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by zck 17y ago
I can't decide whether to put my solutions up. They're in Arc, so they might be useful for people learning the language, as there aren't many Arc-specific programs out there.
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by zck 17y ago
#240 is pretty evil. I spent a lot of time trying thing that I thought would work, but didn't. Well done creating it.
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by zck 17y ago
I liked this article, but at the end, it seems like the author conflates dynamic and interpreted languages: > Interpreted languages like Ruby, Python, Perl, and yes, even PHP, are now replacing compiled languages...Yes I am aware Ruby,
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by zck 17y ago
So because, in your opinion, there are other results that have "good stuff", that means that government censorship is ok?
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by zck 17y ago
Google isn't a pure reference site. It exists to show users things they're searching for. If people want to find the Encyclopedia Dramatica article for Aborigines when searching for "Aborigines and encyclopedia", Google should show it.
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by zck 17y ago
pg made a similar comment in Undergraduation ( http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html ): > My mother, who has the same [thermostat], diligently spent a day reading the user's manual to learn how to operate hers. She assumed the problem
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by zck 17y ago
>(d) Excellent system stability with no random crashes at all. This is interesting, considering one of the main reasons Reddit switched from Lisp to Python was because it was crashing often.
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by zck 17y ago
The "Here's why this works" part was the best part of the article. Thanks for writing more than "hey, look at this trick!"
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by zck 17y ago
They don't do bounds checking, so the number of goats teleported can overflow. I noticed when I was at -2,089,949,091 goats teleported.
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by zck 17y ago
Sigh, I had this idea about a month ago and did about a day's worth of hacking on it. At least, a similar idea. I wanted to generate a report at the end of a month to check my credit card statement against. I'm too lazy to do it by hand, bu
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by zck 17y ago
You could make it a fraction -- last-clicks/views
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by zck 17y ago
I like this idea. However, my browsing habits would mess this up. When I run a search, I'll often open the first two or three results that look good. I do this before looking at any of them. Still, even knowing that a result "looked good" m
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by zck 17y ago
Only because the advertisers will complain, and because it's a reason to get a mac [1]. Say Best Buy removed the crapware ads for free, and the advertisers didn't complain. I'm sure Dell couldn't care less, as it's actually a better experie
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by zck 17y ago
This is similar to the WTF Public License ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL )
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What "hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs" really means.(online.wsj.com)
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Our Payments Were Automatic. Stopping Them Wasn’t.(nytimes.com)
26 points by zck 17y ago|10 comments
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by zck 17y ago
The article starts here: http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture_society/the-revolution-...
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by zck 17y ago
They do a decent job at explaining ego depletion without using the term. Some discussion is here: http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/Ego_Depletion . The wikipedia article is also pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
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by zck 17y ago
For me, there's a big difference between "being at the computer" and "doing something worthwhile". Even reading HN is at the detriment of doing something productive. It would be a lot lower if we only counted time getting things done.
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by zck 17y ago
>The one thing he doesn't mention is the staggering brainlessness of putting the 'Eject Disk' key at the top-right corner, above 'Delete'. You think that's stupid? On the HP keyboard I'm using, there's a similar key above Escape. What d
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by zck 17y ago
I have two quibbles with their numbers. First, if WalMart gives 1% of revenues, and they have $400 billion in revenues, they give $4 billion to charity. They say $13 billion is given to charity by corporations. Note that U.S. GDP is $14 tri
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by zck 17y ago
Original at http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=4249
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by zck 17y ago
The more I code, the more reasons I find to simply use parentheses everywhere. Why bother even thinking about 1 + 2 * 4 when you could write 1 + (2 * 4) Ok, if you've got a lot of operators in one line, it can get difficult, but you're
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by zck 17y ago
I got these from looking through the Arc 3.1 source. http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors shows the most popular colors of the top bar. http://news.ycombinator.com/welcome prints "Welcome to Hacker News, <username>". /vote is t
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by zck 17y ago
Interestingly, creationists with advanced degrees often turn out to be engineers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_hypothesis
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by zck 17y ago
Whole Foods hasn't been making great profits lately. So they're not keeping organics expensive by high markup. Perhaps they're encouraging farmers to charge them more, but that seems unlikely. It could just be that the produce they buy are
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by zck 17y ago
My comment from a dead link to a blog entry on this NYT article: >Because of its domination of the global search market and ability to penalize competitors while placing its own services at the top of its search results, Google has a vi
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by zck 17y ago
>I'm skeptical. I've purchased a lot of Facebook/Myspace ads and I can tell you first hand, they just don't perform as well as other types of media. Notice that you said "other types of media". So it's already coming true -- it is a typ
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by zck 17y ago
From the NYT article: >Because of its domination of the global search market and ability to penalize competitors while placing its own services at the top of its search results, Google has a virtually unassailable competitive advantage.
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by zck 17y ago
My car's turn signals are frustrating as hell. Normally, when switching lanes, I don't push the signal lever all the way over, so that it locks; I simply push it and hold it, so when I am in the moved-to lane, I just let go, and the signal

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