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by whughes 17y ago
If Ruby is ascending, then Python is declining. It seems more like both of them are stable. I can't see a significant difference, especially compared to Perl's noticeable fall. However, there may also be other noise (snakes and gems) pollut
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by whughes 17y ago
I wish you luck getting anywhere on the Internet without the help of a major company, Google in particular. It may not be Microsoft or IBM, but there are still clear powers.
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by whughes 17y ago
You should consider adding support for ripping mp3s/aac from the videos, if it's not there already. Besides the obvious pirated music part, there are the various amateur performances and talks which people might want to listen to from YouTu
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by whughes 17y ago
Not everyone in the third world is starving. If you give out medicine and a poor person survives and has children, who also survive and live relatively normal lives, then I view that as a net gain. It's a mistake to simplify charity to 'giv
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by whughes 17y ago
Did you read the article I posted? It pretty extensively explains why that statistic is useless. Number of divorces / number of marriages is not the same thing as the chance of a marriage ending in divorce.
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by whughes 17y ago
That's not true: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html Also, "all US marriages" is not the same thing as "all US first marriages." A person divorced twice and divorcing for the third time is different from a person divorcin
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by whughes 17y ago
Just curious, why don't you like OS X?
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by whughes 17y ago
Certainly, we've had polls for some of these (I remember age specifically) in the past, and we'll probably have them again as the user base changes. With the context of an increasing number of gender-related articles, I think this informati
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by whughes 17y ago
Should Google be parsing Twitter's HTML to find people's bios? The meta description tag's purpose appears to be to describe the page. Even if it is not, Twitter should provide the info in another meta tag so Google can use it properly.
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by whughes 17y ago
Isn't that a straightforward question? Self-interest turns into racism when the candidate voted for is not the best candidate. If you vote for an inferior candidate on the basis of race, then you are not acting on your own self-interest. I
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by whughes 17y ago
Judging from the statements in the article, it's the future of the drug war as well. That's an interesting vision of the future -- increasingly sophisticated autonomous smugglers and coast guards battling it out. It's better than putting hu
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by whughes 17y ago
Here is the actual law regarding semisubs: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.3351 : The text is a bit more specific and reasonable, I think. "Whoever knowingly or intentionally operates by any means or embarks in any submersible
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by whughes 17y ago
Is it the spector of a "What microsoft is to control over OSes, Google shall become to web experiences?" You mean we will be able to ignore Google most of the time and use one of many viable competing products? That doesn't sound like too
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by whughes 17y ago
I was more interested in seeing how they solicited input from Growl, but apparently they only use it for query results.
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by whughes 17y ago
That's pretty vague. "Browsing the Web" includes and is not limited to: - Watching videos - Listening to music - E-mail - Word processing/spreadsheets/etc - Video/audio calls - HN and other discussion sites - Blogs The Web itself has become
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by whughes 17y ago
Eventually, yes, I'd say so. GeoCities had a good 10+ year run. USENET lasted 20 years or so until it was overrun. Perhaps Facebook and Twitter can beat these, but they will certainly be killed off at some point, considering the rapid chang
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The story behind the rise and fall of America's master math teacher(reason.com)
57 points by whughes 17y ago|5 comments
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by whughes 17y ago
Microsoft does heavy optimization for Windows OSes (see http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/11/05/2527... ). Windows 7 is also quite fast on its own on modern hardware, even if it can't stack up against XP on 2001 machines. I
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by whughes 17y ago
I read both (Fountainhead second), and I preferred the Fountainhead first. It's a lighter read and will give you a taste for Rand's style. If you can stand the heavy ideological slant, then you might want to look into Atlas Shrugged. I do
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by whughes 17y ago
Hulu is fundamentally a different video experience than a TV, though. Rather than passively watching channels and killing time, you're actively seeking out only your 'exempt' shows. It's a lot harder to fall into the couch potato trap.
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by whughes 17y ago
It's nice, but the site requires horizontal scroll on my small browser window on my MacBook screen. That's my biggest complaint, really.
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by whughes 17y ago
That would be a step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. Pseudo-leetspeek hacker news? It's even sketchier.
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by whughes 17y ago
Mentioned in the article. "They are energetic and excited about getting paid to do something they really enjoy (and probably have been doing on a small scale for years without pay). " "Others think there must be a better, more humane and su
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by whughes 18y ago
Register the account using a throwaway email address. NY Times is one of the most linked sites here, and the content is certainly worth the small amount of effort.
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by whughes 18y ago
I don't think smoking is a similar case, because we have a pretty clear-cut explanation as to how smoking can cause cancer. It's not just being inferred from smokers getting cancer statistically.
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by whughes 18y ago
A sample of people from Nebraska and Boston. Hardly any better from a global perspective (indeed, probably worse, since MSN is fairly universal). What about the 80% of people living in the developing world?
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by whughes 18y ago
What is to stop a bot from just clicking randomly? A 1/6 chance of registering an account is good enough for botting purposes. That's the problem with these multiple-choice solutions. They simply aren't strong enough protection against a fl
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by whughes 18y ago
The quote is from Augustine's City of God, originally, and it referred to Alexander the Great as the emperor.
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by whughes 18y ago
The problem is that the value of certain computer science concepts, such as big-Oh notation, may not be immediately obvious for someone self-educating. They can skip over these mathematical/CS concepts in favor of more 'practical' software
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by whughes 18y ago
I would think that the problem would not be your usage of date formats, but everybody else's.

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