bombadilo

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by bombadilo 2y ago
I mean, in this context I agree. But most people doing math in high school or university are graded on their working of a problem, with the final result usually equating to a small proportion of the total marks received.
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by bombadilo 4y ago
The quality of comments on HN has really started to degrade.
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by bombadilo 4y ago
Can we leave these painfully overused sarcastic comments to reddit please? This adds nothing to the discussion. I've been seeing these types of comments more frequently on HN. What's happened to the moderation?
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by bombadilo 5y ago
OP obviously meant people should wear a cardigan or jumper to keep themselves warm if they're not already. I swear at least 70% the comments on HN are just lazy straw man arguments and people like me wasting their time to point them ou
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by bombadilo 5y ago
So don't use Safari then? Seems like a pretty simple solution.
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by bombadilo 5y ago
A masters is typically one year full time, two years part time.
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by bombadilo 5y ago
Do you have adblockers or did you turn them off for this experiment? I would assume most people on HN have adblockers and other browser ad ons to prevent the malicious tracking that so many companies are hell bent on using. It's an ano
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by bombadilo 5y ago
This is one thing that really pisses me off about hacker news. The excessive use of abbreviations only hinders communication, it doesn't improve it.
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by bombadilo 5y ago
Sorry, but the suggestion that marijuanna use leads to narcissistic personality disorder is absurd.
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by bombadilo 5y ago
Purely the first season. Unfortunately, the show has gone down the drain and focuses more on action than interesting philosophical discussions.
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by bombadilo 5y ago
Alternatively, typing '?share' at the end of the URL works too. Quora is awful these days though so I rarely use it anyway.
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by bombadilo 5y ago
Not to be a dick, but it's "losing", not "loosing". This is the most incorrectly spelt word on the Internet and it makes me irrationally irate. If English is not your native language then I apologise for my pedantic
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by bombadilo 6y ago
I've been reading hacker news for years and I can't recall any piece of technology that seems to attract such vitriol and disdain from the community here. Certain bitcoin criticisms are understandable, but painting the block chain
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by bombadilo 6y ago
Signal is a non-profit organisation. The way they are structured means they literally have no incentive to try and profit off their user base, no matter the size. I'm not saying it's not impossible that could change at some point
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by bombadilo 6y ago
I'm currently doing a BSc in Physics too. However, when I've graduated I don't think I would ever call myself a physicist like yourself unless I actually went on to do research in physics as a career, which likely means follo