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by nagrom 12y ago
Cricket has a much, much bigger audience globally than Ice Hockey - there's a lot of Europeans, Australians, South Africans and Indians on HN who have likely never seen a hockey game :-) It's also not so much of a team game - cric
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by nagrom 13y ago
1) That should be 'are'. It's just a mistake. 2) Diesel is named after the inventor of that type of engine, Rudi Diesel. We still call Euler 'oy-ler' where the expected pronunciation may be 'you-ler'. I do
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by nagrom 13y ago
That link just seems to detect that I'm on a Macbook and give me the regular desktop site. Are you sure that's not the mobile page for BBC News?
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by nagrom 13y ago
It makes an entire blank line, which is sufficient if you have a lot of textual output. It also gets rid of the old stuff from the screen - if you're running a window manager, you can then scroll up if you need the old stuff.
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by nagrom 13y ago
I don't understand - is there something better about this than the 'clear' command?
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by nagrom 13y ago
Adioso ( http://www.adioso.com ) seems quite good in that regard. I've had contact with one of the developers from submitting a bug report and they're very friendly and seem on the ball.
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by nagrom 13y ago
Really? You read 'world-devouring octopus' and thought that not only have US scientists discovered Cthulhu, but they've decided to launch him into space to ride on a satellite? You really believed that? Life for you must be m
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by nagrom 13y ago
Quality of living, nature, clean water, clean air, amount of cars One of these things is not like the others! It can be argued that for most people not having any cars at all correlates to a higher quality of life - the biggest dra
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by nagrom 13y ago
There's also the fact that if a 1x programmer gets forced out the market, the 10x programmers become 1x programmers (by the definition of a 1x programmer) and the 100x programmers become 10x programmers...
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by nagrom 13y ago
The article is light on conclusions and full of fluff. This has nothing to do with chimps. A chimp is used as an example of an agent selecting at random...as a rhetorical device it obscures the author's point and simply confuses the re
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by nagrom 13y ago
And because Thorium cannot easily be made into weapons, the military will not fund development of the use of it as a fuel - nor will it expend the political will to make the construction of a thorium-reactor possible. And so we keep using U
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by nagrom 13y ago
The top professors tend not be judged on their research, in my experience. They're judged on their publications. I, personally, know many 'top' professors that have enormous publication lists that come from being the guy wh
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by nagrom 13y ago
As a physics postdoc who is thinking of switching careers, I definitely sympathise with this article. And I agree with almost everything about it, except this line: Success as a faculty member requires one thing above all else: a good
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by nagrom 13y ago
Generally speaking, high quality people won't take a short-term contracting gig. They are probably working elsewhere and don't need that level of uncertainty; they're looking for something better , not just anything.
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by nagrom 13y ago
Then again, there have been several studies [0] that show that many people in the northern hemisphere are deficient in vitamin D and that the deficiency could be the root of serious health problems. [0] E.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.n
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by nagrom 13y ago
> Rather, I've never seen anyone do that. Also, musicians probably already have stage experience. I've seen this guy do it for music: http://www.computersings.com/ The live experience is actually that he turns
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by nagrom 13y ago
I think that there's probably a difference between approaching potential customers or funders whose businesses are somewhat orthogonal to your own direction and approaching direct competitors or parties who have the competence to &#x27
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by nagrom 13y ago
Interestingly, 'bowery' is Glaswegian slang for 'come on, then!' or 'bring it!' - indicating aggression [1]. [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bowery
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by nagrom 13y ago
There is a use case that you maybe didn't think of: I love to eat. I love to eat too much. If I make two portions of a meal with the intention of eating the other one later, I'll often just eat both. Where food is concerned, I&#x2
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by nagrom 13y ago
Noise cancellation tech works best for low-pitched constant-ish sounds, like the airplane engines, or noise from a fan. Noise cancellation doesn't work well on higher-pitched, oscillating sounds, like screaming or voices. This is proba
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by nagrom 13y ago
This, I think, is an indicator that the elected officials (and their direct appointees) have diddly-squat to do with the governance of the country. The UK is governed almost entirely at the whim of the civil service, and I can imagine that
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by nagrom 13y ago
Remember: the tiger doesn't need to climb a tree well. It only needs to be better at it than I am. I am confident that a hungry tiger in hot pursuit will be better at it than I am, no matter how terrified I am (which will be quite a
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by nagrom 13y ago
I think that there are other problems here though; if you are going to be a part of an environment where you may experience adrenaline surges, you need to work through them. Skipping that part of an interview means that you won't be ab
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by nagrom 13y ago
The implication from your post is that Weev is bad and therefore deserves to be locked up. No-one (I think) wants to free Weev because they're sympathetic to him and think he's a great guy. They want to free him because the legal
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by nagrom 13y ago
Look for enta-net re-sellers. There's a lot of them, and the connection that you get seems to work pretty well. I've noticed 6 hours of downtime in the past 8 years from EN resellers and they're usually one-man bands that you
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by nagrom 13y ago
Ah, but part of their argument is that it is always worth it so that when it is worth it, that content doesn't stand out. So, by their own argument, they should enable https even for the static content pages.
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by nagrom 13y ago
They're really not all that pricey, I think - you're paying for an upgraded service and bandwidth off-peak is cheap. If you don't want to pay for that upgraded service (£10-20 per month?), it's probably not all that impo
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by nagrom 13y ago
That's what the parent said: there were previous chances to definitively end the experiment by observing drips, but no-one thought to monitor it with a video camera until recently. There was no need to wait 69 years.
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by nagrom 13y ago
- immediately reduces your competitiveness with people outside your legal jurisdiction. (And software engineering can be done anywhere.) - reinforces prejudice at an everyday level as the group whoa re being quota-ed down resent losing thei
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by nagrom 13y ago
I'm curious - for what do you use SL? I had tried it at v4 and it did not seem superior to a 'standard' Fedora install at that time, even for scientific analyses (ROOT and GEANT were no different to install IIRC and there was

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