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by veddox 10y ago
> But to not broach the question at all for the sake of avoiding the volume of dialogue it might produce seems kinda odd, imo. Yeah, I guess you're right, maybe I was a bit overcautious there. Nonetheless, I do think that it is bett
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by veddox 10y ago
Hm, that is a dangerous question to ask. I assume that you are a newbie to programming in general, so just to let you know, you have asked a question that has had programmers bashing away at each other for the past thirty years ( https:&#x2
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by veddox 10y ago
Politics per se shouldn't be discussed on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). However, I agree with you that all elements of the political spectrum are engaging in some pretty heavy name calling thes
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by veddox 10y ago
Ideally, the point of such a discussion should not be to persuade the other person, nor to be persuaded oneself, but to gain a deeper understanding and respect of the other's position. I think the website makes it clear that this is fo
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by veddox 10y ago
Of course you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but describing everybody who posts low-quality comments as "selfish, uncaring people" is pretty extreme (and not a little unkind in itself). I think many of them are simply new
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by veddox 10y ago
> without having some editor assist you doing the counting for you The problem with your statement is in just this point: everybody does have an editor that does this for you ;-) Unless you write code with ed, or Windows Notepad, I don&#
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by veddox 10y ago
If you're willing to accuse the authors of SICP (and every Lisp developer since) of bad taste, then so be it...
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by veddox 10y ago
That is actually perfectly well formatted Lisp/Scheme code, indented exactly the way Emacs does it for you. Presumably you would want to close of one paren per line (C-style), but speaking as a Lisp programmer I would say that that jus
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by veddox 10y ago
> but it takes on a different character for those on the right. Could you expand on what you mean by this? Because in my experience, the right has no monopoly on disregarding out of hand anything written by the other side... Nonetheless,
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by veddox 10y ago
In some ways, it's a matter of education - people need to be taught to think, and to think through other peoples' positions. "Sapere aude!", Kant told his listeners, "Dare to use your mind!" We need more of tha
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by veddox 10y ago
The "flamewar detector" sounds like an interesting concept - can you elucidate?
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by veddox 10y ago
If you like Linux, you might try out the Ubuntu phone. It's reviews were quite good, although apparently it was still somewhat buggy just after release and the hardware was not top-of-the-range (don't know what the situation is li
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by veddox 10y ago
We've had such a lot of "exciting new technologies that are going to replace email in x years" that I don't believe anything ever will - at least as long as we continue to have computers, keyboards and the Internet... (A
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by veddox 10y ago
Although I think they are in more urgent need of developers than designers - their software looks great, but unfortunately tends to be rather buggy...
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by veddox 10y ago
Hey everyone, OP here. I am a self-taught hobby programmer who has never really had any "expert" input (apart from books). So I was thinking it might be useful to get a code review of one of my projects done by a professional deve
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Show HN: Ecologia, a simple ecosystem simulator(launchpad.net)
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by veddox 10y ago
I find fountain pens so much nicer to write with than ballpoints. If I need to write anything longer than a sentence, I would always choose the fountain pen - it's much gentler on your hand, so you don't tire as quickly, and you
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by veddox 10y ago
AFAIK, cursive is still being taught at (most) schools here in Germany, although most of my peers had abandoned it for print lettering by grade 10. Actually, when we had out introductory lecture for my university course, the prof strongly u
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by veddox 10y ago
My only experience is with w3m. It's not bad, the keybindings take some learning, but that would be the case for any terminal web browser. It even has an extension that permits you to display images (if you have an X session running -
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by veddox 10y ago
Here are the original papers cited: Meho 2007: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/20/1/33/... (not open access) Evans 2008: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc
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by veddox 10y ago
Good point. Unfortunately, the links in the Smithsonianmag's article are broken and they don't provide much other information to find the original papers that reported this, so I don't know how the authors worked. Would be in
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by veddox 10y ago
Nobody is saying we should stop doing science - we just want to see it done better. As for the concept of "failure", see pron's and my comments above.
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Unfortunately, you are correct. And if you refer back to my first comment, you will see me saying something very much like that ;-) However, that is not the original intent of a paper, which is what my later argumentation referred to.
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by veddox 10y ago
Your quote is thought-provoking, but I do not quite follow the rest of your argumentation: > A lot of research is supposed to be new, uncertain, high-risk, high-reward. So it should fail often. Setting aside the question of whether or no
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by veddox 10y ago
> Also, just because it didn't get read right away doesn't mean it's a failure. Ask some gray haired academics how often they've seen (first hand or otherwise) an obscure paper from decades ago become key in solving a
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by veddox 10y ago
> Even papers nobody but the author reads are useful. But to a very, very limited extent. Why do we publish papers? Because we want to share the knowledge we generate. Papers are the very essence of the ideal of open science - science
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I think that is something worth investigating - because if it is true that 50% of all papers written never get an audience, then I would see that as a pretty major flaw in the way we do science. (As if we don't have enough of those a
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by veddox 10y ago
I used elementary myself for about half a year as my main system and have a bit of a split opinion on it myself. On the one hand, I did find the design to be very appealing - and contrary to what you claim, I haven't seen as nice a des
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by veddox 10y ago
I take a lot of notes during lectures - just very simply on A4 lined paper that I file at the end of the class. For personal notes I use a small notebook, but I don't have any special system for it. When it's full it's full..
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by veddox 10y ago
I just dug a little into the HN API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ). Unfortunately, they don't publish comment ratings... :-( Unless that is changed, implementing an automatic "best comment finder" w

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