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by knome 14y ago
It would probably protect selling the paper, but not the service it represents. /ianal
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by knome 15y ago
Just don't forget that rocks are not free, citizen. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rocks_Are_Not_Free!#.T5aK4Kf...
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by knome 15y ago
http://www.google.comhttps//www.google.com/landing/takeactio... If there is anyone here from or with contacts to google, my igoogle banner links to this instead of the proper url. Oops. edit: nevermind, they seem to have noticed
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by knome 15y ago
George Lucas, founder of Industrial Light and Magic.
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by knome 15y ago
> because regexpes are heavily optimized C code AFAIK, the python re module does not have a C language component. It is a pure python regular expression implementation.
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by knome 16y ago
They also point out how difficult it is to keep abreast of the increasing amount of information humanity is generating, and how the Internet assists in rapidly accessing this information. It seems that if ingenuity requires vast knowledge
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by knome 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
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by knome 16y ago
A certain amount of churn is required to continually inform new users. Yes, too much causes the older users to leave from boredom. To little, however, and the newer users cannot gain an appropriate grasp of the common knowledge expected,
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by knome 16y ago
> I can see 1-2 people commenting multiple times in a malicious way, but if there are more than 2, it has to be 4chan. This seems like an entirely bizarre accusation to make.
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by knome 16y ago
That's what happened last time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
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by knome 16y ago
Haskell has a mutable variable implementation here: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.0.0.0/doc... It also has a software transactional memory implementation here: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm STM in particula
582.
by knome 16y ago
I've never understood the animosity towards overloading `they` as a neuter singular pronoun. It doesn't seem to introduce any sort of ambiguity in the language and replaces a whole slurry of fumbling and hackish attempts with a single wide
583.
by knome 16y ago
Perhaps they are maximizing earnings with an outlook of fifty to one hundred years. Allow their engineers a free hand so that product offerings are as diverse as possible and can later be integrated for advanced usages. Build interesting
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by knome 16y ago
A computer is fast when the computer is waiting on you. A computer is slow when you are waiting on the computer.
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by knome 16y ago
I run steam under wine to play Half Life II and Counterstrike occasionally. I'm hoping this one works as well.
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by knome 17y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching...
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by knome 17y ago
I think a better example would be an art show. Say someone starts an art show that lets anyone display their work inside. It's a huge art show with tens of thousands of persons setting up their pieces over acres of land. Is the proprieto
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by knome 17y ago
> In this case, the answer is yes, absolutely. No, it isn't, absolutely. `===` means that javascript does a normal equality test, whether it be string comparison or numerical comparison, but without any type conversion. It means that w
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by knome 17y ago
Wouldn't using an encrypted onion routed network put a bit of a pinch on the amount of DDOS traffic one could push? Not to mention that there is probably an upper bound to the amount of traffic any given exit-node is willing to allow for.
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by knome 17y ago
By this syntax they aren't comments anymore.
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by knome 17y ago
If you have enough elements to desire short circuit evaluation you can, as `masklinn` mentioned, use a list comprehension. Specifically a generator list comprehension. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0289/ big_list = make_big_li
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Metaphors We Live By
4 points by knome 17y ago|0 comments
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by knome 17y ago
> The future is here. The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet. -- William Gibson
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by knome 17y ago
You cite a piece detailing how the use of unseen modes makes interacting with a computer difficult and infer this as a boon to a strongly moded editor that offers nothing resembling the sort of modeless simplicity the author was advocating.
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by knome 17y ago
I'd argue they become an unconscious synapse to the tools we perceive in the machine. Avatars in games, the cursor in editors, these are what we feel as the extensions of our will in their environments.
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by knome 17y ago
Because it is a book? early 14c., from Anglo-L. biblia, from M.L./L.L. biblia (neuter plural interpreted as fem. sing.), in phrase biblia sacra "holy books," from Gk. ta biblia to hagia "the holy books," from biblion "paper, scroll," the or
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by knome 18y ago
Your mention of natural versus artificial flavours reminded me of this post : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369249 The article makes for a good read.
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by knome 18y ago
There is no reducing it. There is controlling who deals with it. Hiding gobs of details behind a single {loop} construct was probably a huge hassle. For the designers and non-coders touching the templates though, the complexity is gone.
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by knome 18y ago
At rates that good HN will be the first victim of the great karma rushes. Spectators will establish threads and mine each other for karma until so much has been generated that even diggs will purchase multiple hackerbucks.
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by knome 18y ago
I thought the term 0-day was meant to indicate a exploit conceived of and executed before even a full day had passed from the release of the software being attacked. It seemed to come from the game/software cracking scene where the sooner

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