ensure that the music is 100% perfect. If you
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The knight can visit each square on a chess board exactly once(imgur.com)
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by kaptain 14y ago
I have to do a lot of this stuff: backups, disaster recovery, security, monitoring, alerting, configuration management, documentation. I'm mediocre to bad. I'd love to pay someone competent to do it. Pricing: What I really want to pay for i
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by kaptain 14y ago
I would love to see a similar list for non-Latin scripts. I'm particularly interested to know what a 'safe-stack' is for CJK characters. Anyone out there know?
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Alone in the Zone(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by kaptain 14y ago
What does it mean to be Chinese? Technically, there is no Chinese ethnicity. China is made up of (officially) 56 ethnicities. My parents are ethnically Han Chinese. I was born in Canada, raised in America. I carry an American passport. To m
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by kaptain 14y ago
>>The author is clearly stuck in a massive cultural conflict in his brain. He wants China to remain where it was, a mediocre country compared to his original homeland. He doesn't understand the cultural pressures of families in deve
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by kaptain 14y ago
PSB registration does not take two minutes, literally or figuratively. I was at the 出入境 for about an hour two weeks ago. This one visit was one of many visits. Yesterday, I went to register at the local 派出所. I was the only person there. The
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by kaptain 14y ago
Thanks for the links. They were interesting. Two comments: 1) The survey was taken amongst urban inhabitants: "...this sample covered 115,000,000 of the 615,000,000 urban inhabitants..." Which of course leaves the roughly 704 million rural
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by kaptain 14y ago
A typical response I see on HN (and on other forums) in response to failings in other countries (e.g. acts of terrorism, corruption, failure of government support, etc) is to find some sarcastic analogy to compare it to in the US. The Chine
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The Chinese university student experience(rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by kaptain 14y ago|0 comments
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Rails.app successfully surpasses pledge goal(kck.st)
1 points by kaptain 14y ago|0 comments
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by kaptain 14y ago
> On the other hand you do have languages like Chinese where learning the written language actually is the majority of the work. Spoken Chinese is probably one of the easier languages out there for a person coming from a random language
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by kaptain 15y ago
Are you suggesting that the academic institutions offering degrees in 'design' disciplines (e.g. architecture, art, graphic design, etc.) are worthless? These institutions are certainly peddling design as knowledge (not that it is just know
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48 hour video-game-create-a-thon(arstechnica.com)
4 points by kaptain 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are the technical objectives of a design degree?
2 points by kaptain 15y ago|2 comments
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Steve Jobs: Secular Prophet(online.wsj.com)
1 points by kaptain 15y ago|0 comments

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