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by nnq 12y ago
> given everything you did Man, it's 2014, the people that did anything in WW2 on both sides are long dead. And in the context of that time, "the Allies" included Stalin's Russia (read some history, this tyrant killed
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by nnq 12y ago
...am I the only person for whom the intuition about this problem has always yelled: "neither! choose whether to keep the choice or switch it with 50% probability - in other words, flip a coin." ?
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by nnq 12y ago
What other language would you use for an open-source project, if you wanted C-level performance and the maximum number of contributors? I think choosing D or Rust (or Go, but with it we'd already be a bit further from C-lever performan
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by nnq 12y ago
Am I the only one that thinks Segoe fonts from MS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe ) would look much better than this for the original use (Apple Watch)?
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by nnq 12y ago
Does anyone know where can one find and read these?: > began devoting himself obsessively to writing what he called his “meditations.”
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by nnq 12y ago
Just curios, but... how do you frame the task of designing a text interface when evaluating an UI designer? ...and what's their usual reaction to the request?
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by nnq 12y ago
You know you can do this with the CSS inspector in Chrome, without any extension, right?
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by nnq 12y ago
It's probably the second time that I come across Urbit and found it attention worthy, but... how hard would it be to explain at least some of the concepts in plain English and with some nice intuitive drawings/schemas on the side
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by nnq 12y ago
Side-topic q: is anyone using Manta in production? And, do you think it could be used as a sort-of-graph-db?
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by nnq 12y ago
OP should be thankful to the Greek, Roman and Arab ancient civilizations for sane-to-compute-with languages. Basically all other languages are so fucked up and mind-fucking that it's no wonder modern mathematics, science, engineering a
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by nnq 12y ago
Name one important person who ended up in jail for more-or-less-violent protesting, and ended up having this as a "self transforming" experience. I can name at least one... Adolf Hitler ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by nnq 12y ago
R'lyeh is rising, of course. Heil Cthulhu!
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by nnq 12y ago
> Kings of India before Mughals/British fought too among themselves but not for resources/money/territory. ...then what did they fought for? (Note: I didn't downvote you and I think this may be an insightful comment,
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by nnq 12y ago
...the whole reason why HN is what HN is, is that it's not dedicated to a particular subject. I can read HN and come across news about some new research in the biomedical field that my gf who's in this field can come across by rea
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by nnq 12y ago
Besides trying to fire at "If this breaks your software, your software is badly written." like other's already did, there's the more obvious fact: If it's YOUR software, you're supposed to trust it! (yeah, inc
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by nnq 12y ago
> A slightly higher voltage offers an excess of electrons; a slightly lower voltage means the electrode will readily accept electrons from anything willing to pass them off. ...is it just my before-coffee hangovered mind, or they got th
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by nnq 12y ago
It is unattainable, from the perspective of the employer. As an employer, you just won't get those 8 hrs of productive work a day! Even if most employees can and do have more than 8 hrs of productivity, you just won't ever get mor
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by nnq 12y ago
You just made me willing to resurrect a months old pet project that is exactly about this :) I previously labelled it as "too geeky to be commercially viable" but maybe with a different interface it might turn into some kind of us
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by nnq 12y ago
I've been on the other site of the fence too. It's depressing how easy it is to make people think you know a lot more than you actually do by having above average skills at expressing your thoughts. Hope I didn't just do th
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by nnq 12y ago
I agree with Djerassi that the term "polymath" is confusing and detrimental. I think it's so because it describes what kind of knowledge one has, not what function that knowledge provides. 'Deep integrators' I thi
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by nnq 12y ago
This is probably useless to anyone else, but this is an idea that popped into my head once when feeling suicidal: "if these is really the ultimate reality, and not a simulation, and since I have no reasons to believe that reality is n
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by nnq 12y ago
There's also a "mana" word in Eastern European languages ( http://dexonline.ro/definitie/mana - it's an archaic-regional word, not new or imported from French/English!), VERY polysemantic, with
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by nnq 12y ago
> must be as fast as Objective C; must have a minimal to non-existent runtime (so AOT compilation all the way); mustn't have garbage collection, must interoperate with Objective C/normal C with ease; etc. This sounds and awful
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by nnq 12y ago
Nice to see them talking about C99, even after they said the focus is only C++... when for everybody else, the horizon is C11. Guess it's something along the lines of "let's handicap a bit all open-source projects that want t
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by nnq 12y ago
That's the point, if you know it's coming you'll adjust your lifestyle to have enough OR you'll negotiate a bigger salary from the get go to compensate for planned down time.
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by nnq 12y ago
so then the problem is more in a pathological game-dev-studio to publisher relationships? or are most studios too small to have a bunch of running projects at the same time? ...because the industry as a whole, on average, surely makes enoug
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by nnq 12y ago
Do voluntary unions ever work? "Forcing people help themselves" sounds bad, but considering human nature, I don't think anything else works...
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by nnq 12y ago
And as your link shows, writing the documentation in any other language than English is a 100% efficient way to totally handicap an open-source project...
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by nnq 12y ago
This sounds like like one of the few problems that can really be solved by unionizing workers and moving to long term work contracts... but good luck selling this "socialist" mentality to game developers :)
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by nnq 12y ago
To make it even worse: <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11">

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