pjvandehaar

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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
That's addressed in the post. > Oh, where did you think it was going to be? Somewhere convenient for you? > One of the stronger reasons for adopting a new time zone is to more easily do business with a neighbouring territory whic
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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
I agree with you, but you are using the wrong numbers. Sure, only 23% of households have 4+ members, but they contain 44% of all Americans. Likewise, the 1.3% of households with 7+ members contain 6.2% of Americans. And there are more peop
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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
The paper doesn't explore life-years, but perhaps it would be possible to look at the distribution of ages at death?
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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
At https://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/ click "Operating System" and "Performance Share" to see: - 300 PFlops: Linux - 260 PFlops: other - 150 PFlops: Cray Linux - 130 PFlops:
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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
> [YC] need to make the argument [that their investment in the marijuana industry] isn't white people getting rich on the back of black lives Sorry, I don't quite understand. Which of these is your view: 1. YC/Meadow is h
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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
iTerm2 lets you force a minimum contrast, which solves the contrast problem while still letting you use colors. Lots of programs display hard-to-see colors (red-on-black for me too), so it makes sense to address this problem at the termina
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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
That article says: > Common contemporary usage classes PascalCase as a special type of CamelCase, namely upper camel case
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by pjvandehaar 9y ago
I agree that a stacked bar graph would be nice, since the focus is on the per-species total across all 8 tooth types. Could you explain why a line graph is bad for a discrete but ordered variable, like [Molars - Premolars - Canines - Incis
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by pjvandehaar 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F%3A
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by pjvandehaar 10y ago
"\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward These have to go in `~/.inputrc`, right?
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by pjvandehaar 10y ago
Velco is wonderful– thanks for making it. Buttons are pretty easy, but that's a really convenient (and fun!) way to build a navbar. I don't see the point of supporting something that's in alpha– it's just going to change
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by pjvandehaar 10y ago
I agree with you that nothing will convince creationists. But Origen's Genesis 1 was far from representative of his time. Sure, he's an early example of not taking Genesis 1 literally, but that's only because he was pushing
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by pjvandehaar 16y ago
Another way to avoid PayPal fees is to 1) decide how much to give, 2) multiply it by six, and 3) decide by dice roll whether to give it.
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by pjvandehaar 16y ago
It'd be great if someone added "[processor-heavy]" on to the title of posts like this.
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by pjvandehaar 16y ago
In a centralized system, hosts can be held accountable.
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
Is not the fact that children are stealing their parents' money worse than that people are stealing money from children?
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
"The net result is that Internet Explorer will execute this script, but other browsers will ignore the script altogether. This makes your page load faster in browsers that don’t need this hack." Though he means "faster than IE", it sounds a
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
One has to factor in that there are thousands of things he could have printed that would have had roughly the same effect (eg. "Piss off", etc).
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
This phrase is only fun to subvocalize because of its resemblance to "Fire the Torpedoes!"
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
This is disproved by the fact that at least 10 perfectly photoshopped screenshots had to have been submitted in the first hour, and have not been posted.
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
He'd lose a little money, but couldn't he pay them minimum wage and then charge them $7/hour for the training he's giving them(just like the martial arts schools)? Also, if his company is him and a bunch of interns, who's going to sue him?
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
I assumed "usual" implied not a certain specific joke, but the presence of a joke.
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
An answer to the second would be a system pointing out people's replies to themselves.
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
Do a bit of a merger between paulgraham.com and HN by moving comments for those articles over to each essay's page and inter-linking.
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
I think he just described much of LISP (from my limited knowledge of it)
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
HTML 5 with the 3D css feature should allow a whole different approach to this sort of thing, yes?
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
That doesn't work on my 64-bit Linux :(
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
So if you could figure out just how much storage, you could use Moore's law to figure out just when this will become practical? If "nearly infinite", then this will likely never happen (unless you go with the "accelerating returns").
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
I got in trouble for using modulus(%)...
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by pjvandehaar 17y ago
Assuming that placement on the front page is determined by points/age, allow users to set the weight of age. If I were to set the weight to .3, I would end up with the "/best" page. Users might set this based on how often they visit, via

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