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The monkey trap isn't just a myth(youtube.com)
1 points by mekoka 13y ago|0 comments
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Canadian government invites coders to Hackaton(vancouversun.com)
3 points by mekoka 13y ago|0 comments
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by mekoka 13y ago
Any female-centric conference of the sort should be as praised as any "--insert-female-dominated-field-here-- Conference for Men". This should strip out most of the bigotry from both ends of the spectrum.
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by mekoka 13y ago
I think the "web" in "web app" is for web browser app, not world wide web app. Whether it should or shouldn't be called differently is by now besides the point. It's certainly not the first concept to be alle
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by mekoka 13y ago
> tl,dr: this encourages single-page apps which will be the death of the web. The first sentence of the "Web Apps" section is Web applications are not documents . This is a motto that I believe a lot of people who think t
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by mekoka 13y ago
I thought that was the purpose of having binary strings and unicode strings in Python. That's how I've been using them anyhow. Unicode for anything whose text property is relevant (u"this is text") and binary as a simple
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by mekoka 13y ago
There was recently an interview posted here on HN about the end of antibiotics ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-techn... ). In short, the interviewee Dr. Arjun Srinivasan was pleading fo
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by mekoka 13y ago
The theory mentions multiple shafts, not a single contiguous one.
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by mekoka 13y ago
As it certainly doesn't need to be proven further, Egyptians were quite an ingenious people. All of the things you're suggesting as obstacles would probably be trivial to deal with for them at their advancement level. A commenter
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by mekoka 13y ago
Are you taking into account the surrounding water (density=1) in your calculations?
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by mekoka 13y ago
I saw your earlier interventions. Some of your arguments may be sound, but this one actually makes it harder to take you seriously and does a disservice to your cause. You might do better by arguing from a position that is grounded closer
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by mekoka 13y ago
It still baffles me that whenever an article like this comes up, people still justify choosing PHP because of its ease of setup compared to other languages . Seriously? What are you going to tell me next, that you chose Ruby because the &q
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by mekoka 13y ago
Yes PHP is deceptive in that it saves you about 2 hours of your life right at the setup, compared to other languages. You end up paying them in spades over the next 5 years you'll be using it. I should know.
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by mekoka 13y ago
In theory you would be right. In practice, not so much. Can you go about those obligations you love without having obligations imposed upon you by society, by governments, by life in general, whether you want them or not? I doubt it. Freedo
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by mekoka 13y ago
Saw the upvotes, opened the link, watched the video, came back to HN comments, saw many people confused and criticizing. I have to ask, why so many upvotes then? Could it be that people here upvote even before opening links? Or just because
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by mekoka 13y ago
I love Python and would agree that it's been a boon to work with it for web stuff, but this type of articles, with their provoking titles are doing the language and the community a disservice.
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Which book to read next(openingthebook.com)
3 points by mekoka 13y ago|0 comments
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by mekoka 13y ago
It's Python humour.
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by mekoka 13y ago
I see some comments already heavily criticizing this school. A few things to note before taking those comments at face value. - This is the school's website http://www.42.fr . If you can't read in french, but want to kn
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by mekoka 13y ago
The article does not disclose what the actual 3 years curriculum will be like, it's merely stated that this is phase 2 of a weed out process that started with online cognitive skill exercises. The remaining 4000 candidates will for the
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by mekoka 13y ago
Could you elaborate a bit more on this? Genuinely interested.
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by mekoka 13y ago
Comprehension is what saves readers time. Write as much as it's needed for your readers to understand. If I opened a page and fell on author's last one-liner, I'd be inclined to dispute the statement. It's void of contex
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by mekoka 13y ago
Installed, tested with a couple of articles. It does the job it claims to do. A few things: it would be nice to be able to configure the plugin to limit the color variations. I'd like to try with only 2 colors and with less drastic con
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by mekoka 13y ago
You missed the point as well. Author is a proponent of the lean startup approach to product development: customer development -> validation -> pivot -> mvp -> product market fit -> etc. It's not about customer caring how
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by mekoka 13y ago
If Bill Gates had gone to "cure cancer" or "feed Africa" instead of selling operating systems and word processors, is it guaranteed that he would have succeeded? I'm pretty certain that in that alternate reality som
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by mekoka 13y ago
What is interesting from a scientific point of view, and this is one subject we know a lot more about than actual nutrition, is why people who are otherwise scientific minded skeptics are superstitious when it comes to nutrition (if you be
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by mekoka 13y ago
It's my understanding that The Great Gatsby is already in the public domain in some countries (Canada, Australia), hence legal to distribute (and obtain for free), if one is subject to their copyright laws. Unless there's something that I
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by mekoka 14y ago
The real question is, is bing.com even supposed to be served over https?
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by mekoka 14y ago
tl;dr lossy compression
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by mekoka 14y ago
Don't assume that the most transparent company out there isn't choosy about what it's being transparent about. There are plenty of things we never know that don't hurt us. I choose not to concern myself with such things.

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