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An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless(theguardian.com)
11 points by scribu 13y ago|10 comments
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by scribu 13y ago
I guess the question then becomes: can the cancer cell population in a single patient evolve fast enough to evade the newly improved immune system, before it gets killed off completely?
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On Asm.js(acko.net)
240 points by scribu 13y ago|182 comments
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Meta-study says too much carbohydrate, not fat, leads to obesity(thatpaleoguy.com)
49 points by scribu 13y ago|85 comments
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by scribu 13y ago
Ok, so what's the equivalent of an IMDB score that VCs could use to judge a startup pitch?
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by scribu 13y ago
Lots of money?
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by scribu 13y ago
Oh, I thought flagging was for spam and offtopic submissions.
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by scribu 13y ago
Why was this removed from the front page? That's how I reached it.
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by scribu 13y ago
Erm... you posted a link to the current story, not to a different one.
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by scribu 13y ago
IMHO, if it's a political decision, it's better to be upfront about it (as Intel was), instead of coming up with some technical excuse for it.
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by scribu 13y ago
> [Javascript] is just as simple as PHP to learn. (I'd say simpler, because it doesn't have all the weird stuff in PHP) Oh, don't worry; JavaScript has plenty of weird stuff of its own. With that said, I agree it's pr
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by scribu 13y ago
Sorry, but why is this on the front page of HN? Let's say I can understand the NSA stories, since they're somewhat tech related, but this is just off-topic, IMHO.
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by scribu 13y ago
How exactly is HyperDB closed source?! It's in the public wordpress.org plugin repository. SVN repository: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hyperdb/ SVN changelog: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org&#x2F
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by scribu 13y ago
So the last statement in a block for a matched if condition gets assigned to the variable? That's pretty cool.
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Digital dark age(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by scribu 13y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 13y ago
Case study #2 doesn't hold water. The web didn't plunge into the dark ages because people gave away their labor or because they didn't buy proprietary stuff. It was because Microsoft stopped developing IE after it had reached
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by scribu 13y ago
Just bought one, thinking that missing apps won't be a problem, since I only really use a few: - awesome web browser? check. - maps? check. - hipMenu? fail. :( I don't know how they did it, but they actually got t
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by scribu 13y ago
No, I just thought ES6 took the specific syntax they use from CoffeeScript. As other commenters helpfully pointed out, I was wrong. "CoffeeScript programmers"? Is that a thing?
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by scribu 13y ago
Yet another great feature heavily inspired from CoffeeScript (and tastefully expanded upon). Well done! The surprising thing for me is that destructuring _almost_ allows defining default values for function arguments.
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by scribu 13y ago
I upvoted this comment, then I realized that those PHP stats functions aren't in the standard library. They're in a PECL extension (equivalent to Python C extensions).
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by scribu 13y ago
It might be. Here's the source code: https://github.com/meemoo/dataflow
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by scribu 13y ago
> He's not knocking the current model Yes, he is actually, repeatedly. For instance, at 9:30 in the video: "There won't be any, like, markup languages, or stylesheet languages, right? That would make no sense".
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by scribu 13y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129148
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by scribu 13y ago
OT: How much karma do I need to have to see the downvote button?
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by scribu 13y ago
Without describing in what way it's "typical" (I presume in a bad way), this comment isn't helpful at all.
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by scribu 13y ago
I don't think either is punishable by law, but if you were a direct friend of that person, it would be a violation of their trust in you in both cases.
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by scribu 13y ago
When I saw the guy setting the robot up in the original video, I realized that it's quite a bit larger than I initially thought. Still, pretty damn impressive!
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by scribu 13y ago
I agree that it's one of his most useful essays ever. I didn't find it particularly long, though. It would be great if more top links on HN were as in-depth as this.
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by scribu 13y ago
> We can already quite successfully run HTML5/CSS/JavaScript-based apps on Android, iOS, and BlackBerry OS for instance. Right, but in Firefox you also have "native" HTML5 apps, which give access to more hardware func
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by scribu 13y ago
I decided to give OS X an honest try after Ubuntu started crashing for no apparent reason. I wouldn't have lasted much either, if a friend hadn't pointed me to a neat little application called BetterTouchTool [1]. It lets you re-a

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