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by smanek 17y ago
Ironically, one of the definitions of 'literally' is 'figuratively'. This has been the case for over a hundred, and many acclaimed authors (Fitzgerald, Joyce, etc) have used it in this sense. Technically, it's a 'janus word,' which means it
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by smanek 17y ago
I could write a function that automatically defines functions of the form you want, but it would have to define them one at a time. The problem is that it could only define a finite number of functions. It's pretty straightforward to do wha
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by smanek 17y ago
I just booked a (two bed) hotel room at a nearby Hilton ( http://www.hiltongardeninn.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyh... ) that is about 1/2 way between SF and Berkeley. It cost me ~$90/night. If anyone wants to split the room they can hav
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by smanek 17y ago
So I stopped by to talk to someone at the Scholar's Pub yesterday. They are having a Trivia Night on Sunday, but there should be plenty of space for us. The only deal they seem to be willing to cut is an all you can eat buffet sort of thing
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by smanek 17y ago
Looks like we've got plenty of response. I'll stop by tomorrow afternoon and see if we can work something out.
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by smanek 17y ago
If we're going to get more than ~10 people, I can go over there and try to negotiate some sort of food/drink special. If you're planning on attending, could you say so in this thread so I can get an approximate head count.
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by smanek 17y ago
That's amazing ... Why would AT&T do this? I no longer need 'minutes' of phone service anymore (except as a backup when I'm occasionally out of a 3G service area)
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by smanek 17y ago
I'm available either one. Email me (address in profile) if you want to set something up.
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by smanek 17y ago
I would suggest The Thirsty Scholar Pub, Miracle of Science, or Tory Row (in about that order).
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by smanek 17y ago
I'm up for a HN meetup in Cambridge. Let me know if anything is planned.
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't think CMS means what you think it means ... You have to manually edit files and code to do things. And that's fine - that's how my website is run too. But that isn't a CMS. A CMS provides a pretty interface for everything content ma
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Ask Hn: How to create an iPhone App demo video?
7 points by smanek 17y ago|3 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
My brother was in Beijing for the summer, and he said the SSH tunnel I set up for him worked fine. It's possible that things have changed in the couple months since he's left, but I'd be surprised ... If you want to go really overboard, tun
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The Lightswitch That Might Explain a Lot About Java(globalnerdy.com)
1 points by smanek 17y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
I would love an invite as well. email: [myusername]@gmail.com
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by smanek 17y ago
YUI is pretty heavy weight (the API is complicated and it's big) - at least as of about 6 months ago. But I love DataTable and AsynchQueue, and haven't found comparable plugins for jQuery. When I need a real editable table, DataTable is my
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by smanek 17y ago
Can you imagine the reaction if there was a technical conference for men only - and a women could only attend as the guest of a man? There are far too many grants/scholarships/opportunities that are explicitly only open to women or minoriti
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Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
10 points by smanek 17y ago|42 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
As a professional Java programmer, with some experience in various strongly typed languages (MLs, Haskell), I really liked the idea of Checked Exceptions when I first heard about them (and even when I used them in small projects in school).
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by smanek 17y ago
The article says the site was formerly home to the campus mulch pit . Are they lying?
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by smanek 17y ago
`every` and `some` can be emulated by composing `map` (or a listcomp) with the builtin `any` and `all` (which, for some reason, don't take an optional predicate) No they can't - this version wouldn't short circuit evaluation, which is com
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't think it would be unreasonable to assume I could seriously date 1-3 people a year (other people might go slower/faster, but that seems like about how long it takes for me to get to know someone in that context), with an average of 2
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by smanek 17y ago
They are talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem is also interesting (Residency programs use it to match up students to hospitals)
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by smanek 17y ago
Up to around 500 or so while maintaining a decent framerate (say, better than 30FPS in steady state). I was using Java's Processing though - which I would expect to be considerably faster than Processing.js. I didn't try decoupling the UI f
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by smanek 17y ago
It's really easy to hack together a simple force-directed layout engine on top of Processing. All you need to do is write a simple physics particle library w/ forces/springs. I wrote one similar to Traer Physics ( http://www.cs.princeton.ed
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't think that's fair. If I were starting my own small company, my first hires would be people from my personal network that I've worked with before and trust/like. And it's completely conceivable that your personal network could be lim
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by smanek 17y ago
It sounds like they did it by IP (or 'Facebook Network' membership), not account. But everyone in the TechCrunch network saw it I'm not sure if that means TechCrunch's offices' subnet, or the Facebook network. But either way, no big invas
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by smanek 17y ago
If I'm understanding this right, someone can download and cache the decryption key (while it's available) and then decrypt the cipher text at any time they want in the future, right? I don't think it's beyond the NSA's ability to just pre-e
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by smanek 17y ago
Probably not on-topic for HN, but I really agree. I never got why gay people make such a big deal about insisting they are born that way and that it wasn't a choice (I'm sure not all do, but every one I've met does, and I've had 2 gay room
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The Web will dismember universities, just like newspapers(thebigmoney.com)
35 points by smanek 17y ago|59 comments

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