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571.
by pc 17y ago
Would love to see a Mac version of this.
572.
by pc 17y ago
Have you actually used Stalin? Compiling anything with it is shockingly slow. It does, of course, produce very fast programs—but it can take minutes to generate them, even in simple cases.
573.
by pc 17y ago
I think teej is arguing the exact opposite of what you interpreted his comment as saying.
574.
by pc 17y ago
Is it my imagination, or are there very short samples from Commander Keen playing in the second video? (E.g., about 5 seconds in.)
575.
Undop: use display dimming to penalise time wasting(collison.ie)
24 points by pc 17y ago|12 comments
576.
by pc 17y ago
How does that help here? My query doesn't contain any directly-searchable strings, unless you start abstracting things by treating all alpha chars as the same, etc.
577.
Ask HN: What kind of index is Google using here?(google.com)
116 points by pc 17y ago|45 comments
578.
by pc 17y ago
No-one's suggesting they're doing anything untoward. Just that what they're doing is interesting.
579.
Facebook doesn't want you to deactivate your account.(collison.ie)
50 points by pc 17y ago|39 comments
580.
by pc 17y ago
This interview -- transcribed (very) directly from a Skype conversation -- makes me have so much respect for Obama's eloquence when speaking without notes. I need to improve.
581.
by pc 17y ago
"Don't panic" was actually displayed on launch in the original app, but I forgot to include it in the App Store version.
582.
MIT Technology Review: Inside the launch of Wolfram Alpha(beta.technologyreview.com)
2 points by pc 17y ago|0 comments
583.
To cut costs, California moving to digital textbooks(mercurynews.com)
3 points by pc 17y ago|4 comments
584.
by pc 17y ago
If you want to test Bing in Safari, try: $ curl collison.ie/code/bing-safari-patch.rb | ruby It'll replace Google with Bing in Safari's search box in the top right. (Of course, you should read the code before running it.)
585.
by pc 17y ago
The "standing on the shoulders of giants" quote is a bad example. It was a jibe at Hooke. From Michael White's biography of Newton: "In the last sentence Newton revealed the truly spiteful, uncompromising and razor-sharp viciousness of his
586.
by pc 17y ago
Basically, glibc includes bash-specific shell scripts. You probably can't build glibc without bash, and some glibc components (like ldd, as the blog post points out) require bash.
587.
China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect)(shanghai.edushi.com)
132 points by pc 17y ago|40 comments
588.
by pc 17y ago
Mathematica's speed (or lack thereof) rarely bothers me; personally, limitations caused by not having the turtles go all the way down tends to be a bigger issue. With that said, I find the lengths to which Mathematica takes pattern-matching
589.
by pc 17y ago
It's unlikely, but far from impossible. The delta v to get to low-earth orbit is about 10 km/s (more depending on drag), while the delta vs from low earth orbit to the Lagrangian points, low lunar orbit, or even earth escape velocity are of
590.
by pc 18y ago
This reads like a Chinese government strategy document: "the world thinks we suck. How do we convince everyone we're vibrant and fun-loving?" I've been a Lisp hacker for years -- Symbolics Lisp Machine in my bedroom, coded in at least a hal
591.
by pc 18y ago
This power does not come without a price. Ruby is slow. Ruby is generally recognized as being twice as slow as Python, and at least an order of magnitude slower than C++ or Java. The last two statements don't mean the first is true. Ruby'
592.
by pc 18y ago
Am a bit surprised at the omission of the Lambda papers. http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
593.
An analysis of the Buffalo air crash(milesobrien.wordpress.com)
60 points by pc 18y ago|12 comments
594.
by pc 18y ago
It's not even just English: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=news&btnG=Google... , http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=乗り換え案内&btnG=G...
595.
Facebook Tech Talk: Mark Zuckerberg on Memcached(facebook.com)
34 points by pc 18y ago|14 comments
596.
by pc 18y ago
It may mean that. But it may also mean that they're intransigent.
597.
by pc 18y ago
Good idea.
598.
by pc 18y ago
The people suggesting .edu email address verification (especially fancy systems with 'alum' filtering) forget non-US colleges. One solution might be to use Facebook Connect -- I'm not sure if you'd have access to all the data you need, but
599.
by pc 18y ago
The problem with these proposals is that the passengers' incentives aren't aligned with the airline's. I sit and read a magazine or surf the internet until everyone else has boarded, which minimizes time spent queueing, and that spent in th
600.
by pc 18y ago
Objective-C: @property requires duplication of the ivar type, and doesn't imply @synthesize. (To do either of these would stop it being a simple macro, but that elegance comes at the expense of a frustrating amount of unnecessary typing.) C

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