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Remembering LineDrive(somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com)
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by opminion 14y ago
This rant should probably say "my iPhone could run a full OpenGL implementation, and instead I'm provided a subset. I proved that it could run full OpenGL by writing most of the missing parts". "(OpenGL ES) is a subset of the OpenGL" accord
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by opminion 14y ago
Europe. It usually means when one tries to grab votes at the cost of doing what's "correct" from one's point of view. A stereotypical case would be providing "bread and circus" in the short term while the country is sinking in the mid term.
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Assange interviewed the Ecuatorian president for his program at RT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-1-9QXd3Y The Ecuatorian president is introduced as "populist", yet the interview is non-critical. I thought "populist" was globally pejo
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http://paulgraham.com/julian.html
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Agreed, no need to GTTM of IIP, which would diminish the FAB of JUT.
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The dangers of going meta(thinkerspodium.wordpress.com)
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Nah, where's Stallman when you need him.
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In Barcelona I had a ride where the taxi driver spent the whole time moaning about how short it was... (he claimed to have misunderstood the destination when he received the request, implying that he would have refused). No rip-off, though,
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Regulations in Spain and Greece are somehow strict: a special licence, somehow equivalent to the New York medallion is required. Furthermore, at least in Spain, being "a taxi driver" is a form of cultural identity. Typically, regulations sp
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Ask HN: why are taxi rip-offs so common?
1 points by opminion 14y ago|5 comments
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During my first trip abroad, within Europe, I had an embarrassing moment when telling a new friend (from Bahamas) about an embarrassing moment I had when telling a new friend (from US) that I once met someone who was a creationist. They wer
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by opminion 14y ago
Yes. The intended effect is that when you try to scroll the page the letters in the headline explode outwards.
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It happened: http://web.archive.org/web/20070311083012/http://reddit.com/...
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I found out in Wikipedia, unfortunately after I read the book... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island#Publicati... An excerpt from Kingston's translation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1268/1268-h/1268-h.htm (this is the
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by opminion 14y ago
The order of evaluation is a bit different than Lisp. It's perhaps more like programming mostly with Lisp macros.
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by opminion 14y ago
I can't run Mathematica code at home without paying a licence. I can't run it at work without convincing my employer to pay the licence. Actually, I can't run a single line of Mathematica code right now. I can't share it with my friends (to
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by opminion 14y ago
It's built on top of Sage, which is built on top of SciPy. There is a need for a Mathematica-like syntax parser. (Edited)
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There it is, I have been trying to remember that title for a while. Not available for the Kindle!?
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Identity without a name(ted.com)
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Coming up next, Google uses Street View's uncensored data to fight "street spam..." :-)
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the quality of translation matters a great deal Indeed. The English translation of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island" in Project Guttenberg is an "old" one which censors certain aspects of Captain Nemo's anti-colonial background.
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Most useful when shared with our enemies.
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Success tends to hide failure. The general problem here is that we, as hackers, scientists, friends, humans, prefer to read stories of success rather than stories of "quantitative results".
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And surprisingly unelaborate.
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Great post in so many ways. Beyond other deaf people, migrant knowledge workers will know best about what he is talking about when describing social relationships at work.
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Interesting that the proposed question is almost exactly what a nice guy would ask himself, but applied to her: Mr. Nice: "Is there anything I can do" Empowering guy: "Is there anything you can do"
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The interesting question for us who agree with you is why do other people think otherwise. Two reasons come to mind: some co-workers don't mind the disruptions themselves (e.g. if they do a different kind of work), and some managers simply
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CCTV cameras in classrooms help us keep watch on teachers in classrooms This is quite odd, but then I found the same is happening in the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/aug/04/schools-cctv...
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It is related to Ayn Rand. I would dare to guess that this is a US-specific cultural reference, very much like a parody of a local tv host would be.

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