paulnechifor

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by paulnechifor 11y ago
While you have this on the front page, why not start a repo where people can send pull requests, rather than submit one word at a time?
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by paulnechifor 12y ago
I thought better of HN before this. It looks like if you don't toe the line you get downvoted and your comments get [killed].
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by paulnechifor 12y ago
It looks to me like you're neglecting email addresses from < http://ai./> . The 'ai' TLD does have an MX record.
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by paulnechifor 12y ago
I see you always omit the semicolon for the last statement in a block. Is this a Pascal influence?
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by paulnechifor 12y ago
> Diversity [...] is good for public relations. That's pretty much the only reason tech companies are interested in diversity.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
It's only expensive if you have high standards. Romania (and much of Eastern Europe) has good connections because there is a demand for cheap and fast connections (due to piracy). This resulted in neighborhood networks of 100-1000 peop
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Nautilus and Thunar (to name a few) in Ubuntu use SI prefixes.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
A grid of 6x4 cells, or a generic thing of 6 units by 4 units.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Damn, this doesn't work for me yet. I wanted to identify as a "just this nice uber trans-trans-awesome-guy".
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
You misunderstand names. If you want to be pedantic, TeX comes from τέχνη, yet I notice you didn't use Greek letters ΤΕΧ but the Latin letters TEX. Notice they are not the same, but look the same. You also didn't subscript the E.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Tex is the name, TeX is the author's preferred stylization in non-TeX environments (and the most used). Fix is not the best term since it's not broken. You can't force someone to adopt your stylization.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
This HN trend of portraying everything as sexist is getting out of hand.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Are you referring to “I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won”[1]? If so, in that case the ISP altered DNS results to point to its own HTTP server and redirect to the real one with a modified URL. SSL would have helped a bit, but the fi
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
And Nimrod would be their legitimate favorite son.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Yes: copyright infringement. US law also calls it that and not theft[1]. Also note the disparity: if you pay for software, you don't own it, you license it; but if you get it without paying, some call it theft. [1]: http://e
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
While on the topic of useless keys, what do you think of the Menu key? I use mine for a drop down terminal (Tilda, or Yakuake before).
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
“Angry” languages aren't used much anymore (FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC), so there is no need for Caps Lock.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
> World War 2 started when Germany decided to invade Poland in late 1939. Germany and the Soviet Union. Sure, the Soviets attacked after the Germans, but they split Poland between them before the invasion.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
> if you're holding one orange and I ask for your first orange then you give me that one, in your first hand. I'm over-emphasising but the point is that no zeroes are involved. No ones are involved either. I don't have a &
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
My occasional alarm clock is: $ sleep 8h; mpg123 <something>/pandemonic_hyperblast.mp3 There is no way to fail to wake up with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Den-CQ6jk .
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
I don't call it cheating... I call it simulation of the effects of cropping. But seriously though, I was quite was surprised by how little is lost if you repeatedly encode the same image. Then again, it makes a lot of sense if you look
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
While on the subject of JPEG in JavaScript, I made a web page[1] to repeatedly encode an image in order to bring out the artifacts. (Works “best” on text.) [1] http://minimul.ro/enricher
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Isn't that an oxymoron?
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
I did a similar thing for Romanian identities [1]. Then I discovered that some are way more extensive [2] [3]. [1] http://minimul.ro/identitate-falsa [2] http://fakenamegenerator.com [3] http://www.da
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
I think that's perfectly valid. Sometimes a dead guy can make an argument better than I can and it's better to quote him than rephrase it in my own words and pretend I'm insightful. This does however mean that I'm suppos
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
If you struggle so hard to imitate an authentic native English speaker accent doesn't that have the side effect of ruining your accent in your native accent? For example I changed to a Dvorak-like layout, and could barely type QWERTY.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
This is what I do too. Caps lock is a mistake anyway. The keyboards vi was written on had ESC where the tab key is on most keyboards now[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
It exists in the same way tablets have existed for a very long time. But we don't just communicate with technically skilled people. Something that can be used by everybody and can be trusted would be really awesome.
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
>Who's going to keep around livestock? The people who want to eat actual animals. >For what reason? I wouldn't be so quick to assume that cloning muscle cells is the same as meat and it will replace all animal products. What
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by paulnechifor 13y ago
Well, when a student doesn't understand his own work, that's a dead giveaway. >This is why a large proportion of a degree should be based on in-class work where the student is physically present. I disagree. That's good for a test or tw

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