thalur

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Google goes to Mars(google.com)
1 points by thalur 17y ago|0 comments
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by thalur 17y ago
(0.55 times the velocity of an unladen swallow)
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by thalur 17y ago
I'm not sure I quite agree with that. As I see it, the term "luck" is regularly applied to two categories of events. As you've said, there are the chance events (such as winning the lottery or rolling a 6 on a die), and in that I quite ag
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by thalur 17y ago
They haven't taken anything down, they've put down their tools. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_down_one%27s_tools
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by thalur 17y ago
> Also, when I go abroad, I am definitely not enabling data roaming. I think this is an important point, which is freqently forgotten. So many apps that would be useful in a foreign country are useless because they require internet acc
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by thalur 17y ago
But a larger screen is (potentially) well worth having. I find my iphone is a little on the small side for serious web browsing - its good for the occasional wikipedia hunt, but its not particularly pleasant to read large amounts of text o
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by thalur 17y ago
The section on "when to apply science" seems very disparaging of our predecessors: how does he know that no one tried experiments to prove either of the two ideas? Both require knowledge of drag (and preferably a vacuum chamber) to perform
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by thalur 17y ago
On the home page: "For a limited time: free worldwide shipping with pre-order!"
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by thalur 17y ago
When I tried switching the mouse to my left hand I just started getting pain in my left hand too! I found switching to a trackball mouse has helped a lot, as has using an ergonomic keyboard without a number pad on the right hand side. I u
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by thalur 17y ago
Thanks for that - I'll definitely give that book a look. * Went from being able to work on a computer unbearably 35 hours a week to 70+ virtually pain free (when I worked for a YC startup) That's definitely encouraging. At the moment I can
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by thalur 17y ago
Clickable link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JQn_2fz7zs_2ff7Dkdcp_2...
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Ask HN: wrist pain
5 points by thalur 17y ago|15 comments
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Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by thalur 17y ago|0 comments
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Big brother untangles baby babble(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by thalur 17y ago|1 comments
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by thalur 17y ago
"If I had my time again, I would dedicate myself to making just enough to live comfortably (say £30m or £40m) as quickly as I could, hopefully by the time I was 35. I would then cash out immediately and retire to write poetry and plant tree
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by thalur 17y ago
Theres also a related series of articles starting here: http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html
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by thalur 17y ago
Could a viable company be created with the goal of producing and selling an MMO engine, rather than an actual MMO? You would be removing the expense and risk of creating the gameplay side of things (models, textures, quests etc), and could
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by thalur 17y ago
Using i and j as loop or temp variable names when working with complex numbers should get bonus points ;)
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by thalur 17y ago
Sounds like something Dan Brown would write.
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by thalur 17y ago
I like it. It wasn't immediately obvious to me what some of the features did though - the search button and the unique/common graph next to it for example. I'm also a little disapointed it won't generate names in Klingon - after all, it o
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by thalur 17y ago
I would want a translator to be offline though (or someone else to pay the roaming data charges for me).
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by thalur 17y ago
How about ranking by how other users who have a similar voting pattern to the current user vote on an article? So, for example, when the page is rendered for user x, each user who has upvoted an article has their vote multiplied by the sim
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by thalur 17y ago
I must admit that I've stopped using firefox completely since I got hooked on Chrome, but I was never a big plugin user. I wouldn't go so far as to say firefox was dead as a result though. The oddest thing is that I don't miss having an ad
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by thalur 17y ago
At work I've just been writing a testing framework in Matlab (mostly for fun, but it actualy seems to work!). And I have next week off, so I thought I'd have a go at building something in rails.
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by thalur 17y ago
" "You're using Facebook to say all kind of things that you wouldn't say in public," he says. "My grandmother thought that the phone was an intrusion into her life. Why would this person call rather than knock on the door? Now we just accep
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by thalur 17y ago
silly question: if this is successful, won't it lead to an incentive for the developers to add unnecessary extra lines of code, sort of an anti-refactoring - "how can I express this in more lines..." - in order to increase the number of ado
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by thalur 17y ago
It may be due to whatever messed up install the corporate IT people have deigned to give us.
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by thalur 17y ago
What, working harder? :p
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by thalur 17y ago
I just get a blank white screen on IE6 (at work). I don't know if that's considered a good thing or a bad thing! (And believe me, if they would let me use something other than IE6, I would.)
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by thalur 17y ago
And there was me thinking it would be an article about some undersea cable across the atlantic or pacific...

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