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by veddox 11y ago
An interesting idea, although I don't think I would use it myself. I wouldn't want to post a lot of stuff about my late friend/relative on some site on the Internet. Somehow, it wouldn't feel right. Death and mourning ar
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by veddox 11y ago
> The Navy seagoing tugboat and its 56 officers and crew went missing so long ago that the famous bridge that spans the Golden Gate did not yet exist. Hang on - 1921 is "so long ago"? Sorry CNN, but over on the other side of th
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by veddox 11y ago
Sometimes a misread contains more truth than one would like :D
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by veddox 11y ago
The problem is that you can only afford to do that if you're a moderately large business. For home users or small schools (where I have worked), that's simply not an option moneywise...
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by veddox 11y ago
Printers are my biggest IT nightmare. No piece of modern computer hardware fails so consistently, so ununderstandably or so frequently as a printer.
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by veddox 11y ago
ESR's "The Art of Unix Programming" includes a longish section on the history of Unix. For the rest of the book, he talks about the Unix programming philosophy, including many examples of real-life software. I found this a fa
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by veddox 11y ago
A superb and enchanting glimpse into the world of books, a thousand years before our time. I find it amazing that books already had that kind of importance during an era we call the "dark ages", and that they were being actively s
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by veddox 11y ago
I prefer HN Reads. Though both are good sites (and the first is aggregated automatically, which is a plus), ramiro.org only finds books that are linked to Amazon. IMO this gives a rather skewed result, as most books mentioned on HN are only
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by veddox 11y ago
If you're still in college/university, enrol in an undergraduate introductory physics course. If you don't have time for that, go to the library and borrow whatever text book it is they use for those courses. Alternately, jus
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by veddox 11y ago
I used to run a blog with a classmate where we'd write about politics and other socially relevant themes. For me, posting an article there meant taking time to develop my own thoughts and opinions on a given issue; as well as giving me
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by veddox 11y ago
brilliant :D
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by veddox 11y ago
All due respect, but I don't think it really necessary or advisable to publicly expose the person in question. What's the use of knowing who it was?
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by veddox 11y ago
> HN hug of death I like that expression :-)
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by veddox 11y ago
The author has a couple of valid points, the one I definitely agree with the most is the one about centralization. I'm tired of hearing about some cool new app/program that sounds really great, but when I go check it out, it almos
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by veddox 11y ago
As a biology student I can tell you that you are most likely correct :-) Behavioural studies in animals are a fascinating field. I can't back it up with citations right now, but I'm pretty sure horses and dogs are not the only ani
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by veddox 11y ago
Interesting side note: German publishers hit on a similar strategy in the early post-war years. Nobody could afford to buy hardcovers anymore, so they printed their books on newspaper-paper instead, to be sold cheaply at the roadside - and
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by veddox 11y ago
> I think we as a society could really use it. Definitely. I think books are by far the most effective way of giving people a real education. There's nothing like a good collection of books for teaching you knowledge, broadening you
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by veddox 11y ago
You'll always find people who are better than you in any area you care to look. It's just part of life - it can hurt, especially if it's in a field you try very hard to be good at - but we need to learn to live with it. My ad
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by veddox 11y ago
> the second is ok since it's just your thoughts "Watch your thoughts, for they become your words", is part of a Jewish proverb. What's inside of you will eventually come out, so it's best to deal with it straigh
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by veddox 11y ago
I'm not quite sure, but the first one that springs to mind was "How art became irrelevant" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10760665 ). While I obviously like HN for all the techies that meet here, I also
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by veddox 11y ago
Does anybody have any feedback on this? I'm only an amateur programmer, I always appreciate hearing from more experienced pros...
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by veddox 11y ago
Please don't misquote me. What I actually said was: > But let's not pretend that "it just works, right out of the box!"(TM) every time . [Emphasis added] Of course Linux often works. Perhaps even most times. A coup
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by veddox 11y ago
I don't think this is about self-disparagement, but about holding ourselves to a high standard. I love Linux, and have been using it without major problems for some time now (mainly Ubuntu-based distros). Especially if you are into pro
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by veddox 11y ago
I think I didn't express myself quite right. As mightybyte says in his comment on the successor thread to this one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812198 ), functional programming is a programming paradigm that
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by veddox 11y ago
I learned functional programming from "Common Lisp: a gentle introduction to symbolic computation" (David Touretzky) and "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (Abelson and Sussman). If you have better sourc
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by veddox 11y ago
The title is rather misleading, IMO. What the article is really about is side-effect free programming. This is indeed covered very well, the author manages to explain both what side-effects are and why it makes sense to avoid them in a clea
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by veddox 11y ago
Hi wener, HN isn't really a place to get tech support for problems like that, I think you should look elsewhere. First of all, have you tried googling the error? Quite probably, somebody has encountered it before you and you can learn
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Show HN: Cli-money, a simple Unix finance utility(launchpad.net)
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by veddox 11y ago
I use Mendeley, and have found to be quite good for my needs. Previously I used ReadCube, which was also quite good - unfortunately it doesn't run on Linux, so I had to ditch it. I would love to try out Citavi, it sounds even better th
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by veddox 11y ago
Several reasons, some of which are: 1) "Been there, done that - why go back?" 2) The Soviets aren't trying to get there anymore, so the Americans don't see the point of trying. 3) We couldn't even if we wanted to (A

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