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by qw 16y ago
When reading this article, I was reminded of the social wellfare debate. I see a lot of similar arguments where it is assumed that if someone falls behind it's their own fault...
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by qw 16y ago
Kudos from me as well. Not enough people take the time to test their assumptions. I guess it says something about the relative quality of comments, when you are surprised when someone takes the time to actually do some minimal research.
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by qw 16y ago
It is much better to boil the potatoes whole without cutting or pealing the skin off. If you do that, you lose a lot of the nutritions in the process.
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by qw 16y ago
I guess it depends on what work you do. If I worked a 100% of the day, except for lunch break, my brain would be fried after a few days. 5 minutes an hour doing something else actually makes me more productive. Sure, when I'm in the zone an
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by qw 16y ago
As someone who can be described as a Gen X'er, I have the same position now, as I did when I first saw Myspace and Facebook - I don't want to be part of it. The lack of privacy is a huge problem, and the worrying part is that it seems that
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by qw 16y ago
- 06:05: Alarm goes off, hit snooze - 06:10: Decide that you can sleep a bit longer and set the alarm to 06:30 - 06:30: Turn on PC and think "I'll spend 10 minutes reading news while I wake up properly" - 07:00: Find out that I have spent t
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by qw 16y ago
Same here. I'm 31 and can hear that sound as well.
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by qw 16y ago
I never started.
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by qw 16y ago
Lobstertech wrote: > American programmers: In your day to day grind, > it's superfluous to put a 'u' in front of every single > string."* Good idea, who cares about internationalization? You can always just pay s
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by qw 16y ago
To be fair, there are also a lot of fanatics who believe that Israel was given to them by God, My wish for the next 18 months is a movement for removing religion from politics.
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by qw 17y ago
There are other alphabets that continue, like Norwegian (Generation Æ). This gives us three additional generations to find an alternative (Generation Æ, Ø and Å). Chinese will probably replace English as a global language anyway by the time
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by qw 17y ago
Sony has plenty of exclusive titles as well. God of War will never be ported to other consoles.
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by qw 17y ago
Why is this on Hacker News? Just seems to be an ad. If they had written a blog or an article explaining the resons behind this, it would be different. But this adds no value to HN. Would this have been acceptable if it had been a link to a
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by qw 17y ago
What about BSD? There are alternatives out there that doesn't require GNU.
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by qw 17y ago
The most annoying part is that their functionality is tightly woven in with the rest of their application. Why would we need separate Word/Excel parsers? Couldn't you just separate common functionality to a shared library... It's the GIMP p
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by qw 17y ago
I'm wondering how far you can really take it, and still be inside the boundaries of the law? What is the limits of stalking for example? Could we follow the life of a RIAA lawyer and post photos and detailed description of his day to day li
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by qw 17y ago
I don't even have a FB account
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by qw 17y ago
"Where there's smoke, there's fire".
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by qw 17y ago
Nice work. A few comments: I found that some NPC characters placed themselves in front of things I wanted to use (doors, computers etc.). Perhaps they should either have a minimum distance, or just be mobile so that they don't stay around f
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by qw 17y ago
Would it not be possible to create a nuclear powered robotic installation on that asteroid as well? I guess the initial costs are high, but it would pay off in the long term (just move the factory once you are done, the low gravity requires
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by qw 17y ago
Interview from http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c_family_interview.htm (I'm including Stoustrup, since C++ was probably one of the influences of the choice of syntax familiy) Q: What languages, or features of languages, inspired you? Str
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Opera beta burns Chrome for top spot (JS engine)(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by qw 17y ago|0 comments
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by qw 17y ago
Jakarta. It may not be hot and trendy, but it's certainly popular Edit: To the persons who downvoted me. I was not being sarcastic. I use stuff from the Jakarta project on a daily basis.
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by qw 17y ago
I don't know much about meteorology either, so most of my facts come from the media. Perhaps that's the problem. For all we know, there may have been posted lots of papers that predict this. When I see all the errors in the reporting of tec
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by qw 17y ago
I have no problems with working 12 hours a day for a short time, but I would never do it over a longer time period. A work day should not exceed 8 hours (lunch not included) in my opinion. I actually find my work interesting and enjoy worki
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by qw 17y ago
There's more discussion about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006725
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Guy Adds Boat Tail to Car, Increases MPG by 15%(treehugger.com)
1 points by qw 17y ago|1 comments
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by qw 17y ago
Yes, that's the problem. They need to get an incentive to prepare for life outside prison. Many of the prisoners don't have the education or the skills to get a real alternative. If they have a choice of a minimum wage or selling drugs, the
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by qw 17y ago
http://science.discovery.com/videos/what-the-ancients-knew-r... "Romans were the first to invent mass production. They figured out how to use water wheels to create a factory flour mill."
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by qw 17y ago
3) I believe that Facebook in its current form will not exist. People will become more concerned about privacy. Facebook will be replaced unless they manage to change in time. Perhaps personal websites that can be more easily connected to

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