thrownear

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by thrownear 10y ago
>Even easier than being a fanboy is to Easier? How? Because you said so? >promote one's own superiority via dismissal How come I haven't noticed that it isn't working, then? >sneering at the efforts of others.. This
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by thrownear 10y ago
Getting stoked about trivial stuff and mistaking stunts for real achievements is one of the ways we will end up in Idiocracy. I see here, a whole generation of people reduced to a bunch of stupid cheerleaders... The shame is on you. Not bec
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by thrownear 10y ago
>Like what? Look around. If you don't see it already, I won't be able to make you see. And what does the transistor has to do with the period we live in? I mean, right now, not 50 years earlier. >It's fine to be critica
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by thrownear 10y ago
>I find the level of criticism for SpaceX on this site to be incredible. This has to be the funniest comment I have seen today. There are more than one post regarding this event with 300+ votes. Still the level of criticism for Spacex on
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by thrownear 10y ago
>diminish amazing things.. Sorry. We are living in a period where mediocrity and even complete fraudulent stuff is hailed as profound and "amazing". People with differing opinions matter, and I would say they matter more than e
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by thrownear 10y ago
Ok. Can we have less of Tesla/SpaceX posts. There is already one discussion about this in the front page...
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by thrownear 10y ago
>concepts of love/relationships/family/jealousy/cheating I share a similar view, But our current set up won't allow for something like that. When you take out those concepts, you will see a human being suddenly h
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by thrownear 10y ago
Have you looked at processing.js http://processingjs.org/ You can put pixels on screen, draw lines using simple functions and later do 3d stuff in it...
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by thrownear 10y ago
Less about Qbasic and why it is still the best and more about a parent bragging about their kid doing stuff with computers so early. I mean, just make the title "my kid wrote a text game in Qbasic" and do your bragging there. No
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by thrownear 10y ago
How did you find it out?
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by thrownear 10y ago
Young kids easily grasping things is interesting. It is also commonplace...
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by thrownear 10y ago
Some guy brags about his son..
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by thrownear 10y ago
What all languages have you worked with?
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by thrownear 10y ago
My argument is that there is no line...
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by thrownear 10y ago
It is terribly depressing for many people to admit the reverse also. That money cannot buy happiness...
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by thrownear 10y ago
Money cannot buy happiness, if you don't know what you need, or what you need cannot be bought. I am not saying that all cases of human suffering falls into that category, but a lot of them do. >As far as you know they killed themse
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by thrownear 10y ago
Sorry, that is nothing new, and it proves nothing. If money could buy happiness, they there would be zero cases of rich people killing themselves. Your argument is like saying a car can buy you happiness because one guy with car was able to
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by thrownear 10y ago
Yes. Nature has given us needs that needs to be full filled, like thirst and hunger. There is also higher level needs, like need to fit in and seen as a desirable mate. What do we get in return of this pursuit? Pleasure in some cases or rel
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by thrownear 11y ago
> PHP is not at fault. Well, it is the fault of Php's shared nothing model that throws everything away after each request...
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by thrownear 11y ago
>the hackers can use their position to install malicious code on the devices or to surreptitiously monitor the comings and goings of the owners Do we really care? I made this post couple of days back. https://news.ycombinator.
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by thrownear 11y ago
"The world is a business" clip from the film The Network... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKkRDMil0bw
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by thrownear 11y ago
>I think your being downvoted because the techies on hn are concerned with security, not ownership. I made this post last day [1]. It received 3 votes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11149716
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by thrownear 11y ago
>so long as the two are hardwired and one or both are programmable, there's no certainty. I don't quite follow you. What I meant was something like this. Connect the LED in series to the power supply to the camera, so that you
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by thrownear 11y ago
No, not programmable. That was what I meant "hardware indicator". Maybe I should have said "hard wired". If the device is active (even if there is nothing receiving the output), it should be indicated without exception.
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A request/demand to all gadget makers
14 points by thrownear 11y ago|7 comments
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by thrownear 11y ago
>In some ways it's more advanced than C# in terms of language features. Like..?
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by thrownear 11y ago
>PHP 7 has awesome new features and performance improvements "Awesome new features" does not make up for the rotten core that remains. It never will. So please, don't be fooled by the additions to the language (Which by th
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by thrownear 11y ago
Workout. Also, pick up local news paper and take a look. You will find enough suffering and pain in them to make your life look like a walk in the park, or in short, philosophy.
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by thrownear 11y ago
No, the rotten and dangerous stuff remains rotten and dangerous. https://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/comments/41fqib/it_is_so_sim...
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by thrownear 11y ago
It is, if you have to say this...

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