ta12121

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by ta12121 14y ago
To me, a speaker of U.S. English, "straight down" implies movement, making the instructions confusing. A non-motive indication of position would be "straight below".
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by ta12121 14y ago
Differential compression? Isn't this what Opera Turbo and other web accelerators do?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Which is precisely something a behemoth like Microsoft can't do. Can an oil tanker pivot?
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by ta12121 14y ago
1. The dot indicates the likelihood the person would respond. I would imagine it's an attempt to encourage people to try talking to others that are less than perfect, since they are more likely to respond. 2. Because if they haven't been o
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by ta12121 14y ago
Why do people use the word "pivot" to mean "change direction"? The word pivot has many meanings but most imply some sort of stability or immobility. It can mean a physical peg or stick around which things turn, or the fulcrum of a lever wh
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by ta12121 14y ago
Oh, so that's why the SEC caught Bernie Madoff after being tipped off to his activities and before he could do major harm. Market experience.
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by ta12121 14y ago
As an amateur musician, I think he should have gone all the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal_keyboard
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by ta12121 14y ago
Saying that sexism is wrong and saying that a victim of sexism should stand up for herself are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and just because the former is true the latter isn't necessarily "blaming the victim". Suppose a student leav
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by ta12121 14y ago
Not everything is always black and white. Of course the PR people should not be sexist. But if a person doesn't take even the slightest, tiniest effort to defend themselves against something that is wrong, they're "going to have a bad time"
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by ta12121 14y ago
That's because many of us understand that fanatical religious terrorists are extremely extremely rare. Government abuse of power is not. But you can rest assured that this viewpoint you're disappointed by is much more common on internet
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by ta12121 14y ago
Do you remember the story about the woman losing her teaching certificate because of a picture on facebook as a "drunken pirate"? Now imagine that as government policy instead of an isolated incident. "Quantity has a quality all its own."
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by ta12121 14y ago
I fail to see how this is interesting. There is already a well known alternative to Cygwin: MinGW/MSYS. Also, anyone looking for such a thing can find it with five minutes of googling.
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by ta12121 14y ago
This is how everyone defends reposts, but for an experienced engineer that's been reading HN for a while it means the front page is often full of uninteresting links.
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by ta12121 14y ago
No, intrusive government government checks combined with government databases of citizens' online activities are a bigger problem than religious terrorists. And the answer is yes.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Except for users that have dozens of tabs loaded because they're digital packrats, and don't care about most of them most of the time.
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by ta12121 14y ago
What exactly was the motivation for this? Was there actually a problem?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Someone who's frustrated and being unable to control their teenage daughter?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Seriously, who goes to a news website to read old stories? I've read this at least twice before. Why do people upvote this garbage?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Well, we're making progress. Someone bothered to put "repost" in the title. The next step is to not submit the article at all. Then we will be truly enlightened.
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by ta12121 14y ago
I don't think the emphasis on saving is correct. You're picking an arbitrary origin which is not zero. If you go from 10 MPG to 30 MPG you are now using 1/3 as much gas. If you go from 30 MPG to 90 MPG you are once again using 1/3 a
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by ta12121 14y ago
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/29/addition-is-useless-m... http://www.unicog.org/biblio/Year/2008.complete.html#Dehaene... Abstract from the original paper: The mapping of numbers onto space is fundamental to measurement and to mat
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by ta12121 14y ago
The hate comes from OP's description of MPGs as clearly inferior to L/100km when in reality he's just engaging in a Holy War between two things that are nearly equivalent. The non-linearity argument is not as strong and you and OP think, be
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by ta12121 14y ago
200K for what is essentially a custom domain name? Absolutely not worth it.
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by ta12121 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198572 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567186
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by ta12121 14y ago
I think the interpunct should be revived and used as a character allowed in identifiers. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct )
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by ta12121 14y ago
It's funny, in Dungeons and Dragons, "beggar" is the lowest ranking person in a thieves' guild.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Yeah, but Type 1 is much harder to treat.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Atwood often makes blatant mistakes like this. I truly don't understand why his blog is so popular.
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by ta12121 14y ago
I am a 31 year old programmer. I fear the day I start becoming discriminated against because of my age.
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by ta12121 14y ago
First, it's not the comments I'm complaining about, it's the content, so no, my comment is not fulfilling any prophecy. Second, the title is sensationalistic and misleading. To a casual reader the it implies that the battery is ready for u

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