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by nekopa 10y ago
Shame I saw this comment so late, but I do have a reason for this. I'm an enthusiastic student of Buddhism. I long time ago, during university (late 80s) I attended a guest seminar called "What the Buddha Said" It was fascina
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by nekopa 10y ago
It ends up in an infinite loop for me :(
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by nekopa 10y ago
I have read the first 50 pages about a 100 times. Does that count? P.S. I have never recommended it to anyone though, I don't recommend books I haven't read all the way through. I will get through TAOCP one day, (it's now on
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by nekopa 10y ago
I think that tunes with a strong repetitive beat seem to work best over something that is pure melody. Bolero hits on that count.
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by nekopa 10y ago
I'm impressed that he managed to figure this out whilst taking care of a baby. When my son was born, I spent most of the wee hours testing which Star Wars theme I hummed worked best for getting him back to sleep. (By the way, The Imper
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by nekopa 10y ago
The worst thing is, unlike your other examples, it's turtles all the way down. What will it be like when it's AI all the way down?
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by nekopa 10y ago
Heh, I prefer to refer to that whole comment as Bane's Rule. I have had many interesting discussions with IT managers face to face after having them read that, especially regarding the idea of having vendors show that their product bea
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by nekopa 10y ago
It looks like he already does a lot of work on current versions of free software, seems like he's on the kde team. Or do you feel life should be all work and no play? I think stuff like this gives people the energy to work on current s
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by nekopa 10y ago
Just an idea (I know, I know, ideas aren't worth shit on HN :) but is this use case possible with what you have: I'm trying to increase my productivity at the moment, so I'm creating 3 most important todos for the day in the
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by nekopa 10y ago
This is an interesting concept. And while I feel that of course this one will be doomed, maybe it can open discussion on what we will do with the concept of nations once we enter space. For example: a colony is settled on Mars, with astrona
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by nekopa 10y ago
I read incredibly fast. Reading a book a night is no problem for me. I think it is genetic, as my mother could read at a pace that astounded even me, and she could recall everything from the book too. A 500 page novel would take her about 2
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by nekopa 10y ago
Also, in the now famous introductory presentation of the iPhone, Jobs even spoofed the audience that there were 3 products he was about to release, spinning them all into 1 item.
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by nekopa 10y ago
How did you get banned? I saw a lot of bug reports and feature requests on the ST forum, there is even a whole sub board dedicated to feature requests which seems to be quite active.
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by nekopa 10y ago
Thanks for the info. Do you think I will be able to use the Elements of Mathematics to kind of build a "Tech Tree" of math? One of the hardest things for me to find so far is what should be my order of acquisition for math. I did
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by nekopa 10y ago
This is another reason why I would like to improve my math skills. I sometimes sense that there would be a much more elegant and efficient way to solve a problem if I could apply some math theory to it. 2 examples: 1:When I try to learn a n
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by nekopa 10y ago
This seems like a good read on the topic: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.cz/2006/03/math-for-programmers.... Disclaimer: I know nothing about math but have been researching it recently as I want to go to university n
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by nekopa 10y ago
I believe that's the point. Before Bezos the paper thought Snowden was great, after Besoz they want him thrown in jail.
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by nekopa 10y ago
Not too sure of the numbers on that site. It says AngularJS runs 1.5% of the Internet - 435,718 of 363,398,504 sites, but I thought that we are now over 1 billion websites according to some stats. Another Stat said about 890 million active
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by nekopa 10y ago
Reminds me of one of my all time favorite comments about Bane's Rule: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
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by nekopa 10y ago
I think the Airplane scene was completely gratuitous :)
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by nekopa 10y ago
I believe the fine article states that she reposted the image.
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by nekopa 10y ago
My partner is flying out to Sri Lanka on Friday for a 3 week solo tour around the country. Any places she should steer clear of? Any other tips you have would also be much appreciated. My email is in my profile if you want to chat off threa
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by nekopa 10y ago
I didn't down vote you, but your original comment didn't add much to the discussion, and could be viewed as snark. If your edit, minus the wtf, had been in the original comment, then probably no one would have downvoted.
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by nekopa 10y ago
Regarding your first point: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by nekopa 10y ago
IMHO, I think they should be really careful regarding your last point - marketing tactics. Gamification, i.e. badges, I don't think would go over too well with their subscriber demographic. I think something like a free month, a free p
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by nekopa 10y ago
Actually, when you look at any kind of programming, it is: Turtles, turtles all the way down. RIP
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by nekopa 10y ago
I see it as similar to flight, once we stopped trying to mimic nature exactly (flapping planes) we started to not only make progress, but went beyond what nature can do in flight (eg supersonic) I think that the biggest breakthrough we&#x2
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by nekopa 10y ago
I think that's covered by point 4, dissent is treason.
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by nekopa 10y ago
Not the poster you replied to, but there were 2 types of bias I saw: 1: Defensiveness. It seemed more like an honest question than a pot shot. You seemed to read into it something like "Aha! How about your software fool!?!" That s

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