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by yzzxy 12y ago
Well, given that it already occurred and had an array of "serious entrants," I'd say you're both completely wrong and didn't watch the video. Contests aren't all about recouping costs. It's not like the X
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by yzzxy 12y ago
_why wrote about this phenomenon in CLOSURE: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5764687/CLOSURE.pdf The segment in question runs from about page 29 through 34. I unfolded my napkin and got the silverware ou
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Here's some feedback: your 2FA experience is terrible. I appreciate that you use 2FA, but I have to hit the send button multiple times to get a text message every single time on my US mobile phone. After that the form fails 50% of the
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I would caution you not to go for the cutesy, "random" aesthetic that github does with their name generator. People may not wish to be addressed in that way.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I'm not an RPN expert, but I think the nSpire is holistically better between "good enough" speed and readability. I use Lisp so it's not like I hate alternative notation, I just think classic math notation makes more sen
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I love this story, and it's sad to hear about companies abandoning features that users care a lot about such as RPN. Personally I think the textbook style entry on the newer nSpires is a better interface than RPN for a lot of math - it
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by yzzxy 12y ago
That quote was referring to racist homeowners who were planning to leave when Asian Americans moved in: --- "The same issue affected Asian-Americans. When progressive suburban developer Joseph Eichler’s company sold a home in 1954 to a
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I should have added, "By the standard of SV-focused tech sites."
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think tagging/subdivision is a bad idea for HN. I believe subdivision is part of what makes the Reddit unappealing. There's a really good quote in The Diamond Age: “One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was
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by yzzxy 12y ago
> I myself spend far more time at K5 than I do at HN. The first article on the site appears to be a personal attack on you. Is this a community in-joke?
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Is this site still active? It's hard to tell from article dates.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Yes, the jargon file and this article are mired in specifics that are probably bad. I also don't think the weirdness the jargon file gets into near the end regarding personality archetypes is very valid, interesting or useful, and it h
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by yzzxy 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_school
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by yzzxy 12y ago
It's not a "true" almost impossible collision that occurred, but two files that shared the same content and filename and would collide by definition.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
The criteria used here seem arbitrary and and silly. This whole page feels like an exercise in pedantry to me. Most of the time it's not even mentioned what disqualified a given computer. Does anyone know why the specific decisions and
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Just FYI, bulletproof as a diet appears to be pretty snake-oily. But I'm sure the coffee tastes great so there's nothing inherently wrong with drinking it.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Breaking news: extremists on both sides of issue are seen as controversial figures.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Thus the creation of the Rpi compute unit to allow for cheaper hardware clusters.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Perhaps it's time to review basic astronomy before getting snarky? Day and night length varies based on time of year and latitude.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
To be fair, the original Xbox was quietly removed from store shelves and software development halted immediately after the 360 was announced. Contrast this with the average console support cycle of several years into the new generation.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Location: San Francisco Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: C#/.NET, Node, C++, Lisp (Scheme + Clojure). Experience in 3D printing and rapid fabrication, design software (Autocad, Illustrator, etc). Résumé: h
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I couldn't agree less. W3 schools is considered harmful by many and has at least in the past taught incorrect interpretations of standards. Please do not suggest them as a resource for new learners. It's better than it used to be,
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Reduce the time I spend staring dead-eyed at the internet. I still want to spend some of my free time programming (I'm a student) but I don't enjoy killing hours mindlessly looping through the same three or so sites. Otherwise - g
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I find Gibson's greatest gift is naming things and coming up with vernacular. Panther Moderns and ice are obvious standouts but I particularly liked "funny" as a term for pirated 3d printed objects in The Peripheral.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
No. Coursera courses could be good for experience but it's a red flag to claim that something that is A. online and B. not college is "some college."
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Discuss what is wrong with the arguments behind their behaviors, rather than harping on personality traits the author finds annoying. Many of the character traits the author mentions are not part of the messages of the political groups he
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by yzzxy 12y ago
There's a great talk from Defcon 22 on using Massscan for security research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think this is an important discussion to be had. The question of whether ideas like "trigger warnings" should be implemented in academia have good arguments on both sides. On a few of these issues I'm not sure where I stand
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by yzzxy 12y ago
It says 10+ years of rails specifically in the email.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Stephen Baxter's Manifold novels deal with this problem quite extensively. I would recommend them from anyone interested in the implications of the Fermi paradox expressed in science/speculative fiction.

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