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by NAFV_P 11y ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2930277/Eleve...
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by NAFV_P 11y ago
Yesterday I finished a job in Cheltenham, England. The post was 50 weeks long. The commute to and back from work came to around two and a half to three hours. Often I would feel physically sick on the bus due to insufficient rest. I would g
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by NAFV_P 11y ago
Be very careful what you ask the gods, you might run into: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Anyone remember this? ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(1995_The_Outer_Limits...
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Hackers think of themselves as dangerous. The other day a work colleague of mine described me as "so meek and mild", and I couldn't agree more.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Wow, bananas are really scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
This could be an extreme version of "Where's Wally".
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> But c? c is basically portable assembler. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I avoid calling C portable assembler. I tend to think of C as having low level data manipulation and high level flow.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> A the lowest-level, you have doctors who're just assholes. I was physically assaulted by a doctor around six years ago, I would use a much harsher term than asshole.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The excerpt from "The School of Venus" in the article > Coufin, I confefs my ignorance "Confefs" ? The old and the new in one word.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> What Minecraft could really use would be a scripting capability of some sort. Minetest [0] has some scripting ability, utilising Lua. [0] http://minetest.net/
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I usually rely on LibreOffice, but I was tempted to get OpenOffice back on my machine just to try out the bug. Anyway, thank you for the link.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
That has sated my curiosity, thank you.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Cheers for the reply. I went to Github to look for <a programming language> koans, and they exist for a lot of languages - oddly I couldn't find one for C. Anyway, recently I decided I should try to be more multilingual, Javascri
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
My experience: C has a spartan standard library compared to other languages like Python. Even something like getting a scheme going for decent memory management can take a lot of work. I found it to be a good way to get my head round using
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Linked article: [0] I'm guessing the pieces were original works used just for the study, the article doesn't state what was used. [0] http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/may31/brainwave-053106.ht...
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? Would you be referring to the business morals or technical requirements of Facebook? You nee
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I wasn't aware of that, cheers. EDIT: This indicates that the original comment [0] is quite opaque. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160323
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I'm going to post a recent Onion article. It shares some of my thoughts on the subject matter far more eloquently than my own words ever could. Eloquent or not, I thought that the supplied article was irresponsible and lacked su
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Even the terrible stuff can inform language models for understanding the good stuff. The terrible stuff may be used for cutting and scratching. If you scratch the vinyl, it adds character.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> It sold more than 6m copies and launched an entire aesthetic: cyberpunk. The cyberpunk aesthetic was already in existence, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I enjoyed reading this article, with a nicely brewed cup of Earl Grey. The alternative Lady Grey tea [0] has lower concentrations of oil of bergamot. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Grey_(tea)
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
HN readers like yourself are a big plus, it lends the site diversity. There is also a fairly big age range. I would definitely agree with point A. The odd gem, like [0]. Advice or pointers from other HN readers. I do not work in the softwar
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Anyone got something more technical? Well I found this little sound-byte from a link in the original article. I didn't find it particularly original. From [0] > “Programs” are written using special blueprints called corelets
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I have noticed that some genuinely funny comments or puns based on the discussion get downvoted, which I disagree with. It may not add to the intellectual value, but I enjoy a good laugh as much as I enjoy learning. I used to constan
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
A compound Easter Egg [0], goooooogle 'tilt' || 'askew', then search 'dogengineer'. Wow. [0] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=askew&oq=askew&aqs=chrome....
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
To add to the logistical difficulties, ancient Greece was covered in thick forest.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I found one posted on HN a few years ago of Middle Earth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681505 EDIT: and another https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4972756
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The growth curve here is more than exponential 2^n, it's 2^2^n. I am a bit confused as to what you mean. 2^2^n is still classified as an exponential function.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The article still leaves the reader in the dark as to how the image was made public in the first place. From the article> Wikimedia's editors are split on the legal issues. One user, Saffron Blaze, said in a comment section associa

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