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by robobro 13y ago
Ugh no another one of these.
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by robobro 13y ago
This was fun. It reminds me a lot of Regex Crossword[1]. Good game for people who need to brush up on that. [1] http://regexcrossword.com/
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by robobro 13y ago
A lot of courses taught these days also are sold as a package from the textbook companies. Often, a textbook comes with premade slide presentations (aka, lectures), projects, and tests based on their material. So even when you have professo
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by robobro 13y ago
This isn't exactly news... pulls out soap box The WTFPL is great, though. It's a shame not more people use it. It seems to me that for truly free speech, restrictive licenses need to be abandoned, even if it's at the sake o
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by robobro 13y ago
There's 2 "shit"s too. Maybe the author feels obliged to curse a little bit, and mostly in jest / for its own sake because the domain name includes a simulacrum of obscenity (WTF) in it.
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by robobro 13y ago
I have a PayPal link on my site requesting donations, and for whatever reason, a lot of people donate money. That's all there really is to it. It's linked from my twitter page, so maybe generous people who enjoy reading my posts t
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by robobro 13y ago
Bet that works real well for paying bills / making online purchases
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by robobro 13y ago
If you don't break the copyright terms, I don't think it's unethical.
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by robobro 13y ago
Now that twitter has automatic link shortening, I'd say this is even less of a problem than it was before.
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by robobro 13y ago
I receive donations for my writing, coding, and art. I do some tutoring, too, which pays alright. I'm not a conventional developer, but I'm more than happy with the freedom I have and I feel I can really appreciate the things I ha
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by robobro 13y ago
When people mine any of these coins, they are essentially investing their electricity and bandwidth in the currency. From an investor's standpoint, why is Primecoin better to invest in that dogecoin, bitcoin, or any of the others? It&#
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by robobro 13y ago
This article was published in 2004.
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by robobro 13y ago
Do you think you'll raise your children to believe in Santa, HN?
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by robobro 13y ago
Numbers are just a different kind of language, according to Ludwig Wittgenstein. He was interested in language and meaning too. You may enjoy his work On The Foundations of Mathematics, where he explores that idea more in depth.
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by robobro 13y ago
Can this die yet
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by robobro 13y ago
Consider also how much money was invested during WWII in mystics and parapsychologists and look at how well all that turned out. I don't think that you can really say that with confidence, that Elon's money is as well-deserved or
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by robobro 13y ago
Yeah. I think his decision is hard to really discuss or weigh out, at this point.
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by robobro 13y ago
Guy is supposedly the best in his field but doesn't get any work done. Boss gives him free reign before seeing results and ends up disappointed.
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by robobro 13y ago
Judgement made out of ignorance cannot be made in good faith.
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by robobro 13y ago
Hmmm. Here's my 2 cents. Every office has "that person" who causes/gets involved in drama, starts pointless arguments, or refuses to cooperate. Let's assume, just for entertainment' sake, that she got bored of
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by robobro 13y ago
The author seems to present two main points in this essay: 1. I have a lot of really cool brand new stuff. 2. Instead of having 100 different UI's, let's have less. Is there any value in either? Half bragging and half common sense
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by robobro 13y ago
If someone were to make a Spritz-esque bookmarklet that added more to the basic idea we've seen online, what would you consider to be useful additions? I think that letting users select text and do a run of the highlighted area would b
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by robobro 13y ago
Imagine Online Gambling, Oculus Rift, Bitcoin, and a Darknet marketplace w/research chems, with some sort of chat or forum feature, all combined into one giant meltingpot.
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by robobro 13y ago
I like the social contract, Marxism, Schopenhauer's writings, what we've learned in psychiatry, and so on...
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by robobro 13y ago
Sadly, it's part of the toxic startup/marketing/web design/etc half of hn that's really quite terrible.
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by robobro 13y ago
I would throw up.
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by robobro 13y ago
Really bad design. I can't tell what this website is for. Is it an XML-based currency? Yuck!
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by robobro 13y ago
Smoking a bowl to celebrate! :-)
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by robobro 13y ago
Celebrating this Christmas the good 'ol Subgenius way. PRAISE "Bob"!!!!
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by robobro 13y ago
We might pull out of other countries, but we'd pull over our own for sure then. "Well, we can't keep other countries safe... so we'll have to keep our own."

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