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by noahlt 17y ago
This isn't really a new syntax, though -- it mostly just uses standard CSS selectors (.class, sibling+sibling, parent>child, etc).
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Ask HN: Advice for freshmen entering college
49 points by noahlt 17y ago|149 comments
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by noahlt 17y ago
"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'."
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by noahlt 17y ago
Does anyone have any good resources for amateur/hobbyist hacking biotech?
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by noahlt 17y ago
What are other hackers' experiences with having a very strict, rigid schedule vs more open-ended days?
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by noahlt 17y ago
Classically trained violinist, though my forte is in improvisation (classical, rock, and jazz).
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by noahlt 17y ago
And licenses probably won't help prevent well-meaning people's accidents, either.
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by noahlt 17y ago
Mischel's team found that they could teach tricks to underperforming kids, who would subsequently perform just as well as the originally patient ones. Does anyone here have good hacker-relevant tips for self-control? (For instance: when tac
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by noahlt 17y ago
1. emacs (incl. shell, irc, personal wiki) 2. firefox (incl. email, blog) 3. wmii (tiling window manager)
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by noahlt 18y ago
I suspect this would do much better on the front page if the link caption included the fact that the article is by Raganwald.
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by noahlt 18y ago
> It might be kind of jerky during the editing stage, but it's better than scrolling around trying to find out where the action is. ;) With a bit of Javascript I'm sure you could make it scroll smoothly.
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by noahlt 18y ago
"Since they did not consult our developers, our ads were not implemented correctly, and we weren't getting paid (even though Boxee's users may have been seeing the ads)." Honest question: don't you normally pay for ads, rather than getting
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by noahlt 18y ago
Neon Genesis Evangelion for good measure.
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by noahlt 18y ago
Great idea. Love the colors (even though usually I hate light-on-dark). I wonder, though: is it possible to ask Facebook to query for the intersection of users at my school and in an arbitrary (for instance, "hacker news") Facebook group?
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John Gruber on the future of Macworld without Apple(daringfireball.net)
4 points by noahlt 18y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 18y ago
When you click a tag and see a listing of activities, the headers ("equipment" and "rules") are inline with the text. Where it should read like: Equipment foo bar and baz Rules blah blah blah. it looks like Equipment f
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by noahlt 18y ago
Work hard and get into a good college.
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by noahlt 18y ago
I'm a senior in high school, experienced similar feelings a couple of years ago. SwellJoe says "you seem to expect your friends to be a perfect clone of you", which, at least, is what I felt. Even though you might not find people with the
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by noahlt 18y ago
Not necessarily on topic, but: when sending personal emails (not even business-personal emails, but actual personal emails between friends&family) do you include a salutation?
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by noahlt 18y ago
A lesson in code smell and good style: I took one look at the code and (before noticing the bug) thought, “why is there an inner if instead of just using a single conditional with a logical AND?” That is to say, I could have fixed the bug w
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Is consciousness important for artificial intelligence?(cs.ucsd.edu)
1 points by noahlt 18y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 18y ago
It sounds like your daughter's being taught with the Suzuki Method, which is fine to get started with, but you will want to switch her to a better teacher soon. Suzuki will train her ears, which is important, but that's about all it's good
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by noahlt 18y ago
"Do you know how many people in America go to jobs where you need permission to go to the bathroom?" I am actually quite interested in that statistic.
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by noahlt 18y ago
So, if I understand correctly, there's basically no difference between "hackerspaces" and "coworking facilities". Except maybe that coworking facilities already exist and work.
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by noahlt 18y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but: who?
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by noahlt 18y ago
I'm assuming that's anomalous. ITP is part of NYU, and if you check their website you find that "ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts […]" so suddenly that doesn't seem so unreasonable. That being said
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Google might be doing more than making us stupid(nailchipper.com)
2 points by noahlt 18y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 18y ago
While it is possible to "think in pictures", language is required to form complex thoughts. A long time ago, people who were born deaf were called dumb. This is because, being deaf, they were never able to learn a language, and therefore c
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by noahlt 18y ago
Brevity … is wit.
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by noahlt 18y ago
Does "don't get into debt" apply to choosing what college to attend, as well?

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