nvader

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by nvader 12y ago
One of the best things about the Python ecosystem is the acceptance and idealization of "Pythonic" solutions. While I acknowledge and praise the authors effort in making this complete and correct, the aim itself is misguided becau
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by nvader 12y ago
In an absolutely trivial sense, the earth, and everything on it, is part of the Milky Way. All that light pollution is light from the [0]Milky Way reflecting off the [1]Milky Way and thereby obscuring the [2]Milky Way from the [3]Milky Way.
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by nvader 12y ago
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things and off-by-one errors.
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by nvader 12y ago
Just played around with it a little more, came up with this: http://jfxr.frozenfractal.com/#{"_version":1,"_name":"Powerup 16","_locked":[],"sampleRate":44100,"attack
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by nvader 12y ago
San Francisco, CA. INTERN OK. Blend Labs (blendlabsinc.com) is looking for excellent full-stack developers and designers in San Francisco, CA. Many Americans will find themselves taking out a home loan over the course of their life. Blend i
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by nvader 12y ago
San Francisco, CA. INTERN OK. Blend Labs (blendlabsinc.com) is looking for excellent full-stack developers and designers in San Francisco, CA. Many Americans will find themselves taking out a home loan over the course of their life. Blend i
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by nvader 13y ago
> Like it’s not ok to feel the way we do some of the time. But we do. With that in mind, and with all fairness to the creators of Threes for their hard work, as evidenced in the article, I feel put off by their choice of the word 'r
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by nvader 13y ago
You can lose, and it's worth it to see it happen!
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by nvader 13y ago
The concept you describe in 1) is called Leapfrogging, and it's really cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
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by nvader 13y ago
I found it interesting how often the word technocrat came up in that article (5). I'm not sure what to read into it, but it is interesting.
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by nvader 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law is the inability to distinguish between parody of, and sincerity in, extremism.
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by nvader 13y ago
Thanks for the concise summary that saved me from having to click through the click-baity headline.
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by nvader 13y ago
So the claim here is that wave zero, original inhabitants don't have "excellent restaurants, concert venues, botiques, bars etc.", and their displacement by the first wave is excusable by this fact, and some hand-waving about
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by nvader 13y ago
Once all the "free" bitcoins have been mined, the intrinsic value of bitcoin will be the computing power the network is willing to expend in exchange for that coin as a fee. Quite apart from using it as a store of value, and inter
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by nvader 13y ago
I tend to agree with you. I don't _disagree_ with the author, because I don't know what the author's point is. She decries the "puritan" worldview, but outside of pointing out that it is an old one, she does not rea
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The FBI's list of information elicitation techniques(fbi.gov)
1 points by nvader 13y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 13y ago
Sierpinski's Right-Angled Triangle http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,1,1,2,3,2...
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by nvader 13y ago
My favorite poem is Sharon Hopkins' Listen https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.lang.perl/V2R...
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by nvader 13y ago
down for me. Here is google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h4Bfye0...
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by nvader 14y ago
Perhaps for other more compelling reasons he has decided to start a company elsewhere.
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by nvader 14y ago
The Evelyn Wood speed reading system recommends using your finger on a page to trace lines of text. When reading long passages on the computer, I achieve the same goal by highlighting. I generally only do this when reading longer content:
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The Startup, a feature film(kickstarter.com)
5 points by nvader 14y ago|0 comments