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by veddox 11y ago
1. The Python standard library (if you're on Linux, /usr/lib/python2.x or 3.x, depending on your version). 2. The Bazaar VCS is written entirely in Python, is very well documented and has a large test section. (www.launc
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by veddox 11y ago
> His point was that the "it was better in my time" argument is as old as mankind it feels like. Oh, I absolutely agree with that. (Don't quote me, but wasn't it Aristotle who is on record for complaining about "
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by veddox 11y ago
I don't see it as "modern panic", but simply as a fact of life. Just like the OP, I love the ability modern technology gives us for communication, information, creativity, etc. But pretending that there are no drawbacks would
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by veddox 11y ago
Can't think of a name of the top of my head, but if I were you I'd think again about Lispy: first, it's the name of a Lisp interpreter that Peter Norvig wrote in Python ( http://www.norvig.com/lispy.html ). Sec
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by veddox 11y ago
It did start to feel rather sluggish a few minutes ago... Don't know whether that was my computer, my Internet connection or their servers groaning under the load ;-)
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by veddox 11y ago
I understand that it can be a pain for the users - but unless the filter out a lot more than the original article says, I find the label of "censorship" and "free speech impediment" highly exaggerated.
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by veddox 11y ago
Seriously, pornography counts as "free speech" now? Please guys, can't we fight for something worthwhile? If I had to give my opinion, I'd say that I actually find it quite laudable that Microsoft bothers to heed local v
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by veddox 11y ago
I already can't read all the good stuff I'm seeing on the front page...
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by veddox 11y ago
Is that the official repo?
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Hacker News source code?
1 points by veddox 11y ago|3 comments
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by veddox 11y ago
A good article with some challenging points, though perhaps a little too positive about Jobs. For example, his "reality distortion field" wasn't always a good thing - especially since he had enough ideas that were simply stup
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by veddox 11y ago
Developing a body of knowledge in a given language takes a lot of time, and comes at a huge cost (quasi-isolation from the rest of the world of science). It's been done before (Germany during the Third Reich, Russia during the Cold War
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by veddox 11y ago
> And remember you get good at what you do: if you spend a lot of time playing video games, you'll be good at playing video games; if you spend a lot of time programming in Java you'll be good at programming in Java. Just added
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by veddox 11y ago
Some good thoughts there. Although I find this a rather weak point: > [using your native language] would make your software ... more difficult to spy by the NSA and CIA At least as far as natural languages are concerned, don't you t
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by veddox 11y ago
alias todo='grep "FIXME" * ; grep "TODO" * ; grep "XXX" *' Shows up all the things I still need to work on in a given project (assuming of course that you annotate your code...).
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by veddox 11y ago
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2014.00... Sorry, made a mistake in the comment above. It's not the DNA's structure that is changed, it's the resulting protein's. (Differen
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by veddox 11y ago
Thanks for your comment. The word sequential is absolutely key in this context.
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by veddox 11y ago
I am well aware of the basic molecular biology of the cell, as well as the RNA world hypothesis. All due respect to Benner for his work - my comment was rather too pointed, I'll concede that. Nonetheless, I am always wary of too much t
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by veddox 11y ago
So these guys come along, casually expand a well-established code and test it under precisely one small condition. And when this one test gives them some nice data, they say: "Hey, our stuff is better than everything all of nature has
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by veddox 11y ago
And actually, even the redundancy is not complete. A recent paper showed that seemingly "redundant" variations of triplets led to a slightly different 3D folding structure of the DNA, with effects on the physiology of the cell.
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by veddox 11y ago
All the "great" people I can think of have something in common: they believed in something, acted on it, and happened to become great while doing so. Wanting to be great and then looking for a field to be great in seems to me to b
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by veddox 11y ago
If using the commandline is the main problem, why not use a git GUI interface? (Would Github's be of any use?) I'm not saying learning the commandline is not important, but that would split the learning load so they only have to l
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by veddox 11y ago
Seen statistically, three "major players" still aren't all that much... If the White House, Facebook, electricity companies and AT&T had gone down as well, then maybe we could start talking ;-)
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by veddox 11y ago
I want to emphasize the word unofficial there - you never learn about this in the Zambian history curriculum. It was just a bunch of crackpots playing at being astronauts.
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by veddox 11y ago
Great story :-) Sounds a lot like "October Sky".
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by veddox 11y ago
"The Art of Unix Programming" (Eric S. Raymond) has a longish section on the history of Unix, which is very illuminating, as it stretches several decades of its development. "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Elec
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by veddox 11y ago
Absolutely. It does a great job of showing the spirit of the early hackers at MIT, even though it's not really a technical book.
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by veddox 11y ago
In case you're a German speaker, there are some native German Email providers that afaik are pretty good on privacy (our laws are very strict there, and there is what is known as). And as their servers should be in Germany, the NSA wil
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by veddox 11y ago
+1 for that comment I have the highest respect for the history of the United States and where they came from. Perhaps the founding fathers were not the first to think thoughts of freedom, but they were among the forerunners in implementing
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by veddox 11y ago
I'm not usually happy to see somebody hacked, but in this case I'll make an exception :-) But their software is a risk now, I agree.

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