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by tjic 17y ago
> Mood Organ Um, I meed Prozac / Zoloft / Fontex, Seromex, Seronil, Sarafem, Ladose, Fluctin , Fluox , Lovan ...
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by tjic 17y ago
> "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" are one of the cases for me when book is way better than movie. You're just saying that because the Mood Organ made you want to say that...
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by tjic 17y ago
Commercial success? How about CULTURAL success? Blade Runner changed the direction of science fiction movies. Heck, it changed the direction of WRITTEN science fiction (and, yes, I'm saying that the movie, not the original book, changed th
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LOL! Also, now you have a royalties payment to JWZ.
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by tjic 17y ago
For the last few years elisp has been bugging me more and more. Basically, ever since I saw how easy life is with Ruby, I've been annoyed at how hard it is with elisp. If I had six free months, I'd love to do yet-another-rewrite-of-E
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by tjic 17y ago
If that's the point, it would have been made far better by posting the above sentence, rather than delivering a tutorial for retarded six year olds on how to use the 'man' command.
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Being "scooped" by a mere 6 months, on a 10 year old technology doesn't really make their realization dated. It's new to me, and I bet it's new to most news.yc-ers.
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by tjic 17y ago
I just love the gratuitous American bashing that we always see in these sorts of discussions. Look, the average IQ on the planet is 100. Here, in England, in Germany. Education here isn't great, but it's not noticeably worst than in Mexic
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> From what I've read of his work, Tufte has almost a compulsion to force data to tell the truth I think it's naive to think that there's just "one truth". What's the truth about NASA spending during the Apollo program? It was so-many b
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Suggest to HN: user profiles / links to homepages
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FBI crime studies show that, no matter how the attacker is armed, your are LESS likely to be harmed if you fight back.
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by tjic 17y ago
> After six years it was time to refresh the face of Ubuntu starting with the word mark Yeah, that's a core principal of branding - as soon as the customers are familiar with your logo, change it. Someone tell Apple, IBM, and Coca-Cola.
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This isn't the power of building codes. This is the power of productivity. Haiti has a GDP of $1,300 per person. As it turns out, about 40% of this is basically welfare from the rest of the world, but that is neither here nor there for the
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Hey, all the best jobs are in Boston! OK, maybe that's not true ... but a guy can try...
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I shudder to think about what happens if the unemployed all simultaneously stop ... what? Surfing the web?
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> What would our houses and cars look like if there was a limitless supply of aluminum? There IS a limitless supply of aluminum. The top kilometer of crust all over the earth is stunningly rich in aluminum. It's just that PROCESSING
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As much as I'm a fan of space exploration, it's a bit silly to say that an asteroid is worth $20 trillion. The ore in an asteroid, REFINED, is worth that much. It's a fair bit of work to move that ore from pt A to pt B, crush it, smelt it,
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by tjic 17y ago
This is the 113th Google hit for "site:news.ycombinator.com reprap". Please. STOP THE SPAMMING.
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From the wikipedia page: "It is often used to champion small, appropriate technologies" I personally * LOATHE * the phrase "appropriate technology". In practice, this term is usually used by elitist first worlders condescending to second an
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by tjic 17y ago
This concept of "if we get the quorum, then it's on, but if not, no one pays" is also known as "an assurance contract". Read more in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract
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by tjic 17y ago
IMO, your passion is far too broad. You like graphics, programming language design, research, and three other things. To be brutal, it sounds like what you're in love with is noodling around, with no particular deliverable. As Jobs said "r
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by tjic 17y ago
As I wrote yesterday in a different comment: People who submit stories: please submit the URL of the article, not the anchor-laden URL of the comments. This happens all the time, and it's annoying. Thank you.
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by tjic 17y ago
People who submit stories: please submit the URL of the article , not the anchor-laden URL of the comments . This happens all the time, and it's annoying. Thank you.
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You may have a problem in NY. In general, the more built up a place is, the more vested interests there are, and the more they are able to manipulate the legislative process. Google moves at Internet speed. Out in the "real world", it's sti
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Tyrants fear free speech. ...and freedom in general.
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Lawyers are trying to get HeavyInk.com to suppress a comic book(heavyink.com)
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When a group (whether it's citizens with a hobby, a union, a corporation, or a church) sees that government is throwing it's $3 Trillion/year bulk around in their neighborhood, they - rationally - try to buy off the government so that it do
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This advice is garbage. Which is not to say that it's FALSE, per se, but that it covers the purely mechanical details. Yes, you need a checking account. Yes, you need a tax ID. But, heck, you need a desk too. And, if you don't eat meals, yo
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My first thought upon seeing the title to the post: Q: What's the difference between Global Warming and Clojure? A: Clojure is real.
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> Girls often believe themselves to be bad at math, in accordance with gender stereotyping This seems to be taking one (politically motivated) assumption and making it into an uncontested piece of background information. There's a fair

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