cecilpl

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by cecilpl 4y ago
Why should I use this instead of appwrite or firebase?
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by cecilpl 5y ago
I wish I had discovered Marcus Aurelius years ago. I would have had a much different life. "Meditations" has definitely changed my life. I have learned to be more patient and to not let the small things bother me. I have also lear
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by cecilpl 5y ago
uBlock is starting to become a one-stop shop unicorn!
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Show HN: Coffeeopia – discover and discuss specialty coffee(coffeeopia.com)
16 points by cecilpl 5y ago|1 comments
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by cecilpl 5y ago
I'm surprised that it's only MacMillan and List for organocatalysis. There's plenty of others that come to mind, like Jacobsen. Regarding MacMillan, his student used proline (which opened the whole proline organocatalysis are
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by cecilpl 5y ago
I can't help myself but to write that Chef Kinopio is a yellow Toad who works at the restaurant in Overlook Tower in Paper Mario: The Origami King. :D
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by cecilpl 5y ago
To be honest this is one of the more real proposals I've seen for an Interstellar probe, and there are still many problems to be worked out as both the paper and the comments here point out. I admire the optimism in the paper though, e
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by cecilpl 5y ago
Today’s new motels are often branded as “boutiques” and charge four-star rates to match that kind of exclusive service and local experience. This is ridiculous... The idea of a "motel" is to be cheap. I'm not too fond of th
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by cecilpl 6y ago
I love this: David Spade (Kuzco): It was me and Owen Wilson. We were going to switch jobs. I was an emperor and he was a peasant, and Carla Gugino was a princess. The first time I did my voice, I was naïvely saying, “What do you want? This
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by cecilpl 6y ago
I've used a bunch of these tools in the past as part of tools like Wordstream and Opteo. While basic, they seemed to work well enough. What would make me use our service which doesn't have the other ad management tools built into
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by cecilpl 6y ago
The subject of the antitrust suits filed against Facebook came up in a Facebook comment thread for me yesterday. Some guy piped up and stated, essentially, that "Zuckerberg is too rich and too big and nothing will happen.". He evi
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by cecilpl 6y ago
Every time Facebook is buying something I feel sad and imagine Facebook like the black plague that will swallow that normal organism.
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Test your Git skills(gitlitup.com)
6 points by cecilpl 9y ago|2 comments
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by cecilpl 10y ago
Buzzfeed News is actually a very respectable investigative journalism team led by a Pulitzer-winning journalist. It's funded by their clickbait site.
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by cecilpl 10y ago
Isn't Godfrey-Smith's belief in fact also "just a byproduct of neural activity"?
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by cecilpl 10y ago
I hear he once drank himself to pieces, and when he woke up in the morning and pulled himself together, he had inadvertently made a copy of himself.
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by cecilpl 10y ago
I have used Dvorak everywhere for about 15 years, including at work (with a hardware-switchable keyboard so others can drive too). I was around 90wpm on qwerty when I switched and am similar on dvorak. The big advantage in my mind is not sp
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by cecilpl 10y ago
> selective voluntary amnesia I'm lucky (?) enough to have the involuntary form of this to some degree for media. I will often forget the plot points of a movie I've watched within days to weeks, and in many cases after a year
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by cecilpl 10y ago
The headline assumes a $1m house. From the article: > The empty-home tax will take effect by Jan. 1 and will be calculated at 1 percent of the property’s assessed value.
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by cecilpl 10y ago
I agree with you. As a teenager, I seemed to have an intuitive ability to understand concepts that others struggled with. I tend to grok concepts very quickly and once I do, I don't forget them. I would sit in class and play games (whi
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by cecilpl 10y ago
This post was interesting, though less interesting than I expected based on the title.
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by cecilpl 10y ago
Right. The remaining shareholders own a larger percentage of a company that now owns less cash. Say the only thing my company owns is a bank account with $100 in it. There are 5 shares outstanding worth $20 each. The company buys back one s
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by cecilpl 11y ago
I wrote a program to count the pairs of adjacent last-digit occurrences in all bases up to 30, for the first 100 million primes, and found this property nearly always holds. Quite interestingly, in all of the few cases where this doesn&#x27
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by cecilpl 11y ago
It's a fad. They are trendy right now, and they work because they are new, but in 5 years that style will stop attracting people, and "clickbait headlines" will be another entry on the "10 things you remember about the &
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by cecilpl 11y ago
It's actually CRS-4 (which launched in September 2014), not CRS-7. See the /r/spacex investigation thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3ug55w/scilly_falco...
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by cecilpl 11y ago
Isn't this simply an instance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias ? The only brick buildings you can still look at from the 1800s are the ones that were built very well - all the shoddily-constructed
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by cecilpl 11y ago
Applesoft BASIC (for the Apple ][e) was like this too.
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by cecilpl 11y ago
The problem is that they don't know that you actually know what you want. You present identically to the kind of person who is completely non-technical and was mis-advised by a friend of theirs, and who will come back in a week complai
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by cecilpl 11y ago
See this classic blog post for a counterpoint: Pounding A Nail: Old Shoe or Glass Bottle? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:weblogs...
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by cecilpl 11y ago
Well, they also announced earnings after market close yesterday and lowered their forward guidance.

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