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by scscsc 17y ago
He doesn't seem to motivate his post, but I think reading (more) (books) should not be a goal in itself...
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by scscsc 17y ago
At a luxurious 10 seconds a word, you would translate your 2000 words a day in approximately 5.5 hours. I think 10 seconds a word gives you enough time to translate one word, play one move of chess, and repeat. You could get really good at
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by scscsc 17y ago
While I half agree with what you did, I think you're a step away from perfectness (see bellow) :) I actually had the exact same problem and I was recently speaking to a friend from google and asked him to implement this as part of their sea
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by scscsc 17y ago
Remind me again why you think it is the safest way to travel?
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by scscsc 17y ago
It's disruptive all right; it fucking keeps bothering me about trying it right after i sign in to gmail. And it doesn't seem to take 'no' for an answer.
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by scscsc 17y ago
Interesting read. I hate however the amount of footnotes. I find the CS style (references at the end, almost not footnotes) much more readable.
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by scscsc 17y ago
In my experience, service in Paris is inferior to almost every other place i've been to. People simply can't be bothered to be helpful. They always have better things to do, like finishing the conversation with their spouse, texting the b
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by scscsc 17y ago
Non-realtime society games, learning foreign language kits (the kindle has audio output), a programming language (+ perhaps eulerprojet like contests). I was really excited about this one until I figured they haven't read RFC 5322 on email
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by scscsc 17y ago
The abstract of the article is that companies want to make money. Therefore, anything companies do is the result of them thinking it will help them make (more) money. Seems pretty basic to me.
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by scscsc 17y ago
This has been on the tip of my tongue for a long while, so I might as well go ahead and say it now. I am ready to acknowledge the power of technology as much as anyone hanging around here. But I think that dismissing the computer/internet l
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by scscsc 17y ago
Then on what type of computers does suspend-resume work properly?
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by scscsc 17y ago
I totally agree with the article. However I wonder what prompted PG to write it. Did one of their startups' apps get rejected recently?
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by scscsc 17y ago
' “Say an advertiser makes $0.10 every time someone clicks on their ad. Only 20% of people who visit the site click on their ad. How many people need to visit the site for the advertiser to make $20?” I froze. The problem sounded easy b
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by scscsc 17y ago
Easily. It has already been passed as a law in France. And is under discussion in the entire EU. Therefore we conclude by analogy.
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by scscsc 17y ago
There is no way a bike costs that much. Unless they hide gold under the seat, that is. They must be counting other expenses, like salaries or repairs and dividing by the number of bikes. And before feeling too sorry for the poor company tha
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What happended to the punchcard operators?
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by scscsc 17y ago
With all due respect to/admiration for Scala, I would not want it anywhere near safety critical systems, simply because there has not been a lot of code written in it. There are essentially two ways we learn to trust stuff. Either (a) we ha
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by scscsc 17y ago
You seem to be rather arbitrary about what is a dubious metric. Why would you count issues instead of pages? I think that is a stupid metric. Obviously price/page isn't perfect, but is also obviously better/more relevant. You should a
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by scscsc 17y ago
I do not understand why weighting would be of any good. Does the laptop ever leave your hands?
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by scscsc 17y ago
It seems to be a very classy withdrawal. I wonder how much the other candidates satisfy the two 'suggestions'.
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by scscsc 17y ago
Yes, F1 cars are designed to survive (or rather the driver to survive) even 300kph accidents. They are safer than 5* EURONCAP in this sense. Things to note are: a) F1 drivers are very fit as opposed to regular people (so they can endure d
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by scscsc 17y ago
You could try Rhino: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino_documentation Steve Yegge suggests it's the next big language.
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by scscsc 17y ago
I think Linus is right in that there is a priori no reason to not accept the code. However, I think he'll change his mind once he actually sees it. If any of you had actually looked at the code, you would have seen that it's crap. Even th
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by scscsc 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=714668
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by scscsc 17y ago
For those who skipped the details, its a bunch of drivers to make Linux work better under their hypervisor. I think this is a smart move from Microsoft, both in the short and in the long term. It scores points with the open source movemen
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by scscsc 17y ago
I am not contesting that what you say is technically possible, but that would be a bad move from Microsoft considering they are threatened non-stop with anti-monopoly suits. Also, they don't need to change Windows, just the hypervisor. Tho
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by scscsc 17y ago
Why would you say that?
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by scscsc 17y ago
I'm curious about the book. Why not simply publish it digitally? Why go through "traditional" publishers?
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by scscsc 17y ago
If the pills do you good, I don't see why you'd have to return them as long as you legally bought them.
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by scscsc 17y ago
A company has the right to do what it wants with its products, and when that company ..., when it ..., and when it ..., when it's ..., then I'm going to look with skepticism upon claims that Amazon's removing an illegal book and offering a

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