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by lcuff 4y ago
At your suggestion, I did the Google search. I did not find an 'overwhelming consensus'. There are some sellers who are motivated to allow it for complex reasons (public perception, value of sell-out crowds which allow TV broadca
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by lcuff 4y ago
In some cases. I don't believe this is true in the realm of concert tickets.
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by lcuff 4y ago
Thanks: Very informative.
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by lcuff 4y ago
I don't know enough to understand why fork is a bad design. Can you say some about what problems there are?
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by lcuff 4y ago
The most curious thing to me is that #96 "unknown" is listed as taking 17 minutes to crack, and yet "princess", "baseball", "juventus " and "qweasdzxc" all take less than 1 second. Ideas?
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by lcuff 4y ago
A really good book I read was "Bridges out of Poverty", aimed at social workers etc, but very informative to the lay reader. One of the several things I learned: If a poor person 'comes in' to some money, they are likely
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by lcuff 4y ago
That might be true for you, but way back when, I took a course in programming and thought it was the most fun I'd ever had. Couldn't believe that people wanted to pay me to do it. Spent the next 40 years making a great living. T
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by lcuff 4y ago
@gershy: Very fun, thanks. Now that the rush is past, are you still reading Hacker News comments? Is this the right place to give feedback and suggestions? I just now have been hoping for a match, and the display says "Two players m
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by lcuff 4y ago
Others mention how pies call for different apples. In the same vein, my father's cousin, a farmer and now sadly no longer with us, had a strong opinion about apples that were best for applesauce. Sadly, I don't remember which var
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by lcuff 4y ago
Very fun! Well done. Played 3 games. Fun that pieces taking each other just change places.
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Kaprekar's Constant(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lcuff 4y ago
OOP, hands down. Though I never learned Functional (and never learned Smalltalk, for that matter. I think the OOP I learned wasn't half of what Smalltalk offered.) I learned to program on punch cards, and the options were 'top do
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by lcuff 4y ago
The code he gives, and the explanation of the busy beaver problem, strikes me as pretty poorly explained. If I didn't already know about the busy beaver problem, I don't think I could get it from this explanation.
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by lcuff 4y ago
I never used Clippy. Reviled? You mean Microsoft took the idea of 'context appropriate useful suggestions' and bungled the user interface? Inconceivable!
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by lcuff 4y ago
Not 'just' quicker. Easier. Less frustrating. Important elements. This is my experience of using the long-spacebar technique for placing the cursor. Digressing: An AI noticing that someone has moved the cursor several time withou
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by lcuff 4y ago
The use cases he cites are corner cases, as others have argued. In my mind, a far more common use case calls for memory pools, where memory can be allocated and not explicitly tracked by the application. The memory pool gets freed at the en
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by lcuff 4y ago
To me this makes so much sense. A file, the name of which only I know, encrypted on my local disk. Cut and paste from vim. No easy target. (Obscurity IS a security feature of certain system elements. But NOT encryption algorithms, obvi
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by lcuff 4y ago
Thanks so much for digging this out! Very useful to know. So, the notability methodology fails massively, as many have noted. Jesus and Muhammad trailing Britney Spears by a factor of 4 or so is my favorite so far ... LOL. But the quest
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by lcuff 4y ago
The most bizarre thing I found is the 'notability' score for Jesus at 204.5 and Muhammad at 152. Both well behind Britney Spears at 59. Britney's fans will be thrilled, I guess. Clicking around, the notability of Western po
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by lcuff 4y ago
A senior trainer for a method of dealing with trauma once said he didn't think the human nervous system has evolved to be able to deal with the quantity of bad news that is pushed at us. Thinking about it, evolutionarily we probably de
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by lcuff 4y ago
As some who dipped in to Perl 3 times, each a decade apart and therefore dealt with Perl 3, 4 and 5, it's annoying that now in version 6, the Perlites finally realize that they got the ridiculous way of using sigils wrong.... $foo[2] i
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by lcuff 4y ago
James Clavell's Shogun: The contrast between the Japanese and European cultures in 1600 are delicious, the characters and plot both well developed. I've read it at least a dozen times over four decades. As I age, I find I experi
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by lcuff 4y ago
I'm interested what people know about 'net' carbs and ketosis. I'm not all that savvy on this stuff. I'm looking at a package of chia seeds, which says it's got 16 grams of carbs per quarter cup include 14 gr
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by lcuff 4y ago
Yes, I confess I fell for it. Sigh. Good to point out.
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by lcuff 4y ago
I read an annotated version of Lolita. I suspect I would not have made it all the way through an unannotated version. The annotations were astonishing to me. Pointing out literary references that were either unknown to me, or that I knew bu
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by lcuff 4y ago
Asking on Hacker News about your psychological problems is better than ignoring them, so yay. But given the picture you paint, I'd advise you to get in-person help of some sort. I'm not a big fan of low cost counseling: most plac
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by lcuff 4y ago
The article says the speed of the capsule was increased to 24,229 miles per hour, for the 3 day coast to the moon, but the moon is only (approx) 250,000 miles away. The trajectory was elliptical, so the distance wouldn't be significan
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by lcuff 4y ago
I find this highly improbable, for multiple reasons. (a) It's unlikely that requirements will stop changing. In the early days of the web, you didn't need to support forms, shopping carts, or phone-sized screens. No one knows wha
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by lcuff 4y ago
As someone who started programming professionally at 25, and stopped professionally at 60, here is my experience: At 25, I could do a decent job of "drinking from the firehose". I could learn new things very quickly, and retain
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by lcuff 5y ago
When I learned to write FORTRAN IV for the CDC 6400 in 1974, I was told the standard compiler was written as a single routine. Didn't see the code myself, sadly. My, how our knowledge of how to do things has changed!

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