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by vram22 6y ago
So, by the quick probably prejudiced knee- jerk downvotes for a factual statement, I can see that anti-science (or maybe even anti-minority community)? types on HN are alive and buzzing, in their cesspools. Sharing this subthread on Twitt
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by vram22 6y ago
Fool or troll or prejudiced frigtard that you undoubtedly are, where, above, have I said that I don't understand it? If I haven't said it, it is your wrong understanding or claim (unless there is good evidence), which is why I &#x
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by vram22 6y ago
Got it, and will check that link out, thanks.
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by vram22 6y ago
The guideline is: your mask protects me, and my mask protects you. From what I read earlier, when COVID19 was new, the guideline is based on the physics of masks and airflow, and how masks reduce transmission of the virus via speaking, sne
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What's the difference?
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by vram22 6y ago
"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
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by vram22 6y ago
Another text editor I had used for a few years, and liked, many years ago, was PFE - Programmer's File Editor. It was lightweight, fast, and could edit large files (for the time) easily. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by vram22 6y ago
Apropos, some years ago I had written this blog post and Python program: Play the piano on your computer with Python: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/04/play-piano-on-your-compu... The post got some interesting
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by vram22 6y ago
Worth remembering that almost all processed foods have added sugar, salt or fat these days - apart from other additives like preservatives, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and the list of -ers goes on. Read product labels closely, and/or d
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by vram22 6y ago
>BTW, I'm Ron, the coiner of Ron's First Law, if that helps you put it in context :-) I somehow guessed it, the moment I read it, though I didn't know your full name earlier, despite having read your comments on HN befor
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Yojana and many other units in Sanskrit, from older Indian times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojana
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by vram22 6y ago
Just to have fun (as you probably thought you were having with me, even if subconsciously), I'm reviewing a few of your points "in the hopes of improving the contributor" (presumptuous and prissy!), as you said about me: Poor
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, right, that claim is that made in a video by Dr. Elaine Ingham, called The Roots of Your Profits, which I mentioned in this same thread, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718277 and which links to a comment
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by vram22 6y ago
You have said multiple things compactly in a couple of paragraphs in your above comment. I think at least one or two are wrong, or at the very least, misunderstandings or misinterpretations of things I said - and said in pretty clear and s
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by vram22 6y ago
Good point, but I happened to (though might have not) think of it, just before I first posted my above comment. So I had changed the wording slightly to what it is (and made no edit after that). That is, I made it say: KNF seems to be base
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by vram22 6y ago
KNF seems to be based on basically based on the same principles as Dr. Ingham talks about, if you take a high level view.
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by vram22 6y ago
Dr. Elaine Ingham has done a lot of work on this, and talked about it a lot, too, at conferences and in videos. I had mentioned her and a brief gist of her work in an HN thread about no-till, some months ago, here: https://news.y
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by vram22 6y ago
While checking for it, I found this review of it, which praises it on many points: LinApp - Most Comprehensive Collection Of Commercial Linux Applications I Have Ever Seen: https://www.techdrivein.com/2010/08/linap
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by vram22 6y ago
There was a site specifically for selling Linux apps called linapp.com or so, that I had seen now and then for some years, but on a check now, it seems gone or down. They had products priced from tens to thousands of dollars.
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by vram22 6y ago
Don't know Elixir. Understand a bit about pattern matching from dabbling in OCaml and F#. Not clear about this: >you have to basically mentally imagine what all cases are covered and what they mean Why? Isn't the logic clearly
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by vram22 6y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the reply. Just saw it now. I get it.
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by vram22 6y ago
Good question. Two names of prominent people who did / do such work as you ask about, that I know of from earlier work in bigcos where it was used a lot (so I was trained on it, practiced it as a project manager and also personally rea
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by vram22 6y ago
>plus it actually works? Heh. "That was the most unkindest cut of all." https://www.google.com/search?q=unkindest+cut+of+all+quote Also, "the emperor's new clothes". Both relevant.
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by vram22 6y ago
I too am getting tired of having to tell people to make sure they fully read and understood my point before replying. Just had another such incident recently. But bigger point is, there is such a trend to make fly-by comments, maybe with th
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by vram22 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688214
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Sometimes simplicity can be harder to achieve than complexity.
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Yes. The GoPL book has a diagram of Go influences (languages) near the start of the book.
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This 2014 HN thread is interesting for that and many other points: Delphi – why won't it die? (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543
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I had said this some weeks ago, in reply to a tweet by Guido: https://mobile.twitter.com/vasudevram/status/132736428179752...
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Just for fun, and not meant as an exact match (pun noticed :), I had written a simple simulation of C's switch statement in Python, a while ago: Simulating the C switch statement in Python: https://jugad2.blogspot.com&

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