opminion

24 ms·

211.
by opminion 14y ago
The $132/g vs $127/g price would make sense, all other things being equal (which are not, ok), if SpaceX were pricing in a duopoly, right?
212.
by opminion 14y ago
Give discounts for HN karma, if this post ends up helping you. Not sure if that's a good idea, though, because karma is supposed to have no tangible value. It's just an idea.
213.
by opminion 14y ago
Gimp's latest user interface is harder to use than Xfig.
214.
by opminion 14y ago
Perhaps it depends on the type of project? I see two very different views here: one thing is to have technical jargon that looks like buzzwords to the uninitiated, another is to have to include, in the proposal, features that you won't impl
215.
by opminion 14y ago
Homeland, the TV series, is based on a similar premise and, whether you like the show or not, it works.
216.
by opminion 14y ago
To make it more likely to be accepted, the proposal for the EU project contained basically every feature under the sun a language could have. How common is this in EU projects?
217.
by opminion 14y ago
M-x spook
218.
by opminion 14y ago
I have been using emacs org-mode to do something like this. It's great that it's now part of the language!
219.
by opminion 14y ago
This is so obviously useful (it simply skips a few steps in my almost weekly "forgot my password" routine) that there must be a reason why it is not more widespread...
220.
by opminion 14y ago
It's like building Python projects with SCons.
221.
by opminion 14y ago
The main problem with flowcharts for programming is that flowcharts are procedural, whereas much of what we do in programming is declarative: the flowchart describes more how to do something than what has to be done (at some level). Of cour
222.
by opminion 14y ago
It's hard to distinguish between feeling clever and being clever. As with health issues ("feeling better" vs "being better"), science comes to the rescue.
223.
by opminion 14y ago
Ah, the irony of Knuth being the proponent of Literate Programming, and at the same time the last man standing in general purpose assembly.
224.
by opminion 14y ago
I think that you mean "numerals", not math in general. In our system (and in the Arabic "Indian" system, as pointed out by a fellow reply) numerals are written with the least significative figure to the right, so in that sense it's like com
225.
by opminion 14y ago
Funny to think that if Twitter handles were fragments of email addresses they would be backwards: com.twitter@holysee --- By the way, this must be a mistake: This is a clearly a byproduct of the right-to-left language of the designers of t
226.
by opminion 14y ago
This article reminds me of an essay by Edsger Dijkstra, EWD1036 [0], comparing digital vs analog processes, and how they lead us to think of discrete bugs vs continuous errors. (I recall it as arguing against the naive tendency of consideri
227.
by opminion 14y ago
Wouldn't security be an issue?
228.
by opminion 14y ago
Ask Umberto Eco http://books.google.co.uk/?id=2sDMxqbibS0C
229.
by opminion 14y ago
The Amstrad CPC 6128 had an 8-bit Z80 CPU and would only access the first 64KB of 128KB of RAM, even when restarting. Somebody had the idea of using the second 64KB as RAM disk to story an exact copy of the main RAM, which would survive a C
230.
by opminion 14y ago
Yet the conflict between "It's the trip, not the destination" and the fact that your salary arrives at the end of the month can cause much grief when not balanced in the mid term.
231.
by opminion 14y ago
Ok, so type == cardinality, roughly speaking, is my understanding of the article when read with the pure mathematics hat on. Now that's interesting. Cardinality was the first topic in my Calculus course, and rather fascinating as a mind ope
232.
by opminion 14y ago
You cannot share your source code in a way that those who matter to you can modify and run, without them paying the price too. Including your future self.
233.
by opminion 14y ago
the real engineers Ok, if the definition of a real engineer is someone with a degree, then there's no argument to have.
234.
by opminion 14y ago
In Google Sets[0] I entered CPAN, CTAN, CRAN, CJAN, names of archive repositories for other languages. It added JSAN. [0] http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/google-sets-still...
235.
by opminion 14y ago
“title arousal.” If the Germans had a fascination with degrees, they wouldn't have Mercedes engineers without a university degree http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16159943
236.
by opminion 14y ago
You can find an example in an old comment of mine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4075879
237.
by opminion 14y ago
Beware of the Jules Verne translations, they might be way worse than the recent ones.
238.
by opminion 14y ago
http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm
239.
by opminion 14y ago
A digital timestamping service http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm
240.
by opminion 14y ago
We do know more physical minutia, ie., slates and chalk have fallen to iPhones, sandals to sports cars, and yet the essential spirit of man is the same as it ever was, and that is what the Stoics are addressing. Somehow we know, collectiv

More ›