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   by younata 16y ago

   I agree with you. Example: My roommate, a person who thinks I'm boring because I'm in CS (his comment upon seeing my schedule of mostly cs classes next semester: "At least you're taking one interesting class" [class in question is intro to
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   by younata 16y ago

   don't you mean "substitute 'demand' for 'ask'?
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   by younata 16y ago

   Basically, the gov't is arguing "this guy is likely a recruiter for al-queada <or however it's spelled>, we should be allowed to kill this terrorist, even though he has US citizenship." The gov't is getting sued by the ACLU and the
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   by younata 16y ago

   One of the guys in my D&D group is of this mentality. I hope he matures soon.
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   by younata 16y ago

   before I got this mac, I used an old (currently 6 years old) thinkpad running bsd as my main computer. Flash video killed the performance of the machine. Eventually I discovered that setting my browser (midori [1]) to identify always as mob
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   by younata 16y ago

   I wonder what the ratio of new people signing up to people leaving facebook is. I personally think it's more than just slightly higher than 1 to 1.
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   by younata 16y ago

   It's neat. But, for me, I prefer the regular, static, interface. The main page doesn't change enough to warrant using a a realtime interface.
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   by younata 16y ago

   Who am I? Undergrad in CS at Florida Institute of Technology. What Hardware am I Using? 13" MacBook Pro, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD. IBM Thinkpad x40 running FreeBSD IBM (technically lenovo, but branded IBM) Thinkpad x41 ta
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   by younata 16y ago

   Excellent. Do that. Now, to go invest in gold/oil, because the price of those will rise significantly in response to our hyperinflation.
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    by younata 16y ago

    upvoted it (at this time, it cancelled out a downvote). No idea why it was initially downvoted, it's good information to point out. So long as you don't make money off the shirts, it's ok to use xkcd comics.
11. 341.▲
    by younata 16y ago

    ok, lesson learned: Don't make humorous comments; you can't get modded +5 (funny) on here. Instead, you get downvoted.
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    by younata 16y ago

    well. That stinks.
13. 343.▲
    by younata 16y ago

    why not? It won't affect the end product at all (especially if it's a comment), why not let them have their fun?
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    by younata 16y ago

    yes, but I don't particularly care about the politics in the state I'm in.
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    by younata 16y ago

    As an out of state college student, I'm very much so fond of voting by mail. I voted about three weeks ago.
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    by younata 16y ago

    None that I'm aware of. However, doesn't mean we can't take, say, January (or february, one of the winter months where outside is rather cold) and make that into NaProWriMo (National Program Writing Month).
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    Ask HN: Who Is Seeking Interns? (November 2010 Edition)

    15 points by younata 16y ago|10 comments
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    by younata 16y ago

    These kinds of astronomical pictures are why I got into astronomy. Simply breathtaking.
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    by younata 16y ago

    "Junk: Penis and testacles." [sic] [1] [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=junk (NSFW) (definition 2)
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    by younata 16y ago

    Dammit, I thought the bloodlust was just the stress of upcoming exams.
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    by younata 16y ago

    Freshman in CS here. I came in knowing python and C. My uni teaches java for the first three classes (luckily I tested out of the first class), then we're taught c++. We have an OS class that (should, I haven't looked into it) uses C, proba
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    by younata 16y ago

    Who all is providing a liveblog? Some of us are in public places w/o headphones, I'd prefer to read it than to watch it.
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    by younata 16y ago

    Freshman CS. "job": homework, trying to improve my grades. personal: implementation of MIDAS [1]. [1] http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/midas.html
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    by younata 16y ago

    I have a friend who regularly talks about how easy it would be to 'destroy' (kill power grid, poison water supply bomb pretty much anything) NYC (he's from up there) without using the airlines. Even before 9/11, it was by far much easier to
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    by younata 16y ago

    In this application, incorrect. I would install it on my phone. If it gets stolen, I can remotely control it so that I can get it back at a later date.
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    by younata 16y ago

    can we have the link updated? when I was linked from my rss reader (just now-ish), it was set to go to: http://localhost/www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.htm... should be: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html thank
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    by younata 16y ago

    Well, the terminator films give reason as to why we're not fielding AI-controlled military drones. Also, every unmanned spacecraft ever has been controlled by an AI. These drones show the success of AI research.
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    by younata 16y ago

    I'm curious. I've been using vim for not that long (but long enough that it's now my main editor). What all shortcuts exist for getting to the middle of a line?
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    by younata 16y ago

    I thought it was some less informed person talking about encryption when I saw the article. Journalists (who won't read this comment anyway, c'est la vie): When you do an article about something you know little about, talk to someone who kn
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    by younata 16y ago

    I'm one of the several people here who uses awesome. It's rather nice.