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Skill Showcase: /Guide(nlsmdn.com)
3 points by pushingbits 9d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Humby – Instant Online Video Social Space(hum.by)
7 points by pushingbits 6y ago|0 comments
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by pushingbits 14y ago
Yes, it is obvious. So obvious that assuming that that's what the grand-grandparent is proposing is either disingenuous or extremely uncharitable. Instead of a posting a glib response, a reasonable thing to do would be to read the wikipedia
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by pushingbits 14y ago
I don't think you're getting above DH3 here ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ). Aside from that: I wonder what would happen if all the people in the country who are using marijuana at least semi-regularly were to go to some very pu
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by pushingbits 14y ago
> "Never, ever say that again. You should always try to relate the situation to something you do know. Saying I don't know just means you're lazy." Series of tubes...
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Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)(mail-archive.com)
233 points by pushingbits 14y ago|83 comments
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Kiss Your Keyboard and Mouse Goodbye With The Leap(mashable.com)
2 points by pushingbits 14y ago|0 comments
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by pushingbits 14y ago
This is why Knuth has stopped writing cheques, incidentally: "Nowadays almost everybody knows that it's dangerous to reveal your credit card number, or to have that full number on a printed document that somebody might find in the trash. S
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Internet Trends 2012(scribd.com)
2 points by pushingbits 14y ago|0 comments
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by pushingbits 14y ago
This is supposedly happening all the time, yet no one has managed to catch it on tape for some reason. I can't think of a credible explanation for the lack of hard evidence (and lawsuits).
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by pushingbits 14y ago
"Because these people are paid poorly, they have a sense of living on a precipice and will do anything to avoid falling off." This is actually a positive externality (well, depending on how you look at it) of providing some sort of social s
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Peter Norvig; Dimensions of Programming (video)(youtube.com)
5 points by pushingbits 14y ago|0 comments
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How To Avoid Hating People(kotaku.com)
11 points by pushingbits 14y ago|0 comments
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Introducing GMail Tap(gmailblog.blogspot.de)
1 points by pushingbits 14y ago|0 comments
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by pushingbits 14y ago
Here's one: python list popleft Third result is: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html 6th result is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4426663/how-do-i-remove-t... Neither one of those contains "popleft".
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by pushingbits 14y ago
I find that I am slowly losing confidence in Google. What I often do is input searches in the form: "general term", "specific term", then click on a link and immediately do a find for the specific term I searched for. In the last few months
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by pushingbits 15y ago
Reminds me of this recent submission: http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633985
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by pushingbits 15y ago
I think there are some good nano questions that show A) that you have worked with some piece of technology (or at least read up on it well) and B) that you have some deeper conceptual understanding of it. For example, you could ask how to s
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Is farming brain-dead chickens more ethical?(dvice.com)
5 points by pushingbits 15y ago|0 comments
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by pushingbits 15y ago
I remember someone telling me that in Sweden when you move into a place, you can just plug your network cable in, your browser will direct you to a page where you can select whatever provider you like, enter your payment details and you are
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by pushingbits 15y ago
I'm using the date range search option a lot when I am getting outdated search results. Even constructed a quick search for it, so I can type something like: "gdr 30 things" which will then search for stuff from the past 30 days. Blog post
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Public Computing and the Next Gang-of-Four(forbes.com)
1 points by pushingbits 15y ago|1 comments
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by pushingbits 15y ago
Oh, I am sure we would have gone similar places without him... eventually. A windowing graphical user interface is objectively easier to use for most people than alternatives at the time, for example. But he saw it at Xerox, recognized it f
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by pushingbits 15y ago
>It is not legitimate for the mass of HN to be "in grief" because of Steve Jobs's death. You may be sad, but certainly no grieving period should be necessary for strangers. When was this decided? And by who? Did I miss a memo? I've neve
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by pushingbits 15y ago
Makes me wonder whether a free software Steve Jobs (equivalent) would be possible. Maybe you need to be a powerful autocrat to generate enough directed force to dent the world? It certainly seems like the divide between computer consumers a
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The Sims Social: A Love Letter from a Computer Virus(actionbutton.net)
1 points by pushingbits 15y ago|0 comments
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The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown(threatpost.com)
1 points by pushingbits 15y ago|0 comments
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by pushingbits 15y ago
I switched to delicious from Google Bookmarks some time ago because I liked to keep things tidy with tag bundles, though I missed the full text search and delicious is sooo slow. After the relaunch it looks like they are trying to position
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by pushingbits 15y ago
This has already been submitted as a one-page some time ago, but it didn't end up getting much love. I rather enjoyed it, so I figured I'd give it another stab. One-page is here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6471/the_valve_way_gab
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The Valve Way: Gabe Newell And Erik Johnson Speak(gamasutra.com)
62 points by pushingbits 15y ago|9 comments

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