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Poll to find new BASH logo(docs.google.com)
4 points by veddox 11y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 11y ago
The storyline was incredibly shallow, basically just an amalgamation of scenes from the last six episodes. On the plus side, the characters are a lot more convincing and very well acted. (Even though I still don't understand why JJ A
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by veddox 11y ago
Actually Star Wars is incredibly popular among pre-teen boys, at least here in Germany. For their sakes I'm quite glad they didn't put in too much gore.
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by veddox 11y ago
Thanks for the offer! I'll bear it in mind. I found a book at the university library that aims to teach Koiné as if it were a living language - i.e. instead of translating Euclid et al. from the get-go, one starts with simple life-like
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by veddox 11y ago
Let's just say I started yesterday, and I'm already happy that I can recognize all the letters by now. "Reading" as such (in the sense of reading a book) comes later ;-)
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by veddox 11y ago
How about Ancient Greek? No kidding - that's what I'm working on this break.
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by veddox 11y ago
Creativity, as I've said above, has to do with doing things apart from the norm, doing them differently to how they are usually done or how they have been done before. Using that definition allows a relatively objective comparison of t
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by veddox 11y ago
Why do you say creativity is subjective? If that is the case, anything could be creative - even working on a production line in a factory.
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by veddox 11y ago
> I [...] didn't say programming was, actually, the most creative. Then you need to rephrase your question. In normal conversational English, "Is there any job more creative than programming?" implies that you consider pro
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by veddox 11y ago
Painting, design work (web design, print design, product design, architecture), poetry, fiction writing, composing music, theater acting... Do you want me to continue? Yes, programming is a creative job. But to claim it to be "the most
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by veddox 11y ago
Art should not be above the viewer in the sense that it seems to say "You're too dumb and too uneducated to understand me". It should totally be above the viewer in the sense that it should get him to broaden his horizons, to
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by veddox 11y ago
Whatever happened to beauty in art? Much of the article focuses on art whose only purpose seems to be so "say something", to shock its viewers, to do something nobody else had ever thought of doing before. At which point in time d
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by veddox 11y ago
Note that the quote doesn't say "if it's in a museum, it isn't art". What is means to say is that you should be able to recognize a true work of art no matter where you see it. (I dare say you would recognize a Remb
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by veddox 11y ago
> There was once agreement on what "high culture" was - classic paintings, symphonies, opera, and ballet. Those are the art forms that have stone palaces downtown. Those forms have lost some social significance in the last few
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by veddox 11y ago
I don't think that that is what he was trying to say. Art is not about "mimicking" the real world, neither should every artist speak with the same voice - far from it! However, an artist that only talks about his own personal
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by veddox 11y ago
Well, apart from his prediction that it wouldn't be a very successful language, his analysis still seems pretty accurate... And one has to grant Java this: it has matured a lot over the years. Even has lambdas now! ;-)
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by veddox 11y ago
They detected the structure using underground imaging techniques, the uppermost layer of objects was half a meter below the current ground surface. (The whole excavation took eight weeks, if you are interested in more details, check out the
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by veddox 11y ago
Several people have been commenting on how the archaeologists "know" that the raised structures were altars. Well, they don't. Not for sure, anyway. Here is an excerpt from a paper describing the find: "Three different i
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by veddox 11y ago
The second link is a very solid scientific paper - not yet done reading it, but looks good.
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by veddox 11y ago
Well, de facto it can make the fire bigger or smaller. If the bottom of the fire is below the lower screen edge, only a small part is visible. Move the fire up -> more becomes visible -> the fire becomes "bigger" ;-) At leas
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by veddox 11y ago
I was very surprised to learn about a city of that size in Europe that long ago! And I've never heard of the culture either - got to do some more reading... ;-)
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by veddox 11y ago
Very neat! :-) Unfortunately, I'm having a little problem "regulating the heat": C-+ is supposed to make the fire bigger, C-- smaller. When I run this in a tty, neither of the two does anything. When I run it under X, C-+ mov
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Show HN: Cli-money, a simple Unix finance utility(launchpad.net)
1 points by veddox 11y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 11y ago
Read the article first. (The author is in fact himself a programmer who loves what he does.) The reason he says it sucks is not because it isn't interesting, but because modern programming is using a machine (the computer) to solve pro
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by veddox 11y ago
I'm not a professional programmer, but I have the very strong impression that the one area of programming that is most saturated with frameworks etc. is web programming. So if you want to be more of a generalist, choose another platfor
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by veddox 11y ago
Did that last year :-) Let me tell you, it's absolutely worth it!
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by veddox 11y ago
A quote from the Jargon file: "Contrary to stereotype, hackers are not usually intellectually narrow; they tend to be interested in any subject that can provide mental stimulation, and can often discourse knowledgeably and even interes
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by veddox 11y ago
A related discussion on free technology for Africa took place some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10398549 In general I am rather sceptical of these "Give Africa free technology, that'll fix all th
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by veddox 11y ago
Currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It has served me well, but I am planning to migrate to elementaryOS later this week. (I want to try something new, and I love the beautiful design of eOS.) I've tried out Arch on an old laptop, and w
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by veddox 11y ago
i3 is a brilliant DE for hacking, but I found it rather wanting for "normal" use, so I went back to Unity on Ubuntu.

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