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by ballpoint 11y ago
This looked awesome, but I found it on the app store and you're charging. I don't think this is a serious enough problem for me to pay you to fix it.
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by ballpoint 11y ago
This was apparently pretty typical for English law hundreds of years ago. As I understand it, wealthy people had a lot of influence over the government and were able to lobby for extreme punishments to protect their fortunes. Many of the de
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by ballpoint 11y ago
I've taken those before and I thought this was harder.
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by ballpoint 11y ago
Yeah, it's much more concrete about his consciousness ideas and definitely got me thinking about a lot of things.
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by ballpoint 11y ago
I believe that Thiel is saying that the current structure of higher education, in tiers of increasing eliteness, bundled with a living and partying arrangement over an essentially-fixed time period, is bad, not that the course material or c
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by ballpoint 12y ago
I'm not sure having better predictors of what businesses are good is necessarily a good idea. Part of the attraction of silicon valley is that it takes some of the risk out of trying new things, even if they might be bad ideas. This cu
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by ballpoint 12y ago
I'm sure they don't need calling. They'll be all over this...
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by ballpoint 12y ago
I guess the case will get pretty bogged down in the mysterious Mt Gox happenings now.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
It would be really cool if they could recognise the font (or a close match) and display the translated words in almost the same style.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
As far as I can tell, most UK wire transfers are essentially immediate (at most a couple of minutes), even between different banks.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
This made me cry.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
You obviously have a nose for good design. Seriously though, that is awesome.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
Mathematica has a few of these features. If you paste in an image from a previous operation, then the image is shown inline in the piece of code you're typing.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
The median-of-medians approach is also somewhat tricky to implement (avoiding array copies and so on), although it admittedly looks neat on the slides of the algorithms lectures.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
This talks about our ability to reach or describe the worst case, so if we say it's Ɵ(n^2), we're saying that we can tell that the worst case is at least quadratic, and it's also no worse than quadratic. We might not be so go
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by ballpoint 12y ago
Well the even-more-general point is that these problems usually aren't that interesting in real life, then.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
Current Oxford student: Functional Programming: Haskell Imperative Programming: Scala Object Oriented Programming: Java Concurrent Programming: Scala Concurrency: CSPm Intro Algorithms: Haskell Compilers: OCaml Digital Systems: MIPS Assembl
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by ballpoint 12y ago
This would be almost trivial on top of the existing Java support as well.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
This might just be the Hacker News effect, but it currently seems unacceptably slow.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
That scrolloff bounce is absolutely horrible on Mac.
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Is Google about to buy Twitch for $1bn?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ballpoint 12y ago|0 comments
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by ballpoint 12y ago
Okay, but at least some of your assumptions are wrong. I recommend melatonin and the flux app for great sleep.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
Nothing in the UK yet either.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
I think the main thrust of the update is providing this ephemeral face-to-face 'meeting' of your friends throughout the day, as if you're seeing them in the corridor, just like college. The text chat seems to be more of a pla
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by ballpoint 12y ago
It sounds like it might be a little RSI-inducing though, having to press your finger down all the time.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
Yeah everyone I know hates switching to G+ for group calls. We have to use Skype to guide people through the G+ interface and get them on a group call.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
It definitely seems a little naive to hand over the keys to your life's data without accepting that you're taking on a fairly large amount of risk with regards to privacy. Even if the party to which you're handing it over doe
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Matt Daemon(pypi.python.org)
3 points by ballpoint 12y ago|1 comments
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by ballpoint 12y ago
We desperately need the laundry one in my dorm at Oxford! I have invested way too many brain cycles in thinking about unobtrusive ways of achieving that.
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by ballpoint 12y ago
The whole thing seems a bit flimsy to me though: (1) Don't provide free stock photos at the time that people want them. (2) Later doe provide stock photos at the time that people want them, but no longer for free. (3) Profit!

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