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by pook 16y ago
We have bug databases for a reason, we should also have progress databases. Why rely on your gut instinct built from experience, when you can objectively say "it normally takes me one week to implement foo in terms of size and complexity"?
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by pook 16y ago
Chrome's Translate feature has let me down. What language is the comment thread in?
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by pook 16y ago
You and Clippy should put up an Ask HN AMA post. Though I suspect you'll have to lure Clippy here with the promise of persuading angel investors into funding nanotechnological paperclip foundries.
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by pook 16y ago
It is answerable... with a swift kick to the balls of the person asking it.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: Cognitive Biases and Giant Risks [video](vimeo.com)
7 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
Making this a readability-style bookmarklet or plugin would be awesome. I would love a "Speedify" button
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by pook 16y ago
Ignoring that without an interpreted scripting language, you no longer really have emacs...
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by pook 16y ago
the Pickaxe Book is maybe the best resource on starting Ruby. The Poignant Guide ought to be its preface. http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ Also, check out the Rubyquiz. It's a weekly programming challenge much in the spirit of Pr
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by pook 16y ago
The LED would flash green momentarily. Students who reported it to the school were told it was a harmless bug, iirc.
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by pook 16y ago
Primer. It's the only time travel movie that gets it right. Not only is it about plucky young geek entrepreneurs, but by the end of the movie you'll be constructing Feynman diagrams to explain the plot. You won't believe the movie cost only
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The Bat Sex Story(felidware.com)
1 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140336/where-can-i-find-a... has a few, but mostly duplicates of emacswiki's.
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by pook 16y ago
I'm trying to fix the same problem. My attempted solution is to blog at least a paragraph on it. This way I have a public record of it, the opportunity for feedback, and some sense of progression. It hasn't worked very well so far, though,
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by pook 16y ago
http://mises.org/daily/320 a history of speculation and a rebuttal of many of its disparagements
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The Craft of Text Editing [1999](finseth.com)
3 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
I haven't used F#, but I do love Ocaml. I haven't coded anywhere near enough in it, compared to how cool I find it. Have you seen how complete Ocaml's coverage on PLEAC is? http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/index.html
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by pook 16y ago
Haskell is surprisingly fun to hack about in. You've got a fast dev environment, a huge selection of libraries to play with, and a syntax that can pretty much be manipulated into any style of programming you want. It's also one of the few l
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by pook 16y ago
I was under the impression that you only see the downmod arrow if you've got >200 karma points. You've got 445. I didn't know there were comments for which voting is restricted. What are the criteria?
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by pook 16y ago
http://www.crimemuseum.org/blog/?p=839 It turns out that altering your fingertips to become untraceable simply reduces the sample space to "mutilated fingerprints". The same logic holds here. http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abstractdb/Abstract
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by pook 16y ago
Who knows how to make love stay? “When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up
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A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy(eff.org)
6 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
If I wanted cutesy/sickening nicknames, vitriol, and fluff, I'd read Maureen Dowd. tl;dr: go to http://blogs.forrester.com/sarah_rotman_epps/10-05-14-curate... and judge for yourself.
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by pook 16y ago
I think spam is the appropriate metaphor for modern legalistic bullying. It's obvious that the cost of initiating a legal battle is rather small, vastly disproportional to the cost of defending oneself against the hostilities. The asymmetry
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by pook 16y ago
I think it is important to realize that he's saying this in the context of a game . Unless you claim that everyone who has ever revelled in magmaflooding a colony of dwarves is literally a racist/totalitarian/sadist...
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by pook 16y ago
This would actually be a good use for an HN wiki, as suggested here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330602
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by pook 16y ago
It's when reading non-HN fora that I thank science for this small outpost of literacy and reasoning. The level of discourse elsewhere is physically painful.
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The story of _why's vanished dog Bigelow(shack-a-nerd.livejournal.com)
1 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
Mobile p2p a la Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe. Mix wardriving with a way of getting cheap secondhand laptops, and you could have an interesting market. http://craphound.com/est/?page_id=1574
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by pook 16y ago
Take a look at ezbl. Emacs doesn't even attempt to become embeddable. It instead takes the strategy of assimilating everything into a unified, tweakable UI. Two completely different strategies, both useful in their own niches, and incredibl
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by pook 16y ago
I suppose if you score a maximum on the test, you get put in charge of putting autoplay video ads on the site.

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