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by steiger 17y ago
Hey! No, I've never come across this... I gave it a read. They're slightly more informative than the slides (regarding to macros). Thank you very much!
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by steiger 17y ago
Funny thing is: I've tried to successfully learn macros (or a part of it) from a number of different sources, but those slides were the most enlightening source to me.
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Scheme: The Swine before Perl(cs.brown.edu)
50 points by steiger 17y ago|3 comments
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Tell HN: Solving HtDP extra problem set. Hosting at Github.
1 points by steiger 17y ago|0 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
That's the most outrageous, devilish thing that can and eventually had happened or will happen with death penalty. Someday, we will know we killed an innocent man, and in that day we will ALL be murderers. We all being murderers, we should
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New Dell-ARM combo poised to take on WIntel netbooks?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by steiger 17y ago|0 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
Because i run -current, i didn't even notice. But hell yeah, it's a damn good news! I'm running the 64 bit version and it is rock-solid (as always is the case with slack.)
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[Ask HN] Good book about functional programming?
8 points by steiger 17y ago|10 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
If that's true, IBM is probably making history (again)
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Microsoft's Photoshop Blunder: Racist or Shortsighted?(readwriteweb.com)
7 points by steiger 17y ago|26 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
I'm happing to see this is maybe becoming a trend (Mexico sort of decriminalized marijuana for personal use recently). The war on drugs has done much damage already.
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by steiger 17y ago
I think that by web access he meant internet access. This can be confirmed searching for other posts of the same news ( like in: http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1742440/uk_proposes_... ) Even if it was just HTTP access, that would
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UK says illegal downloaders may lose web access (3news.co.nz)
10 points by steiger 17y ago|6 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
> The government isn't causing the situation As said previously, the government at BEST is not causing the problem, but certainly it isn`t helping and most certainly it is making it worse. By prohibiting something that creates income, t
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by steiger 17y ago
in bash: bash-3.1$ echo "(999999999999999 - 999999999999997)" | bc 2
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by steiger 17y ago
Everybody prefers Firefox / Opera
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by steiger 17y ago
LSD and psilocybin are known to be nearly the only drugs that can stop a headache cycle. Check http://www.maps.org/research/cluster/psilo-lsd/
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by steiger 17y ago
The problem is when I _want_ to remember things for certain ocasions, like, showing something to a friend, or just revisit if there is a need to. Google sometimes is inefficient for that.
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Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
6 points by steiger 17y ago|14 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
Some say that Jake 2 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake2 ) actually ran faster than Quake 2. Of course there are a number of points to consider here, like the oldness of the Quake 2 code (thus a lack of optimization for modern computers)
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by steiger 17y ago
I'm sorry, but I think religious thinking and scientific thinking are _almost_ incompatible. One is based on faith and dogma, other on testable evidence. There are areas that they shock directly: religion says something about our reality, a
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by steiger 17y ago
It reminds me of the famous Drake equation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Equation The most famous 'guesstimation' based on the Drake equation says there should be something around 10 civilizations in our galaxy. But there are other
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by steiger 17y ago
A famous synesthete was the late great Richard Feynman. I think he had written it in one of his books that he felt unconfortable with that feeling, and didn't talk much about it.
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by steiger 17y ago
Very entertaining, really!
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Y Combinator targets news, US backs file sharing fines(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by steiger 17y ago|0 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
I think everyone should watch Cosmos at least once in a lifetime. A lot of people here in HN are relatively young (like me) and not everybody heard about it, so I'm spreading the word!
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Carl Sagan's Cosmos (video)(veoh.com)
6 points by steiger 17y ago|4 comments
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by steiger 17y ago
Sure, but some (Ubuntu, for example) are just undesirable as a distro to run on an old hardware. Some don't even support old hardware, say the 586 archtecture (Pentium). More important so, distros have different goals and mentalities. I do
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by steiger 17y ago
Screenshots just tell absolutelly nothing about a linux distro.
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Dogma and cruelty kill, not technology(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by steiger 17y ago|0 comments

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