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by tbirrell 9y ago
Yes, a little bit. If you gave me a word in a certain color font, that would take precedence. Its not like I was see "my" color. But if I thought of the word out of that context, it would be its normal color again (usually based o
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Discovering you have (what this article calls) classic synaesthesia is a very interesting experience. Suddenly many many things fall into place, but you also realize you experience the world in a fundamentally different manner than anyone e
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by tbirrell 9y ago
That was not something I needed to know.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
This could cause the next computer revolution. We would suddenly and abruptly increase our computational power exponentially. No, asymptotically. The ability to create a stable, functional, and enduring trinary computational system will mak
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by tbirrell 9y ago
If the Super Bowl had automatically turned on in every television in the nation and only happened like 3 times a century, I'm sure the figures would be more equivalent.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Sure, it would seem obvious that the loaner is the one to lose out. The things it, I'm not sure who all the various loaners are these days or how much the economy itself would be affected by these people suddenly not having $1.3 trilli
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Serious question: Who loses out if all the student debt got canceled? Not the colleges, I assume, because they already got the tuition. And not the students. So would it be loan companies and the US government? Would such an action be catas
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by tbirrell 9y ago
That's an excellent title.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Ease of scale basically.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Why would this ever be a good idea. The education is already in very real danger of becoming an anachronism. There is nothing inherently better about the current system. Technology is a way of lif
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Ask HN: Layman's Guide to Rust?
3 points by tbirrell 9y ago|0 comments
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by tbirrell 9y ago
This is not the actual tl;dr
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Its still down
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A perfect storm of corporate idiocy(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tbirrell 9y ago|0 comments
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Personal pain points. What do you find to be annoying? Are other people likely to find it annoying? Go from there.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Having children impacts your career (assuming you make choices with them in mind) because suddenly, long hours are less appealing, you can't put all your energy and time into your job, and a job you can hang onto for 5-10 years is more
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Similar, yes.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Redefining a thing to do a different thing to achieve the same result. You'll see it a lot in older systems where you have a billion deprecated functions, and instead of changing each instance to use the new version, you trick the syst
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by tbirrell 9y ago
In one of these situations, it is someone making a choice to inconvenience themselves in order to do something they believe should be done. In the other, it is someone inconveniencing someone else because they don't want to do somethin
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Link?
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by tbirrell 9y ago
I thought we had already moved on to the next big scandal.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
How does this work? Do you change it every time you log in? Or do you just force yourself to not look at or save the password each time you retrieve it?
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Pagedown integration. I use Stack Overflow on a daily basis, so if I could write and save my questions and answers in an editor while preserving the syntax (especially the key commands I'm use to), I'd get behind that.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Hmm... I might give this a try if the following existed. 1) I could sync over my Goodreads shelves. I don't want to have to start over or copy it all manually. 2) It was a freemium model. If I had access to like 3-4 features and the r
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Sublime is a powerful text editor. I switch to it 10-15 times a day to execute random plaintext editing. If I don't need Rich Text Formating, I tend to default to using Sublime. I can see why one would use it to write and edit legislat
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Ask HN: Is coding like speaking another language?
27 points by tbirrell 9y ago|69 comments
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The End of Loyalty(lareviewofbooks.org)
1 points by tbirrell 9y ago|0 comments
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by tbirrell 9y ago
What does metabolism have to do with cancer?
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by tbirrell 9y ago
All the Cosmere books are really good. Warning though, Stormlight is about to release book 3 of 10. Mistborn is also actively being written, but the next book to be released is 4 of 4 for "Era 2". (the eras being self contained bu
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by tbirrell 9y ago
How is this superior to goodreads?

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