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by opminion 14y ago
There is a remark about that in Robert Makee's Story, a screenwriting manual. He describes a similar situation and points out that the reason why the scriptwriter got into the profession very likely was to learn the difficult craft of trans
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Thanks for the music. I am probably the only one put off by the northern hemisphere in what looks like Mercator, so won't moan about that ;-) No thanks for the automatic play on page load.
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More fun than representative or informative: max mobility demand for unemployment-related benefits in various countries (UK, US, Germany: 1.5-2h, Spain: 30Km, Turkey:...). http://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/facts/DICE/Labour-Market-...
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Ask HN: organising historical personal data
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12345 could be a valid postcode in Germany or Spain, but in the UK it would have to look like AB1 2CD, except when it doesn't (e.g. AB12 3CD). Arg! I wish web forms had a "Tell us we are wrong" button next to validated boxes.
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Reminds me of RDF's http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Diff
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A failed story but not bad reporting. I learned a lot about marathon races and how are they managed. Only the end is disappointing.
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the scenes of the fish market shows the ugly side of over fishing our seas. What do they show? I can't figure out how one thing could show the other.
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In philosophy of science, when discussing what makes a good hypothesis, it is used as disprove. As in: the existence of the Spaghetti Monster cannot be falsified, and thus to believe in it is an act of faith. http://www.stephenjaygould.org
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Ask HN: Writing a good spec
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For many people feature removal in wallets is risky because much in them is insurance against low frequency events. Same reason why handbags are a mess.
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This answered this question for the mathematician in me: http://www.economist.com/node/771049 The Economist in 2001.
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Sam€.
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And that's alright. Aaron is asking for feedback, not selling books and talks with this.
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Or, to use a local quote, "Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!" http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
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http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/
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You might be asked if by Computer Science you mean what used to be known in some places as Computing Science, which also falls into Programming as in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming See for example: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/qu
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I haven't seen such a broken site (for me) in a few years. That's quite hard on a one-man show which is in the edge of not requiring flash, for requiring flash. I would reserve such harsh criticism for sites I have to visit and which ar
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It had good early iterations (Knuth said once that he didn't even have to submit his suggestions for documentation, they turned up in the next version [1]). Kind of the opposite of JavaScript... [2] As a multi-paradigm language they can add
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Without consensus about (1) which metrics are important to Twitter, and (2) how to maximise them, these comments about them being dicks are just emotional responses. Nothing wrong with that: getting burned by Twitter as a developer or user
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Pre-Internet we were information-bound, now we are attention-bound. From that observation you can deduce a number of consequences. Information (software, encyclopaedias) was expensive. Your intellectual life depended much more than now on w
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Carol Dweck was obsessed with failure. [...] So she began watching kids [...] Scientists rarely proceed that way.
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Tongue-in-cheek, how hard would be to make a captcha? Examples from [1]: Metaphor: Argument is war I shot down his argument He couldn't defend his position She attacked my theory Love is a journey: Our marriage is at a crossroads We've
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What's a good F# tutorial/reference you've used?
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Can't help pointing out that, symmetrically, confidence fraud such as Nigerian 419 scams screen their targets, for naivety, by making certain signs of fraud obvious to those not part of their intended audience.
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Here’s an example of one enterprise product with room for improvement (SAP). Know of others? Microsoft CRM 4, a very, very bad joke of a user interface.
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For those of us who grew up reading heavily editorialised printed press, having (voted up) news about hackers in a site called hacker news shouldn't be too painful.
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This question spans not only personal programming projects, but all sorts of spare time "hobby" projects and what politicos would refer to as "lifelong learning" in general. What's he best use of my spare time an energy right now? Counterpo
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And it you watch it in your iPad 2, you will be holding the viewport in your hands.
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When the $100 camera fails in Mars you can't just replace it with another one. You can't take it to the repair shop either. You can't try to "shake it a bit". Hell, you can't even bang it on your knee: http://www.pechorin.com/m/2006/06/13/

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