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by peferron 10y ago
Um. Are you missing the entire point of the quote, or am I ? I understand the quote as meaning that we should speak out even when groups we do not identify with are being oppressed. But you seem to understand the quote as meaning that we
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by peferron 10y ago
TaekBangLeeSsang vs DeepCraft. I'd watch the hell out of that. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/TaekBangLeeSsang
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If HN news threads suddenly started to be filled with comments such as "made $500 betting on the Falcon 9 first stage to tip over after landing", would you also answer "you are upset that people are interested in news for dif
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The annoying thing is the amount of people whining about their losses or gloating about their wins. I couldn't care less about gambling, so to me it just drowns the discussion about the game itself. Not to mention the unpleasantness wh
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by peferron 10y ago
I found the calendar thing funny too. Then I remembered we're all counting from the birth of Jesus.
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Several years back I decided to stop taking photos. I felt I spent too much time looking at the world through my camera screen or viewfinder instead of with my own eyes, and worrying about the right settings instead of simply enjoying mysel
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by peferron 11y ago
Most car accidents are caused by human drivers, but purely technical solutions have still drastically reduced death rates.
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Try camping one full year in Ireland (beautiful country) and see how natural it feels to sleep 7 hrs in summer and 17 hrs in winter. And Ireland isn't even that far north.
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by peferron 11y ago
The funniest thing about this entire debacle is the thousand of self-assured programmers coming out to show the JS/NPM world how it's done, only to have their short, simple, no-nonsense functions fail miserably on some edge cases
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by peferron 11y ago
My wife's iPad 2 slowed down to a crawl after updating to iOS 8. She doesn't use it anymore because of that. Obviously Apple doesn't want iOS devices more than 5 years old to remain in use either. In the meantime I've up
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by peferron 11y ago
"Germany is on track to be 100% renewable by 2020" Do you have a source for this? It seems completely unbelievable.
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by peferron 11y ago
You really don't have to spend hours min-maxing your miles like described in the article. Just spend two minutes creating an account online, and ten seconds inputting your member number when buying tickets or checking in. Then two year
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by peferron 11y ago
We work in tech and often use/design SDKs. We had this goofy idea to build a “Pastry Development Kit” to help food lovers bake great French pastries at home, with the qualities we appreciate in good SDKs: easy setup, simple interfaces,
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Show HN: Pastry Development Kit(pastrynow.com)
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And take off any fancy shoes before going down a slide! (Or even better, don't wear fancy shoes.) My wife's shoes got ruined by friction in the heel area. Still glad we went, it's an awesome place. :) You can even pair it wit
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by peferron 11y ago
Was shocked to see Bordeaux #2! My wife and I are there right now. It's a beautiful city—probably my favorite in France so far. It's also very walkable and bikeable. Coming from the Silicon Valley (San Mateo area) it's a huge
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by peferron 11y ago
My few examples were not meant to be sorted nor exhaustive. They were meant to illustrate the fact that places that offer a lot of tech jobs tend to be high-density cities, rather than a collection of comparatively lower-density areas like
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by peferron 11y ago
One of the things that make Silicon Valley unique is its low density. Almost all other tech hubs are located in extremely dense cities: NYC, London, Seoul, Tokyo... Rather than turning Silicon Valley into another one of these, I'd pref
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by peferron 11y ago
I use a French desktop keyboard and I've remapped left ctrl / left cmd / right cmd / right ctrl (it's a Mac) to { [ ] }. When used as modifiers they of course still perform their original function. Works like a char
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by peferron 11y ago
Why does this show that the modern democratic state is defunct?
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by peferron 11y ago
> As much as you make fun of C I didn't make fun of C. I made fun of a comment posted by a C programmer, which is very different. I have absolutely nothing against C. > C will teach you to keep you programs simple and efficient,
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by peferron 11y ago
Yes! JS, Python and Ruby are just "dead simple" "scripting" languages that only serve to "make a shitload of money" and aren't "real programming". Real programmers (like me) use C. Seriously, no.
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by peferron 11y ago
Did you read the post to which my reply was directed? I'm not addressing these questions to you or to one of the "people who do not run statistical analysis before deciding if they should care for their loved ones". I'm
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by peferron 11y ago
You would have 0.01% chance of being wrong. How high would it need to be to warrant, in your eyes, checking if your family members are alive, instead of assuming they are? 0.1%? 1%? 10%? And why?
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by peferron 11y ago
I don't know about NYC, but in Paris most of the graffity are ugly, uninspired scribblings like this: http://iyftc1oqf704bytwz45ub151.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c... http://www.theworldisnotflat.com/fil
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by peferron 11y ago
Your comment sounded like it only worked because of implementation details in the JS engines. That would have been a much bigger deal than just not liking the style. Out of curiosity, how would you do it yourself?
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Which part of the spec makes you think it only works incidentally? http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-array.fr...
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by peferron 11y ago
That's indeed pretty fun. In practice however this is much simpler: let sqr = x => Math.pow(x, 2) let distance = (p1, p2) => Math.sqrt(sqr(p2.x - p1.x) + sqr(p2.y - p1.y)) const zero = Object.freeze({x: 0, y: 0})
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Older hotel rooms tend to have dark carpet, dark furniture, and dismal lighting that would barely qualify to light a refrigerator. When entering a hotel room my first action is often to turn on every single lamp just because it's so go
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by peferron 11y ago
That's definitely useful, but the current Rust playground already does this (sorry for not being clear in my post). I meant a more full-featured history where you can view multiple previous edits, not just restore the last one.

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