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by m0th87 17y ago
Whether or not you deem it a realistic scenario does not detract from the artistic quality of it. What about 1984? Brave New World? Dr. Strangelove? All of them gloomy and dystopian, and all of them damned good! Nuclear warfare was (and sti
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by m0th87 17y ago
That's a shame because VLC is by far the best media tool I've ever used on OS X in terms of playback compatibility.
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by m0th87 17y ago
How is building on top of an open source product milking it? Isn't this increasing git's exposure? If they didn't want that, they should've used a more restrictive license.
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IronPython 2.6 Released(ironpython.net)
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by m0th87 17y ago
While the remark wasn't meant to be taken literally, it's pretty close to true: http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-summary Part of it is a product of how difficult it is to be standards compliant with web technology, and perhaps I m
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by m0th87 17y ago
Slightly off-topic, but the article pokes fun of older versions of IE because they only run two concurrent HTTP requests to a host at a time. That is actually the only instance where IE follows standards correctly: http://awurl.com/eWXb3Nv
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If this ain't a testament to the value of the web I don't know what is; 15 years ago I bet this sort of knowledge could only be acquired by being part of the good ol' boy network of airline execs.
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Saving The Day: Abu Dhabi rescues Dubai after all(economist.com)
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You should write a book on practical lisp. I'd buy it!
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by m0th87 17y ago
Very useful! I suppose I was wrong to say the syntax is confusing, because lisp is so syntactically minimalistic. But when I look through lisp code, I can't determine anything with respect to scope. Take, for example, the code in pg's A Pla
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by m0th87 17y ago
As a non-lisp programmer, what scares me away is the syntax. I don't think I could ever wrap my head around the (admittedly succinct) examples I see online, because it takes so much effort for me to figure out what's going on in even a few
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by m0th87 17y ago
People make the same argument with technology and English too, but that's not going to stop language evolution.
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by m0th87 17y ago
I don't think /.'s comments have degraded over time, but I never thought they were particularly revelatory either. While they aren't very trollish, they tend to be pretty biased. That might not be surprising given the community's propensity
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by m0th87 17y ago
I tested various NoSQL solutions including CouchDB for my research work. It was the most pleasurable to work with, but by far the slowest. Bulk inserts weren't an option for me, so I had to insert each document one at a time. Insertion time
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Ask HN: Extracting the Twitter Social Graph
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Perhaps it's just a completely fucked graphic then? If it takes this many HNers to try to decipher its meaning, I doubt there's any hope for the average population.
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by m0th87 17y ago
The chart is for deficit, not debt (see the inky dinky text at the bottom of the infographic)
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They've overtaken Japan only in deficit (i.e. the derivative of debt); Japan could very well still have more debt.
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by m0th87 17y ago
Hmm, the document doesn't even validate: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://playground.theseday... While the importance XHTML validity is arguable dubious, I would hope that at the very least a company trying to show off its ninja s
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by m0th87 17y ago
I'm currently reading Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Outliers: http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwel... It's a fascinating account of what makes people successful. Major points I've picked up so far: * the contributio
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by m0th87 17y ago
Funny, AltaVista doesn't seem to think too highly of itself: http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=search+e...
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by m0th87 17y ago
I realized that, but I feel somewhat like a long shot to get into the programs I want in the first place (Stanford/MIT/Berkeley etc.), so going for a Ph.D. would only decrease my chances of getting in, as the author notes. Also, my understa
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Computer science or HCI
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This article contains some very useful advice, and I wish it were posted earlier (Stanford's application is due tomorrow, and many shortly thereafter). I'm interested in graduate school because I'm considering a Ph.D. but I want to make sur
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by m0th87 17y ago
It's difficult to take someone seriously when the site looks to be circa 1999. Aesthetics matter, and I don't know if the layout is supposed to be ironic, but if it is, that intention doesn't mix well with this post on a serious topic.
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Refusing to take money from a loved one isn't shortsightedness.
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by m0th87 17y ago
That's what I've always heard as well. I think this might be a useful reference as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion In terms of a test, the MBTI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator )
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by m0th87 17y ago
Take a look at their product; the experience is hardly like that of a desktop app. It's just an inaccurate title.
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How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate? [2005](hawaii.edu)
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For my mother, repating to Pakistan was very easy. After the '01 recession, she had been looking for telecom work in the US for years, despite a PhD from MIT. Finally she sent her resume abroad and got immediate responses. But she did hit i

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