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by qohen 9y ago
Twilight Imperium is now in its third edition, having grown mightily since its previous two iterations. Fourth edition [0] is available for pre-order from Fantasy Flight Games and some people supposedly got copies at GenCon a week or so a
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by qohen 9y ago
If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have gone researching it and then finding legocia's 2017 comment to a 2010 StackOverflow thread where he says that perhaps a pull request involving an "event manager for signals&quo
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by qohen 9y ago
How do you handle operating system signals? like when your autoscale group decides to scala down and you get a SIGTERM with some time to handle it, what do you do? This might help: from the release notes to Erlang R20 (i.e. latest): A ne
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While most of the 70+ branches are closed Sundays, there are some 8 or 9 that are open from 1-5 on Sundays. E.g. the branch on Robertson, a few blocks south of Pico. The hours for all branches are on the following page; to find the ones ope
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by qohen 9y ago
I haven't heard of snopes.com before From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com Snopes.com /ˈsnoʊps/, also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet
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The term has a long history - as the Wikipedia page [0] points out, "knowledge base" was used to distinguish systems that could actively reason about data using rules (and a rules-engine to run them) -- e.g. expert systems -- from
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by qohen 9y ago
If there were some better known examples of what lisp macros were good for then maybe it would get better traction. But lisp macros don't seem to have an example of why they are worth that trade. FYI, Paul Graham's book, "O
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Star Wars / Sgt. Pepper Mashup(youtube.com)
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If you are going to open up a coffee shop, you better own the building, roast your own beans, and have a location where 1000's of people walk by everyday to work or public transportation. And it might help to have a Starbucks nearby
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> How's Microsoft's "Surface" thing doing? Recent iterations of Microsoft's Surface tablets seem to be doing well [0]: In those early days, the Surface was looking less like an Xbox-style home run for Microsoft,
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> The lack of apps was a real issue though. About apps: recently -- i.e. just during the past few weeks -- I've been seeing adaptations of top-tier designr board-games -- e.g. Terra Mystica and Galaxy Trucker -- showing up for Windo
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> And the next logical step would be a virtual dressing room Another logical step might be skin-cancer screening (surprised that, in 300-ish comments, no one seems to have thought of this), assuming the camera's resolution and/
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by qohen 9y ago
Is it that hard to imagine that a machine can do a better job than at least some people, particularly if the machine is trained by experts and/or Big Data and/or even Mechanical Turk? There's a reason we have terms like &qu
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by qohen 10y ago
There's a bit of back-story here, the gist of which is: the book initially was supposed to come out from O'Reilly and Associates, but periodically the release date would get pushed back by 3 months or so. Then they cancelled it. I
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by qohen 10y ago
Not the right languages, but if you want to see TDD being done, deeply, there's a guy, Brett Schuchert, who has some very detailed videos where you watch him do it and he explains what he's doing and why. He has an 11-video series
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only basic ugly graphs are supported. That's what Grafana [0][1] is for -- i.e. creating nicer displays for Graphite. However it's single host, doesn't scale It may take some effort, but it can be done, and much of the he
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by qohen 10y ago
This reminds me that the laws for firing vary by state. I think California is one of the strictest in this area, right? Actually, quite the opposite -- California is an "at-will" state. From the website of an attorney who deals
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by qohen 10y ago
take a read at Scott Adams (Dilbert) blog, where he argues that the mainstream climate science community isn't just factually wrong, but they're actively deluding themselves. I don't think that's an accurate descriptio
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good to hear stories from people that have done it. FYI, there are now many articles/blog posts/etc. by people who have done these Vipissana retreats -- this Google search will find you some: https://www.google.com&#x
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Since you mentioned it...here's the official music video of the Rumjacks' "An Irish Pub Song", for your entertainment pleasure (the lyrics are there too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDTQQWSmo8s (Ove
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by qohen 10y ago
> I don't know what stormfont is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_%28website%29 Stormfront is a white nationalist, white supremacist and neo-Nazi Internet forum that was the Web's first major raci
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by qohen 10y ago
It's not specifically a tech term, e.g. spec scripts in the entertainment business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_script
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After learning the basics, this course might be helpful, by Marty Hall: http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/java.html It's a more advanced course that will review some basics and then take you into mo
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by qohen 10y ago
How about a free 16-hour video course called "Java for Complete Beginners"? :-) It's by a guy named John Purcell. The course covers Java basics pretty well (note: there may be a few new-ish things like BigDecimal that you&#x2
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BTW, while interesting on its own, the article provides us with this little tidbit about the novel's author, Ethel Voynich, which is sure to be of interest to HN-ers (my emphasis added): The melodrama of Voynich’s novel is matched by
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Here's a background article in Vanity Fair [0] about the previous installlments of this Kafka-esque story, by Michael Lewis, who later incorporated it into his book, The Flash Boys , about High-Frequency Trading (you may know Lewis f
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Agreed on the typing, however. Have you guys looked into Dialyzer? Dialyzer is a static analysis tool for Erlang and other languages that compile to BEAM bytecode for the Erlang VM. It can analyze the BEAM files and provide warnings abou
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by qohen 10y ago
Would have been great to see a dome built by Buckminster Fuller in Brooklyn You might want to check out the recent SNL sketch, "The Bubble" (2 min, 20 sec), if you haven't already seen it: [0] https://www.youtube
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s/Zawinski/Betteridge/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by qohen 10y ago
Sinbad/Shazam vs. Shaq/Kazaam -- isn't it obvious what has happened here? Clearly, this is yet another unintended consequence of Flashpoint[0]. http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-flash-recap-flashpoint-cha

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