tod222

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by tod222 3y ago
Yep, good times!
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by tod222 3y ago
From 'man perlop': Customary Generic Meaning Interpolates '' q{} Literal no "" qq{} Literal yes
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by tod222 3y ago
> anyone else still having nightmares from trying to escape quotes and meta chars in a shell? This was a major reason I downloaded Perl 1.0 off Usenet in 1987.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657782
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by tod222 3y ago
See also The Timeline of Perl and its Culture https://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html
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by tod222 3y ago
Yes, writing shell scripts calling awk and sed was awful , just an aesthetic nightmare to work with. Properly quoting strings was always problematic, and while Usenet was available there wasn't a plethora of information like nowadays.
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by tod222 4y ago
Exactly. To recap for folks unfamiliar with the history: Peter Thiel co-founded the electronic payments company that developed PayPal. Musk co-founded an online bank which had massive security holes. The two companies merged and Musk was fi
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by tod222 8y ago
Board members Henry Kissinger and William Perry unwittingly admitted they were dupes ten months prior to the first Carreyrou article in a Dec. 2014 article by Ken Auletta in The New Yorker: [1] Kissinger, who is ninety-one, told me that Ho
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by tod222 8y ago
Sure, it was cool to see, but it was inevitable that someone would do it. Once Dean Kamen demonstrated self-balancing wheelchairs and Segways, anyone paying attention could foresee subsequent applications such as self-landing boosters. Th
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by tod222 9y ago
WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) shows numerous contrast errors[1]. (Click the contrast button on the sidebar.) [1] http://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://news.ycombinator.com/...
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Google's definition of hacker is worse than Merriam-Webster's
3 points by tod222 9y ago|1 comments
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by tod222 9y ago
I'm sorry, I think your analysis of the cause of the power disparity is wrong. It's not due to numbers. It's because power disparity is inherent in hierarchical organizations. The CEO is just one person, but their position at
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by tod222 10y ago
Some…yeah, where some is the 1.7 million cubic yards of rubble now clogging up the Thermalito Diversion Pool. [1] When you look at photos or drone videos of the erosion near the main spillway, it's clear that an immense amount of rock
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by tod222 10y ago
> like facebook did when their cheating got out I have no idea what this refers to. Care to elaborate?
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by tod222 11y ago
> Surely there are successful terrorist plots that have succeeded that we are unaware of. No. Terrorists even take credit for things they had nothing to do with. The goal of a terrorist is to strike fear into the population by committing
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Catagolue: distributed Conway's Game of Life random soup search(catagolue.appspot.com)
3 points by tod222 11y ago|0 comments
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by tod222 11y ago
The Life community goes back decades! Some members recently have put together a distributed soup search project to catalog objects that appear naturally. While the c/10 spaceship wasn't found in the search, a number of interesting
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by tod222 11y ago
> With all due respect to Tim Cook and Apple, I work with a team of the best hackers on the planet. These hackers attend Defcon in Las Vegas, and they are legends in their local hacking groups, such as HackMiami. They are all prodigies,
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by tod222 11y ago
> Right now this is just a fancy maglev. Precisely. There are no air intakes on the nosecone. None needed, since there's no air hockey suspension. I'm surprised more people didn't notice this. I was shocked when I saw the
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by tod222 11y ago
There have been some comments, but I'm not sure I've seen this excellent take on the issue. From the linked document: > So what’s the value of getting the vibration mode shapes of this little section of the Hyperloop? Simple: i
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by tod222 11y ago
If built on the moon or Mars it wouldn't need the tube, since the winning design uses magnetic levitation.
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by tod222 11y ago
No the article is good because it accurately describes the winning design, which drops the air hockey for a maglev. Check the MIT site for details.
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by tod222 11y ago
> Let me repeat that: the first serious proposal is no faster than a train and can't actually be used for transporting anything. Making it, as a suggestion for high speed transport, completely useless. Yes, although this can be hand
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by tod222 11y ago
Yes. Furthermore, there is no air hockey. The winning design is a maglev.
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Frinkiac – The Simpsons Screenshot Search Engine(langui.sh)
1 points by tod222 11y ago|0 comments
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by tod222 11y ago
You're smearing someone while citing the notorious author that Politico dubbed a "misinformation monger." Please stop wasting our time.
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by tod222 11y ago
Randall Munroe explains this very nicely in his piece on Orbital Speed[1]: > But getting to space is easy. The problem is staying there. > To avoid falling back into the atmosphere, you have to go sideways really, really fast…The spee
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Twitter Spam on Behalf of Bleacher Report (Time Warner)
1 points by tod222 11y ago|1 comments
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by tod222 11y ago
A penny per character? This is overpriced by several orders of magnitude and would instantly spark a huge user revolt. Artificial scarcity as a business model, ugh. > It could be to Twitter what in-app purchases are to "free-to-pl
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by tod222 12y ago
> "…corrupted is too strong a word….subsumed." She is being extremely generous. Corrupted is exactly the right word. The parent comment highlights the two sentences starting with "I don’t think they are evil." But I w
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by tod222 12y ago
(Edit: This is a reply to a now-deleted comment about a CA ballot question to kill the CA high speed rail project and instead fund a Hyperloop pilot.) Hyperloop was originally intended to elicit exactly this response—replace a project based

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