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by spectre 17y ago
What about a program to translate your typing so you can sound foreign?
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by spectre 17y ago
Academic Hacker News may be suffering because the term academic in the name scares a lot of people away.
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by spectre 17y ago
Reminds me of an Instructor I had who insisted against using printf calls with the format string created outside the call.
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How To Sell Something: Make Up A Story(trademe.co.nz)
12 points by spectre 17y ago|1 comments
95.
by spectre 17y ago
People believed it because it sounds like something Comcast would actually do.
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by spectre 17y ago
The metaphor applies to teams where interaction between members is crucial to the teams success. A one-man basketball team will never win anything.
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by spectre 17y ago
Some people claim this evil too because a break is almost a goto.
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by spectre 17y ago
More important then writing short methods is consideration of the methods purpose and name. Any method should have only one purpose and that purpose should be expressed in its name. If it can't be expressed that way the function is to compl
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by spectre 17y ago
Microsoft needs to take a look at how google became popular in the first place. I got told told about by a friend at school and how it was much better then yahoo. I didn't believe him but after trying I was really impressed. I then told my
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by spectre 17y ago
The input box seems to be covering the region filter (using FF3.0 on linux) for non US versions.
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by spectre 17y ago
The British Empire beat the US to abolishing slavery by nearly half a century (1807). The British forced many other countries to give up slavery soon after. If the US had lost the revolutionary war or the war of 1812 slavery probably would
102.
by spectre 17y ago
Somehow I don't think Wikipedia would sue you for implementing their pseudocode.
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by spectre 17y ago
When I tried this I got the message: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that... Wolfram|Alpha has temporarily exceeded its maximum test load. Its appears that Wolfram Alpha is just HAL9000 in disguise.
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by spectre 17y ago
I've seen tons of these used by university lecturers.
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by spectre 17y ago
I've experimented with drinking for creativity in programming. I occasionally get a good idea out of it but mostly just leads to confusing disjointed code. The difficulty lies in getting the level of intoxication right. For those looking to
106.
by spectre 17y ago
Could we wear this as pin?
107.
by spectre 17y ago
Cyberwarfare is the future of warfare and something the military should be taking seriously.
108.
by spectre 17y ago
Wish there were more sites like this. We mostly just believe the answers we recieve.
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by spectre 17y ago
They seem to draw the line at images. So talking about breast feeding or anti-semitism is okay. I assume they also wouldn't allow pictures of jews or blacks being gassed.
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by spectre 17y ago
Geology, visually identifying minerals in rocks.
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by spectre 17y ago
The iphone is the coolest smartphone on the market. Innovative software authors don't like working on boring platforms. Until the iphone's cool status changes it will continue to recieve the most hype.
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by spectre 17y ago
Where do they draw the line on rain harvesting? It sounds as like having any vegetation on your property would be included.
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by spectre 17y ago
Not a book you would ever want to read for fear of breaking it.
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by spectre 17y ago
You have to understand something to satire it. This guy obviously didn't understand.
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by spectre 17y ago
Is it just me or does this look really similar to Scala.
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by spectre 17y ago
I'd like to know what its total emissions are. I presume they would be using a petrol or diesel compressor.
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by spectre 17y ago
John Key (Prime Minister) and the National party have a history of selling out to business interests (especially overseas). Never the less the music and film industries here aren't as powerful as in the US (think of a NZ musician or movie o
118.
by spectre 18y ago
You'd think that for something as vital as an electricity grid the companies would be using hardened systems with encrypted communication links.
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by spectre 18y ago
Cool concept. Would it be possible to build a K2 or K4 like this to try and get even more speed?
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by spectre 18y ago
Also if they use evacuated tunnels, the trains could do 4,000 mph. That would be cool.

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