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The Planetary Society's Quest to Deploy a Solar Sail(theatlantic.com)
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Here is a podcast interview with the Laconica creator that cleared a lot of things up for me: http://www.twit.tv/floss37
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Lately, I've been using Pandoc ( http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ ) which is a better markdown than markdown (uses a parser rather than regexes). It also knows how to convert between lots of different markups it can read LaTeX, HTML, reStr
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Is this really Hacker News? Flagged.
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Thank you. I was going to say the same thing.
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by twopoint718 18y ago
This is really interesting. One using a URL shortener is essentially setting up a parallel DNS infrastructure (like the article said). And there is nothing preventing anyone from doing exactly this right now. One could run a DNS that re-map
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by twopoint718 18y ago
The nice thing though is that if you have some upfront developer/consultant cost for Linux that cost gets amortized over every netbook you crank out. I have no idea how the economics of this really works, but it would seem at least that the
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by twopoint718 18y ago
I just have to put in another plug for GUILE. I've written a sizable chunk of my day-to-day shell scripts in it and it is such a pleasant environment in which to work. Are there translators out there, for perl, python?
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Agreed. The UI for the desktop just gives me a headache but there are some really cool projects coming out of Redmond. There is some really interesting work in computational photography: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/pro
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Anything with a good REPL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REPL
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by twopoint718 18y ago
I really liked this haskell ambigram: http://www.haskell.org/logos/logos/HaskelmR.png
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by twopoint718 18y ago
The shootout makes clear: "How can we benchmark a programming language? We can't - we benchmark programming language implementations. How can we benchmark language implementations? We can't - we measure particular programs." The other thing
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by twopoint718 18y ago
I don't think I even realized what it was .
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by twopoint718 18y ago
This was the tutorial shed a lot of light on the issue: http://student.northpark.edu/pemente/emacs_tabs.htm You get to configure at least three things: how many things emacs enters when you press "tab", what those things are, and if you
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Whitespace, Shakespeare, LOLCode, Homespring (the Salmon-oriented programming language), and of course, Visual Basic. Edit: the "Visual Basic" was my attempt at a joke, but then I googled in "Invisible Basic", thinking that some crafty hack
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by twopoint718 18y ago
This makes me think of mercury as the Ice-9 of aluminum. Does anyone have videos of this reaction?
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by twopoint718 18y ago
I'm so conflicted here, on the one hand there are very old and very good rules for why jurors should be in a sort of information bubble, but then there is the part of me that thinks the more information the better.
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by twopoint718 18y ago
You know, that got me thinking. ZFS will do versioning and, as a filesystem, you'd be keeping your binary data in it anyway. In ZFS, this versioning is implemented as a tree of data blocks, only those blocks that change between versions wou
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by twopoint718 18y ago
If we're mentioning holidays that we made up, here's mine. March 5 (YYYY-3-5, when you write the date big-endian) is the Square Root of Christmas (35 * 35 = 1225). This allows 10 days between Sqrt(Xmas) and Pi Day. This period of time is
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Whatever they do in South Korea, do that here (in the US).
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Interesting application.
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by twopoint718 18y ago
The way that I'm thinking about it is this: that it is relatively unusual, from the standpoint of the community, for a high-karma user to upvote a low-karma user. Karma is a measure of the norms of the community, parceled out to users.
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Oh I agree completely that it isn't a nice assumption; it is just a simplifying one (like the proverbial spherical cow) that's mostly wrong. But I don't think it is entirely wrong, and the ways that it is right may be useful, as an experi
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by twopoint718 18y ago
I've been toying with the idea of adapting the Elo rating system from chess to a social site's user score. The basic idea from chess is that you assume someone has an intrinsic skill in some arbitrary units (I think you start out around 1
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Convex mirrors will produce a smaller virtual image (behind the plane of the mirror) taken from a wider field of view. Concave mirrors will produce an inverted real image (for objects farther away than the focal length) or a larger virtua
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Just playing devil's advocate, but why would that person have to have a better idea? A person doesn't necessarily need to be in possession of good ideas in order to be able to sniff out bad ones. Though I admit, it would be weird if someone
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by twopoint718 18y ago
It doesn't seem that clear, but it does look better for TPB than I would have expected. Half of the charges against them have already been thrown out, and they are making the argument that, as the administers of the site, they don't pos
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Yuck. I had heard previously about how difficult it is to completely remove yourself from FB, but this getting unreasonable. Also I have an issue with the article: > Someone can still take your photo, slap it on Facebook, and now neit
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by twopoint718 18y ago
Disagreement isn't being a dick. And I agree more with you that Doctorow, I have cases and cases of books (my back remembers this every time I have to move). But I, and I may have misread Doctorow's article, take it that his point wasn't th
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by twopoint718 18y ago
I have a question that maybe you can answer, having really perused the PDF spec. Is it true that PDF removed the turing-completeness of PostScript? I had heard something that the main reason for creating PDF was that you couldn't render a s

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