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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
How is this any more appropriate for Hacker News than President Obama's speech to schoolchildren ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810399 )? It seems to me that both are a national leader saying basically common things.
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HR 3200 (American health care bill) from a systems design perspective(brucefwebster.com)
1 points by s-phi-nl 17y ago|0 comments
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Software Carpentry: an introduction to basic software development(software-carpentry.org)
29 points by s-phi-nl 17y ago|2 comments
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Defining abstractions is a form of optimization: it is the optimization of code readability. "Never optimize without profiling." "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
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This reminds me of rush tickets http://www.kimmelcenter.org/planning/tickets.php
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Not again...
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
That's who decides in home-schooling, and it's not limited to "tracks".
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
The second of those links was where I first heard of the OP. Unfortunately, I think I was unable to find the first of those links, so I re-submitted the website. Thanks for the comment.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever published code under any license, but I believe that, to let anyone do whatever they like with your code, you say that it is in the public domain.
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If men lived forever, earth would be hell.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
This one of the funniest things I've read all week!
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
http://hnstartups.com/ was started to list the startups of HN users. However, it does not check that a submitter really is a HN user, so it's mostly spam now.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Just across the Delaware from.
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I was wondering what the lisp version (if any) of become: would be. Thanks for saying it.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
The confusion between problems with hardware and problems with software is one reason why Apple only sells packages of the two.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I upvote comments that are factually wrong, but where the phenomenon of someone on HN saying it interests me.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I personally think this could be worked out by comparing the sender of the email with the unsubscribe link with the recipient of the unsubscribe request and if they aren't related at a certain level, the unsubscribe request wouldn't go thro
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Visualizing Sorting Algorithms Statically(hatfulofhollow.com)
1 points by s-phi-nl 17y ago|2 comments
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I wonder if this has been part of the rise of Linux on the desktop for the last year or two.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
It is interesting that this, the top rated reply, is not about "With what will this compete?" but "How will this kill competition?"
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I voted twice in the poll, for different sides of my family. Is this okay? The original post asks only for shortest generational distance to an immigrant, but does not specifically ask for no double voting.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I was impressed with their interactive graphic of the Buffalo plane crash[1]. I'm pleased to hear that such graphics are common. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/13/nyregion/Buffa...
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I wonder whether Arc will end up in effect maintaining mutable-cons mzscheme. If this happens, I hope that Arc's focus won't shift to the implementation details.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
Both falling asleep and using the bathroom are similarly unusual because they don't really involve anything except staying still. So I'm not surprised that you think well in the bathroom.
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
A common theme here (which I agree with) is to use paper (whiteboard, sketch book). Paper allows two-dimensional organization of text, whereas computers force text to be one-dimensional. This linearity, which allows only two branches on a
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
I have studied classical violin for almost 11 years, and am in an orchestra. I also like to sing (some mix between songs from musicals, hymns, and classical music, in about that order).
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
This is an interesting experiment in human coordination. Everyone heard the same instructions at the same time, but no one heard the instructions given to anyone else. This is a combination of coordination by an omniscient director (the sa
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by s-phi-nl 17y ago
An interesting example of this is my enjoyment of programming versus my lack of enjoyment for physical experiments. Physical experiments take (in my opinion) too much effort in controlling the variables for the reward of good observations.