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by ghubbard 7y ago
I stopped reading because the letters kept "unlocking" and rotating in an annoying way. There are other less user-hostile Clojure guides.
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by ghubbard 8y ago
This quine is covered briefly in Yusuke Endoh's talk from RubyConf 2017 https://youtu.be/6K7EmeptEHo?t=1500 The whole talk is awesome if you're interested in this kind of thing in Ruby.
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by ghubbard 8y ago
Unless you scramble the cube using more than 20 moves. http://www.cube20.org/
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by ghubbard 8y ago
Great article, lots of technical details. A simple answer to the 'Why' can be found in the middle under the 'Off Grid Without Batteries' headline. > If you have a typical grid tied system (microinverters or normal str
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by ghubbard 9y ago
Why is this tagged as 2003?
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Too much sugar could increase depression risk in men, study suggests(theguardian.com)
4 points by ghubbard 9y ago|0 comments
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by ghubbard 9y ago
That hourglass is really annoying. It does have a hide button, but you have to click the hourglass first, something that years of annoying ads have trained me NOT to do.
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by ghubbard 9y ago
And where in that book are the references to an actual study? PROTIP: Books are often filled with creative writing.
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by ghubbard 9y ago
While a nice story, I have been unable to find any citations that would indicate that this was ever an actual study.
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by ghubbard 9y ago
> Actually. You know what? Just this week I shipped ten new boxes of these pens to Elon Musk’s office. An example of sales people having no issue with casually slipping in outright lies?
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by ghubbard 9y ago
There's also http://exercism.io/ where you can solve problems and get/give feedback on the solutions. The platform is all open source on Github.
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by ghubbard 9y ago
If you want to teach without leaving the house or standing in front of a group of people, try http://exercism.io/ (Open Source and free). Solve simple coding problems, review the submissions of others and help them become
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Rosetta – Collapsing cliff reveals comet's interior(esa.int)
3 points by ghubbard 9y ago|0 comments
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by ghubbard 10y ago
Juan Browne has a good series of video blogs about what is/has been going on at the Oroville dam. In this video from 1st March he visits the site and surrounding areas and talks with some of the engineers working on the project: https
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by ghubbard 10y ago
The videos these clips are taken from can be found on the California Department of Water Resources YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/calwater/videos
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by ghubbard 10y ago
This was probably supposed to be a comment on the Anagram article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696196
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by ghubbard 10y ago
(2009) Some discussion from the first time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667801 Actual article title: On Influenza A (H1N1) HN clickbait version: On Influenza a (H1N1): How many bits does it take to kill a hu
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Antibiotics Are Dead; Long Live Antibiotics(edge.org)
60 points by ghubbard 10y ago|27 comments
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by ghubbard 10y ago
IWantSandy - An email-based automated personal assistant.
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by ghubbard 10y ago
Is the initial comment "It's surprising that we're seeing so much Chinese influence in our languages." missing a 'not'?
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by ghubbard 10y ago
What about offering an 'early signing bonus' which pays you $x if you sign quickly?
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by ghubbard 10y ago
Current HN Title: 1.7 petabytes and 850M files lost, and how we survived it. Article title: The largest unplanned outage in years and how we survived it Article overview: A month ago CSC's high-performance computing services suffered t
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by ghubbard 11y ago
> I am very excited about pushing it to the limits! Looks like you found them.
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by ghubbard 11y ago
There is a popular [citation needed] children's song called Inchworm[0] that has a chorus that lists powers of two. Two and two are four Four and four are eight Eight and eight are sixteen Sixteen and sixteen are thir
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by ghubbard 11y ago
Is there any way to pause?
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by ghubbard 11y ago
Can anyone reccommend any resources for learning about pnumatic memory? I tried googling various combinations of (pneumatic|air) (logic|memory|circuts) without much luck. I'm familiar with how logic / electronic circuts work, but
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The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you(upliftconnect.com)
1 points by ghubbard 11y ago|0 comments
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by ghubbard 11y ago
The question I had, "Why would someone want to make a half mile long sheet of spider silk and put it in a field outside Memphis?" is also answered by the original headline.
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by ghubbard 11y ago
The article headline is: "Millions of Baby Spiders Create Giant Silken Blanket" tldr; Baby spiders do what they do. Spiderwebs enuse.
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by ghubbard 11y ago
No tests?

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