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by mr_luc 13y ago
I've said it since early in Correa's campaign, and I'll say it again: that guy is a really special politician. He's his country's Bismark, but he's done it all democratically. I've been living down here 9
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Might I also humbly suggest what I believe to be The Best History Book: "Dreadnought", by the Pulitzer-prize-winning RKM. (It's way more interesting than the book that RKM won the Pulitzer for). It'll probably cost you n
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Yeah - the "own it" advice seems crazy in this situation. I mean, the guy already put his face on it, blew the whistle. He "owned" it. Now he's trying to avoid a life of constant suffering for doing what he saw as t
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by mr_luc 13y ago
I'm on board with the assessment that government and government agencies have some truly brilliant, dedicated people working in them. However, some - maybe most - of those people work all day long to impede the effectiveness of others.
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Joe Biden is like an amazing "character actor" of politics. He has an almost Clinton-like ability to remain likable ... but whatever you think Clinton was actually like, he came off as sharper conversationally than Biden. Still, t
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Wait - I just looked at the SailsJS docs, and it looks like Sails is like Tower -- that is to say, a Rails-style framework with better WebSocket support (really, more like Merb+DataMapper, because of the easy json api + agnostic ORM). But i
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Or how about the IWSU license? https://github.com/mrluc/node-dbp-irctweet/blob/master/LICEN...
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Okay, first, I'll just say it: I'll bet Microsoft has a team of developer-relations/pr people commenting on HN. HN is so important to the startup world, and Microsoft sees tech evangelism as war ... https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=
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by mr_luc 13y ago
So why use Go instead of node.js? You can probably take that reasoning and substitute "Go" for "Clojure", and "node.js" for "Go". Go people would probably object that the things that Go adds, and that node.js lacks, aren't just window dress
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Why does that seem unlikely? I just read Storm of Steel -- which is, by the way, The Best First-hand Account of World War One -- and it does seem like you can't go two pages without running into a dead horse. And from a numbers standpoint,
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by mr_luc 14y ago
With emacs, I type "M-x pai", which for me autocompletes to "package-install", and hit enter. Then I type "mark", and from the completions see that there is a markdown mode I can install. Then I hit enter, and enjoy a new markdown mode! I u
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by mr_luc 14y ago
How about: "Every software company expands until it has implemented half of Emacs." Sort of a product-centric version of Greenspun's rule.
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by mr_luc 14y ago
If you were using some kind of representation for Nested Sets -- left-to-right depth-first numbering, or a human-readable id.id.id chain -- then it's really easy to write a constraint for that: parent left < myleft, right > myright,
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by mr_luc 14y ago
You're a really good guy, jacques. And I had no idea about Mark Williams C.
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Treating docs like specifications may seem onerous because of the specs that come to mind: entire languages, or the CSS/HTML specs. Massive documents, way too much work. But I fell in love with the CL HyperSpec years ago. Pick any section,
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I'll volunteer a few more: Amazing ecosystem + package manager. The problems you get to work on tend to be less soul-crushing.
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by mr_luc 14y ago
"Citizen of the Galaxy," by Robert Heinlein, jumped to mind when I read this story. The protagonist, Thorby, is a freed slave, and most of the people he encounters in the story are skeptical that slavery still exists.
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by mr_luc 14y ago
This is a question I've had as well -- but since I can't think of any examples of this happening in any country ever, despite the timelessness of the plight, my hunch has always been that it's essentially impossible for some reason that's n
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Interesting - those fertilizers also caused the demographic explosion that let Germany leapfrog France in terms of population (from parity to a 60/40 advantage). They also drew the war to an end. Germany didn't produce enough fertilizer and
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Thanks for highlighting that; I read the article and felt that this paragraph stood out for the right reasons. I've read some negative comments about the article, which surprised me; as this paragraph proves, the article isn't painting Orti
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Note that the Raspbian OS runs on the APC as well.
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That's funny - I was just thinking that we need to remove all of the current certification-based requirements for teachers. This seems to go the other way. Education needs to change drastically. It needs to be nimble. It needs to start pr
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I'm loving my Catleap - I feel like buying a second one now that Airs can drive 2 thunderbolt displays.
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As one of the early Torque licensees (great way to spend $150 for a teenager), I have a soft spot in my heart for Torque. I somehow completely missed the announcement that it was MIT licensed now! For people wondering what Torque's 'special
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Thanks for sharing this - it's got me fascinated, especially since I'm doing a hardware project at the moment. Highly recommend for other HNers.
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He mentioned that the intended audience was different, and even talks about it a little -- what he objects to is that people learning C are being pointed to it in a way that removes all of that context. Especially, it seems like holding K&#
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by mr_luc 14y ago
First, it seems like both articles say "there's no real data, but ...", so I wonder why both articles are on the front page of Hacker News. I guess this article deserves the upvotes, though, because it points out that fact in its title. Sec
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Well, I haven't solved that part! Nor do I think the permanence-of-marriage problem is any more or less solvable than the disadvantaged-single-parent-children problem. But the permanence-of-marriage problem interests me, at least in my case
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Counterpoint: I'm young, but I still measure my core friendships in decades ... I'm not going to settle for a life where 'romantic partner' is not a core friendship, one which I can rely on in the same way as my lifelong friends and close f
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Definitely, something that 'clicks'. _why's book for Ruby, pg/norvig's books for Lisp ... they're so enjoyable to read that you don't need to exert yourself for the subject to 'click', which is pretty impressive considering what you're lear

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