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by pge 6y ago
I just started a project to get 0.70 running for windows on my own machine. If I’m successful, I will share with the community.
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by pge 6y ago
Just to add to this answer and perhaps save you the click, what he is referring to is that the force pulling the water upward at high tide is not the direct gravitational pull of the moon. It is that the gravitational force from the moon at
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by pge 6y ago
The Beats are in the 50s (e.g., Howl 1956, On the Road 1957). The Waste Land is 1922.
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by pge 6y ago
The reference is to ITA Software who wrote their code in lisp. The company was acquired by google. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
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by pge 6y ago
When Airtable came out, I remember hearing a lot of comparisons to MSFT Access (enabling non-technical users to set up DB-driven apps). Funny to see it come full circle and have MSFT now introduce a competitor. Maybe they should have invest
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by pge 6y ago
I would characterize myself as an Excel power user, and I love Airtable. The use case is different. Airtable is great for setting up a web-based relational DB app for multiple users very quickly. For example, I have used airtable to implem
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by pge 6y ago
If VCs were investing from a balance sheet or their own accounts, I think this would be true. And my experience in the 2000/2001 and 2008 recessions was the funds that had ready access to capital invested significantly (and got good re
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by pge 6y ago
This is interesting because it seems like the DOJ's definition of monopoly is changing, which I think is a good thing. Since the late 80s (roughly), antitrust litigation has only been brought on the basis of a monopoly's negative
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by pge 6y ago
I have an Apple ][+ that stopped working a few years ago, and I don’t have the time to fix it up. I don’t want to throw it out, as it seems a piece of history (and it’s the computer I grew up using so there’s some nostalgia...). I have all
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by pge 6y ago
Archon was fun. Also recommend Elite (and google the history- it was quite a programming feat at the time).
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by pge 6y ago
I wouldn’t trust these data, not because there is anything wrong with the analysis but because the inputs are inaccurate. What VCs say was the reason they were interested is not necessarily what made them interested. It may be what they tel
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by pge 6y ago
I agree - I see this as much more of a comment on consumer credit-worthiness than on home/land values.
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by pge 6y ago
yes - subjunctive. It comes from English's Germanic roots. Compare the German, "Wenn ich König von Deutschland wäre..." to the English translation, "If I were King of Germany..." and note the similarity of the verbs
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by pge 6y ago
I have wondered the same thing every time this question comes up. It seems the difference is that the companies that put products in grocery stores are very large companies that spend a huge amount on marketing themselves (e.g. P&G, Gen
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by pge 7y ago
isn't the bigger issue that encrypted email is only encrypted in transit and not in place? After you send an encrypted email and it is decrypted on the other side, odds are very high that it is sitting unencrypted on the mail server or
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by pge 7y ago
and you have to worry about whether your headphones are charged.
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by pge 7y ago
I read somewhere (can't find the source now) that the reason for this was that the Apple processor gave them an advantage in being able to have that small a form factor and still have good (actually great) battery life. Without the ene
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by pge 7y ago
> A trope of Hesse's in general... Though I did enjoy Siddhartha, you touch on a point I agree with: Hesse recycles many of the same themes in all of his works, and Siddhartha just takes those themes a different geographic setting (
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by pge 7y ago
The Once and Future King - TH White In particular, his telling of the story of Lancelot
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by pge 7y ago
Funny to see this on HN - I recently stumbled across the book mentioned in the article trying to find a good English translation of Wilhelm Meister. The Essential Goethe is the only good English translation of Wilhelm Meister, Egmont, and I
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by pge 7y ago
Didn’t mean that comment to be about MIT (who may not do legacy preference and certainly isnt lowering academic standards to win ncaa championships). But those are both factors at other top schools including the Ivies and Stanford
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by pge 7y ago
And eliminate legacy preference and ability for sports coaches to influence admissions.
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by pge 7y ago
I used cloudready to get an old windows netbook (asus eeepc) up and running for my kids and it has been great.
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by pge 7y ago
Do I remember correctly that “jot” was also the name of a gui text editor on unix systems as well (different from the program referred to in the parent comment)? I think I used it in the early 90s on an SGI workstation running sun solaris O
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by pge 7y ago
Interesting - I thought that mapping apps on smartphones would change the trend of decline at least a little. One of the challenges of buses is knowing which routes are which, which is often far more difficult to figure out than subway if y
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by pge 7y ago
I think it was to whiten teeth just as it was used to whiten clothes
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by pge 7y ago
2.1B is the same price EMC paid to take RSA private in 2006. Zero increase in value in 13 years... https://corporate.delltechnologies.com/en-us/newsroom/announ...
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by pge 7y ago
info I saw said it was same size as iPhone 6 which is noticeably larger than the SE
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by pge 7y ago
That's exactly how I (reluctantly) became an iPhone user. The iPhone SE was the only decent phone with a smaller form factor, so I had to make the switch from Android.
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by pge 7y ago
“Debt helps you grow faster; debt helps you die faster.” - someone said this to me early in my career and it has stuck with me.

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