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by codebaobab 3mo ago
I noticed that when I read Tom Holland's new translation of The Lives of the Caesars. All the dates were in the form "N days before Kalends/Ides".
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by codebaobab 9mo ago
Yes. And I create and manage the musical notation for over 100 songs in text, specifically Lilypond.
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by codebaobab 2y ago
Merry Christmas, HN!
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by codebaobab 13y ago
Freeman Dyson's book, Disturbing the Universe, which is quoted in this article, is a great read. Highly recommended.
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by codebaobab 13y ago
"He'd kill us if he got the chance." "He'd kill us if he got the chance." "He'd kill us if he got the chance." "He'd kill us if he got the chance."
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by codebaobab 13y ago
Maybe modern languages don't have tuples because modern programming language designers don't have any|much|enough experience with tuples? If I wanted to play with tuples, what language(s) would I have to use?
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by codebaobab 14y ago
Here's a similar Ask HN from a few years back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103578 I recommend Before&After (a magazine and a couple of associated books) http://www.bamagazine.com/
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by codebaobab 14y ago
"Another role Nathoo takes on with founders and startups is an accounting advisor. She’ll ensure that every company incorporates in the state of Delaware, and if they haven’t done this, she’ll help with that process. Y Combinator and most i
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Bessemer's anti-portfolio(bvp.com)
2 points by codebaobab 14y ago|0 comments
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How many gallons of gasoline would it take to charge an iPhone?(exxonmobilperspectives.com)
1 points by codebaobab 14y ago|0 comments
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by codebaobab 14y ago
OK, now that you bring it up, yeah, I remember that. But I didn't remember that it was named 'meteor'.
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by codebaobab 14y ago
I heard once that the circles-on-circles construction of the motion of the bodies of solar system when Earth is taken as its center is merely the Fourier transform of the ellipses that describe the solar system with the Sun as its center. U
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by codebaobab 14y ago
By "extreme acidity" do you mean in your gastrointestinal system or elsewhere? (I've heard people talk about blood-level acidity before.) Was there a test that let you track/monitor acidity as you made changes?
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by codebaobab 14y ago
I've heard that too. Would you mind sharing more details of what you did to promote gut health/chemistry/flora?
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by codebaobab 15y ago
Squeak Smalltalk bootstrapped itself (back in 1996) by implementing its virtual machine in Slang, a subset of Smalltalk that can essentially be pretty-printed into C. Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in
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by codebaobab 15y ago
Does anyone have any insight into how Galois made the mental leap to his solution? Everything I've read says (or implies) that his solution came completely out of left-field--i.e. it wasn't really related to anything that had come before
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by codebaobab 15y ago
Actually, a deck of card is random after 7 shuffles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling#Randomization
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by codebaobab 15y ago
Yes, please! Even if it is not a software solution (like some kind of physical filter I could place on top of the screen.) I've got f.lux on my laptop, but I predominantly use my iPad in the evenings.
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by codebaobab 15y ago
Jef presented the idea of a zoomable interface in his book "The Humane Interface" and a zoomable interface was a part of THE/Archy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
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by codebaobab 15y ago
One thing that might help is to prioritize "end-to-end", happy-path work highest. Once you've got the bare-bones, end-to-end functionality working, go back and start filling things in.
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by codebaobab 15y ago
Funny, we were chatting about this in the office yesterday... But I don't see wildfires in their list of disasters.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
How does Smalltalk get lumped with C and Java and not with Python and Ruby?
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by codebaobab 16y ago
I understand that having to work around fluctuating data might produce less than desirable results. But your users might find the feature useful anyway.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Anil, why didn't you just ignore fields and attributes that were missing? So if education:concentration returns "CompSci" on the first call, but then is missing on the second call, don't treat that as a change. Don't consider the attribut
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Right. And just to drive the nail in a bit deeper: ending a sentence with a preposition is a grammatical construction that English gets from its roots as a Germanic language. German has what are called "separable verbs" where prepositions
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Egypt: The Distance Between Enthusiasm and Reality(stratfor.com)
1 points by codebaobab 16y ago|0 comments
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by codebaobab 16y ago
You can see remnants of separable verbs in English: "I passed the man in the red hat by." pass-by "I threw all of my old, useless papers out." throw-out In the case of pass-by, we still have the verb bypass, but its meaning has drifted sl
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by codebaobab 16y ago
OK, sorry to be pedantic, but, no. MobileSafari != WebKit view.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Dan Ingalls, implementor of Smalltalk isn't on the list.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
I'm not seeing this in the Kindle app on my iPad. Clicking on "Shop in Kindle Store" kicks you out of the app and into MobileSafari.

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