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901.
by veddox 11y ago
A 'realistic' simulation of an ecosystem. Three years ago researchers managed to simulate an entire bacterium with every known gene and molecule, I'd like to scale that up. (Though one could not keep same level of molecular r
902.
by veddox 11y ago
I rarely put comments on the same line as my code, usually that makes the line too long (I try to stay in the 80 char margin). If I want to specifically annotate that one line, I'll insert a comment line right above it.
903.
by veddox 11y ago
although they married quite some years after YC was founded
904.
by veddox 11y ago
Just yesterday three people in my family needed all of five minutes (if not more) to find the button to log in to web.de webmail interface. They have a homepage bursting with pictures and videos and all kinds of news junk you really don&#x2
905.
by veddox 11y ago
Windows: Kaspersky Ubuntu: have ClamAV installed, but don't use it.
906.
by veddox 11y ago
I'm in Germany, and I'm pretty OK with our police. Most officers I've met were friendly, it just happens to be their job to have to do unpopular things at times.
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Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions from 1984 [video](ted.com)
1 points by veddox 11y ago|0 comments
908.
by veddox 11y ago
> Can there be any new, technically difficult means of communication? I'm assuming you meant "technically different "? Either way: I can't think of any, but given the last few millenia of progress, it seems unlikely
909.
by veddox 11y ago
> you need keepers-of-the-faith like the author Sorry, but this author is no "keeper of the faith". He's a finance journalist, for goodness sake! See my comment above for more details.
910.
by veddox 11y ago
I get the distinct impression that the author of this article doesn't really know what he is talking about. He doesn't bother mentioning (if he is even aware of the fact) that "hacker" != "cracker", but kind of
911.
by veddox 11y ago
Like superplussed said, not a great article, but one that raises valid points. Having grown up in the expat community of sub-Saharan Africa and later spent a year working there, I've had my own experiences with these voluntourists and
912.
by veddox 11y ago
Sometimes working on the wrong problem is worse than working on none at all. Especially if there are limited resources available.
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by veddox 11y ago
Sorry if I ask the obvious question, but do you have any personal experience with development work/voluntourism? Because if you don't, I think you will find that many people who do would definitely agree with the article. It is
914.
by veddox 11y ago
I would find that very dubious - my internal antivirus would be giving red alert... I don't think I would accept one of those drives.
915.
by veddox 11y ago
> Can you elaborate? Easy. First: name five jobs in which you absolutely do not need to be able to read or write. Found five? OK, can you name five in which you do not need to be able to program? What set took you longer to think of? Sec
916.
by veddox 11y ago
It's a really interesting idea and well thought-out design, but isn't four a little early to start programming? I mean, yes programming is important nowadays, and probably more people ought to learn it - but to put it on one level
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What the best education systems are doing right(ideas.ted.com)
3 points by veddox 11y ago|0 comments
918.
by veddox 11y ago
My favourite one is this one: https://www.coverfox.com/404/ It was mentioned on HN some weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811077 ).
919.
by veddox 11y ago
I would say it's human limitation. The complexity of modern software systems is often times too great for even its creators to grasp completely. Especially since a program is not an island - it interacts with the OS, the hardware, the
920.
by veddox 11y ago
kama sona nimi pi toki pona ala mute tenpo, taso kute en sitelen ala pona.
921.
by veddox 11y ago
Finally a technology prophet who doesn't prophesy digital utopia! Although I can't imagine that everything he says is correct (purely statistically speaking), I do think that if anybody reads this in twenty years he/she wil
922.
by veddox 11y ago
> In the worst-case scenario, it will be invented by a lone hacker and loosed on an unsuspecting world with no warning. Dozens, if not hundreds of the world's smartest scientists and best programmers have been working full-time on A
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by veddox 11y ago
Sounds very interesting - signed up for the Memrise Toki Pona course straight away ;-)
924.
by veddox 11y ago
Wow, that's what you call a real craftsman! And his flutes sound amazing!
925.
by veddox 11y ago
I've seen tons of people recommending Thinkpads on HN, and I was just wondering what exactly makes them so popular? OK, I get that they are unbreakable, but anything else? (Especially since they look kinda ugly too, IMO...)
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by veddox 11y ago
Note the current HN discussion on Purism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9912034 (It's not all favourable...)
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by veddox 11y ago
I like the idea, but the site contains way too much FSF ideology and too little actual technology as far as I'm concerned. And for that price, I'd rather go with tried-and-tested System76 rather than an unknown company. (Or rather
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by veddox 11y ago
After discovering PG's essays, I spent a couple of weeks trawling through them. Eventually came across "What I learned from Hacker News" and decided to check it out...
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by veddox 11y ago
PEPs are basically the Python community's RFCs (if you're familiar with those). BTW, what you call "an opinionated piece on how to write Python" was originally written by Guido van Rossum, the guy who invented Python in
930.
by veddox 11y ago
I haven't used Mercurial yet, let alone glance at the code base, but it might be worth a look ;-) But honestly, the Bazaar code base is great. Great documentation at every level, and, as far as I can judge, some pretty good code too.

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