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Yesterday I finished a job in Cheltenham, England. The post was 50 weeks long. The commute to and back from work came to around two and a half to three hours. Often I would feel ph…

Be very careful what you ask the gods, you might run into: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox

Anyone remember this? ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(1995_The_Outer_Limits...

> Hackers think of themselves as dangerous. The other day a work colleague of mine described me as "so meek and mild", and I couldn't agree more.

Wow, bananas are really scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

This could be an extreme version of "Where's Wally".

> But c? c is basically portable assembler. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I avoid calling C portable assembler. I tend to think of C as having low level data manipulation a…

> A the lowest-level, you have doctors who're just assholes. I was physically assaulted by a doctor around six years ago, I would use a much harsher term than asshole.

The excerpt from "The School of Venus" in the article > Coufin, I confefs my ignorance "Confefs" ? The old and the new in one word.

> What Minecraft could really use would be a scripting capability of some sort. Minetest [0] has some scripting ability, utilising Lua. [0] http://minetest.net/

I usually rely on LibreOffice, but I was tempted to get OpenOffice back on my machine just to try out the bug. Anyway, thank you for the link.

That has sated my curiosity, thank you.

Cheers for the reply. I went to Github to look for koans, and they exist for a lot of languages - oddly I couldn't find one for C. Anyway, recently I decided I should try to be mor…

My experience: C has a spartan standard library compared to other languages like Python. Even something like getting a scheme going for decent memory management can take a lot of w…

Linked article: [0] I'm guessing the pieces were original works used just for the study, the article doesn't state what was used. [0] http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/may31/brain…

> Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? Would you be referring to the busines…

I wasn't aware of that, cheers. EDIT: This indicates that the original comment [0] is quite opaque. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160323

> I'm going to post a recent Onion article. It shares some of my thoughts on the subject matter far more eloquently than my own words ever could. Eloquent or not, I thought that th…

> Even the terrible stuff can inform language models for understanding the good stuff. The terrible stuff may be used for cutting and scratching. If you scratch the vinyl, it adds …

> It sold more than 6m copies and launched an entire aesthetic: cyberpunk. The cyberpunk aesthetic was already in existence, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)

I enjoyed reading this article, with a nicely brewed cup of Earl Grey. The alternative Lady Grey tea [0] has lower concentrations of oil of bergamot. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

HN readers like yourself are a big plus, it lends the site diversity. There is also a fairly big age range. I would definitely agree with point A. The odd gem, like [0]. Advice or …

> Anyone got something more technical? Well I found this little sound-byte from a link in the original article. I didn't find it particularly original. From [0] > “Programs” are wr…

> I have noticed that some genuinely funny comments or puns based on the discussion get downvoted, which I disagree with. It may not add to the intellectual value, but I enjoy a go…