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by ldh 8y ago
Or possibly reflect even more deeply upon how our medieval system of punishments has done approximately nothing to prevent that from happening in the first place.
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by ldh 8y ago
I just went through something similar, getting the display replaced for $700. While that was in the shop, I bought a similarly spec'd used Thinkpad for under $500 and like it more in almost every way.
33.
by ldh 9y ago
So maybe don't use it from your house?
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by ldh 10y ago
Sometimes your "common sense" reaction is not supported by the data.
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by ldh 13y ago
Case in point, I first read this on my phone, and wanted to investigate further now that I'm on my laptop. So I go to HN and no longer see it on the front page, and can't conjure up what I want to search for. Uh, something Japanes
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by ldh 13y ago
Agreed. It seems to be a design trend that's on the upswing lately, and it's frustrating. I encountered a mobile site yesterday that did that... to me it's the equivalent of the "click to enter" home page of bygone
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by ldh 13y ago
I highly doubt that colonization of other planets will result in significant numbers of monkeys being moved from earth to somewhere else, and even if that were the case, how long before we now have two planets crawling with monkeys who st
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by ldh 13y ago
It seems as though you think he's alone in voicing the least bit of concern for the fact that it might be valuable to hold up a second before steamrolling the (hypothetical) only extraterrestrial life we've discovered in the univ
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by ldh 13y ago
Computer science does not necessarily equal software development as it's popularly envisioned. Indeed, in my experience a degree in the former provides you with little practical knowledge of the latter, which is typically picked up on
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by ldh 13y ago
If it's not the best, why would you bother getting the job done with it when you could be having a better experience?
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by ldh 13y ago
I have literally no problems with Eclipse, been using it for years. Regardless of whether we're talking about Eclipse or some other tool here, one often doesn't recognize the pain points they experience if they don't have a
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by ldh 13y ago
I don't think it matters at all whether it's a single issue agenda or any number of issues. Is there any reason whatsoever for a company to donate to political causes other than to manipulate policy to maximize their profit? Of co
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by ldh 13y ago
Perhaps not everyone sees technological progress for its own sake as a worthwhile goal.
44.
by ldh 13y ago
Are there really that many Clojure IDEs available? I suspect you're conflating IDE and text editor.
45.
by ldh 13y ago
I'll take the actual hypothesis over a hand-wave.
46.
by ldh 13y ago
People, avoid driving on roads, especially after dark. There's too much risk involved in your negligent handling of several thousand pounds of metal for it to be worth carelessly ending the life of somebody simply going about their bus
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by ldh 13y ago
Maybe it's technically difficult now , but what happens when that technology inevitably improves? Once this becomes acceptable, what next? The "abuse of power" knob only ever seems to get turned in one direction.
48.
by ldh 13y ago
Those things are indeed nice, but they can't defend against the other insanities that come in the box with them.
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by ldh 13y ago
I think the article does a poor job of describing why the dispatch table version is better, or why you'd want to avoid conditions in the first place.
50.
by ldh 13y ago
I'd argue that almost no sites should exist to show off designers' skills. The trick is taking various (often competing) requirements and producing a site that seems simple.
51.
by ldh 13y ago
Fantastic, thank you. I've got a dot matrix printer that's been hooked up and waiting for a project for some time now...I think this is exactly it.
52.
by ldh 13y ago
That's a pretty poor definition of "personalised". When people get canned emails which guess their gender incorrectly it just seems a bit sleazy. "Hi, you don't know me but I want your money."
53.
by ldh 13y ago
This has existed before today. Check out the home page: http://google.org/personfinder/global/home.html
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by ldh 13y ago
Learning that these methods can be pronounced "dunder [foo]" flips a bit in my head from "Python, though a clean and predictable language, sure has a few ugly conventions" to "Python conventions have a bit of quirky personality, I like that
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by ldh 14y ago
That's fair. Though I think anyone who just picks technologies based on these bar graphs alone is also missing the point, so some critical thinking is required to interpret these benchmarks, as usual.
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by ldh 14y ago
A story about being rejected 3 times by YC up voted to the front page of HN. You don't see that as a large indicator as to the culture here? And I have no problem with non-technical people, or anyone learning to code, I just thought it od
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by ldh 14y ago
No need to apologize, you're just fine.
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by ldh 14y ago
> If you want to win, you need to focus on winning (like the OP is/was doing). I don't really see what would be "winning" here and I think the whole concept is weird, so your Glengarry Glen Ross angle just seems satirical. But I think y
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by ldh 14y ago
This highlights part of the HN/YC culture that just doesn't resonate with me at all. I like coming up with creative ideas and working on fun stuff, but it seems totally backwards to me to repeatedly try to conjure a startup out of thin air
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by ldh 14y ago
> when benchmarking against strongly typed compiled languages, performance concerns become important, even if you have to write ugly code That seems to defeat the purpose of benchmarking to begin with, or at least makes it less useful f

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