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by oliveoil 17y ago
The most useful piece of information in this article, to me, was the concept of 'commitment mechanism'.
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by oliveoil 17y ago
for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis
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by oliveoil 17y ago
The time I sometimes lose reading HN pays off when I find stuff like this. BTW the type heuristics is good enough to look inside of files to determine the type: doing 'ack --python pattern' WILL DO look into python files that have no extens
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by oliveoil 17y ago
In the summer I used to procrastinate through a lot of time here, on Hacker News. Now I'm coming back mostly only during my semi-free time (but like everyone I probably have better stuff to do). And the first thing I see here is an article
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by oliveoil 17y ago
I ran into the same problem just today: need to generate some urls within a library component and for that I need to give it the controller (which has url_for and the other helpers). The funny thing is, I am new to rails and was thinking ho
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by oliveoil 17y ago
There's a sample image below which it says "First results, 83 lines of code." Is that the total number of source lines in that version of the raytracer? Wow! I mean, the sample doesn't look especially beautiful, but 83!! WOW!!
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by oliveoil 17y ago
hah, how about a service that would sell all your licenses when you are switching a computer off and buying all of them again when turning it on again. companies that work in different timezones could save fortunes.
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by oliveoil 17y ago
Can someone from the python community say if this is pointed at someone in particular?
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by oliveoil 17y ago
I think that it is exactly because there is so much variance in the outcome of soccer matches that the sport is so much more popular than any other sport (here in Europe at least).
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by oliveoil 17y ago
Isn't it unfair to say that they raised "$8 million on a PowerPoint like it’s 1999"? It definitely was harder otherwise SetJam could create something in PowerPoint too.
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by oliveoil 17y ago
What is "John The Ripper v1.7.3.1" test? I'd like to see "Firefox startup" test and similar..
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by oliveoil 17y ago
Wow! I didn't know that Watson was so cool!
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by oliveoil 17y ago
Eh, then how come America has become more fat in the last 30 years? Do the genes degenerate that fast? The article is so bad that I suspect the author is trying to score with a fat chick and published this to make her feel better or somethi
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by oliveoil 17y ago
But the girl with the ticket in the ad seemed to be very charmed by the brave young man on a yike. ;-)
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by oliveoil 17y ago
For me the blog displays as dark text on dark background (I have a pretty bad laptop screen, perhaps it's ok on desktop lcds). And he is complaining about the exact same thing done by someone else ;-) It's a good summary though.
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by oliveoil 17y ago
And they also charge for 'inmail' (drastically, see the link) which means if you accidentally stumble upon someone you'd actually like to talk to (potential business partner, employer,..) you gotta pay, there's usually no other way to talk
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by oliveoil 17y ago
Nice stories. I don't understand how exactly the solution for 'All Signs Point to "No-No"' works. He says he packs the controller id into the pointer slot, allright, but doesn't he also say that the framework will free() the pointer later?
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by oliveoil 17y ago
Haha.. I am also putting off signing up for Twitter.
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by oliveoil 17y ago
I voted this up immediately after reading the title.
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by oliveoil 17y ago
Because all text editors were created equal, it should be mentioned that a similar plugin exists for emacs: http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/
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by oliveoil 17y ago
It would be really nice if the article started with the note "Bridget Brennan is CEO of Female Factor and author of the new book, "Why She Buys: The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers" (Crown Business). " instead
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by oliveoil 17y ago
I don't know, I'm seeing this for this first time. But for some it might already be a timeless classic ;-)
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by oliveoil 17y ago
> Attractiveness should be totally uncorrelated to intelligence Why would you think so? Isn't it the case that smarter guys make more money (or are otherwise more successful), allowing them to chose among more potential partners, some o
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by oliveoil 17y ago
I'm reading the Codingthewheel blog pretty regulalry. While I don't find this article on Postgre particularly intriguing, some others are good, for instance the one on hand evaluator algorithms: http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/poker
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by oliveoil 17y ago
I think there are two major problems with "hacking" one's sleeping patterns like this. First is physiological side effects that can go undetected for a very long time and cause permanent damage. Lack of sleep increases blood pressure, for i