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by lurker14 15y ago
Poster above claims Manhattan takes IOUs but SF doesn't.
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by lurker14 15y ago
10 years after release, iPhoto still cannot export a complete set of user-created photo metadata. 10 years and counting.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Wait, wait, wait. SF has a" monopoly" and a "chilling effect" that makes you "angry", because their completely free service was not good enough for someone? What does Sourceforge owe anyone?
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by lurker14 15y ago
When is the last time you had a use for exactly 1/12 oranges? "some bit more than 5" is plenty of precision for nearly any conceivable situation in which your example could appear. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Significant
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by lurker14 15y ago
Michael Kelso is a fictional character.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Valleywag's take on Ashton and Demi: http://gawker.com/5793552/ashton-and-demi-are-the-horsemen-o...
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by lurker14 15y ago
So, a better HN post title may be: Wired article implants false memories of what actually happens study.
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by lurker14 15y ago
... like you just did.
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by lurker14 15y ago
What are you talking about? "USAian" is an abbreviation of "United States of American", use by folks who believe that "American" refers to the entire pair of continents.
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by lurker14 15y ago
It's either misuse of English, or deliberate double-talk. Original: http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/jewish_humor/punchlines_and...
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by lurker14 16y ago
> someone making something like this ought to make an effort to understand the current state of the art in the field. Are you surprised? That's precisely the same criticism Wolfram received when he first published ANKOS: http://shell.c
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by lurker14 16y ago
Well, everyone can feel some sense of chaos , since anyone can randomize the result but no one can force the result.
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by lurker14 16y ago
Why don't you try that last sentence again without so many negatives, and see if you don't like it less?
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by lurker14 16y ago
Considering inflation over the past 20 years, $100K salary is not prima donna material. Engineers aren't overpaid; they are fortunate enough to have salary keeping pace with inflation. Much of the rest of the educated working class is under
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by lurker14 16y ago
Not every talented engineer wants to be a CEO.
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by lurker14 16y ago
This article makes many claims. A few of the claims I am in a position to verify, and all of these are false. This observation does not give me confidence that the other claims are true.
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by lurker14 16y ago
One could invest in something like Color 5 times in 5 years.
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by lurker14 16y ago
Are you agreeing or disagreeing with the post you responded to? It appears that you are expanding on the same point.
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by lurker14 16y ago
I thought sexist jokes are supposed to be downvoted on HN.
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by lurker14 16y ago
I don't see how my comment was mean. At its meanest, I think my comment is dispassionate and pessimistic on a topic that you feel rightly passionate about, similar to how a a YC applicant feels if they don't win an invitation to join. I thi
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by lurker14 16y ago
Generally, X != X if evaluating X has side effects, or relies on any non-constant global state that might change (for example, in a multi-threaded program or in the presence of volatile data in C)
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by lurker14 16y ago
Cheerios / O's are also a much more popular cereal product than whatever Captain McCains are.
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by lurker14 16y ago
Is AirBnB eating VRBOs lunch? Reaching an untapped market? Or is AirBnB a small (and staying small) player getting disproportionate lot of attention in the YC/HN world because they have friends here? I'm not saying AirBnB is wrong or unsucc
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by lurker14 16y ago
Expanding on this, I suspect that people have confidence that the situation is being well handled, and there are enough supplies to go around, so people don't tend feels a need to loot or hoard. The preparation and the perception are eq
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by lurker14 16y ago
Next time, try saying something instead of thinking, and see how it goes. Science has two[0] legs, theory and experimentation. ([0] Some say that science has a third leg now: computation.)
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by lurker14 16y ago
My current hobby is to make a visible point of calling out litterers and picking up their litter if they don't (especially cigaretes). So far, I've gotten ignored a lot, a couple of sheepish looks or mutterings, and I've been assaulted once
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by lurker14 16y ago
I've lost my wallet quite a few times over the past 10 years in the US, and I've recovered it all but once. Once it came through the mail (missing a single gift card). Today it was waiting for me in Walgreens. I've found wallets and cell ph
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by lurker14 16y ago
A WYSIWYG HTML editor (as in Writely/Gmail) isn't quote the same as a general WYSIWYG document editor, though. Unix programs, even GUI ones, share a ton of code, as you can easily see if you try to install an interesting GUI application lik
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by lurker14 16y ago
While not a literal "pipe", the $EDITOR and $VISUAL shell conventions are pretty much the same concept applied to larger programs. And of course, which I think you were saying with your comment on extensibility, vim and emacs are well-desig
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by lurker14 16y ago
I think you'll find that vending machines in the United States can be unlocked with a key just as easily as vending machines in Japan. The distinction in the inventorspot.com article is that in Japan the keys are made available to the lando

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