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by sdp 16y ago
> Also, did you know that the Eastern provinces have some crazy tax and startup capital advantages for starting your own tech / net related business? Care to elaborate? I'm just starting a CS degree in the east, and I'm interested in s
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by sdp 16y ago
It would be neat to see some of these places (tomb of the forbidden ladder, bricked in showers at the library, etc), if anyone knows where to find pictures.
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by sdp 16y ago
Speculation: Google Wave is implemented with heavy use of Google's internal libraries.
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by sdp 16y ago
Building a list doesn't work for me either. It gives every indication that I succeeded in creating a list, but the tutorial tells me I'm not doing the right thing. =(
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Try Erlang, a hands-on tutorial(tryerlang.org)
66 points by sdp 16y ago|24 comments
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by sdp 16y ago
...if we can get used to car, cdr and so on, I guess its not bad. Common Lisp (and MzScheme) users can use first (and second, and third...) and rest, and probably should do so when using simple lists.
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by sdp 16y ago
I like everything up to but not including step 7. ( http://tryhaskell.org/#7 ) The syntax let villain = (28,"chirs") in fst villain is not obvious to me, and the tutorial doesn't explain what each piece of the new syntax means, and
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by sdp 16y ago
Could you easily add duckduckgo style infinite scrolling?
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by sdp 16y ago
This might be a matter best resolved in private with the administrator. Details for contacting him directly can be found on his website: http://www.paulgraham.com/
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by sdp 16y ago
If you can get (or write) a lexer/parser to generate an AST from the code, can't you easily translate it to any other language?
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by sdp 17y ago
The ip-global version is more nicely laid out. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1219608
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by sdp 17y ago
I would pay to read Einstein being interviewed by Hunter S. Thompson.
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MCLIDE - Lisp IDE for Macintosh(mclide.in-progress.com)
18 points by sdp 17y ago|8 comments
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by sdp 17y ago
Hey, I'm in Amherst, NH right now and since there's nothing up here it sent me to NYC. However, you have some content in Boston which is much closer and hence more useful to me. If there's nothing in the detected area, can you move to the
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by sdp 17y ago
That "draft" tick box has been grayed out for me since I got into Wave.
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by sdp 17y ago
Of course, once they start making laptops with these, the TSA will ban them.
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by sdp 17y ago
GNU solved the halting problem[1]? [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
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by sdp 17y ago
Sounds like HN is becoming self-aware and vetoing any attempts at critical thinking with regards to its policies. Long live HN Skynet!
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Nerdkit - an electronics kit for hackers(nerdkits.com)
69 points by sdp 17y ago|16 comments
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by sdp 17y ago
Clicking on Create Account gives the message: "Hi! amoebaOS opens for Beta registration soon."
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by sdp 17y ago
The hacker's diet: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/
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by sdp 17y ago
I'd like to suggest it's cheaper overall to hire a competent lawyer.
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by sdp 17y ago
Bad joke for me, maybe. People who get it will read your message, laugh, then read the explanation (maybe).
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by sdp 17y ago
I gave it: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6130/6130-8.txt And it gave me: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 47 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/rickyspears.com/httpdocs/wwwzr/reader/index.php on lin
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by sdp 17y ago
PG: Will you be applying some metric to determine if this improves site feel? If so, what metric?
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by sdp 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion International news avoids the term "billion" because it can refer to 10^9 or 10^12. In UK English, 10^9 is called a milliard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliard
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by sdp 17y ago
I understand Bracemonkey is like Greasemonkey, and B8 is like V8, but what is Barrelfish like?
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by sdp 17y ago
When Bell was a monopoly, they had a phone in every household which you leased from Bell. Monopolies seem to penetrate the market very well, regardless of their level of innovation so I don't think market penetration should be by any means
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by sdp 17y ago
If you're still interested, the "decision" and "framework" that they talk about seems to be "Telecom Decision CRTC 2008-17" ( http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/dt2008-17.htm ), in which they decide to institute a new framework for th
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Engineering a Better Alarm Clock(heuristicism.ca)
29 points by sdp 17y ago|30 comments

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