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by nfnaaron 17y ago
HN is my RSS reader. I don't have time to check all the feeds that have potentially interesting (for me) content, and then browse each feed for actually interesting articles. There is no way I can discover any significant portion of new int
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
A good reason to alphabetize is that your text editor can alphabetize a group of lines. So it's easy to get a group of properties back into order, as long as "order" is what your tool does. Similar to "our code formatting standards are what
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I thought it was an entertaining and effective way to show something mathematical to the general public, in a way that most people can relate to. I was especially tickled near the end of the article where they described discussions on chang
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"So what have we really gained here? All we've done is made sure the initial positioning of the coin is random. The bias in the toss itself is still there, but we're hiding it by making sure the caller doesn't know the initial state of the
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Since the bias is in the toss, not the coin: Put the coin in the ref's hands, which are cupped against each other in a closed sphere. The ref shakes his hands to the satisfaction of all (and we assume an honest ref). He then places the coin
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You're not the only one.
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The traffic and pedestrian system has grown organically into what it is now. That includes cars that make noise, and that fact is taken into account when we learn to be pedestrians in the traffic system. So we have a system with noise as pa
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Because he doesn't want his ad salespeople to have to admit to potential advertisers that "well, yes, in fact, we are not findable on google and other search engines."
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I hacked a skydiver once. I was a civilian/sport/fun/non-military jumpmaster in the eighties. Taught/supervised skydiving students from the second jump on. Sometimes sat in the plane and supervised/critiqued, sometimes jumped out with them
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The point to be taken, whether the article states it or not, is that you can choose to code outside work, or you can choose to not code outside work, and neither choice is mutually exclusive to enjoying your life or being good at your work.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/ multiple putty sessions in one tabbed application. Related, get cygwin ssh server running on your windows box (and set it up to disallow password login, only keys). If you use putty then you'll like being able
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Laundry: big time saver. I only use it occasionally (it's $/# where I go), because it seems extravagant to pay another human to handle my underwear all the time, but when I've run out of time it's great. There were two in my local area, o
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Because LAMP is a cool acronym. It "lights" the way. LAPP would be creepy in almost any interpretation.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Depending on the state, brandishing a weapon, which is exactly what he did, is itself illegal. All you have to do to brandish is show it. Did I mention IANAL?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Sleep well, eat right and exercise. You'll have your best success if you do all three. Named diets alone, which most of us try over and over, won't get you long term success. I do CrossFit for exercise, which I first heard about right here
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter is a good, recent companion to Working. I liked both books.
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As you say, that's a good way to force your fingers to learn the way of h, j, k and l. I started with vi so long ago that I remember being surprised around five years ago when I accidentally discovered that vim knows about the arrow keys. S
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Like JWZ, I've been a happy user of Palm products and (importantly) their un-corralled app ecosystem, since before Palms were phones. I have a Centro because I had a Treo because I had a palm pilot, AND because the app ecosystem that my Cen
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
:help si<CTL-D> (type :help space s i and control-d after the i) will give you all available variations in help on si, including 'si' and si among many others. CTL-D is a sort of intelli-suggest in context (except it's move 1/2 page
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Permissive Action Links. ... So in 1962, Robert McNamara ordered every nuclear weapon locked with numerical codes. Effect: None. Irritated by the restriction, Strategic Air Command set all the codes to strings of zeros. The Defense Departm
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
There's a joke about Duff's (Doomsday) Device somewhere in there.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Newspapers and other media are losing my money, and probably others', because they mostly don't sell anything I want. How hard is that to understand? Heck, they're mostly not even giving away anything that I want. HN gives away exactly what
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I take potential self-promotion with the same grain of salt, but it's a mistake to dismiss everything this way. I also did the self-course in their book a couple of years ago, and the results were amazing. This really is a better way to wri
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"governments have two ways to promote the development of new drugs and can run both in parallel. First is by passing patent laws. The second way is by funding research in national laboratories." What if the government laboratories did their
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The Candy Bombers, about the Berlin Airlift, the political and military conflicts surrounding the Airlift, and the Airlift pilot that started dropping candy for the kids near the airport.
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Is it that "when men in general are between 20 and 50," or is it "the specific group of men who are now between 20 and 50?" The article seems more focused on the second, having interviewed 500 specific people this one time. I wonder if ther
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I agree, a specific flag does not necessarily mean a specific language, and it's unnecessarily provocative. However, flags in general are associated with the idea of language. To show that a dropdown means "choose a language" you could put