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Guy nearly gets fired for commenting on Steve Jobs' cancer(quora.com)
7 points by singular 15y ago|1 comments
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by singular 15y ago
One of the main advantages is that you can write interfaces which works on code in libraries you don't control , so something written without the interface in mind can 'implement' an interface added later.
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by singular 15y ago
"You're just doing X, how can that take Y days?!" Where X is something seemingly simple. What makes it more frustrating is that it is often very difficult to precisely describe why it is that X involves so much unintuitive complexity. Als
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by singular 15y ago
I didn't mean to imply that it can just be fixed by the person working on their own, rather that you need to face the depression itself rather than go down the road of trying other, outside, things in an attempt to indirectly fix the feelin
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by singular 15y ago
I feel terribly sorry that you feel this way. I don't want to mess with this kind of stuff on something this important but, speaking from my own experience, and I do understand this feeling very well, I'd say that this is evidence that the
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by singular 15y ago
Sorry probably wasn't clear - that's what I meant :). If he's holding it up as the paragon of clarity, he ought to reproduce it clearly. It's a nit I know, but it confused me when I wanted to run through it and understand what was going on
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by singular 15y ago
I hate to nitpick, but if the explanation is being held up as wonderfully clear, must note that there's a typo:- 'Make one-word lines by transliterating the complement (-c) of the alphabet into newlines (note the quoted newline), and squeez
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Bill + Melinda Gates Foundation Discuss Nuclear Plant Design with China(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by singular 15y ago|0 comments
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by singular 15y ago
Whether or not a voxel engine is the right way go, or even whether it does what it claims to do, I think Dell should be commended for actually going out and trying to do the thing - it's an amazing achievement to actually get somewhere with
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by singular 15y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I'd be careful to ensure that the advice this application gives does not construe financial advice that would require being registered with a regulator as you could get into serious trouble for that (if you are not re
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by singular 15y ago
That's illegal in most jurisdictions - he would be a fool to try it as he could end up in jail for that!
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by singular 15y ago
I can confirm (at least in my experience + the experience of others I know who suffer from serious clinical depression) this is not how (serious) depression works. I sincerely doubt it would make any difference, largely because of how you f
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by singular 15y ago
This is dangerous bullshit, frankly. The big problem with it is that in serious depression the source of depression is not your immediate circumstances, rather it's something deeper/more pervasive and by running away you are not actually so
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by singular 15y ago
That is a very unethical comment. Not impressed. The last thing somebody who is suffering from burn out and possibly depression needs to hear is that it's their own fault for being lazy. It only leads to making the problem deeper + worse, a
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by singular 15y ago
Hmm 40. Isn't it that fashion to consider yourself autistic these days however? I've never been diagnosed nor am I really considered to have those tendencies by others (afaik anyway :) I'm not certain of the veracity of this test either. Th
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by singular 15y ago
I hate to go off-topic again on such a sensitive subject - but am I the only one that finds a discussion on grammar quite distasteful when we're talking about somebody's death? There's a time and a place for that kind of discussion, and thi
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by singular 15y ago
You can already get push notifications (via mail) - http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ .
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by singular 15y ago
It's funny you mention that, as I swear the professor said it could be done to accuracy of mm, but after reviewing the wikipedia articles I had concluded I misremembered. Perhaps not...
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by singular 15y ago
though off-topic and a bit of an aside, at university (I did civ eng) I learnt that it was possible to get cm-levels of accuracy out of GPS through clever arrangement of multiple sensors (for e.g. measuring the movement of buildings due to
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by singular 15y ago
That's a pretty amazing thing to accomplish!! Thank you. What's especially nice about it is that it concerns righting the wrongs done to [the memory of] another person. I think helping other people has to be worth a lot more than any entire
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by singular 15y ago
Ometa is fantastic, if a little neglected. Really quite powerful!
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by singular 15y ago
I've had quite a few issues with it. 1. Copy + paste randomly breaks between host win32, client ubuntu32. 2. Random freezes every so often. 3. Seamless mode extremely unreliable, does not draw correctly. 4. Horrible issues with shared folde
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by singular 15y ago
I mean you can tell where I joined 2 separate screenshots together as there is a sudden change in the size of the gap between posts at one point.
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by singular 15y ago
Yes, my thoughts exactly. I rushed to take one myself (forgive the blatant join) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/140966/hn_jobs.png
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by singular 15y ago
Excel, compare standard deviation + means in a slightly hand-wavey way. The mean is around the same for each interestingly, however the standard deviation varies in such a way as to imply which belongs to which. I am quite rusty on this stu
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by singular 15y ago
1 - I agree that's a huge, massively important thing, but there are non-x86 processors in the world which find their niche (in ARM's case it's quite a huge niche), so surely if it is possible to develop a processor which is so much better t
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by singular 15y ago
Though I speak from a probably utterly uninformed + unqualified standpoint, this raises a few points for me:- 1. If x86 hardware is so terrible (and I have heard that the architecture really is bad many times), how come we don't have compet
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by singular 15y ago
cynicism, unwittingly sounding like flattery.
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by singular 15y ago
I am so , so glad you said this. I've been experiencing such a crisis of confidence recently around the idea that I lack talent, so much so that I've felt like there was no point in trying to improve things beyond where they are, or to e
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by singular 15y ago
The beauty of emacs/vim is that they are a. highly optimised to enable quick editing of any text document, not just a specific subset of languages, and b. highly customisable - the customisation isn't an annoying overhead, rather it lets

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