vitalique

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by vitalique 8y ago
Thank you for all the details and suggestions!
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by vitalique 8y ago
Can you describe your setup please? I've been thinking about moving the family members off Gmail a lot lately.
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by vitalique 8y ago
Yes, Viridis is quantifiably better than Parula, as the talk shows, but Parula comes with the standard Matlab, and the jump from Jet to Parula was of such a tremendous magnitude that I kind of fell in love with the Parula color scheme right
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by vitalique 8y ago
I am not colorblind, but work with data visualization in Matlab a lot. This hilarious SciPy2015 talk[1] convinced me to switch to the Parula color scheme. There's no way I'm going back to Jet. [1] https://www.youtube.co
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by vitalique 8y ago
There's a special portal for current events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events .
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by vitalique 9y ago
How many languages do you speak more or less fluently?
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by vitalique 11y ago
All right, since everybody seems to have read the handbook, here's something fresh: Gabe Newell's email [0], taken from today's r/Steam, where he shares his thoughts behind the flat company structure which Valve is so fa
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by vitalique 12y ago
Nice try, but you still got an 'e' in your username )
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by vitalique 12y ago
This reminds me of another story by Leo Traynor about troll's victim tracking down and finally meeting the troll: http://www.traynorseye.com/2012/09/meeting-troll.html The massive amount of damage that can b
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by vitalique 12y ago
Google's cache does a surprisingly good job with all these fancy video backgrounds: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ion=1&espv=2&q=...
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Ask HN: Is something happening with HN's ranking algo?
2 points by vitalique 12y ago|3 comments
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by vitalique 12y ago
Just key 'j' followed by 'k'. I have this in my vimrc for quickly jumping out of insert mode: inoremap jk <ESC>
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by vitalique 12y ago
If you remap Esc to jk you don't even have to lift your fingers.
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by vitalique 12y ago
Yay teen pregnancy!
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Google Domains(domains.google.com)
5 points by vitalique 12y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk: I'll put human boots on Mars by 2026(theregister.co.uk)
20 points by vitalique 12y ago|4 comments
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by vitalique 12y ago
> Both Surface and One are thus stuck in the middle, appealing to no one. What? Not everyone needs, wants or can afford (hi EU!) Apple devices, which are loosing more and more ground to competitors every quarter.
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by vitalique 12y ago
Wow, thank you very much for your suggestions and the .els! I guess now I'm really out of excuses not to start with SICP.
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by vitalique 12y ago
Could you please outline your final setup besides using Geiser? I also come from Vim-land, have almost zero experience with Emacs and already understood that, to learn SICP, setting up and learning Emacs is going to be easier than setting u
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by vitalique 12y ago
Well, I bought a 3-year reserved heavy utilization plan just a couple of hours before these news went live. My pain is about 2 orders of magnitude less than yours, though. I wonder if you can contact someone at Amazon and ask for some kind
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by vitalique 13y ago
Well, this link is also on Reddit's front page now.
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by vitalique 13y ago
>find somebody who will swap wallets with you, so you get coins with completely irrelevant history and no trace of that swap in the blockchain Or use a BTC mixer.
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by vitalique 13y ago
> this is still just a few thousands of extremists being destructive... Most adult people want this to stop and get back to work. I'm not even going to ask you how exactly do you know this, because this is completely untrue. There a
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by vitalique 13y ago
Two things that especially amaze about the actual 'street part' of Ukrainian revolution are complete absence of plundering or looting of local shops and that no firearms have been used by protesters.
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by vitalique 13y ago
That happened yesterday, and at least two major Ukrainian mobile operators stated [1,2] that they have nothing to do with these SMS broadcasts and that pirate base stations were probably used in the area of the disturbance. [1] Kyivstar FB
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by vitalique 13y ago
Sometimes malice tries to hide behind stupidity's back. What you are suggesting (or quite in the spirit of that) is currently being implemented in Russia [1] as a so called Unified Register of Forbidden Websites. It is perceived by a l
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by vitalique 13y ago
Well, yeah, but more like 97,89%, from what I gather. From time to time I fancy this idea of toying with some NLP package to calculate percentage of the HN comments that go like "Yes, but no", "Cool, but meh" or "Su
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by vitalique 13y ago
If you are a Vim fan, try using IdeaVim plugin with PyCharm. Plugins can be installed directly from the in-IDE plugin library.
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by vitalique 13y ago
Do you also like to deliberately explain (at least to yourself) your upvotes and all the cases when you didn't make your mind or mindfully decided not to upvote or downvote? Not trolling you, I just have really hard time trying to give
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by vitalique 13y ago
My thoughts exactly (except for the part of making it an underground startup): in these days of drones and copters boom, I wonder how much time will pass before we hear about phones, guns, tobacco or whatever being smuggled into prisons by

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