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by qohen 11y ago
What he means is, you said this: Don't use abbreviations, long words we may not know, pretending to be Hemingway. But Hemingway is the poster-boy for a style that is the exact opposite [0]: Basically, his style is simple, direct, an
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From the bottom of GitUp's project page (under the download button) [0]: "Requires Mac OS X 10.8 or later—OS X Yosemite recommended." [0] http://gitup.co/
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by qohen 11y ago
Just as a reminder, idea #1 is basically what Slashdot has done for ages -- seems to work for them.
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As it happens, in addition to writing the article under discussion in this post, Peter Hessler also wrote another New Yorker piece about one of the zabbaleen: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/
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The 950+ results returned from searching HN for the term [0] would suggest that, contrary to your thesis, Hacker News readers do, in fact, appreciate one liners quite a bit -- just take a look at these examples: - Also, awk has a fun way o
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This is one of those, I believe -- Eric Ligman is Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager (whatever that is) and he apparently posts large lists of free Microsoft-stack-related eBooks on his blog at MSDN, such as this list from a few week
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Might be worth watching this first, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE
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Fred Hebert, author of Learn You Some Erlang has a new postscript to the book about the new way time will be handled in Erlang 18+ : http://learnyousomeerlang.com/time (BTW, there's also a talk from Erlang Factory by
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Frozen custard seems to be having a moment now -- in the US, a large ice cream manufacturer -- Dreyer's (AKA Edy's) -- came out with a line of packaged frozen custard that showed up in supermarkets around 2 or 3 months ago: http:
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Do read the ProPublica report linked in the very first paragraph and you may feel differently. (Or click on the link to the ProPublica [0] piece and/or the related NPR piece [1] below -- the two outfits jointly investigated the Red Cro
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May I suggest that you also send them a link to Zed Shaw's "Learn C The Hard Way" online book [0], which presents lessons in modern C programming, including the use of tools like Valgrind, etc.? [0] http://c.learnc
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New information has arrived since this story was posted -- apparently it wasn't a cardiac thing, as I'd thought when I posted my comment about Douglas Adams' death -- in this case, there was head trauma as a result of slippin
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Reminiscent of the untimely death of Douglas Adams [1] (author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", etc.) at 49, post-exercise: Adams died of a heart attack on 11 May 2001, aged 49, after resting from his regular worko
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And, also relevant: gen_microservice was first committed to Github today, April 1.
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If you share that sentiment and want to hear some music a la Moog , Moog Cookbook [0] has a bunch of tunes on Grooveshark [1] , etc. They were a duo that performed heavily Moog-ified alternative and classic rock tunes while wearing space s
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Crowsourcing!
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For example we end up spending very little time using a debugger and make much more use of “printf debugging”...and partly because the Erlang debugger is rudimentary. Many (most?) Erlang developers use powerful tracing tools for debugging
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It's mentioned in the CEO's letter on anthemfacts.com: Anthem’s own associates’ personal information – including my own – was accessed during this security breach.
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BTW, in case it's worth mentioning, this stuff happened last summer (i.e. end of Aug. 2014). FWIW, the story seems to have made it to HN around that time, though it only got 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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A bit more detail from a GigaOM piece [1] on this: According to Noah Kantrowitz, a former Chef colleague and a recent critic of how the company has been managing its open source community, Vargo’s work on the Chef-centric workflow manageme
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In case anyone's concerned, Erlang's random module is not meant to be used for cryptographic purposes. Quoting from a follow-up msg [0] by Anthony Ramine in that thread: The Erlang documentation says: > It should be noted th
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The Hebrew word for young girl was very close to the word virgin, there was only a subtle difference in the spelling. Sorry, but this simply isn't so. עַלמָה -- 'almah -- is the Hebrew word for young girl in Isaiah. (The corr
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if North Korea really wanted to train a cadre of hackers. They've done this -- they have an elite military-hacker unit called Bureau 121 of about 1800 people, as described by a defector in a recent Reuters story I quote in my comment
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They went into the computer lab at their university That's civilian; the military is a whole 'nother story: From a Reuters story about the Sony hack [0]: Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in Nor
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It's great to see that this wasn't just a one-shot experiment but rather led to the creation of a program that still exists to this day, close to 20 years later, that teaches courses for low-income students in a variety of cities:
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This post may be interesting to people not only for the author's motivations in using Amazon's CreateSpace but also for his description of what one needs to do -- and the tools he used -- to make a good looking math book. (And muc
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Look at movie industries. Seriously? The movie biz is known for being brutally ageist. And it's not just a problem for actors, but even for writers and other behind-the-camera folks, who find work drying up as they grow older, e.g.:
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Microsoft selling 50 boxed CD sets (as MP3) at $1.99/ea., via “Music Deals” app
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Direct link to the post in question (it's not on the front page any more): http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/November_22_2014/The_Dail...
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Culture agents visit Earth in a short story set after Consider Phlebas and it's during the Middle Ages. I'm not familiar with any medieval Culture encounters (and I don't see any in Wikipedia's description of the Cultu

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