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by not_knuth 6y ago
Same. 1. The philosopher's disease of always asking "why?" and critically evaluating things is a strange one. In Western countries this is how we are taught to think and it has many benefits, but physical happiness is seldom
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Well, CSS is pretty old, and as such old, backwards-compatible specs do, it's utterly bloated. I tend to use CSS Grid and Flex almost exclusively, since they are a lot more intuitive than the block and inline combo. But then again if y
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Totally agree. As programmer's I think we are specifically enclined to attempts of formalizing natural language into something precise and reducing it to syntax and semantics. Yet like you say, natural language is imprecise. And the mo
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I believe in this case your reasoning is flawed, because all countries will be quick to shut down flights with the UK and no politician in the UK wants that.
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Absolutely agreed. Though you mention that walking is what helps you keep distractions under control, I like to go walking while listening to history/science podcasts, since it helps me understand the content a lot better. The act of w
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Can someone explain to me why one would use a GUI text editor like Kate above emacs/vim, apart from the looks? I've never used Kate seriously, but I'm curious about what benefits it provides...
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Well as always, that can easily be done on Linux. There is even a widget on KDE that lets you do precisely that.
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Gee, one could've almost mistaken one of these people for a regular nice person who has encountered bumps along the road (I say this with a deadpan face). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Don't know how I missed this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415747
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Oh cool, I didn't know that. Do you know of other governments that do this?
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Ask HN: Should governments contribute to Open Source?
1 points by not_knuth 6y ago|5 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Well I guess it depends on where you study. My university was full of profs that never dared to even recommend proprietary software to us and always preached to us about the open web. Though, I should disclose, that this was in Germany, and
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Very well written article! > "However, more often than discovering that your ideas are wrong, you will discover something different: that you do not know what you think. Sure, you have some vague idea, and you believe that there is
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I believe the Swiss Referendum model is similar to what you are describing [0]. However, it has quite a few issues as well. The three biggest ones I can think of are: 1. Voting on single issues requires very engaged citizens that understan
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Ask HN: Will WebAssembly benefit from a second-mover advantage?
3 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
> Some tools might be unavailable due to heavy traffic in this file. The irony of that is, that simply posting a parameterized version gained a lot of traction as well, because the satire just hits home so well (the product is good).
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Well since you mentioned JS and Python, Programming in Haskell [0] by Graham Hutton is a very approachable text book to familiarize yourself with topics about functional programming (just a personal favourite). And of course there is the
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Do you mean precise in the sense that it steps in smaller increments than Celsius and therefore requires less decimal points, or something else? If the former, why do you prefer it that way? Just curious :)
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Large open source projects should be regarded by nations as infrastructure required for innovation. Just like roads are subsidied and maintained by governments, so should software be subsidied.
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Very interesting. I believe my contrarian view goes in this direction, so I will add it to your comment. My impression is that democracy is really not as inevitable as a lot of us western folks would like it to be. In fact I can not help my