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The Visi Programming Language(github.com)
1 points by necubi 15y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
Hint: not all shells blindly run scripts as the setuid user.
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Faster-than-light neutrino result may have been due to bad connection(news.sciencemag.org)
153 points by necubi 15y ago|68 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
It's apparently a feature: "An issue that often pops up for mobile browsers is that text on the website may be too small to read properly. Where the Android Browser employs a text reflow algorithm to clarify the situation, Chrome for Androi
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by necubi 15y ago
One handy trick that I've found a lot of people don't know: There's often the problem when working in IRB that you want to run a command that will produce a huge amount of output. For example, you might be reading a large file and assigning
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by necubi 15y ago
What android version is that? It seems to work on the ICS browser.
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by necubi 15y ago
That was the result of a weird interaction between open-uri and nokogiri. It's working now.
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by necubi 15y ago
That's fixed.
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by necubi 15y ago
Thanks -- fixed.
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by necubi 15y ago
You can search by city by using a regular expression in the filter box (ex: nyc|new york).
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Show HN: My afternoon project - a pleasant viewer for the "who is hiring?" posts(hnhiring.micahw.com)
185 points by necubi 15y ago|35 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
People pay you to see movies. You pay other people to watch commercials.
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by necubi 15y ago
Check out slinky[0], which in addition to solving the minification/concatenation issue for JS/CSS also does compilation of CS/HAML/SASS and provides a proxying development server. It's designed sort of in the mold of the sproutcore build to
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by necubi 15y ago
They seem to have little in common, aside from the fact that both get people from A to B with relatively little attention required on the part of the people. High speed rail is: (a) Vastly more efficient (b) Much faster (SF -> LA in &#6
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by necubi 15y ago
So long as we're doing this, here's a solution in ~73 lines of Ruby: https://gist.github.com/1375695 .
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Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers(waxy.org)
8 points by necubi 15y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
Such code is everywhere in the Ruby community and explicitly endorsed by many. I have never seen code like your second example in the wild, and it's far more complicated than the idiomatic way of writing it: if some_value do_somet
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by necubi 15y ago
There's little reason for this to be the case anymore, given such things as Bundler [0] and RVM [1]. The former lets you define, per project, the exact version of the gem to use. As Rubygems.org hosts all old version in perpetuity, you shou
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Could this quantum computer be the real deal?(arstechnica.com)
8 points by necubi 15y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
There's no mention of a patent grant. Does anybody know the state of ALAC with regards to patents?
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by necubi 15y ago
It seems that everybody's written something similar. My entry is Slinky ( http://github.com/mwylde/slinky ) which in addition to an auto-compiling web/proxy server also includes a build tool with dependency resolution and minification for s
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by necubi 15y ago
For anyone interested in AGDA, I found this [0] paper really helpful for getting my head around dependent typing. I sort of doubt that dependently typed languages are ever going to catch on, but they embody some seriously cool ideas about h
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by necubi 15y ago
If you look at the list of companies doing on-campus recruiting this year, there was only one (WH Trading) that was even vaguely related to tech/programming. Why is that? Is it because our compsci department is less well known (and smaller)
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by necubi 15y ago
As with the other Wesleyan students in this thread, I find this article pretty bizarre. I'm one of 6 current CS seniors and our "department" (actually part of the Math department) consists of only five professors. Furthermore, there is almo
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by necubi 15y ago
I might as well take this opportunity to plug resume.rb ( https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb ) which allows you to define your resume using a simple Ruby DSL and then render it to various outputs (currently supported are plain-text and PDF
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by necubi 15y ago
I was interested in the study mentioned, as I'd never before heard of positive evidence for such a phenomenon. This [0] appears to be the paper referred to. The results seem pretty bizarre and hardly support the rosy view presented in the a
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by necubi 15y ago
Unfortunately many of the compass mixins require extensions to SASS to work. This makes them difficult to use without using all of compass.
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by necubi 15y ago
Unfortunately it's AGPL licensed so it can't be used for commercial development (without obtaining a commercial license). It looks neat though, and it's great to see people rethinking the normal way of doing things on the web.
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by necubi 15y ago
The most important thing you can do is meet other interns, particularly if, like me, you go to a small school in the middle of nowhere which lacks a homegrown tech scene. There are tons of ways to do that, but the best is to just go to hack
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by necubi 15y ago
I agree that average karma is a very poor metric, and I found that my usage of HN changed drastically when pg started showing it more prominently. One optimizes for average karma by not commenting on stories that are older or less popular,

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