Deutscher

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Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
1127 points by Deutscher 4y ago|726 comments
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by Deutscher 4y ago
This is OT and has probably been covered elsewhere, but why does PG not use https on his site? Also, why does it not trigger showing the 'Toggle Reader View (F9)' button in the Firefox addressbar, if anyone knows?
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by Deutscher 5y ago
Math newbie here. Does 'filter' (as it is used here) have a precise mathematical definition? The only other place where I've seen this word used is the 'bloom filter', which according to Wikipedia is not an algorith
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by Deutscher 5y ago
The LaTeX isn't rendering on any of my mobile browsers. Anyone else see the same?
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by Deutscher 5y ago
re: Explorer Patcher, does it allow the (W11/W10) taskbar to be moved to one of the vertical edges? The github page doesn't mention this. I prefer the taskbar on the left and the fact that a vertical taskbar is not supported on W1
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by Deutscher 5y ago
Would you mind making this available as an EPUB?
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by Deutscher 5y ago
Does anyone else suffer from GI issues like epigastric pain (acidity) brought on by tea/coffee consumption? How do you deal with it?
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by Deutscher 7y ago
There are commercial traffic micro-simulation applications[0] for exactly this purpose. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsimulation#Traffic_micros...
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by Deutscher 7y ago
Will this show up in Office 2019?
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by Deutscher 10y ago
Where is Part 1? I tried replacing the '2' in the URL with a '1' (and also tried removing it) but got their 404.
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by Deutscher 10y ago
> I want to see more of the web paid for directly, rather than funded through snooping. I could possibly live with paying for the privilege of using the web, if respect for user privacy is, um, guaranteed somehow. But that probably wo
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by Deutscher 11y ago
Project Euler? https://projecteuler.net/
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Mozilla's Servo Engine Is Crazy Fast Compared to Gecko(phoronix.com)
3 points by Deutscher 12y ago|0 comments
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by Deutscher 12y ago
I've always wondered why developer tools are bundled with browsers. Shouldn't they be available as separate downloads as: 1. Most people use browsers compared to working with them for development, and 2. The additional tools just
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Microsoft Now Recommends You Use a Third-Party Antivirus(howtogeek.com)
1 points by Deutscher 13y ago|0 comments
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by Deutscher 13y ago
Thanks; I also found this reddit link[1] lower down on this discussion page which answers my questions. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1d02a2/help_zach_bra... )
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by Deutscher 13y ago
Maybe I do not understand this particular Kickstarter (and the economics/dynamics of movie-making, among other things), but I did not find 'revenue', 'profit sharing' or other related words/phrases anywhere on the page, or in this HN discus
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The Rise and Fall of AMD: A Company on the Ropes (Part 2/2 in the series)(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Deutscher 13y ago|0 comments
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by Deutscher 14y ago
Does the 'Activate JavaScript protection on login' option work for you with 'Secure Login'? It has been working for me for a long time now; I am just wondering if I am doing something wrong.
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by Deutscher 14y ago
The site doesn't work nicely with on-demand plugin usage like click-to-play or flashblock, although it is possible that I could be doing something wrong.
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by Deutscher 14y ago
Does anyone know if/when it will be available via Ubuntu Software Center or some PPA? I am on Ubuntu 12.04.
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by Deutscher 15y ago
What does your site offer over Mint (which is free)?
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by Deutscher 15y ago
I don't really know how venture funding works, so pardon my stupid question: Why did he need/want to raise $41m from outside when he sold his company for $850m a few years ago?
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by Deutscher 15y ago
While we're on the subject, does anyone know how to search with date/period restrictions without using 'Advanced Search'? "foo date:3" (last three months) doesn't work anymore.
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by Deutscher 15y ago
A few months ago, I saw an online interactive 'trainer' of sorts for MongoDB, much like Codecademy's JS tutorials. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? EDIT: Damn Google, you good: http://www.mongly.com/
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by Deutscher 15y ago
33. Swartz intended to distribute a significant portion of JSTOR’s archive of digitized journal articles through one or more file-sharing sites. How do they know this? Has he said something to that effect? --edited for formatting.
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by Deutscher 15y ago
I didn't check them all, but I got 403 and blank pages when trying to access the python and C++ files respectively.
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by Deutscher 15y ago
EDIT: I hope these help: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Table_of_math... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_logic...
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by Deutscher 15y ago
Your site is mildly amusing, but I strongly believe we need to keep gimmickry such as this (along with other banal stuff, and politics) off HN. With every passing day, this site is looking more like Reddit.
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by Deutscher 15y ago
This account is a blogspammer; it has no comment history, and the submission history consists of links to a single domain.

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