s-phi-nl

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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
In what way might you host your OSS that would be more optimal for marketing yourself?
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
See his reply, but I had already inferred that he was from that he considers religion a lie in http://paulgraham.com/lies.html
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Unless you're on a Dvorak keyboard, in which case they are right next to each other.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
An excellent similar site is Understanding Git Conceptually: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Has any of this been used for natural disasters where the internet (but not necessarily telephone or power) went down?
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." -- Richard Feynman
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
SearchYC's benefit is not that it gives more current results: it allows you to search comments by, e.g., their author in ways that Google, being a general search engine, cannot.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Konsole does this automatically, at least on openSuSE linux.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Does this affect ITA directly at all? I will admit I am not clear on the relationship between Orbitz and ITA.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability says that it would take 2,537 years to crack a password with three common words, at a rate of 100 guesses per second, and flange isn't common. That's long enough for me.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
cperciva: any comments as the security officer of another BSD?
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
By Retric at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647291 "The following men won gold in a solo swimming even in 2008. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps "6 ft 4 in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bernard "6 ft 5 in
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
One they did not ask: Alan Kay
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
I think Tufte comments on this type of graph (or a similar type), but I don't have a copy of the book handy. Would anyone who does like to share what he says?
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Or the study chose to study only heterosexual relationships. (Though the sibling comments seems to imply they didn't)
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
I disagree. One can use square roots to find the roots of quadratic equations (for example the equation for the velocity of a projectile) without needing to know that sqrt(x)=x^1/2.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Maybe I'm just too young, but I don't get the joke (other than that writing a web framework in COBOL is somewhat funny). Anyone care to explain?
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
See http://paulgraham.com/progbot.html
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
I could not read before kindergarten and, given that they later home-schooled me, I would not say my parents were "fucking up".
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What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care(defmacro.org)
135 points by s-phi-nl 16y ago|77 comments
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Sorry for the accidental downvote. I meant to upvote because I have been thinking about (more formal) music notation on and off for years, too, trying to come up with a better format than Lilypond.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
This reminds me of edw519's comments on how he codes fast http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1544453 : "Very fast. Let me explain. "I work in 2 modes: (A) At the computer and (B) Away from the computer. "When I'm in Mode A at the computer
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
I would presume that someone's 'third language' is the third language that he learned. However, according to Wikipedia, you are right that someone's second language is any language they learned after their first, not just the second languag
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Couldn't one just ask them to incorporate a company? I know this is generally better done later rather than sooner, but it is enough of a hassle that I think it would be a reasonable indicator of commitment.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
There is also a best comments page at http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments .
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Why not? What do you find advantageous to call yourself instead.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Not sure how many languages can do that! :P At least 21, listed at http://www.paulgraham.com/accgen.html solving a problem that contains this one.
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520431 .
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
Just out of curiosity would "Ytterboe" mean "from Ytterby"? I'm wondering because my college has a dorm named "Ytterboe".
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by s-phi-nl 16y ago
A similar thing happened in the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in southern Israel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Sayyid_Bedouin_Sign_Language .

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