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by olifante 3y ago
This constant vilification of one of the great figures of tech history is tiresome. Yeah, maybe Steve Jobs was not a great person, but why should constantly overshadow his tremendous successes? Steve Jobs was a forceful and perhaps disagree
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by olifante 3y ago
That’s whitewashing it. The War on Iraq was a crime, not a mistake.
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by olifante 3y ago
> the immune system can’t forget a target This recent study has developed an “inverse vaccine” for multiple sclerosis that apparently can make the immune system forget stuff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528816
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by olifante 3y ago
Leverpostej is the most disgusting thing in Danish cuisine. Just the smell of it heating up in the oven gives me nausea, while Danes start drooling in anticipation.
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by olifante 3y ago
Putting the burden on invididuals for averting the climate crisis is a form victim-blaming. It’s long been clear that only concerted collective action will be effective in producing real change. This is why so many free-market, minimal-stat
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by olifante 3y ago
Yet here you are, alive and commenting on HN.
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by olifante 3y ago
On the internet, nobody knows you’re an octopus.
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by olifante 4y ago
If houses were no longer an investment but rather just poaces to live, the result might be that more and better housing would be constantly being built. This is one of the points of this article that was posted here the other day: https:&#
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by olifante 4y ago
The day they killed Google Reader was the day they publicly renounced their “Don’t Be Evil” motto. From TFA: > the turning point was the assassination of Google Reader — for which I will never forgive them, and try to regularly exert a s
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by olifante 4y ago
Copenhagen is not super-dense, not even very dense. Berlin is even less dense than Copenhagen, yet both cities are very pleasurable for using the bike as your sole means of transportation.
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by olifante 4y ago
How about SSH straight into screen ? Here's how to define a shell function for quickly attaching to an existing screen session after connecting via ssh (or creating a new one if none exists): sshcreen () { ssh -t "$@&qu
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by olifante 4y ago
My favorite utility is a shell function for quickly attaching to an existing screen session after connecting via ssh (or creating a new one if none exists). It's pretty handy for treating a single ssh connection to a server as if it wa
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by olifante 4y ago
A little Java, a few patterns, by Matthias Felleisen. Delightful book.
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by olifante 4y ago
I found this to be the most insightful comment in the whole thread.
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by olifante 4y ago
Great post. It's shocking to discover that the lead developer of Zig only earns 1500$ a month, and still manages to donate 10% to the musl project: https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...
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by olifante 4y ago
This is not a helpful comment. The Trumpian Republican party is here to stay, and it's very easy to imagine it being quite damaging to European interests and security once it's back in power. If there's one thing that the Tru
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by olifante 4y ago
I just tried Nix yesterday for the first time in order to play with reactivated. Was surprised by how simple it was to get it running. Made me think that perhaps containers are not as indispensable as I thought. And reactivated is awesome,
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by olifante 5y ago
Templates are the ugliest part of Django. They are completely unaware of the target syntax, so very often the template itself cannot be validated as HTML, which makes it difficult to lint or reformat. The only tool I'm aware of that ca
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by olifante 5y ago
I would definitely add reading to the list as well.
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Managing Technical Debt in Django Web Applications [pdf](diva-portal.org)
2 points by olifante 5y ago|0 comments
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The rise and fall of rationality in language(pnas.org)
124 points by olifante 5y ago|58 comments
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by olifante 5y ago
Read the article, that’s one of the first possible issues they address.
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by olifante 5y ago
TL;DR: “we found highly consistent evidence that longer educational duration is associated with increased intelligence test scores. […] the results support the hypothesis that education has a causal effect on intelligence test scores. The e
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by olifante 5y ago
No need for copy-pasting, just doing "Command+L, Command+Return" will duplicate your current tab. Works on Chrome and Safari.
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by olifante 10y ago
But it's a somewhat unnatural gesture to make. I often find I have to repeat it a couple of times until it works. Ditto for the five-finger pinch.
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by olifante 10y ago
The Economist, unbiased? I let my one-year subscription expire due to their patronising tone and their not-so-hidden agenda of teaching the world to accept the gift of anglo-saxon supremacy.
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by olifante 10y ago
You must live in a different Portugal than the one I know. While I admit perceptions of corruption are quite high among Portuguese, actual corruption is not that high, at least according to the international metrics I've seen. We'
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by olifante 11y ago
It doesn't matter whether it's open source or closed source, non-profit or for-profit. If it's made by a company headquartered in the US, there's no escaping a national security letter with a gag order. Anything within F
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by olifante 11y ago
Yeah, it's really strange. All other medium to large German cities have sizeable commercial pedestrian zones, but Berlin has very few. The only ones I know inside Berlin are the shopping street Wilmersdorferstraße in Charlottenburg and
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by olifante 11y ago
As someone who admittedly knows very little about Belize, why would it not count as part Latin America?

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