CarolineW

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Blinkenlights(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by CarolineW 7y ago|0 comments
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Why the age of electric flight is finally upon us(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by CarolineW 7y ago|0 comments
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by CarolineW 7y ago
I agree with you entirely, although my comment making pretty much the same point is seeing wild swings in the voting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980584
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by CarolineW 8y ago
Wow, I would never have expected my comments to have been interpreted that way. Genuinely shocked. Thank you for the feedback.
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by CarolineW 8y ago
Actually, we are pretty marginal on sed , but point taken. It feels like there's a difference between "stream mode" and "program mode". I remember when awk was first implemented. sed was already standard, and a
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by CarolineW 8y ago
OK, so as kazinator has pointed out, awk is now a mandatory part of Posix, and so is genuinely a part of "shell". My reply there says that I and my colleagues still think of awk as fundamentally different from other pipeline
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by CarolineW 8y ago
That I did not know - thank you. We here still think of awk as fundamentally different from other pipeline facilities such as tr, sed, sort, uniq, and so on, but I can see why it could, perhaps should, be though of as being "shell
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by CarolineW 8y ago
It's not a cop-out, we disagree. > Nor is finding "common ground" the goal (this is not some sort of compromise between political parties, it's a technical argument). We disagree. When there is a disagreement, find
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by CarolineW 8y ago
Then we'll agree to disagree. I think you are wrong on so many points here, it's clear we're not going to agree, and probably won't find common ground. Thank you, by the way, for your references to various published mat
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by CarolineW 8y ago
I read your entire post, and I didn't miss any of the points you make. I simply disagree with you. Quoting from your post: And here is my initial solution in UNIX shell: # bentley_knuth.sh # Usage: # ./bentley
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by CarolineW 8y ago
Your "shell" solution isn't really a shell solution, it's an awk solution. It's really valuable to know awk, but it's a bit misleading to claim that "it's shell".
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by CarolineW 8y ago
RiscOS !Draw Vector drawing package that was neat, clean, fast, versatile, user-friendly, and powerful.
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by CarolineW 8y ago
> Not a true statement. Where are you searching? At the bottom of this page is a search box. Into it type "black bar" (without the quotation marks). It takes you to this link: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=b
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by CarolineW 8y ago
If you do a search for "black bar" you'll find lots and lots and lots and lots of results, most of which answer your question.
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by CarolineW 8y ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211632
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by CarolineW 8y ago
You say: IPFS promises nothing, nor tries to, in the way of permanent archiving. From the IPFS web site[0]: Humanity's history is deleted daily ... IPFS keeps every version of your files and makes it simple to set up resilient net
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by CarolineW 8y ago
As the quotation goes: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."
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by CarolineW 8y ago
But you wrote it, so of course it's clear to you. To me, when someone says "the longest part of the program" I immediately think of the routine that stretches over the most lines. That's the longest part of the code.
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by CarolineW 8y ago
So when you say "longest" you don't mean "longest section of code", I'm guessing you mean "section of code in which execution spends the longest time". If so, good, but it wasn't clear to me that
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Why we have “little old men” but no “old little men”(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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Misleading charts 101 – how to lie with diagrams, exhibit A(graphics.thomsonreuters.com)
2 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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by CarolineW 8y ago
Very close over human ranges: C = (F-30) / 2 F = 2 * C + 30 Exact conversions: C = (F-32) * 5 / 9 F = C / 5 * 9 + 32 Table: C F -40 -40 0 32 (Approx water freezing point) 10
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YouTuber in row over copyright infringement of his own song(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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Steve Ditko: Spider-Man co-creator found dead at 90(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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by CarolineW 8y ago
Previous submissions of this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17060600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17058516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17052185 <- 94 commen
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Calculating Pi with Real Pies – Numberphile(youtube.com)
1 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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Spaghetti sort – an O(N) sorting algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments
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by CarolineW 8y ago
I've only briefly skimmed the paper, but here's something I've come up with, based on what I read, that might or might not be the same as what they've said, but I think "has legs": * Randomly choose some fixed
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by CarolineW 8y ago
I have a hotch-potch of tools and then glue the results together by hand. It doesn't take me long, but I vet all the results to make sure it's all valid. It's pretty trivial stuff - a GET on hn.algolia.com and a simply python
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More than ever we need people to be guided by their own senses of principle(time.com)
2 points by CarolineW 8y ago|0 comments

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