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by sanoli 11y ago
You're right: my 1400 maxes out at some 64 megs or Ram. More than enough for writing/text editing, but too little for anything else. The keyboard is awesome by the way. I also replaced the hard drive with a fast pcmcia compact fla
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by sanoli 11y ago
My second favorite computer to write (my main job), to this day, is still a Powerbook 1400c running System 7. It uses a G3 upgrae so it's very fast/responsive, as that OS would run just fine on even a 040 processor.
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by sanoli 11y ago
This gem is too often left out: How to Design Programs - An Introduction to Programming and Computing http://www.htdp.org/
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by sanoli 11y ago
Now that I think of it, I remember having lots of fun with geometry, trying to figure things out on my own. I still remember the first time I got to prove Pythagora's on my own, or the formula for the volume of a pyramid. It felt so aw
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by sanoli 11y ago
Teach kids basic arithmetic WELL, teach them logic in a fun way, find a way to get them to like reading and think critically about what they read. That's fine for me. I'd do away with all the rest of math (algebra, trig, etc) and
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by sanoli 11y ago
Yep, Bob Sapp on HN. Sort of made my morning!
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by sanoli 11y ago
I don't get it either. This dumb idea that you should downvote if the views are different from yours sucks.
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by sanoli 11y ago
> None of those elements are necessarily missing from "average" modern society It's not missing only as long as it is available as a choice, but what the parent meant was probably that the majority of people don't liv
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by sanoli 11y ago
The weird thing is, today, what his father said is still true, but what you say is also true.
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by sanoli 11y ago
Or you're too poor to envision any other way to get rich and the lottery is the one way you can fantasize. In my case, I play with my 4 best friends, mostly because it's fun and a way for us to get together on something (we all li
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by sanoli 11y ago
They're creating stuff that's valuable to society. I don't see though how they're so much greater than other people who create value, like medical researchers, biotech researchers, engineers, artists, etc.
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by sanoli 11y ago
Ha, just yesterday I went in the pool with my 3 year old. I was freezing and cursing (not in front of him of course) and he was as happy and active as on any summer pool day (I'm in the southern hemisphere).
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by sanoli 11y ago
I upvoted you for your last sentence alone. What high school did you go to, and is it still heavily focused on Latin and Greek?
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by sanoli 11y ago
Why not? Better not start some stuff with Russia just because of some ring. I mean, it's Putin, I can see him throwing some childish fit over a ring he wanted to have. It's just too bad for russians. edit: forgot to say it's
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by sanoli 11y ago
Or spin up an instance with the 'lazyness' region deactivated.
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by sanoli 11y ago
No, its very probably not the same. The brain doesn't shut off when you go to sleep. It keeps going, it keeps doing it's stuff, messing with memories, thoughts, all the bodily functions and a whole extra stuff that we don't k
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True hardware random number generator for $50(tindie.com)
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by sanoli 11y ago
Because it was also "everywhere" before, when it was supposed to be the next big thing. Each time it looks like it is, but it ends up being not quite . Who knows, maybe this is it. I'm betting on the time after this one, tho
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by sanoli 11y ago
No, the idea is that today's pop music is rhythmically less diverse. Where is this mainstream pop music with such complex, diverse rhythms? Let me know where to tune it. He compared contemporary jazz rhythm sections to contemporary
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by sanoli 11y ago
A musician friend of mine (classically trained, but works with pop music for decades now) says that's true, and the reason is that much music today is heavily rhythm centric, and everything else around it is ending up less complex or l
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by sanoli 11y ago
But companies also (especially startups) are valued by what they might become in the futre.
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by sanoli 11y ago
I don't know what's the fuss about Dropbox being called boring. It's a backup service, so it's not really an insult, it's just not supposed to be exciting, or fun. It's supposed to work. It wasn't original
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by sanoli 11y ago
Weel, in the long term, the only thing that solves anything is probably a vaccine/cure. There are other initiatives also. If this is true, then the alarm in my mind won't ring: The lotteries led to a 21.4 percent reduction in HIV
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by sanoli 11y ago
Then there's 2.7 -> Wait for 139 decades until they sift throught the infinite number of papers and find the correct piece of scrap with the solution. Also, 2.8 -> Hope the prize is corrected for inflation.
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by sanoli 11y ago
Sorry, but where's the data on "the overwhelming majority of people don't choose to live in suburbs"? Where are all the ghost suburbs that should be all around us? I know a bit about the other side of the coin: the overw
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by sanoli 11y ago
I agree with you and I've never cared much for being called a 'rebel'. It means you are doing what you are doing/being who you are as a reaction against something/someone, instead of just doing what you want to do&#
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by sanoli 11y ago
the former are true countercultures. The latter are just subcultures. Often people use the two terms as if they were the same.
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by sanoli 11y ago
Sure, countercultures have their own social norms that their members conform to, and can behave just as sheeply. The thing is, the regular guy from the suburbs who doesn't do anything 'different' can be the awesome, interesti
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by sanoli 11y ago
I wouldnt kill myself because of 5 years out of the 40 or so that i probably have left.
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by sanoli 11y ago
Didn't know that. Thanks. I'll check out this model, or a newer one. Still using a flip phone but it's about time, since pretty much everyone now talks through whatsapp in my country.

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