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by lordleft 7y ago
It's weird to think that Noam Chomsky, who is so well known for his politics, and is reasonably well known for his contributions to linguistics, is also a significant contributor to automata theory & programming language design, de
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by lordleft 7y ago
iTerm2 is my go-to terminal on OS X. It used to be kind of sluggish but recent iterations have been snappy, which is exactly what I need with the command-line.
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by lordleft 7y ago
A stirring defense of lucid and unpretentious writing, in a context when it is most needed.
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by lordleft 7y ago
The older I get, and the more I read Wittgenstein, the more I am astonished that we are able to convey ideas to each other other all. Language is lossy, and perilous.
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by lordleft 7y ago
One day our descendants will look back at incidents like this and wonder how we tolerated such inhumanity towards the most vulnerable among us.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Huh. Even common law is zero-indexed.
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by lordleft 7y ago
'What individualism has bought us is not the end of servitude, but merely the cloaking of masters.' A really provocative and intriguing article. I'm not sure if I agree with all of it, but I do notice that some Americans are
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The Pythagorean theorem 12 centuries before Pythagoreas(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
What's really interesting is that when the ancient Greeks spoke of 'reason', they didn't mean a cluster of intellectual processes divorced from our emotional lives, but an approach to the world that was informed by logic
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by lordleft 7y ago
I’ve collaborated with Chris Wiggins at Columbia. He’s insanely hardworking and it’s impressive to see how he balances an academic life with the life of a working Data Scientist at the New York Times. Really inspiring guy to be around.
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by lordleft 7y ago
A pretty logical iteration on the switch. I'm surprised its not a little smaller though, I'd like to compare it its dimensions to the vanilla switch.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Amazing. I wonder if there will ever be a CCG comprised entirely of AI-generated cards.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Title is slightly antagonistic but the text of the interview has Gates sounding like he considered Gates more of a frenemy & peer than a huckster
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Microsoft's Bill Gates: Steve Jobs cast spells on everyone but he didn't fool me(zdnet.com)
2 points by lordleft 7y ago|2 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
'People complain about Electron a lot, but the primary complaint just seems to be that its bloated – carrying an entire browser engine along with something small. But like, all of our computers are already bloated, and there’s at least
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by lordleft 7y ago
Thinkpads are growing increasingly appealing to me. I just feel less and less at home with Apple Computing products.
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Wintergatan – Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)(youtube.com)
1 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
Agreed - I'll use this as a primer to how mining works going forward!
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by lordleft 7y ago
Fans of this should check out MetalJesusRocks' channel on YouTube. He was a former Sierra Online employee and is one of the biggest figures in the YouTube retro gaming scene. Great video where he reminisces with a former employee here:
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by lordleft 7y ago
I had no idea this was possible. Excellent article - thank you for opening my eyes to yet another insanely cool aspect of Linux.
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Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?
207 points by lordleft 7y ago|139 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
"The long and short of it is that you have to talk to each other. Technology has global effects on your company, it isn’t something that should be left to individual engineers. You have to figure out a way to make adding technology a c
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by lordleft 7y ago
The best way I've seen agile described is "designing code in a way that acknowledges change.' I think there's a lot of value in understanding that you may have to go back to the drawing board when designing parts of your
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by lordleft 7y ago
I found this strangely moving. The resilience of life in face of human error & arrogance.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I studied under Al Aho a few semesters ago (the 'A' in AWK). I'm dipping my toes in Data Science in Python at my current internship, and while I'm seriously impressed at the bevy of NLP/Machine Learning algorithms I
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by lordleft 7y ago
I feel like this will fuel a spike in piracy. I used to think piracy was motivated by entirely by cost, but I can envision folks resorting to torrents to avoid a morass of confusing services.
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by lordleft 7y ago
AWK is such an amazing tool
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by lordleft 7y ago
I don't know what percentage of Iceland's tourists are behaving in the manner described by the article, but I disagree. There's nothing wrong with educating tourists about proper conduct in a guest country. Some will just ign
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by lordleft 7y ago
This was not as dystopian an idea I thought it would be from the title. I'm all for innovative ways of cutting down on unnecessary meetings - creating an internal currency to meter/limit them is a clever idea.
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by lordleft 7y ago
In typical cat fashion the cat-fox seems very un-enthused about being held

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