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by mcantor 16y ago
I'm aware of this, but it's still not (). You still must be aware that you are dealing with an unbound proc object, and it must be handled differently than usual!
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by mcantor 16y ago
I feel like there should be an award for that. I feel accomplished when I manage to get car dealerships to compete over me, much less CEOs worth scrillions of dollars.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I feel like, as time progresses linearly and The Simpsons continues to air new episodes, the probability that a given quote perceived to be from history is actually from a Simpsons episode asymptotically approaches 1.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I HATE dealing with first class functions in Ruby. I understand that it was a design choice, but man, in Python you can pass a function or a lambda and you just don't have to worry about which one you're calling. In Ruby, () will explode
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Bathroom Monologue: A Little Bit of Alright(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
It seems somewhat intuitive that filling your stomach with a zero-calorie substance would prevent you from subsequently filling it with other, more fattening substances.
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Killing To Kill a Mockingbird(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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Bathroom Monologue: You write a lot. What's your secret?(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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Bathroom Monologue: His People's Story(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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Bathroom Monologue - Kill Mommy(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Funny, the situation is actually better than I imagined. I had always assumed that Pepsi and Coke owned everything; depending on my mood I would think that one or the other owned Dr. Pepper, too.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I disagree! Prejudice is simply, "Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative." If we are brought up by our parents to believe that Jewish people have horns, we are prejudiced. If we stick our hand in the fire, and
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by mcantor 16y ago
Jacques, it was fascinating and terrifying to see how "over your head" the project became. Do you feel like hiring someone who had expertise in the industry would have been a good solution to the death march of iterative re-writes that you
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's funny how much we demonize prejudice (racism) while simultaneously relying on it for survival (don't stick your hand in the fire). Whoever designed this whole "evolution" nonsense clearly wasn't thinking about social communication at
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by mcantor 16y ago
I wonder if having a catastrophic start-up experience is practically a rite of passage for the serious entrepreneur. I'm sure there are many serious entrepreneurs out there who did not need to lose their spouses to see that they were work
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by mcantor 16y ago
I wish bloggers could have these kinds of debates without all of the butthurt jabs like "... which so-and-so clearly does not understand..." or "I'm surprised anyone actually pays attention to that kook." If we are so very intelligent, then
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by mcantor 16y ago
It solves the problem of letting someone feel like they are nurturing something.
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No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas(m.alistapart.com)
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Dear 8-year-old Teresa(lettersofnote.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
They did a similar study about sports expertise. Being born at the wrong time makes you less likely to become a sports star, because the kids who are nominally your "peers" are physically superior, and it creates the perception that you ar
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by mcantor 16y ago
I feel like a lot of people are responding to this article as if the title is meant to be incendiary; the way a jilted friend spits "Grow up!" at the object of their indignation. I don't think that was the intention, though. I wonder, in
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by mcantor 16y ago
ConnectBot is better than many desktop SSH clients I've used.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I must disagree; these designs do not appear to be pathetic disguises in the least. They are instead celebrations of the existing design, enhanced to resemble a powerful symbol in a meaningful way.
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by mcantor 16y ago
The point of an undergraduate education isn't to learn stuff, it's to learn HOW to learn stuff. In that case, what's the point of a high school education? ;-)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down there, cowboy. Just because my education was deficient in one way doesn't mean it didn't make up for it in others. I'm incredibly thankful for my liberal arts education; it turned me into the happy hippy I am
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by mcantor 16y ago
I appreciate your argument, but I feel like you missed an important motivation behind my question. You see, I'm worried about unknown unknowns . Once you know enough about a subject to choose an itch to scratch, you don't have to think a
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by mcantor 16y ago
We often get great lists of books posted on Hacker News. I wonder if there is a good resource for canonical books in those subjects floating around somewhere. I don't trust Google to tell me what to spend such a potentially huge amount of
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Ask HN: What if I missed the good stuff in my undergraduate education?
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by mcantor 16y ago
It wouldn't have weirded them out--it probably would have made their day. Why not err on the side of maybe delighting someone? Worse case scenario, it weirds them out and you never see them again anyway!
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Ask HN: Do I have too many interests to fit in a single blog?
9 points by mcantor 16y ago|9 comments

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