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61.
by quarterto 11y ago
So if I call you a dickhead and you're offended, it's your fault?
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by quarterto 11y ago
It's actually not extending object indexing. From the object's point of view, the symbol is just another (albeit opaque) string.
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by quarterto 11y ago
On the London Underground, every single "Open Door" button is a placebo. All of the doors open all of the time (unless the platform's too short). It's not the case on main line trains or the Docklands Light Railway.
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Fun with malicious email attachments(blog.153.io)
2 points by quarterto 12y ago|0 comments
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by quarterto 12y ago
I was under the impression that the attack had evolved since this tactic. Is there any word on what the current attack looks like? Or is it still this?
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by quarterto 12y ago
For people who want an ISO layout, custom keycaps or greater choice of switches, the WASD V2 is identical to this except without the backlighting (how often are you at your desk with the lights off?). I've owned one for a year and it&#
67.
by quarterto 12y ago
Also Longplayer[1], played on singing bowls, which will end at midnight on the 31st of December, 2999. It's written to constantly evolve and never repeat. You can stream it! http://longplayer.org/
68.
by quarterto 12y ago
There is never a good reason to use ==.
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by quarterto 12y ago
I've noticed that in the "two come along at once" scenario, the second bus often leapfrogs the first, skipping a stop while the first bus picks up passengers. I've no intuitive idea whether this would smooth out the flow
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by quarterto 12y ago
London buses are cashless. Either you use an Oyster or contactless payment card, or buy a ticket or pass in advance.
71.
by quarterto 12y ago
According to the Register, that bastion of quality journalism...
72.
by quarterto 12y ago
And this is a conversation about English common names and literature.
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by quarterto 12y ago
It's in response to an earlier-submitted article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9136546
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by quarterto 12y ago
Well, yes, but they're not used as names in common speech, hence my point.
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by quarterto 12y ago
I like the convention in most space-exploration sci-fi of calling natural planetary satellites "moons" and stars with planetary systems "suns", but calling our sun "Sol" and Earth's moon "Luna".
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by quarterto 12y ago
As pointed out by the other commenters, Cruithne doesn't orbit the Earth, but orbits the Sun with the in 1:1 resonance with the Earth. Its orbit is highly elliptical: at perihelion it's closer than Mercury, and aphelion further th
77.
by quarterto 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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Show HN: GitHub releases atom feed(github-releases.herokuapp.com)
3 points by quarterto 12y ago|0 comments
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by quarterto 12y ago
local colour vs perceived colour LOCAL COLOUR VS PERCEIVED COLOUR LOCAL COLOUR VS PERCEIVED COLOUR nobody is arguing that the perceived colour of the dress is black.
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by quarterto 12y ago
One-electron seems very problematic in light of the observed antimatter asymmetry. Why/how could the electron travel forwards in time more often than backwards?
81.
by quarterto 12y ago
s/node/Sindre/ node and the npm ecosystem have a healthy amount of modularity. Sindre Sorhus releases modules for single regexes[1]. [1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/filename-reserved-regex/blob.
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by quarterto 12y ago
http://funscript.info/
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by quarterto 12y ago
It entirely misses the point of what's linked here, and does so in a combative manner.
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by quarterto 12y ago
It's actually built into the meteor command line tool. meteor deploy pushes your code to project-name.meteor.com.
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by quarterto 12y ago
Since it seems to use atom-shell for the UI[1], it's likely Chromium. [1]: https://vivaldi.com/#Features/4
86.
by quarterto 12y ago
Wait until you hear about Dihydrogen Monoxide. It's a major constituent of urine, yet widely used as a food additive and even sold bottled for human consumption.
87.
by quarterto 12y ago
How would it catch something like cp /bin/rm ponies ; ./ponies -rf /
88.
by quarterto 12y ago
I find that, playing Ingress, I'm not actually taking in my surroundings at all. It doesn't feel like exploration. The game just absorbs everything.
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by quarterto 12y ago
My custom keyboard layout[1] has a third and fourth level (Alt+[Key], Alt+Shift+[Key]) containing various useful Greek and mathematical symbols, e.g. λσγδ∀∃∈⊂∞∅ℤℕ←→↓↑ [1]: I used Ukelele on Mac but there's also Keyboard Layout Creator
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by quarterto 12y ago
As a native speaker (granted, it's an American English idiom and I'm British), I understood it semantically as "so what?", i.e. "I don't care about this feature's existence".

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