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by pook 16y ago
I switched to dvorak awhile ago. I still catch myself having a frisson of pleasure in the act of typing some words; typing feels like an intricate finger tango at times. The only gripe I still have with it is every single time I type ls -
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by pook 16y ago
http://www.ozonesocks.com/sock-of-the-month-club.html Looks like you've been beat, mate.
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by pook 16y ago
You just did. Simply prefix your question with "Ask HN" Edit: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=911565
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Ask HN: Pomodoro Technique advice?
2 points by pook 16y ago|6 comments
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by pook 16y ago
You just read When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, didn't you? http://craphound.com/?p=1678
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How Google Uses Linux[2009](lwn.net)
39 points by pook 16y ago|4 comments
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by pook 16y ago
More importantly but less vociferously, by Google switching to an open source OS, it means anyone, anywhere, can fix vulnerabilities. Not just Google. Considering the difficulty of patching security holes in proprietary software versus patc
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by pook 16y ago
I'm joining, definitely. I just started my own similar project: One Month Codebase http://zipwith.blogspot.com/search/label/one%20month%20codeb... The idea for my project is to focus exclusively on a single codebase to study, experiment w
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by pook 16y ago
This is a great idea. It reminds me of daf yomi in studying talmud, "a page a day". A page a day is barely a burden, yet in 3 years you can have thoroughly read Misner's Gravitation, Programming Erlang 3 times over, and any number of grad-l
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Ask HN: Who Celebrated Quit Facebook Day?
2 points by pook 16y ago|1 comments
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by pook 16y ago
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://news.ycombinator.co... EDIT: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.google.com&... I suppose we should by this logic be 4 times more confident in Diaspora than Google, and 15 times mor
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by pook 16y ago
Nice. I was able to instantly add a local hackerspace: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Buffalolabs
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Measuring Optimization Power[2008](lesswrong.com)
1 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/tx/optimization/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/va/measuring_optimization_power/ Eliezer Yudkowsky described this pretty well.
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Haskell Quotes(ece.iastate.edu)
2 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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Modafinil: Stimulant Drug in Sheep's Clothing(modern-psychiatry.com)
1 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
" For me, it was more than just male bonding and mayonnaise in my sweltering hot basement. That was probably the best summer of their lives." I don't know whether this is serious, trolling, or a damn good sense of humor.
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The longest single word .com domain name(llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com)
1 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
We should make a Tiny Fork Day. A day where X people fork, make at least one contribution, and request a pull. Set up a cool site targetting people who are interested in coding, but haven't yet gotten the courage to contribute, and you coul
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by pook 16y ago
Pro tip: every single man who ever married the woman he loves, has no fucking idea how he managed to attract her. We're all completely baffled when a woman decides to spend her life with a yog-shothoth like us.
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by pook 16y ago
Take the bag, fall in love, and do something worth staying around for. Have children, invest in singularity-inducing tech, fight pirates on the open seas. You'd be surprised how powerful the urge to live, despite daily I-can't-take-this-any
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by pook 16y ago
http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=3514 in real life?
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by pook 16y ago
The whole Ken Thompson thread is fascinating. http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=7f3&t=7f3.44
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by pook 16y ago
Even worse, you'll link them to sites with good arguments for exactly where it is useful... named "10 places where coq comes in handy" and "You and coq: a good fit" or "Do it faster with coq"
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Poe's Law(rationalwiki.org)
56 points by pook 16y ago|12 comments
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by pook 16y ago
> Nobody knows for sure how crop circles are made. Maybe this guy does. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2191565.stm These two, as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle#Bower_and_Chorley edit: and anyone who reads this:
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by pook 16y ago
Mind you, the Korean loves America. The Korean practically writes a love song to America every chance he has. But there are certain things about contemporary America drives the Korean crazy, and this is one of them: the idea that the proce
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by pook 16y ago
"Never argue with a crazy person." "You can't fuck crazy sane." "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well."
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by pook 16y ago
http://atmac.org/freedom-turn-off-the-internet-and-get-some-... Freedom does this, apparently pretty well. Not CLI, though, apparently.
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The EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pook 16y ago|1 comments

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