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Ask HN: Is there an online resource for actual software development?
2 points by lists 14y ago|1 comments
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by lists 14y ago
Did anyone else get really bad font rendering running Chrome on Windows 7?
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by lists 14y ago
If you ever encountered modern, continental European philosophy and found it incomprehensible, one way to approach it would be reading this article a little differently, shifting its emphasis and thinking about how effective applications of
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by lists 14y ago
I'm not sure what the research on that methodology looks like, but speaking anecdotally as someone who's teaching themself how to write dynamic websites, I find that methodology to be very unengaging. '1+1=2' and 'Hello world' console input
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by lists 14y ago
I'm sure it's a perfectly good topic to discuss, but I wonder what's motivating this sudden trend of "You must be this tall to call yourself a programmer" posts?
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by lists 14y ago
I think you're mistaking the spirit for the letter. I'm not fond of making that distinction, but you seem to be pointing out edge cases. It was Nietzsche, a German, who told us that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and even the
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by lists 14y ago
I'm not sure if this is directed at tech-ish people or not, but maybe the word markdown should link to the daring fireball page or some such, something explaining what it is to people not in the know? Or maybe just saying you're a dead simp
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by lists 15y ago
There's also the problem that IP law is premised on what amounts to folk psychology.
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by lists 15y ago
I'm not much educated in business and economics, so could someone explain to me how a start-up can receive so much investment of capital without possessing a "viable business plan"? Why are investors at all sure they'll receive ample retu
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Tumblr Numbrs: The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging(mashable.com)
1 points by lists 15y ago|1 comments
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by lists 15y ago
Good ol' American values
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by lists 15y ago
>I hope that clears up any misunderstandings. If you're wealthy enough or you already have earning power enough that you can decide to pursue a degree or advanced education in something that will not help you earn a living then more pow
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by lists 15y ago
Does this narrower focus include securing licensing for a better streaming library then they provide? They're losing Sony and Disney in February, this looks like suicide for their streaming business. Are people actually groaning so loudly a
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by lists 15y ago
>Not sure libertarian means that you want people left out of the system and starving though. I am a libertarian and I've spent 90% of my time post college life running or helping to run a food pantry in my spare time. Seems silly to sug
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by lists 15y ago
I'd be interested in exploring the ascetic dimension of procrastination. That may ring the wrong religious bells but the problem of procrastination in the West was first of all, and there's a lot of documentation surrounding this, a religio
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by lists 15y ago
Is the tech industry really that influential for job growth in America? Say everything Cuban says is true, wouldn't there only be a marginal difference between today and his tomorrow? Aren't the majority of unemployed non-tech specialists?
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by lists 15y ago
"'It would also be great if I could put circles within circles,' wrote one user. This would be pretty mega. Covers A LOT of bases.
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by lists 15y ago
If it understands PDF bookmarks, I'd default to Firefox for PDFs
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by lists 15y ago
I'm usually suspicious of state-phobia/"no big government" themes because there's usually a host of prejudices and nasty fallback concepts undergirding things, but as a person struggling with student loan debt (I know, I know, unlike everyo
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by lists 15y ago
I guess in the age of cyberworld immersion, multi-faceted pseudonymity, and other postmodern concepts, to be revealed to be a finite human being is the only form of ammunition. Makes me think of the older times: it use to be if you wanted t
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Ask HN: Where should I begin learning low-level computing, asm?
5 points by lists 15y ago|4 comments
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by lists 15y ago
I'm not trying to defend Leibniz' argument so much as point out the space in which he can make it. I think that you may be confusing the two in responding to me as, let's be clear, Leibniz is writing in an utterly distinct intellectual envi
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by lists 15y ago
>Do you really argue that beaches have some sort of, well, “magic”, I guess, property which makes them a beach? That seems entirely unnecessary for something as simple as beaches. And yet your caveat at the bottom illustrates that what
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by lists 15y ago
Actually the theory of monads bypasses the mind/body dualism by asserting a kind of synchrony. Spinoza made the same move in a different way by claiming God is the multi-dimensional plane of existence whose varying realms (mind and extens
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by lists 15y ago
>There is a crucial difference between believing that a computer can simulate a brain and believing that a windmill can do so. Leibniz didn't say a mill can simulate the human mind. He's talking about any contraption that can the simula
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by lists 15y ago
>How do you know that I am conscious? Or any other person you converse with for that matter. That's exactly his point, and that problem hasn't budged an inch since Descartes.
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by lists 15y ago
I wish there were a directory of HTML5 apps, or am I just not gooling hard enough?
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by lists 16y ago
"We do not know what a body can do" - Spinoza, Ethics
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by lists 16y ago
Just to keep things clear and accurate, Freud has nothing to do with an idea of being an authentic self. I'd have to ask which text of his you have in mind.
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by lists 16y ago
Probably my favorite movie in east Asian cinema.

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