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by grandpa 11mo ago
Claude Clause.
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by grandpa 3y ago
The title is "Excuse me sir, would you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide?" https://archive.org/details/gergel_isopropyl_bromide
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by grandpa 5y ago
git clone --branch start https://github.com/djkoloski/anima_solver Cloning into 'anima_solver'... fatal: Remote branch start not found in upstream origin
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by grandpa 5y ago
The opening of Borges' essay is absolutely brilliant writing: > AT TRIESTE, IN 1872, in a palace with damp statues and deficient hygienic facilities, a gentleman on whose face an African scar told its tale — Captain Richard Francis
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by grandpa 7y ago
With `. ranger`, if you change directory and then exit, the shell's working directory changes to where you left off in Ranger. $ pwd /home/grandpa $ ranger [ ... change directory ... ] $ pwd /home/gran
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by grandpa 7y ago
This is really good fun! But it would be nice if I could finish up the problem I'm on when the timer runs out. Currently, it just gets taken away abruptly.
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by grandpa 8y ago
You could test this by looking at whether pairs of fraternal twins are as similar on personality traits as pairs of identical twins. If they are more different, then genes are the cause.
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by grandpa 10y ago
Why "infamous"?
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by grandpa 11y ago
I think this is the same technique as Russ Cox used to search Google Code: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
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by grandpa 11y ago
It parses "fruit flies like a banana" the same way as "Time flies like an arrow". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...
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by grandpa 11y ago
Definitely, but I think Oxford University is more interested in teaching the underlying principles than tracking what's popular in industry.
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by grandpa 12y ago
The "cluetrain" in the title refers to the Cluetrain Manifesto from 1999: http://www.cluetrain.com/book/95-theses.html
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by grandpa 12y ago
There's a difference, though: QuickCheck randomly tries a large-ish number of possible inputs to try and disprove a postcondition, whereas formal methods prove the postcondition for all inputs. Practically, if the number of possible i
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React Tips and Best Practices(aeflash.com)
253 points by grandpa 12y ago|41 comments
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by grandpa 12y ago
Utilities should be happy about this. One of their biggest problems is uneven load on the grid - low at night, too high during a heatwave - and this has the potential to make that problem a lot easier.
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by grandpa 12y ago
The paper described in the article is available as PDF here: http://cpl.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Kross-et-a...
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by grandpa 12y ago
Spoiler: the second bit of advice is "Step 2: No, seriously. Don't"
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by grandpa 12y ago
> Also, capturing blocks and instance_eval are notoriously slow. ...and, in this case, are evaluated once, at startup. It's so fast that you couldn't possibly notice a difference.
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by grandpa 13y ago
Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by grandpa 13y ago
Yesterday's discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7109623
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by grandpa 13y ago
This is what happened when I tried typing the first sentence on your web site: http://i.imgur.com/jQGHwQc.png
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by grandpa 13y ago
Using Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ), your first paragraph is DH2 (responding to tone), and the rest is DH1 (ad hominem). Do you have any arguments relating to the points
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by grandpa 13y ago
I don't think you are taking the word "infinity" seriously. If parents believed that, why are they recklessly endangering their children's lives by taking them to a public place where they could be shot and killed, inste
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by grandpa 13y ago
I don't think negative infinity is a reasonable number for this. If it were, then I would expect you to gladly pay someone all your income for the next 20 years to stand guard over your children night and day to ensure that none of th
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by grandpa 13y ago
From the Hacker News guidelines: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." http:&#x
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by grandpa 13y ago
This is the compiler's printf(), not the one that gets linked in with compiled code. As long as the compiler itself doesn't have more than 9 substitutions, it's OK. Your code will link with a different one.
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by grandpa 14y ago
Perhaps this will one day be so widely implemented that the great firewall of China will become obsolete, and the censors' dream will be realized.
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by grandpa 14y ago
If it's an interesting fix, please consider doing a post like "What I learned from getting slashdotted by Hacker News".
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by grandpa 14y ago
I couldn't figure out from the article what exactly it is that's illegal. Which of these situations cause me to break the law as an American? 1. I travel to Canada, unlock my cellphone there where it is legal, and bring it back to the U.S.
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by grandpa 14y ago
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a debate over what Godwin's law says approaches 1.

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