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by paulkoer 15y ago
Well yes, you got me. But what made you think I didn't watch the talk?
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Wait ... by applying the overdraft fee aren't you effectively overdrawing your account even more? There should be an overdraft fee for that! Kinda weird they haven't figured that out yet...
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by paulkoer 15y ago
TL;DW (too long, didn't watch) Strong correlation between income inequality within nations [1] and a number of measures that measure 'wellbeing of society' (life expectancy, education, crime, health, trust and aggregate measures). Plotting
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Kind of like China bought the US? Has this had any noticable effect for you guys?
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by paulkoer 15y ago
On one hand I feel the same - Shen looks incredibly nice. And it features a lot of things that I hope Clojure will have in the future (such as an optional static type-systems and high portability due to Clojure in Clojure). Then on the othe
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by paulkoer 15y ago
This is interesting. You can manipulate the AST in other languages of course, for example Python. However these ASTs are so difficult to handle that programmers don't really want to work with them (see point 12. on bottom of the page http:
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by paulkoer 15y ago
This is apparently an old problem that hasn't been fixed yet. As you can imagine, pg has a lot to do these days ;) See here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28944
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by paulkoer 15y ago
I think that "Accelerated C++ Programming by Example" [1] is a good introduction to modern C++. It focuses on the correct use of the standard template library which I think is at the heart of much of modern C++. Needless to say, C++ is very
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by paulkoer 15y ago
The shrill tone in American politics has always irritated me. Be it economic policy or going to war, it seems terribly easy to choke off a sensible argument by calling it 'unamerican'. Maybe controversy and argument should be resuscitated a
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Hello Fogus. What an honor! I loved your book ;) Well, I am certainly not complaining, I think it is mostly just that it needs to be compiled to javascript and that you need to have the right dependencies in place. If you are compiling from
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by paulkoer 15y ago
> I think the Dart VM will be a nice target for compilation from other languages. This would indeed be nice but it seems that google wants to push the language more than the VM. I quite get this because saying "you can now run your favo
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by paulkoer 15y ago
+1000. Give us a platform that people can grow languages on! Maybe the DartVM could become something like what you describe in the same sense as the JVM/CLR is a platform for many languages now? But since their pushing the language it doesn
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Well yes, but I think the motivation here is more 'since javascript is the only game in town, we'll have to compile to that'. I am not aware of any changes made to Javascript to make it easier to compile to it. And I don't think anyone woul
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by paulkoer 15y ago
The one thing I don't understand is why people work on new languages for the browser instead of giving us a platform (virtual machine / intermediate representation, whatever) to implement languages against. I mean here in this thread we are
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by paulkoer 15y ago
So true. It just freaks me out how many people don't get this. The problem is with the broken legal system that needs to get fixed. No I am not happy about Astrolabe doing this stupid stuff, but they are quite clearly the symptom, not the r
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by paulkoer 15y ago
As a German I must say that in my opinion this article captures the German sentiment very well. On the one hand it is short sided, it will likely lead to more economic problems than necessary and the stance of the Euro members (and Germany
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by paulkoer 15y ago
I think the interesting question here is who leaked this email to allthingsd. If the VC really wanted to give the Airbnbs a heads up (as he makes it sound in the email ... take care, let's keep in touch, etc) then I don't think there was an
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Ok, the chicken was great, I admit..
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Was this meant to be funny or demonstrate a lot of personality? (as in: you will endure all this rough English because the message is so important). I am probably not getting the humor but I found it an obnoxious read. All this to tell you
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by paulkoer 15y ago
I don't believe this argument for one second. First off: Of those 55 countries you cite, how many of those countries leaders would you guess are making more money than an HP or equivalent CEO. Any? Surely 'running' a country comes with a ti
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Does it really make sense to have German posts on the HN frontpage? I am German and understand this one, but I think the value of the HN frontpage would be greatly reduced if half of the articles were in a language I can't understand (grant
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by paulkoer 15y ago
Very impressive, nicely done! Spent a couple of minutes exploring migrant streams. Minor nitpick: When I click on 'Macedonia' the origin point appears in Sweden. When I click on 'Serbia' it appears in Canada.
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by paulkoer 15y ago
While I really like DuckDuckGo and wish them success and more press I found this 'interview' very superficial and uninteresting. I wish people would stop up-voting stuff like this.
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by paulkoer 15y ago
WARNING: Installing Natty may brick your Macbook Pro https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774089 http://old.nabble.com/Ubuntu-11.04-broke-my-MacBook-Pro-td31... I really love ubuntu, but if you have a macbook pro be careful! I may hav