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by palish 15y ago
Absolutely. My experience was the same: my mother loved to talk to me about my intelligence and curiosity as if they were rare and therefore special. Maybe it was true, but by telling me that, she accidentally laid the foundation of the res
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by palish 15y ago
Please don't write a letter. It accomplishes nothing. We need to call our congressman and speak to whomever is on the line, with our voices. Not pens or keyboards. When your congressman asks his staff "What have the public been calling ab
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by palish 15y ago
Please don't write an email or a letter; as you say, it accomplishes nothing. We need to call our congressman and speak to whomever is on the line, with our voices. Not pens or keyboards. When your congressman asks his staff "What have th
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by palish 15y ago
Hey, that is pretty awesome. I had zero Java experience, but I felt inspired by your post, so I searched "java without ide" and got an XML parser up and running in approximately 20 minutes. For the curious reader, here's how to do Java e
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by palish 15y ago
That was an excellent read. Thanks!
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by palish 15y ago
This is an interesting point. I have no idea, but is it reasonable to make the claim that the DMCA is flawed? By that I mean, is it excessively annoying / ineffective to actually use the DMCA for its intended purpose? (I'm not referring
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by palish 15y ago
Offtopic: Would you consider letting a hacker work for you remotely?
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by palish 15y ago
I'm American, but I'd happily do one of these kits and also go through with the operation if it would save Amit's life... ...but I see no way to actually do that. Does anyone else? Where are the kits?
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by palish 15y ago
That's not true. Paul worked very hard to grow Viaweb for several years, and eventually guided Viaweb to a lucrative exit via Yahoo. Arrington worked very hard to grow TechCrunch for several years, and eventually guided it to a lucrative ex
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by palish 15y ago
Hah, wow: http://i.imgur.com/appZl.jpg "And you'll see listed here are a number of boot images. Each one of these boot images contains the configuration of a kernel that will probably match one of your systems. Let's go ahead and use
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by palish 15y ago
How were your retinas damaged, if I may ask?
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by palish 15y ago
Mm, fair point. Although, "geometric thinking" wasn't a hindrance; check this out, it's pretty interesting: For example we can visualize "taking the derivative of the function f(x)" by "rolling a wheel over the top of its graph": http://
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by palish 15y ago
This is great! And the best part is, this sort of "visual math" is applicable to every single field of mathematics; by visualizing every equation you come across, you'll find that you eventually gain a crisp (and often intuitive) underst
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by palish 15y ago
Whoa! This is incredible! I've never seen anything like this --- an accurate 3D model of a brain, which you can click and drag to rotate. This has a lot of educational value. (Apparently, static 2D images of the brain on Wikipedia et al
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by palish 15y ago
Hmm! You've contributed a lot to HN / BSD / world, so I wanted to give you a gift. But, alas, HourlyKitty would be too much of a time investment for me right now. (Getting my family's cell phone service turned back on is perhaps more imp
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by palish 15y ago
Thank you for taking the time and effort to write this. It's rare for us to get a glimpse into "how things actually work".
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by palish 15y ago
Like what?
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by palish 15y ago
> However, it might be an interesting experience to auction off the first x units as a way to show the high demand and what people would be willing to pay for it. That's brilliant. Anyone know if this has ever been tried?
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by palish 15y ago
On the other hand, I have $200 left to my name total, and I'm happily spending $1.00. If $0.01 is all you can afford, there's no shame in it.
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by palish 15y ago
Yes! I have been using this for <longer than memory> and it's been fantastic. Each time I'm prompted for verification, the Google text message arrives nearly instantaneously. The verificaion code is only 6 digits long, which is just
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by palish 15y ago
#1: When you click the up/down arrows, it sends the vote in the background, using javascript. So if you upvote + immediately refresh, that will cause the javascript submission to cancel, thus the vote won't count. (e.g. when you refresh a
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by palish 15y ago
What's LockInfo?
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by palish 15y ago
It's not you; it's that pg has said many times (and I agree) that fragmenting the front page is a bad idea. We must all see the same front page to judge the same quality.
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by palish 15y ago
I don't have to bear one second of Youtube ads. (Thank you AdBlock!) The "Shark Week" ad that literally screamed at me at 11PM was the straw that broke my mental back. I immediately installed AdBlock.
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by palish 15y ago
It doesn't need a camera... iPhone knows your latitude and longitude --- your position on the surface of the Earth. It also knows the location of each star. Lastly, it knows which way your screen is pointing. That's all the knowledge that
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by palish 15y ago
Thank you too! How long did it take you to get your report fixed? I haven't paid the collectors.. I've been so disgusted with the situation and their behavior. Again, thank you so much for your time.
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by palish 15y ago
Somebody please make this! How hard could it be? No, forget about that -- I'd throw money at you. Heck, I'd work for you while throwing money at you while coding for you. I love toast.
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by palish 15y ago
The Learning Toilet.
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by palish 15y ago
Thank you so very much!
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by palish 15y ago
I wish I could be terribly naive too... =) Aus sounds amazing!

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