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by nercht12 10y ago
The idea of "entropy" always seemed to me as a misrepresentation of the actual underlying principle, given a half-dozen other names in scientific literature. Everything reaches the lowest equilibrium state. It's like pouring
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Ask HN: Maintaining Privacy While Job Hunting
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by nercht12 10y ago
What would be the language to use? JavaScript won early, so it's been the de-facto choice every since to the point where browsers probably don't even run other scripting languages with the script tag. The first major hurdle in cha
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by nercht12 10y ago
The weakness in this is that designers didn't expect people to be hacking their phones from this direction. The reality is that ANY input that effects what's inside can be used to effect and maybe reprogram the system. The system
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by nercht12 10y ago
>> The rules that Steve laid out do not actually put pressure on people. They amount to, "Be accountable for what you say, try to make it work, and let people know quickly once you hit a roadblock." It is about effort and co
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by nercht12 10y ago
You could go through the list of sites on the EasyList for adblock - which are full of porn site ad block rules - and block those sites. You can change your hosts file to redirect to localhost or perhaps to some website that reminds you to
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by nercht12 10y ago
The bummer is when you want to create a font that supports all the characters. Ugh. Talk about alot of work.
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by nercht12 10y ago
Don't feel embarrassed. It's better that a country can actually fix its problems peacefully rather than outright denying it has a problem and trying to go on with business as usual. Peaceful resolution - for the better - is someth
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by nercht12 10y ago
So because GIMP doesn't solve ALL of its problems it deserves nothing? I find this unreasonable. So it's not perfect - no software is - but it's very, very useful, and still deserves support from those who utilize and appreci
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by nercht12 10y ago
I happen to like the UI. It's not for everyone, admittedly, esp. people coming from PS, but it can modified and rearranged. ATM, my Gimp UI is a single window will all the tools nicely arranged on the left side and only containing the
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by nercht12 10y ago
I did used to ponder over this sort of mystery, but I realized the actual answer to this lied at the particle level as explained in QED by Feynman: A positron can be treated as an electron traveling backwards in time. When it collides with
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by nercht12 10y ago
2.7 ? XD is shot
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by nercht12 10y ago
Eh, let's revise that analogy. More like not understanding the bricks means you can't make a good building. You can by good intuition, but it won't be spot-on perfect (as by calculating all the physics) and you'll need m
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by nercht12 10y ago
Never heard of it before. Thanks! How's the learning curve?
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by nercht12 10y ago
If you want a straight-forward mental model that works with git, try Gitless. Note, you will end up learning some new commands that simplify things, and you'll have to re-learn git if you work for someone that wants you to use the nitt
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by nercht12 10y ago
>> humans think best with a small set of complicated rules ? I'd reword that to say humans are more entertained by a small set of complicated rules. Simple rules are easy for humans, but they can be boring. However, in reality he
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by nercht12 10y ago
Could be. If you've heard of someone primarily referred to by their online pseudonym, it may be less awkward calling them that than trying to guess at how they wish to be addressed using their real name. It's still awkward though.
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by nercht12 10y ago
I personally don't like the shift, even being in the younger crowd. Calling someone by their first name sounds not only presumptuous but leaves you in an awkward spot of guessing whether to use a nickname (you may heard they've be
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by nercht12 10y ago
Nice of them to add comments and not make the ride so boring. Scrolling speed is nice with the arrow keys.
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by nercht12 10y ago
To some extent, geek culture is self-deprecating. We give away our work and then, when we receive it, we don't know how to say thank you. I feel awkward saying thank you on projects. Whenever I go to comment, it's like I feel the
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by nercht12 10y ago
>> With a little bit of creative vision, I think the FOSS world could make a ton of money. Notably, I have considered this, and as I was reading this thread, I was reminded of the BitCoin effort[1] by OpenWhisper Systems that appeared
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by nercht12 10y ago
Because they have a different mentality. Other types of people wouldn't give you something for free, much less something they slaves hours over making. And you somehow think these same people are like everyone else?
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by nercht12 10y ago
He said existence is analogous, not "is". It's a matter of feeling by the person. While their every move isn't dictated - because it's impossible to enforce at such a scale - the parallels to slavery are there. >
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by nercht12 10y ago
Ah, such is the nature of communism - eyes watching each other. China could use a Gorbachev (ok, so the situation is more complicated than that, but still...).
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by nercht12 10y ago
Problem is that a "good economy" is a subjective idea. It won't matter if open-minded scientists review it 'cause people are going to interpret the results how ever they want anyways. Edit: I'm not really aiming to
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by nercht12 10y ago
I guess our ideas of how it would be implemented are different. Let's consider it from a practical perspective. What's the basic level of income? Right now, minimum wage helps some people (where cost of living is low) and not othe
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by nercht12 10y ago
His labor from his point of view, not from the economy's point of view. Certainly labor from him is good for the economy. But for him, he already has what he needs, so there's not as much incentive to get more. Sure, there will al
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by nercht12 10y ago
Why do you think it doesn't? If I'm getting a free hand-out, I don't need to work as hard to get the necessities, which is why I go to work in the first place.
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by nercht12 10y ago
Indeed. One has to wonder, then, about the controversial nature of Python breaking backwards compatibility for the sake of improvement. People are down on "Python 2.8" for changing the name, but the fact that there is no standard
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by nercht12 10y ago
How dare you suggest non-programmers can't understand fun! XD (I'm only teasing of course.)

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