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by seewhat 14y ago
It's fairly common in financial circles and it means "million", ie 10^6. In the same vein, MMM can mean 10^9.
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by seewhat 15y ago
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177
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by seewhat 15y ago
Hackful.com is blocked at work :-(
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'Bristol Pound' currency to boost independent traders(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by seewhat 15y ago|1 comments
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by seewhat 15y ago
Related BBC News article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15445507
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Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions Accessible Online(rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org)
3 points by seewhat 15y ago|1 comments
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by seewhat 15y ago
Two previous discussions from the past year:- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1689065 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1260883
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Premier League games can be shown on foreign decoders(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by seewhat 15y ago|0 comments
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by seewhat 15y ago
Germany, Munich
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by seewhat 15y ago
This story has already been dismissed, eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3045980
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by seewhat 15y ago
Previous submission with comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3043866
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by seewhat 15y ago
Previous entry with, admittedly, not much discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672909
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by seewhat 15y ago
Seems like you submitted this twice, and they appear to be the same. Shall we just use the first one? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3030080
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UARS satellite: New images of tumbling spacecraft(legault.perso.sfr.fr)
20 points by seewhat 15y ago|9 comments
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by seewhat 15y ago
Please flag...
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by seewhat 15y ago
Spam...
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by seewhat 15y ago
Earlier entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995689
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by seewhat 15y ago
From the source... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974271
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by seewhat 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974271
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by seewhat 15y ago
Anecdote here... While I find myself using Emacs more that Vi/Vim these days, I still find Vi key-bindings useful in the less(1) pager, which I use extensively. I've just discovered that less responds to Emacs movements, but for searching t
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by seewhat 15y ago
Granted. Under vi(1), the ctags example in the article is a constructive activity. In the case of cscope, one needs to drive a development session from cscope then drop into vi to make edits.
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by seewhat 15y ago
"The harder I practice, the luckier I get." I'm aware of that quote being attributed to Gary Player. For example: http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/myshot_gd0210
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by seewhat 16y ago
Similar guidelines from the UK's Plain English Campaign:- http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/free-guides.html