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by roberto 7y ago
I have the same problem. I've been running my own mail server since 2000, and last year my sister's account started being used to send spam (I assume she reused her email credentials in another site that got hacked, and spammers u
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by roberto 7y ago
> It's a shame they were using it to promote their products rather than a product that is good for you. Those don't need to be promoted, usually.
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by roberto 7y ago
A plot here would go a long way.
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by roberto 7y ago
You can replace your `integers` function with `itertools.count` (same signature but defaults to starting at 0), and `take` with `itertools.islice`.
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by roberto 7y ago
Yeah, I'm curious to look at data, but I think this will be skewed towards lower digits.
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by roberto 7y ago
Love this! I'm giving it a try, and I already have a feature request: can you increase the limit on display name and username?
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by roberto 7y ago
What about Benford's Law?
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by roberto 7y ago
> Is HN really more anti-Facebook than the general population? Yes, definitely. > If so, why? Because the general population cares less about privacy than HN. But I (not OP) think it goes deeper than that, and I've seen people h
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by roberto 7y ago
I have a friend who did his PhD studying Milankovitch cycles in the Netherlands. When he defended his thesis, his friends presented him with the "milankofiets": a bicycle ("fiets", in Dutch) where the wheels were off-cen
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by roberto 7y ago
I was in the process of buying the board when I got the Database Error. Came to check Hacker News and discovered why!
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by roberto 7y ago
> "I'm not interested in Go, I'm interested in the power of future computers!" Reminded me of this story. I told a co-worker, while we worked on our DB: - I wish we had the money to run Oracle. - Are you crazy?
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by roberto 7y ago
Not necessarily. My last name is Ferreira De Almeida. "Ferreira" comes from my mother, and "De Almeida", with space, comes from my father. I started spelling it "Dealmeida" to avoid confusion.
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by roberto 7y ago
He works for Facebook.
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by roberto 8y ago
Good point, I haven't thought of that.
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by roberto 8y ago
The name "Ruby" is also a play on "Perl" ("pearl").
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by roberto 8y ago
What if time's arrow can be reverted, and is being reverted all the time, but we don't notice it because, just like and omelet would become an egg, our brain state would revert to a previous one? As far as we know time could be ru
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by roberto 8y ago
> At the same time, the aforementioned party gave billions of dollars in infrastructure projects throughout Latin America bolivarian states, that without a doubt won't make returns in any way. First and foremost, the money went to B
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by roberto 8y ago
AFAIK Netflix doesn't give stocks.
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by roberto 8y ago
Of the top 5 universities in dentistry, oral surgery and medicine in the world, 3 are in Brazil and are completely free: https://cwur.org/2017/subjects.php#Dentistry,%20Oral%20Surge...
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by roberto 8y ago
Thank for writing it! I use catt and I love it!
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by roberto 8y ago
There's also Ardour, which I use after starting in Ableton and going through Bitwig. I love Bitwig and its modular approach, but I really wanted to make music with open source software.
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by roberto 8y ago
Also, you get more from the taxes than just healthcare. Free education, eg.
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by roberto 8y ago
Do they also hire "boys"? I think the term you're looking for is "women".
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by roberto 8y ago
Ok, so how do you define "failure" when you say it's failing?
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by roberto 8y ago
> the failing of the metric system How so? It was adopted by every country in the world except for 3.
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by roberto 8y ago
This effort is just a stunt: http://www.deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-a...
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by roberto 9y ago
"Semiology of Graphics", by Jacques Bertin. Originally published in 1967, it describes principles of graphic communication, similar to Tufte's work.
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by roberto 9y ago
I once wrote a decorator that translated the function to Javascript and spawned a web server, allowing the function to be computed in parallel by multiple browsers: https://bitbucket.org/robertodealmeida/parallejax
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by roberto 9y ago
2^225 < 52!
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by roberto 9y ago
Seems like if you click on an already marked square it still counts as a turn, so if you double click you get this behavior.

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