yesenadam

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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   > This is a list of common misconceptions. Each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.
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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   I think it was huge everywhere. The movie is #6 on the list of biggest grossing movies of all time, adjusted for inflation. For 6 years it held the record as the highest grossing movie ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   Sorry, I wouldn't know.
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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   I love the exercises in Godement's Algebra (1968), e.g. p111: 15. With the development of purely peaceful space research, the President-Director-General of the Societe Anonyme pour l'Exploitation Financiere de la Physique Purem
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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   > It's amazing how many people e stumble across the Ask HN and manage to navigate the sign-up-and-post procedure but fail to grasp how Google works. That's 100% unhelpful, unkind snark. I see from your recent comment history yo
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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   > carierx1, who appears to be hellbanned. If you read their 1 page comment history, there's dang explaining "We've banned this account." and why.
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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   Really, you can follow his explanations at 2x?! Less than 1x the satisfaction, I suspect.
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   by yesenadam 6y ago

   There's a whole world of chess composition/problems. You can even be a grandmaster chess composer or solver. Some composers are legendary in the chess world, e.g. Troitzky, Sam Loyd, Kubbel. Chess problems come in various kinds, a
9. 1629.▲
   by yesenadam 6y ago

   > It's used here on Hackernews too. Source? Many times I've seen a comment that's dead for unknown reasons, then realized all that user's comments are dead. Then tracing back in their history to the point that started
10. 1630.▲
    by yesenadam 6y ago

    > awk/sed are just horrible to learn for beginners That doesn't seem fair. The two are entirely different. I found Awk very friendly and easy to learn, and use it every day for all kinds of things, in one-liners and in scripts.
11. 1631.▲
    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Not sure what formatting tricks you mean, but that doesn't seem quite fair. When I want to do anything unusual, I google my problem and almost always there's a question on Tex stack exchange (which is blessed with the participatio
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    After I learnt about refactoring, decades too late, mainly from Refactoring and Clean Code , I spent at least a week refactoring a program of maybe a few hundred lines. It was amazing how much even such a short program can be improved in
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    I use this Kill Element bookmarklet which mostly gets rid of such static unwanteds. Not quicker but is more satisfying. javascript:for(var i=0; i<(document.getElementsByTagName('a')).length; i++) {(document.getElementsByT
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    You might try posting this as a usual HN news item to get more response, or write a blog post about it and link to that. (Awk lover here)
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Should output "hello, world!\n" (Kernighan, A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B , 1972) or "hello, world\n" (Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial 1974 and Kernighan/Ritchie, The C Programming Language
16. 1636.▲
    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Plase AskHN this question! Probably it's been asked many times before.
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Thanks, that's awesome, just spent 20 minutes reading on there. But quite frequently as I was trying to read, everything on screen jumped upwards, by a few lines or half a page, apparently because stuff below it was loading. Normally I
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    (Australia here.) Maths was my favourite subject in high school mainly because everything else was taught so badly - history (regurgitate names and dates, for some reason mostly Greece, Rome, WWI), science (learnt how to be good at faking e
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Yes. Not easy to google! From the sed manual ('man sed'): s/regular expression/replacement/flags – Substitute the replacement string for the first instance of the regular expression in the pattern space. ... g –
20. 1640.▲
    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Aren't most popular languages like that? Pro-C, anti-C, pro-Lisp, anti-Lisp etc. Pro and anti Perl, Python, Haskell, Bash, Forth, C++, Go etc. Pro and anti OOP, pro and anti FP etc. There are the languages people argue over, and the la
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    > one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. Is that actually a fact? Really, "everything around you"? Are we talking about smarter than me, you (reading this
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Also re counting: we also have Bede to thank that we call this year 2020, and not e.g. the 4th year of Trump : "At the time Bede wrote the Historia Ecclesiastica , there were two common ways of referring to dates. One was to use indic
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_deficiency
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Probably everyone's seen this, but if you haven't..I thought it was very funny. Didn't know much about Jobs until recently, but watched Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine and Pirates of Silicon Valley and some other stuff
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately... – Oscar Wilde, letter to R. Ross, 31 May 1898
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Hmm yes, that makes more sense! Not far enough from what I've seen written seriously that that was apparent, though I'm no expert in the field. On the topic of taking jokes seriously : About 10 years ago I came across Winning wit
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    I've noticed that the more time I spend with pen and paper before starting to type, the better the resulting program is. It's more natural to me, and maybe everyone, to just start typing feverishly with the end goal in mind, hopin
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    Swartz https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/
29. 1649.▲
    by yesenadam 6y ago

    That sounds like a terrible idea, polluting voting on HN. I hope you are asked or made to stop doing that.
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    by yesenadam 6y ago

    That doesn't sound white hat at all. It sounds sociopathic. At least he on some level recognizes that it "sounds like an evil plan for world domination".